Virtualisation & Infrastructure Strategy

Modern Infrastructure Strategy Tailored to Business Needs

In today’s shifting IT landscape—marked by cloud adoption, licensing disruption, and changing consumption models—virtualisation is no longer a one-size-fits-all decision. Organisations require flexible, future-ready infrastructure strategies that balance performance, cost, security, and scalability across on-premises, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.

ITgility’s Virtualisation & Infrastructure Strategy portfolio helps organisations evaluate, modernise, and optimise their virtualisation platforms and data centre architecture. From traditional 3-tier environments to hyperconverged solutions and open-source alternatives, our goal is to align technology decisions with long-term business priorities and operational realities.

We guide clients through key focus areas such as:

• Rethinking Virtualisation Post-VMware
  Strategic assessment of platform continuity in response to market changes, commercial pressure, and ecosystem impact.

• CapEx vs OpEx Infrastructure Models
  Designing infrastructure that aligns with financial strategy—whether investing in owned assets or transitioning to consumption-based delivery via HPE GreenLake, Dell APEX, or Pure Evergreen.

• VMware Alternatives
  Technical and commercial evaluation of platforms including Microsoft Hyper-V, Nutanix AHV, SUSE Harvester, Oracle OLVM, and more—based on workload fit, ecosystem support, and licensing impact.

• Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI)
  Assessing options from vendors like Nutanix, VxRail, Scale Computing, and Harvester to simplify operations, reduce footprint, and enable edge-readiness or hybrid scalability.

• Hybrid Cloud Enablement
  Leveraging Azure Local (Azure Stack HCI) and Azure Arc to extend cloud-native management, governance, and policy control into the data centre.

• Platform Licensing Optimisation
  Evaluating solutions such as Oracle Linux Virtualization Manager (OLVM) to unlock Oracle licensing benefits while retaining control and reducing virtualisation costs.

Each solution is evaluated not just for technical merit, but for its alignment with compliance, business continuity, automation readiness, and future integration into AIOps or DevOps pipelines.

Why ITgility?

• Vendor-agnostic architecture: Objective advice tailored to your platform, risk, and cost goals

• Deep partner ecosystem: Access to Dell, HPE, Nutanix, SUSE, Microsoft, Oracle, and more

• Secure-by-design methodology: Infrastructure aligned to cyber best practices and compliance (POPIA, GDPR, NIST)

• Financial modelling expertise: Support for CapEx, OpEx, and hybrid consumption strategies

• Outcome-focused engagements: Measurable KPIs and future-ready blueprints aligned with business impact