The Great Infrastructure Reset: Impact Assessment

Converging pressures are narrowing your infrastructure options

Modern enterprise infrastructure is in the midst of unprecedented upheaval. Rising costs and capacity constraints, VMware licensing changes, production AI demands, and evolving cyber threats are converging.

This is The Great Infrastructure Reset: a perfect storm of interconnected market pressures shortening decision windows and narrowing infrastructure options.

Is your infrastructure under pressure?

Take this 12-question assessment to gauge just how much.

For each question, indicate how much pressure your organization is under based on current plans, deadlines, and available information. If you cannot judge, select “Not sure.”

The Great Infrastructure Reset Impact Assessment

Infrastructure Costs and Capacity

Higher infrastructure prices, resource scarcity, and longer lead times can turn a routine refresh into a wider infrastructure decision.

How much pressure is each condition creating for your organization?

  1. A hardware refresh, end-of-support date, or capacity expansion is approaching within the next 12 months.
  1. Higher infrastructure prices, longer lead times, or limited capacity are affecting an approved budget or implementation timeline.
  1. Limited cost and workload insight is making it harder to compare owned, cloud, and managed options before the next commitment.

VMware Licensing and Platform Change


A VMware licensing or support decision can quickly expand into questions about workload placement, protection, and the future operating model.

How much pressure is each condition creating for your organization?

  1. A VMware renewal, support deadline, or required platform conversion is approaching within the next 12 months.
  1. VMware pricing, packaging, or licensing changes are affecting the budget, timeline, or scope of the next commitment.
  1. Incomplete workload and recovery dependency data is making it harder to decide which VMware workloads to retain, optimize, or transition before the next commitment.

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