Event Overview

Mergers and consolidation in the IT ecosystem has technology leaders reassessing strategies and nowhere is that more apparent than in the virtualization space, prompted by Broadcom’s $69 billion acquisition of VMware toward the end of 2023. Should you stay or should you go? The answer isn’t simply black and white. Join WWT principal solutions architects James Harless and Jeff Mercier as they talk about how organizations should be thinking about their virtualization strategies amidst the uncertainty. James and Jeff discuss how we wound up in this situation to begin with, strategies for moving forward and how to think about the paradigm shift in managing your infrastructure moving forward.

James Harless

World Wide Technology

Principal Solutions Architect

Currently serving as a Principal Architect on the Global Solutions & Architecture team at WWT, James Harless specializes in Private Cloud & Softwar...
Jeff Mercier

World Wide Technology

Principal Solutions Architect

Jeff Mercier leads the Hyper-Converged Infrastructure practice at WWT. His focus technologies include Nutanix, Dell EMC VxRail, Cisco HyperFlex, an...
Robb Boyd

Explainerds.net

Chief Nerd

Robb Boyd is the Producer and Host for WWT's Research. Robb created the TechWiseTV video series for Cisco producing, hosting and guiding his audien...

Goals and Objectives

Learn more about how Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware is impacting the data center; identify ways to move forward based off real world learnings; think about options beyond the hypervisor.