The VMware Exit Is a Protection Upgrade

The article argues that a VMware exit should be treated as a chance to redesign resilience, not just swap hypervisors. For CIOs, the strategic implication is that more recovery capabilities—snapshots, rollback, replication, and even site failover—can move into the production platform, reducing tool sprawl, simplifying operations, and improving recovery speed, while backup remains the independent control point for retention, compliance, and offsite protection. For IT organizations, this shifts the focus from rebuilding the old VMware-era design to validating whether the new platform can absorb protection responsibilities and lower long-term cost and complexity.