Vendor Sheet
VMware to Azure-Native Services: Reduce Licensing Costs and Build an AI-Ready Cloud Platform
This solution brief presents a modernization strategy for organizations facing rising VMware costs, aging data-center infrastructure, limited agility, and increasing demand for cloud and AI capabilities. Optimus supports three paths: stabilize and transition workloads to Azure or Azure VMware Solution, modernize applications using Azure IaaS and PaaS, and optimize the environment for scale, analytics, and AI. The approach establishes an Azure landing zone, governance, security, and cost visibility from the start, then replaces VMware dependencies with native compute, storage, networking, App Services, AKS, and Azure Integration Services. The expected benefits include lower total cost of ownership, faster DevOps delivery, improved resilience, native security and compliance, and readiness fo
