VMware cost-cut: EU-sovereign cloud alternative for MSPs
Migrate every vSphere VM to our sovereign cloud in just 48 hours, cut total cost of ownership by more than 50 %, and escape Broadcom lock-in while your workloads stay online throughout the switch.
Broadcom’s takeover turned routine VMware renewals into an unexpected budget shock that erodes margins for service providers.
Licence fees have soared up to 1500 %, forcing MSPs to hunt for a trusted alternative before fourth quarter contracts arrive and the profit lost to VMware cannot be recovered.
The sovereign escape plan
Why switch with us
Imagine sliding your vSphere estate into Kubernetes and watching total cost fall by more than 50% from day one because data, keys and support remain in the EU and an open-source Forklift wizard keeps workloads alive during migration.
✓ Immediate savings
✓ 100 % EU sovereignty
✓ 48 h migration speed
- Accelerate releases
- Rollback secure
- Shift-left security
- 100% traceability
✓ Accelerate releases
✓ Rollback secure
✓ Shift-left security
✓ 100% traceability
What you get when you move to N8TIVE
We give you the core features you expect and the compliance visibility you need to migrate with confidence and run with clarity.
Designed for NIS2 alignment
Proof ready for every audit
Controls map directly to Art 21, Art 22, Art 23 covering automated hardening, encrypted backups, fifteen-minute incident response and intra-Netherlands replication, so your auditors confirm continuous compliance without adding parallel paperwork or costly external audits ever again.
Accelerate your VMware exit with a streamlined migration approach
Our proven timeline keeps services live while you assess, migrate and relaunch as a sovereign cloud provider within one calendar month.
Agentless scanning with zero downtime
Scan and size virtual machine
During days 0 to 2, the lightweight collector captures names and utilisation without touching live traffic and instantly builds a personalised report with risks, snapshots and projected 50 % savings.
Workloads stay online throughout
Use Forklift to sync VMs
Between days 3 and 5, Forklift streams each disk into Dutch Kubernetes clusters or your data centre while keeping a rollback snapshot so workloads run smoothly even if you delay cut-over.
Invoice per core hourly
Launch your cloud SKU
From day 6 to the end, you launch a branded sovereign cloud SKU that shows real-time dashboards for usage and carbon while you sell shared or dedicated clusters under a clear per-core tariff.
Budget awareness per action
Every time a developer creates a database or test cluster, N8TIVE calculates expected costs in advance, checks quota limits and requests approval if necessary, so that budgets remain predictable.
Integrated compliance
Self-service does not step out of line: security scans, signatures and encrypted artefacts are stored in immutable log files that inspectors can verify in minutes.
Book a brief demo and watch the full workflow in 30 minutes.
Choose the hosting model that fits your strategy
N8TIVE hosted management
Let us handle your infrastructure in our secure, EU-sovereign cloud environment. With proactive monitoring and expert support around the clock, your team can focus solely on innovation, while we manage reliability and compliance.
Self-hosted management
Do you prefer to use your own infrastructure such as Azure or AWS? N8TIVE adapts flexibly to your environment. Maintain full control over security and performance, while benefiting from our support and advanced platform management.
N8TIVE hosted management
Let us handle your infrastructure in our secure, EU-sovereign cloud environment. With proactive monitoring and expert support around the clock, your team can focus solely on innovation, while we manage reliability and compliance.
Self-hosted management
Do you prefer to use your own infrastructure such as Azure or AWS? N8TIVE adapts flexibly to your environment. Maintain full control over security and performance, while benefiting from our support and advanced platform management.
Frequently asked questions
Cold moves happen during planned windows and 95% of pilots reported zero downtime.
The calculator uses your invoices and we waive the proof of concept fee if savings fall below thirty percent.
Everything runs on open source Kubernetes and KubeVirt, so you can export images at any time.
Dutch engineers reply within 15 minutes on priority one issues and stay available all day every day via Slack.
Stop the price bleed and reclaim your margin now
Schedule a call with us and see the exact euro savings you unlock by moving each virtual machine into our sovereign cloud before the next VMware invoice lands on your desk.
Schedule a call with us and see the exact euro savings you unlock by moving each virtual machine into our sovereign cloud before the next VMware invoice lands on your desk.
Call us: +31 850 013 451
Email us: hello@n8tive.eu