Your VMware Provider May Not Be There in 2027
Broadcom has narrowed the VMware partner ecosystem to a fraction of its former size. For organizations running on a hosted VMware environment, the question is … Read more
Do Your Legacy Systems Belong in the Secure by Design Conversation?
Regulators and security leaders increasingly expect software to be secure by design. The harder question is what that expectation means for the legacy systems quietly … Read more
Everything Was in Place. The Modernization Still Stalled.
We recently conducted an internal debrief with a software portfolio leadership team that had, on paper, done everything correctly. The modernization roadmap was defined. Funding … Read more
How to Migrate Off VMware Without the Chaos
Last week we made the case that the smart money is already leaving VMware, and we closed on an uncomfortable truth. Migration is hard, and … Read more
Why Smart Money Is Already Moving Off VMware
For most of the last decade, VMware was the safe choice, the platform you could standardize on without anyone questioning the decision. That era is … Read more
How Organizations Break Free from the Endless Development Backlog
Most organizations eventually find themselves staring at the same uncomfortable reality. The development backlog keeps growing, yet the amount of work actually delivered never seems … Read more
Why CIOs Are Losing Innovation to Technical Debt (and How to Restore It)
Over the past five to ten years, something subtle but important has been happening inside many organizations. Increasingly, business executives are relying less on their … Read more
Modernize Legacy Systems Before Knowledge Disappears
Organizations across both the commercial and government sectors are approaching a moment that, candidly, many leadership teams have not fully accounted for. For decades, critical … Read more
M&A Blog Series – The Relationship Between a Portfolio’s Product Architecture(s) and a Company’s Valuation
Numerous factors are tied to determining a software technology company’s valuation and these are generally very well understood. However, ever-tightening due diligence against a portfolio’s … Read more
M&A Blog Series – Why Software Rollups Continue to Fail to Live up to Their Strategy
As software companies grow through inorganic means, or mergers and acquisitions (M&A), it is becoming increasingly common for these rollups to underperform after the dust … Read more
