CIOs seek to reduce or halt cloud spending per Venture Beat

All-flash array cost in 2026 has fundamentally changed. AI-driven NAND and DRAM demand has pushed enterprise SSD pricing up 472 percent year over year — and closed-media platforms leave buyers with no sourcing alternatives. The architecture underneath your storage layer now determines how much of that inflation you absorb, and how much you can avoid.

Broadcom's per-core subscriptions drove 300–500% VMware cost increases. Now server hardware has compounded the problem — DDR5 prices up 2×, enterprise SSD up 257%. Renewing VMware and buying servers simultaneously means paying peak prices on both. VergeOS eliminates all three costs on hardware you already own.

Ransomware encrypts 400 VMs at 2 a.m. VMware alternatives that don't solve the backup question leave you exposed. VergeOS and Veeam split that job — platform recovery in seconds, granular retention for weeks.