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XTIUM

Formed by the 2025 merger of Evolve IP and ATSG, XTIUM combines a VMware-based cloud platform with virtual desktops, disaster recovery, and a broad managed-services practice. A workspace-centric take on the VMware exit.

Overview

XTIUM is the company created when Evolve IP, a long-running cloud services provider known for VMware-based hosting, virtual desktops, and unified communications, merged with managed services firm ATSG in early 2025. The combined company pairs Evolve IP's cloud platform with ATSG's managed IT and intelligent-operations practice.

The infrastructure core is VMware-based, so the standard lift-and-shift logic applies: vSphere workloads move without conversion, and XTIUM holds the provider-scale licensing relationship. Around that core sits an unusually workspace-flavored portfolio, hosted virtual desktops, application delivery, identity, and communications, reflecting Evolve IP's history as a "workspace as a service" vendor.

That makes XTIUM most interesting to organizations whose VMware problem is entangled with end-user computing: Horizon estates facing the Omnissa transition, Citrix cost pressure, or a general desire to stop running desktop infrastructure. The ATSG side adds service desk, network, and security management for customers who want a broader outsourcing relationship.

As with any fresh merger, diligence should include questions about platform consolidation, account team continuity, and roadmap. The combined company is mid-sized, large enough for real capability, small enough that mid-market customers get genuine attention.

Why consider XTIUM for a VMware exit

If your renewal pain spans servers and desktops, XTIUM can land both on one platform: VMware-based IaaS for workloads, DaaS for users. That is a shorter vendor list and one fewer integration seam than solving the two separately.

For organizations that also want to offload day-to-day IT operations, service desk, endpoint, network, the ATSG-derived managed services make it a broader play than a pure infrastructure host.

Honest pros and cons

Strengths

  • VMware-based platform, conversion-free migration path
  • Mature DaaS/VDI practice; credible Horizon replacement
  • Broad managed services (service desk, network, security) beyond infrastructure
  • Mid-market attention; customers are not lost in an enterprise account list
  • UC and collaboration heritage useful for bundled IT estates

Weaknesses

  • Recent merger, platform and process consolidation still maturing; ask pointed roadmap questions
  • Brand is new (2025); track record under the XTIUM name is short, though component companies are veterans
  • Smaller data center footprint than national players
  • Not a fit for keeping your own hardware (no meaningful colo play)

Who XTIUM fits

Best fit if you are…

  • Your VMware exit includes a virtual desktop decision (Horizon, Citrix, or first-time VDI)
  • You are SMB/mid-market and want infrastructure plus managed IT from one provider
  • You prefer a provider where your account materially matters
  • You want UC, desktops, and cloud consolidated over time

Probably not a fit if you are…

  • You want a long-tenured single brand with years of post-merger stability behind it
  • You only need raw IaaS capacity at the lowest price
  • You need colo, bare metal, or international data center depth

Our verdict

A workspace-centric VMware exit with real managed-services breadth. Strong candidate when desktops are in scope, quote against RapidScale and Dizzion for DaaS, Expedient or Performive for pure IaaS.

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