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Here’s the DR planning problem that businesses with multiple locations run into: the math doesn’t scale. If you have one office, you need one DR solution. Straightforward. But if you have five offices, or ten, or fifteen, the traditional approach says you need DR infrastructure at every site, or at least a secondary site that mirrors the primary. That means duplicating hardware, licensing, networking, and staff time across every location.

Most organisations know they need disaster recovery. Far fewer know what a well-designed DR architecture actually looks like. The gap between “we have backups” and “we can recover our business in under an hour” is architectural. It’s the difference between storing copies of your data somewhere offsite and building a recovery environment that’s been pre-configured, tested, and ready to take over when your production systems fail.

For two decades, VMware was the default answer for virtualization. It worked, it was well supported, and the commercial terms were predictable enough that infrastructure strategy could largely ignore the underlying platform and focus on workloads. Broadcom’s acquisition ended that. Perpetual licences are gone. Product catalogues have collapsed from 168 offerings into four mandatory bundles. Per-core minimums have created fixed costs for capacity many organisations don’t use.