You don’t have to decide the ultimate future of every VMware application before deciding where it should run next.
For many infrastructure teams, the VMware question in 2026 isn’t whether every application needs to be rebuilt. It’s more immediate: Where should the VMware estate run next?
There are plenty of reasons that question may be coming up now. Licensing models are changing, data center contracts and hardware are reaching renewal cycles, and capacity and disaster recovery requirements continue to evolve. At the same time, the applications running on VMware still have users, dependencies, SLAs, and change windows that IT teams need to protect.
Moving workloads can be a separate decision from refactoring applications, changing databases, adopting a new operating model, or redesigning security. Those changes may make sense for a particular application, but they don’t have to be prerequisites for moving it.
Oracle Cloud VMware Solution provides another…
