Sangfor Launches New Whitepaper Featuring Gartner Research on VMware Modernization

• 13 Aug 2026
• TM Team
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Sangfor Technologies, a global provider of cybersecurity, cloud computing, and IT infrastructure solutions, today launched a new whitepaper, From VMware Renewal to Pressure Infrastructure Choice, featuring Gartner® Research. The whitepaper presents Sangfor’s perspective on how organizations can move beyond platform replacement and pursue a phased, workload-centric approach to VMware Modernization.

For many organizations, VMware has become the operational foundation of their IT environments, supporting business-critical applications, disaster recovery, backup, storage, networking, security, and daily operations. It is deeply connected to years of applications, operational processes, disaster recovery plans, backup policies, storage architecture, security requirements, and administrator expertise.

As organizations reassess renewal decisions, cost pressures, and long-term platform control, simply replacing one hypervisor with another may preserve operational familiarity, but often does little to address broader infrastructure modernization goals, including cloud readiness, operational simplicity, and long-term architectural flexibility.

"Many organizations begin their VMware modernization journey by evaluating alternative virtualization platforms, but successful transformation requires a much broader perspective," said Keith Lee, Cloud Business Director at Sangfor Technologies. "Modernization should be driven by application requirements, operational outcomes, and long-term business strategy, rather than infrastructure replacement alone. This Whitepaper aims to help organizations make those decisions with greater confidence."

The whitepaper offers practical guidance for organizations navigating VMware modernisation decisions. It examines why infrastructure leaders should define modernization criteria for individual workloads, move beyond simple lift-and-shift approaches, and evaluate infrastructure delivery options based on application requirements, operational considerations, and business priorities.

Building on the strategic considerations highlighted in Gartner Research, the whitepaper presents Sangfor’s perspective on turning modernization strategy into practical execution. It considers how organizations can progressively reduce VMware dependency while maintaining operational continuity, preserving existing infrastructure investments, and preparing private cloud, hybrid cloud, and cloud-native requirements.