The VMware Exit Room
Exclusive Breakfast Roundtable | London | Thursday 8th October | 9:30am
Join us for a private breakfast discussion with senior IT and finance leaders exploring the impact of VMware and Broadcom licensing changes, the realistic alternatives available, and what a migration could look like without introducing unnecessary operational risk.
The conversation will focus on:
VMware Renewals & Cost Exposure
Understanding the impact of licensing changes, vendor dependency and future renewal costs.
Infrastructure Cost Optimisation
Exploring opportunities to reduce hardware, storage and operational expenditure.
AI Readiness & Scalability
Planning infrastructure capable of supporting data-intensive and AI workloads.
Migration Strategy
Evaluating alternative platforms while minimising risk and disruption.
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Why Attend?
This is not a sales presentation. It’s a peer-led roundtable designed for technology and business leaders who are assessing their VMware strategy, managing renewal costs, or evaluating future infrastructure investment decisions.
You’ll leave with:
A clearer view of VMware licensing and renewal exposure
Practical options for reducing infrastructure and hardware costs
Insight into the infrastructure required to support AI initiatives
A framework for balancing immediate savings against long-term TCO
Perspectives from senior AEC industry peers facing similar challenges
Event Details
Date: Thursday 8th October – 9:30am
Format: Exclusive Breakfast Roundtable
Location: The Ned | The Rose Room | 27 Poultry, London EC2R 8AJ
Places: Limited to ensure an open, peer-led discussion
A private executive breakfast in the heart of the City, bringing together senior leaders to share experiences, challenges and approaches to VMware cost optimisation and infrastructure strategy.
Hosted in the Rose Room at The Ned, this invitation-only roundtable is designed to encourage open discussion, practical insight and valuable peer networking.
Your Host
Lewis Pinner, Chief Revenue Officer – Creative ITC
Lewis Pinner is a senior commercial leader with over two decades of experience building and scaling high‑performing, multinational go‑to‑market organisations across global technology vendors, high‑growth scale‑ups, and financial services. He has led major transformation programmes, launched new EMEA markets, and built go to market teams recognised for consistent over performance.
Known for his strategic clarity, people‑first leadership style, and ability to simplify complexity to drive commercial results, Lewis has a consistent track record of designing end‑to‑end go‑to‑market strategies, leading multi‑country expansions, modernising commercial operating models, and developing leadership talent across organisations.
One Partner. Infinite Possibilities.
Desktop
High performance cloud desktops giving users secure, consistent access to applications and data from any location.
- High performance user experience
- Secure remote access anywhere
- Centralised desktop and data control
File
Managed file collaboration across global regions, ensuring data is always available, secure, and up-to-date
- Real time collaboration from anywhere
- Consolidates files into a single global data source
- Robust security and immutable data protection
Infrastructure
Flexible IT infrastructure to support evolving business systems, workloads, and growth without the complexity of self-managed platforms.
- Improved IT performance and productivity
- Agility for digital transformation
- Eliminates cost and resource spikes for upgrades
Backup
Safeguard your valuable data wherever it lives, protecting your firm from accidental loss, outages, or cyber incidents.
- All your data protected, everywhere
- Optimised to meet business needs
- Secure, best practice data protection
Disaster Recovery
Maintain business continuity with recovery solutions designed to rapidly restore systems and services.
- Industry leading RTO and RPO
- Regular, non-disruptive testing
- Minimises downtime
Support
Round the clock expert IT support to resolve issues quickly and keep users productive across the organisation.
- 24/7/365 support across your full IT environment
- 1st, 2nd and 3rd line expertise
- Flexible, scalable and cost-effective
Storage
Secure data storage that supports business growth while ensuring performance, availability, and protection.
- Right-sized, scalable capacity
- Flexibility where to store data and workloads
- Data tiering tailored to your needs
Monitoring
Proactive monitoring across your full IT estate to maintain performance, availability, and uptime.
- Early issue detection and resolution
- Minimises outages and downtime
- Greater visibility and insight into risks
Network
Reliable networking services that connect users, systems, and locations securely and efficiently.
- Scalable resources and agility to innovate
- Safeguard against outages and downtime
- Robust security, governance and compliance
Patch Management
Keep all your IT systems up to date, protected, and compliant with security and core operating system patching.
- Prompt, efficient patching across your full IT estate
- Improved performance and uptime
- Quickly fix vulnerabilities to reduce cyber risk
Security
Protect systems, users, and data from evolving threats and maintain business operations.
- Quickly detect, respond, and recover from attacks
- Round the clock proactive monitoring
- Actionable insights to continuously improve security posture
