DataBank webinar: choice-based cloud strategy reduces vendor lock-in

DataBank promoted a webinar arguing enterprises should adopt a choice-based cloud strategy to reduce risk, cost, and vendor lock-in.

• Webinar announcement & core proposal: DataBank’s cloud team released an on-demand webinar arguing that a choice-based cloud strategy (mixing Multi-Tenant Cloud, Private Cloud, Bare Metal, and FedRAMP Cloud) and mixing hypervisors (VMware, Nutanix, Proxmox) lets organizations place each workload where it performs best. The webinar included a concrete cost example where an energy company reduced monthly spend from $18,000 to $12,200 (~32% reduction) by migrating appropriate workloads from VMware to Proxmox while keeping ERP on VMware.
• Background & drivers: The piece cites Broadcom’s 2023 acquisition of VMware and the shift from perpetual licenses to a per-core subscription model as a root cause of sharp licensing increases, and reports hardware/equipment costs rose 3–4x over several months. A webinar audience poll ranked rising infrastructure costs, hypervisor licensing increases, and security and compliance as top cloud-related challenges. The webinar replay is available on-demand.