About the Author Richard Lingsch Enterprise Infrastructure Strategy, Nubius Solutions Richard has spent 30+ years in infrastructure, hosting, cloud, and application delivery, from IT consulting at Deloitte to co-founding eApps Hosting, where he led the shift from Domino and Java/Tomcat hosting to Xen, KVM, and enterprise OpenNebula. He works with midmarket companies reassessing VMware and

If your organization is reviewing VMware costs, renewal options, or possible alternatives, the first step should be simple: Run the numbers. That is why Nubius Solutions built the True Cost of VMware Calculator. Run the True Cost of VMware Calculator The calculator helps VMware users estimate licensing costs over a three-year period and compare those

June 2026 If you purchased an SSL certificate for a full year, you might be surprised to find it expiring in roughly six months. This isn’t a mistake, it’s the result of a major industry-wide change that took effect on March 15, 2026, and it will continue to evolve over the next few years. Here’s

Your infrastructure engineer passed the AWS Solutions Architect Professional exam six months ago. She knows the AWS service catalogue, can design a multi-region architecture on a whiteboard, and can explain the trade-offs between DynamoDB and Aurora in a technical interview. Last Tuesday, a Kubernetes node pool started experiencing pod eviction storms that cascaded into a

The project brief said six weeks. Twelve weeks later, your production database is in an inconsistent state across two environments, three microservices that worked perfectly on-premises are timing out intermittently in the cloud because nobody mapped the latency implications of moving them 40 milliseconds further from the message broker they depend on, and your compliance

Your cloud estimate was $18,000 per month. The invoice arrived at $31,000. The month after that, it was $27,500. You opened a support ticket, spent four hours in Cost Explorer, and eventually traced $6,000 of the variance to NAT gateway throughput charges that nobody had budgeted for, $3,200 to inter-availability-zone data transfer that your architecture

You inherited a VMware environment. Three years ago it ran beautifully, the licensing was predictable, and your infrastructure team knew every corner of the stack. Then Broadcom completed its acquisition of VMware in late 2023, and within months the pricing model for the platform your entire business depended on was unrecognisable. Per-CPU perpetual licensing was

Managing software today goes far beyond writing code and shipping a release. Every application that runs in production carries an entire arc of operational responsibility — from the moment an idea is scoped to the day the workload is decommissioned. That arc is what Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) governs, and getting it right is increasingly

By Infrastructure Cost Analysts | 12-minute read Most small and mid-sized businesses make their hosting decisions based on the most visible number: the upfront price tag. A server quoted at $8,000 feels tangible. A $500/month cloud invoice feels predictable. What neither figure tells you is the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) — the full financial