Arguably the most VMware-committed cloud provider in the market. Built from the acquisitions of iland, Green Cloud, and Sungard AS recovery assets, 11:11 runs one of the largest independent VMware-based clouds anywhere, which makes it one of the most common destinations for organizations leaving Broadcom-direct licensing.
11:11 Systems was assembled specifically to be a cloud, connectivity, and resilience platform company. Its core infrastructure business comes from the acquisition of iland, for years one of the best-regarded VMware-based public cloud providers, plus Green Cloud Defense and the recovery services assets of Sungard Availability Services. The result is a provider whose entire cloud stack is built on vSphere and vCloud Director, with deep operational muscle in disaster recovery.
The flagship offerings are VMware-based Infrastructure-as-a-Service (multi-tenant and private), DRaaS built on Zerto and Veeam replication, and a broad backup portfolio including Veeam-powered server backup and Microsoft 365 backup. Everything is managed through the 11:11 Cloud Console, which gives customers self-service visibility into compute, replication status, and recovery testing.
For VMware customers, the pitch is straightforward: your VMs move essentially as-is. vCenter constructs, VM formats, and networking concepts carry over, and 11:11 carries the Broadcom licensing relationship at provider scale, so you stop negotiating with Broadcom directly. Migrations are typically done with replication tooling (Zerto/Veeam) rather than re-builds, which keeps cutover windows short.
The trade-off is that 11:11 is a cloud and resilience company, not a colocation or bare metal player. If your exit plan involves keeping your own hardware or re-platforming to Proxmox or Hyper-V, 11:11 is not the natural fit, its value is strongest when you want to keep running VMware, just not on your own licenses and hosts.
If your goal is "keep vSphere, lose the Broadcom renewal," 11:11 is on almost every shortlist we build. Because its platform is natively VMware, the migration is a replication exercise rather than a conversion project, no VM format changes, no new hypervisor to learn, and your Veeam or Zerto investment carries over.
It is also one of the few providers where DR is a first-class product rather than an add-on. Organizations that need to solve a renewal problem and an aging DR posture at the same time often consolidate both with one move.
The default "stay on VMware, leave Broadcom-direct" destination. If DR matters to you, the case gets even stronger. Have it quoted against Expedient and Performive to keep pricing honest.
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