Advise. Across the full estate.

VCF migration planning, alternative-vendor evaluation across Nutanix, Proxmox, OpenStack and Hyper-V, perpetual-to-subscription economics, and ongoing Broadcom contract governance. Long-horizon advisory for buyers who need a coherent post-acquisition strategy, not just one negotiation.

One audit is not a strategy.

Most Broadcom buyers will face several decision points in the next 36 months — the next audit, the next VCF conversion proposal, the next renewal, the next bundle change, and the next architectural fork in the road. Treating each one in isolation produces overlapping decisions, conflicting tooling investments, and contractual positions that do not compound.

Advisory engagements give you a single coherent plan that sits across all of those decisions. They are run by senior advisors, retained on a quarterly or annual basis, with quick access to product, contract, and negotiation specialists when specific issues escalate.

What sits inside an advisory retainer.

A typical retainer covers a defined Broadcom estate (VMware plus optional Symantec, CA, Carbon Black), one or two senior advisors with primary client responsibility, a quarterly Broadcom landscape briefing, working-group support on live decisions, alternative-vendor evaluation work as needed, and pre-negotiation positioning ahead of renewals or true-ups.

Specialist work — formal audit defence, large negotiations, deep technical assessments — is scoped separately as it arises. The retainer keeps the strategy coherent across all of it.

Advisory workstreams we run.

VCF migration planning

Workload categorisation, bundle composition, phasing, and financial modelling. We sequence VCF moves to maximise leverage at each milestone, not just to complete the migration.

Alternative-vendor evaluation

Independent assessment of Nutanix, Proxmox, OpenStack, Hyper-V, OpenShift Virtualization, and public-cloud alternatives. Real performance, real cost, real migration complexity — no vendor co-funding behind the analysis.

Perpetual-to-subscription economics

Multi-year TCO modelling of stay-on-perpetual, convert-to-subscription, partial-migration, and exit scenarios. We model the contractual mechanics, not just the headline price.

Contract governance

Ongoing entitlement tracking, audit-clause monitoring, true-up management, and pre-renewal positioning. Quarterly checkpoints keep your Broadcom posture current, not reactive.

Topics we cover under advisory.

The retainer scope is shaped to each client. Below are the topics that appear most often in active engagements.

VCF bundle composition and edition selection

Hardware refresh and core-density planning

Workload categorisation for stay, move, retire

Multi-cloud and hybrid cloud licensing strategy

Disaster recovery and DR site entitlement

Acquisition and divestiture licensing planning

Nutanix AHV migration sizing and pricing

Proxmox VE adoption suitability and limits

Microsoft Hyper-V and Azure Local positioning

OpenShift Virtualization commercial assessment

Public-cloud rehost cost-vs-control trade-offs

Symantec alternative endpoint vendor mapping

CA distributed product retirement planning

Mainframe MSU optimisation strategy

Long-term Broadcom contract architecture

Renewal calendar and negotiation sequencing

How an advisory retainer works.

How are retainers structured?

Most clients engage on a quarterly retainer with a defined scope of advisors, hours, and recurring deliverables. The retainer covers the standing strategic work. Discrete projects — large negotiations, formal audit defence, deep assessments — are scoped separately as they arise.

Do you have any vendor partnerships or referral fees?

No. We hold no reseller, co-marketing, or referral agreement with Broadcom, VMware, Symantec, CA, Carbon Black, Nutanix, Microsoft, Red Hat, AWS, Azure, GCP, or any other vendor we may evaluate in an advisory engagement. We are paid only by our clients.

Can advisory work plug into our existing programme?

Yes. We routinely sit alongside in-house procurement, IT architecture, FinOps, and SAM teams. Advisory output is delivered into your governance structure, not as a parallel programme.

Is alternative-vendor evaluation really independent?

Yes. Our evaluations of Nutanix, Proxmox, Hyper-V, OpenShift Virtualization and others are funded by our clients, not by the vendors being evaluated. We publish methodology so the analysis can be reproduced and contested.

What if our priorities shift?

Retainers are reviewed at every quarter end and rescoped if priorities have moved. The objective is to keep the advisory engagement aligned with the actual Broadcom decisions on your runway — not to lock you into a plan that no longer fits.

What it costs. Roughly.

Typical fixed fee

£25K – £250K

Scaled to audit size, product mix, and timeline urgency.

Success component

% of documented saving

Negotiated up front. Capped. Aligned to claim reduction.

Typical payback

8 – 30×

Fees vs documented claim reduction across 280+ engagements.

Final quote in writing after a free 48-hour position assessment. No engagement commitment until the assessment is complete.

Advise. Across the full estate.

One audit is not a strategy.

What sits inside an advisory retainer.

Advisory workstreams we run.

Topics we cover under advisory.

How an advisory retainer works.

What it costs. Roughly.

Pillar guides supporting this service

Big Broadcom decisions ahead?
Plan the whole arc.

Advise. Across the full estate.

One audit is not a strategy.

What sits inside an advisory retainer.

Advisory workstreams we run.

Topics we cover under advisory.

How an advisory retainer works.

What it costs. Roughly.

Pillar guides supporting this service

Big Broadcom decisions ahead?Plan the whole arc.

Big Broadcom decisions ahead?
Plan the whole arc.