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.
Tell us about your VMware environment and a Foretel advisor will bring back proposals from 11:11 Systems and 2–3 comparable providers — with an honest recommendation on which fits.
