Playbooks and research notes.

The Broadcom Audit Defence Playbook. A 42-page guide to the first 48 hours, the scoping window, the methodology challenges, and the settlement levers that reduc

A 60-point pre-audit compliance checklist for VMware, Symantec, CA Technologies, and Carbon Black estates under Broadcom. Inventory, entitlement, attribution, a

A 36-page playbook of buyer-side negotiation tactics that work against Broadcom. Leverage construction, sequencing, concession choreography, and the contract la

A 38-page CA Technologies licensing reference for the Broadcom era. Mainframe MSU and MIPS reconciliation, Automic and AutoSys entitlement, API Gateway, IDMS, a

The CIO Guide to Broadcom Audits. A 38-page board-level briefing on Broadcom audit triggers, exposure modelling, the executive playbook for the first 30 days, a

A 32-page framework for closing a Broadcom audit at a defensible number. Settlement structures that close, price-point ranges that hold, renewal-floor protectio

A 34-page playbook for responding to a Broadcom Symantec audit. SEP endpoint reconciliation, DLP entitlement, ProxySG, the inactive-endpoint defence, and the se

A buyer-side comparison of Nutanix, Proxmox, OpenStack, Hyper-V, Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization, and the public clouds as VMware replacement paths. Total cost

The VMware Cloud Foundation pricing analysis our team uses on every renewal. Per-core list, real discount bands, bundle attribution, and the negotiation levers

A 42-page buyer-side guide to the vSphere to VCF transition under Broadcom. Per-core math, edition selection, SDDC architecture choices, and the audit exposure