Virtualization & Hypervisors
Broadcom / VMware · Nutanix · Red Hat
Renewal economics, multi-hypervisor exit paths, and licensing restructuring post-Broadcom.
View researchIndependent · Vendor-neutral · 2026 Research Index
Independent Field Research for Enterprise Infrastructure & Multi-Vendor Architectures
Evaluating real-world migration economics, licensing cost optimization, and TD SYNNEX / Ingram Micro distributor vendor stacks for VARs and enterprise leaders.
- 10
- Research practices
- 40+
- Vendors under coverage
- 2
- Distributor stacks mapped
- 1:1
- Architect-led briefings
Research Practices
Ten domains. One vendor-neutral lens.
Every practice pairs primary-source field interviews with distributor pricing intelligence, so the guidance reflects what enterprises actually pay and migrate — not vendor list price.
Observability & Telemetry
Datadog · Dynatrace · Elastic · Cisco / Splunk
Ingest cost curves, cardinality control, and consolidation vs. best-of-breed trade-offs.
View researchCybersecurity & SASE
Palo Alto · Wiz · Fortinet · CrowdStrike
Platform consolidation, CNAPP coverage, and SASE migration reference architectures.
View researchData Protection & Storage
Dell · NetApp · Pure · Rubrik · Cohesity
Cyber-resilient backup, immutable snapshots, and $/TB effective across primary and secondary.
View researchCompute & Hybrid Cloud
HPE · Dell · Lenovo · Supermicro
Consumption models, GPU-dense platforms, and hybrid repatriation TCO benchmarks.
View researchData & Analytics Stack
Snowflake · Databricks · Denodo
Warehouse vs. lakehouse economics, virtualization layers, and workload-based pricing modeling.
View researchEnterprise AI Infrastructure
NVIDIA · Anthropic · OpenAI · Copilot
Inference cost-per-token, model routing, and GPU capacity planning for production workloads.
View researchCloud Ecosystems
AWS · Azure · GCP
Committed-spend optimization, egress modeling, and multi-cloud landing-zone reference designs.
View researchNetworking & SD-WAN
Cisco · Arista · Extreme · Juniper
Fabric refresh cycles, SD-WAN vs. SASE overlap, and data-center switching cost benchmarks.
View researchDevSecOps & Platform Tools
GitHub · GitLab · HashiCorp
Platform-engineering ROI, IaC governance, and seat vs. consumption licensing analysis.
View researchFeatured Study · Flagship
2026/2027 Broadcom VMware Renewal & Multi-Hypervisor Benchmark Study
The definitive field reference on post-Broadcom licensing economics — quantifying the true cost of renewing versus migrating, built from primary interviews with enterprises actively negotiating and re-platforming in 2026.
- 3-year renewal cost deltas across VMware VCF, VVF, and per-core bundles
- Multi-hypervisor exit modeling for Nutanix AHV and Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
- Migration labor, tooling, and downtime economics from live enterprise programs
- Distributor stack pricing signals from TD SYNNEX and Ingram Micro channels
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Tyal Prince
Principal Architect, Arctiq
Architecture Partner
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Research grounded in real architecture practice
All peer benchmark sessions, architecture reviews, and 1-on-1 consultations are conducted in partnership with Tyal Prince and the senior engineering team at Arctiq.
That means every recommendation is pressure-tested against current, in-production enterprise deployments — not slideware. If a benchmark says a migration is viable, it’s because engineers have run it.
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- Vendor-neutral, primary-source research
- Distributor pricing intelligence included
- 1:1 sessions led by senior architects