This is a sponsored piece promoting Nutanix's ".NEXT on Tour London" event on 7 October at The Brewery, aimed at infrastructure leaders grappling with soaring VMware licensing costs since Broadcom's 2023 acquisition. It matters because many organisations now face a squeeze between rising virtualisation bills and difficult, costly migrations, leaving little budget for enterprise AI ambitions boards are demanding.

The article cites reports of VMware hypervisor licence costs rising by up to 600%, while Gartner estimates migrations take 18 to 48 months and cost $300 to $3,000 per virtual machine. The free, day-long event will offer sessions on hardware reuse and storage integration, a keynote from Nutanix CTO Manosiz Bhattacharyya on infrastructure choice, guidance on controlling AI token costs via Nutanix's Agentic Gateway, and a talk from adventurer Bonita Norris, alongside a citation that only 37% of AI initiatives were live and delivering value in the past year, per S&P Global.