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THE PREDICTABLE VMWARE ALTERNATIVE

The Fully Managed VMware Alternative

Choose Managed Platform, Proactive Support and Guaranteed Set Price for Up to 10 Years

The high-performance, fully managed private cloud platform featuring expert-led migration to eliminate the complexity and unpredictable costs of legacy virtualization.

How Warren Cloud Platform Makes a Difference?

The All-in-One Managed Platform for Your Business

The true cost of DIY platforms like VMware isn't just the license fee—it's the valuable engineering time your team loses to constant platform management, upgrades, and troubleshooting.

Warren frees your team. We provide a fully managed service so you can focus on your core business, not on ours.

Fully managed VMware alternative

Managed Cloud Platform

This isn't a DIY toolkit. It's a fully managed service. We handle the 24/7 monitoring, zero-downtime updates, and all platform maintenance, acting as your dedicated engineering team.

Warren Cloud Platform - Predictable Budgeting

Predictable Budgeting

Escape VMware's volatile licensing. Our pricing is simple, transparent, and scales with your usage, turning unpredictable capital expenses into a single, easy-to-budget operating expense.

Warren Cloud Platform - Expert Setup and Migration

Expert Setup and Migration

We start by giving you a free, no-obligation cost comparison and migration plan. Once you're ready, our expert team manages the entire platform setup and migration from vSphere for you.

Warren Cloud Platform - Proactive Support Team

Proactive Support Team

Our partnership model means we're motivated to help you succeed. You get direct access to our core engineering team (not a level-1 helpdesk) for proactive support and strategic advice.

Warren Cloud Platform - Intuitive UI & Powerful API

Forget the complexity of legacy platforms.

Warren is built on best-in-class, open technologies for a modern, reliable private cloud without vendor lock-in.

  • Powerful Virtualization & Compute Run demanding applications on our KVM platform with simple, predictable pricing. Scale without the complex licensing, bundles, and surprise renewals of legacy vendors.
  • Resilient & Scalable Storage Get software-defined block and S3-compatible object storage powered by Ceph. Enjoy enterprise-grade data protection and performance, built to scale massively.
  • Integrated Networking & Security Visually manage your network with our built-in enterprise SDN. Enforce a zero-trust model using powerful features like distributed firewalls and micro-segmentation.
  • Intuitive UI & Powerful API Control your entire infrastructure from a clean, modern UI. Automate everything with a simple, well-documented REST API for 100% programmatic control.

Comparing VMware To Warren Cloud Platform

Following the Broadcom acquisition, many enterprises are re-evaluating their virtualization strategy due to significant pricing and licensing model adjustments. Organizations are now actively seeking a clear migration path to a platform that offers long-term stability and cost-predictability.

Warren was engineered as a strategic alternative, providing a fully managed service and a powerful, simple platform with a predictable pricing model. Here is a direct comparison of the two platform models.

Feature

VMware (by Broadcom)

Warren Cloud Platform

Pricing Model

⛔️ Unpredictable (Per-core + additional costs)

Guaranteed Set Price (Up to 10 years)

Support

⛔️ Expensive, Complex Tiers, Slow Response

Proactive Support Team (Direct engineer access)

Migration and Upgrades

⛔️ Self-Managed (Operationally Intensive)

✅ Fully Managed Migration & Upgrades (Zero Downtime)

Platform

⛔️ Proprietary Legacy Platform (High Vendor Lock-in)

Modern Open-Source Stack (No Vendor Lock-in)


Engineered for Mission-Critical Applications

Consumer-grade, 'one-size-fits-all' cloud platforms fail when faced with complex enterprise demands.

Warren is engineered for a different purpose: to provide a dedicated, high-performance managed platform for your mission-critical applications. We deliver the guaranteed performance, resource isolation, and security posture your toughest workloads—from high-I/O databases to stringent compliance environments—depend on.


High Performance Computing

High-Performance Compute

For your most demanding, I/O-intensive applications, databases, and rendering tasks. Get the bare-metal performance you need without the "noisy neighbor" problem or complex licensing.

Secure & Compliant Infrastructure

Secure & Compliant Infrastructure

For critical workloads that require true resource isolation, data sovereignty, and a zero-trust security model. Ideal for meeting PCI, HIPAA, GDPR, or other strict compliance mandates.

Scalable & Resilient Applications

For platforms that see unpredictable growth or cannot tolerate downtime. Scale your applications seamlessly without re-architecting or paying financial penalties for your success.

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The virtualization world is undergoing a historic inflection point, and thousands of service providers and customers are reassessing their future. That’s why HPE is partnering with innovative partners like Warren. Their managed service approach and modern, open-source platform show significant promise for customers seeking stability and cost-predictability.

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Roland Frehner, Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Roland Frehner, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE)

Chief Technologist and Solution Portfolio Lead, Service Provider Business Worldwide

PARTNERS & CUSTOMERS
MIGRATION PROCESS AND SETUP OVERVIEW

A Simple, Expert-Led Migration

The sequence below covers the typical path. Each phase builds toward a seamless and confident go‑live.

Typical duration: 4–8 weeks

1
PLANNING

Get Your Migration Plan

We start with a "Free Migration Plan and Cost Comparison" to show you the exact savings.

2
MIGRATION

We Handle the Work

Our team provides "Expert Setup and Migration" from vSphere. You don't have to lift a finger.

3
DEPLOYMENT & CONFIGURATION

Go-Live & Validation

You validate your applications in a safe (UAT) environment. Once you give the green light, we execute the final, zero-downtime switch.

Free Migration Plan and Cost Comparison

Your Information

Current Environment

Current VMware Product(s) & Version(s):

Commercials

Prefer to talk it through?

If you don't have your environment details handy, schedule a brief consultation.
We'll help you identify your needs and create your free migration plan.

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We're seeing businesses get renewal quotes from Broadcom that are simply unacceptable. We built Warren to be the antidote: a powerful, simple platform with predictable pricing. We will help you migrate, we will save you money, and we will put you back in control.

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Henry Vaaderpass

co-founder & CBDO

Warren
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