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SOLUTIONS
WEBINAR
Free Your Workloads
A conversation with RackWare's Director of Engineering
on filesystem-level replication for migration and DR
APAC/EMEA Session
Wednesday, November 4 at 11:00am CET (UTC+1)
IT teams are under growing pressure to answer the question at the center of every migration and DR plan: can a full application workload move from one environment to another, reliably and on the organization's terms, without being locked into where it runs today?
Even as Broadcom's VMware licensing changes put exit plans on the table, their removal of public VDDK access cut off any migration tools that depend on it. Organizations that do exit find that their hypervisor-dependent DR products stop protecting workloads once they leave VMware.
Compliance and sovereignty requirements such as DORA are putting concentration risk and exit planning under regulatory scrutiny, and recent outages at Azure, AWS, and GCP proved that failing over between regions within a single cloud does not remove dependence on that provider. Finally, rising GPU costs at the hyperscalers are compounding the motivation to move workloads wherever capacity is priced competitively.
Although demand for workload portability continues to increase, migration and DR tools tied to a specific hypervisor, storage layer, or provider stop at that boundary. Migration projects take months of preparation because no two environments are alike, and DR plans often go untested until the moment they are needed.
Filesystem-level replication takes a different approach. It replicates the workload itself rather than the platform underneath it, making the workload itself the unit of mobility across hypervisors, clouds, and physical infrastructure - for both migration and DR.
In this interview-style webinar, RackWare Product Manager Riley Burden talks with founder and CTO Todd Matters about why workload mobility has become a standing requirement, how the main replication approaches compare, and what changes for organizations that build migration and DR on a filesystem-level foundation.
What You Will Learn
Attendees will leave this session knowing how to:
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Identify the market forces that make workload mobility an ongoing requirement, including VMware exits, compliance and sovereignty requirements such as DORA, hyperscaler outages, and rising GPU costs.
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Recognize why migration and DR fail in the same places, such as platform dependencies, untested assumptions, and applications no one fully understands, and plan for both on a single foundation.
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Evaluate hypervisor-level, block-level, and filesystem-level replication by what each approach trades off, not by what vendors promise.
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Reduce exposure to the next vendor terms change, licensing shift, or compliance requirement by keeping migration and DR independent of the underlying platform.
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Choose a practical first step for an upcoming migration or DR project where there are gaps or concerns
Your Hosts
Akash Bambal
Director of Engineering
Since January 2022, Akash Bambal has served as the Director of Engineering focused on Quality Assurance and Systems Engineering at RackWare. Prior to that he spent nearly five years as
the Manager of QA and Systems Engineering. Akash has over seventeen years of engineering experience in enterprise class products across a variety of domains like healthcare, networking/SDN, storage, media and OS. Akash plays a critical role in pre-sales, designing migration and DR/backup solutions for customers across the JAPAC and EMEA regions for RackWare.
Alan Ryan
Managing Director, Europe
Alan Ryan is the Managing Director, Europe at RackWare, where he leads the company's European business, overseeing sales strategy, strategic alliances, and partner
development. He works closely with leading hyperscalers, global systems integrators, managed service providers, and enterprise customers to accelerate cloud migration, disaster recovery, and VMware modernization initiatives. With a strong background in enterprise technology sales and cloud transformation, Alan focuses on building strategic partnerships and delivering scalable solutions that enable organizations to modernize, protect, and migrate critical workloads across any infrastructure.