AI-Powered VMware Exit Migration Assessment
Take charge of your VMware strategy.
Know your Options. Own your Decsion. Exit on your Terms.
Broadcom changed the economics of VMware overnight. Helios PlatformIQ turns a months-long exit analysis into a decision you can make in days — with the data to negotiate, migrate, and save.
Count Down till VM vSphere 8
— The Urgency
The economics of VMware have fundamentally changed.
Broadcom’s acquisition rewrote enterprise virtualization pricing — almost overnight. The window to act is narrow, and enterprises that wait risk being locked into cost-prohibitive contracts with little negotiating leverage.
- Subscription costs up 3–10× — some renewals as high as 1200%
- Perpetual licensing eliminated — subscription-only going forward
- Forced bundle upgrades and compressed renewal timelines
- Evaluating the right exit is a months-long analysis most teams can't run at speed
3–10×
“Organizations that delay their VMware exit analysis risk $200K to $2M+ in unnecessary subscription costs while remaining locked into a vendor no longer aligned with enterprise interests.”
— The Solution
Helios PlatformIQ is an AI-powered assessment platform purpose-built to eliminate the guesswork from VMware exit planning. It scans your full VMware estate, models every viable alternative, quantifies cost savings, scores migration risk, and generates an executive-ready roadmap — with greater accuracy, objectivity, and depth than manual approaches.
80%
$2M+
12+
3–5
— Core Capabilities
Four engines. One assessment.
AI Workload Discovery
Cost Modeling Engine
Detailed TCO comparisons across all viable platforms, factoring in licensing, compute, migration effort, and operational cost.
Risk Scoring
Dependency Mapping *
* Available in PlatformIQ Pro+
— Use Cases
Broadcom License Renewal Shock
Multi-Cloud Optimization
On-Premises Hypervisor Replacement
Board-Level Cost Justification
— Why PlatformIQ
Days, not months. Starting at $6K.
Simple, instant gains — assessment outcomes in days that traditional approaches take months to produce, with greater accuracy, objectivity, and depth.
| Solution | Assessment Approach | Time to Insight | Typical Cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Helios PlatformIQ | AI-automated, comprehensive | Days | Starting at $6K |
| Manual internal assessment | Spreadsheet-based, siloed | 6–8 months | High labor cost |
| Traditional consulting firm | Human-led interviews | 3–6 months | $200K – $1M+ |
| Vendor-provided tools | Single-vendor scoped | Weeks | Biased toward that vendor |
— Supported Platforms
On-Premises Hypervisor Alternatives
- Nutanix AHV
- Microsoft Hyper-V / Azure Stack HCI
- Proxmox VE
- OpenStack
- Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
- StorMagic SvHCI
Cloud Destinations
- Amazon Web Services — EC2 · EKS · VMware Cloud on AWS
- Microsoft Azure — Azure VMware Solution · Azure Arc
- Google Cloud — Compute Engine · GKE
TAKE CHARGE
- Evaluate your current environment
- Discover migration options
- Detailed cost & sizing
