Beyond VMware: Migration Strategies for Managing Risk, Resiliency, and Hybrid Operations
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Join this peer technical workshop to discuss migration strategies, resiliency requirements, hybrid operations, and practical next steps with Wind River and infrastructure leaders facing similar challenges.
24-June-202611:00 AM - 11:45 PM EST
A Peer Technical Workshop
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Migration Beyond VMware Requires More Than a Platform Decision
Why Attend
This is a small-group, peer technical workshop designed to encourage practical discussion and knowledge sharing. You will have the opportunity to:
Migration beyond VMware is not simply a platform replacement decision. For many organizations, it introduces complex questions around workload sequencing, downtime risk, resiliency, VM and container coexistence, and long-term hybrid operations.
Join Wind River for a peer technical workshop designed for infrastructure, platform, cloud, and operations leaders evaluating migration strategies beyond VMware.
Compare migration approaches with peers facing similar challenges
Discuss practical strategies for reducing disruption during migration
Explore how organizations are managing VM and container coexistence
Identify operational risks that can slow migration progress
Discuss resiliency, recovery, and Day 2 operations considerations
Learn how Wind River can support migration planning, architecture review, migration services and planning, and Wind River Cloud Platform discussions tailored to your environment.
What We'll Discuss
Attendees will walk away with a clearer understanding of how infrastructure and platform teams are approaching migration beyond VMware, where operational risk commonly emerges, and how to think about workload sequencing, resiliency, and hybrid operations.
Migration Strategy and Workload Sequencing
Migration beyond VMware is rarely a clean cutover. Most organizations are managing a mix of legacy VMs, modern applications, containerized workloads, private cloud, and distributed environments that may need to coexist longer than expected.
In this discussion, we’ll explore how teams are deciding what to migrate first, what to modernize, what to keep in place, and how to reduce disruption during phased migration.
Key topics include the following:
- Workload prioritization
- Phased migration planning
- VM and container coexistence
- Legacy application dependencies
- Rollback planning
- Migration blockers
- Long-term hybrid strategies
Downtime, Resiliency, and Operational Risk
Migration strategy is often constrained less by technology capability and more by operational risk tolerance. Teams need confidence that migration will not introduce unacceptable downtime, recovery gaps, or service continuity issues.
In this discussion, we’ll explore how infrastructure and platform leaders are evaluating resiliency, recovery, failover, and operational continuity as part of their migration strategy.
Key topics include the following:
- Downtime exposure
- Failover and recovery readiness
- Control plane availability
- Resiliency requirements
- Operational risk reduction
- Automation and continuity planning
Hybrid Operations and Day 2 Complexity
The hardest part of migration may not be the migration itself. It may be operating the new environment afterward. As organizations move beyond VMware, many will find themselves managing long-term hybrid infrastructure across legacy virtualization, Kubernetes, private cloud, public cloud, and distributed locations. Without a consistent operating model, teams risk replacing one platform challenge with a new set of operational silos.
Key topics include the following:
- Hybrid infrastructure operations
- Day 2 Kubernetes operations
- Lifecycle management
- Upgrades and patching
- Observability and visibility
- Tooling fragmentation
- Operating across data centers, private cloud, public cloud, and edge
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