This guide addresses VMware market disruption and presents a spectrum-based modernization view—from on-prem virtualization to cloud and container-native platforms. It explains cost impacts, architectural shifts, and decision paths including VMware optimization, cloud-managed VMware, alternative hypervisors, and KubeVirt-based virtualization via OpenShift. Pure Storage provides modernization levers through high-performance FlashArray, cloud-native block storage, and Portworx integrations. The document stresses flexibility, risk reduction, and unified storage as foundations for future-ready hybrid architectures.

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