Arcfra and RackWare Join Forces to Deliver Enterprise-Grade Disaster Recovery Solution

Flexible and Cost-Saving DR Solution for the Post-VMware Era, without the Broadcom Tax

May 8th, 2026, Singapore — Arcfra, the Singapore-based innovator in cloud and AI infrastructure, and RackWare, the California-based pioneer in multi-cloud mobility and resilience, today announced a strategic partnership to address the “DR Crisis” facing enterprises today. The collaboration integrates RackWare Management Module (RMM) with the Arcfra Enterprise Cloud Platform (AECP), providing a seamless, “Broadcom-tax-free” path for data center disaster recovery.

The Solution: Closing the “Post-VMware” Resilience Gap

Following Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware, 98% of customers are reconsidering their platform strategy due to reported licensing increases of up to 300%. A critical challenge is that tools like VMware Site Recovery Manager, Live Recovery, and Zerto are locked to vSphere; migrating even a single VM breaks replication, leaving the business unprotected during the highest-risk window of transition.

The Arcfra and RackWare joint solution eliminates this “dark window” by providing agentless, any-to-any replication that remains active throughout the entire migration journey.

Strategic Use Cases & Solution Benefits

The Arcfra and RackWare partnership addresses the “DR Crisis” facing enterprises today by delivering high-performance resilience across three key scenarios:

• Zero-Gap Migration (VMware → Arcfra): Unlike legacy tools like SRM or Zerto that are “locked” to vSphere, RackWare RMM provides agentless, any-to-any replication that stays active during the transition. This eliminates the “dark window” where businesses are unprotected during a platform move.
• Modernized On-Premises DR: Enterprises can now establish a “VMware-free” recovery site on Arcfra AECP for any existing infrastructure, maintaining predictable, active-passive protection without the cost of VCF bundles.
• Cost-Optimized Cloud DR: Customers can use AWS, Azure, or OCI as a standby site. Dynamic provisioning ensures cloud resources are only spun up during a failover, eliminating the need to pay for 24/7 idle compute capacity.

Key Customer Benefits:

• Sub-30 Minute RTO: Automated orchestration handles complex sequencing and network re-configuration for rapid recovery.
• No “Performance Cliff”: Arcfra’s NVMe-optimized storage ensures applications run at full production speed immediately upon failover.
• Up to 60% TCO Reduction: Eliminate forced VCF bundle costs and utilize pay-as-you-use cloud DR capacity.
• True Infrastructure Sovereignty: Removes Broadcom from the critical path, ensuring IT resilience is never held hostage by a single vendor’s pricing power.

Executive Viewpoints

“Enterprises today require a modernized infrastructure that doesn’t compromise on performance or protection. By integrating Arcfra AECP’s NVMe-optimized, distributed storage with RackWare’s intelligent orchestration, we ensure that Tier 1 workloads hit full production speed the moment they come online at a recovery site — meeting strict I/O SLAs that traditional DR standby sites simply cannot reach. This partnership allows customers to eliminate the Broadcom tax and the complexity of SRM, achieving up to a 60% reduction in TCO while maintaining sub-30-minute RTOs. We are giving organizations the freedom to modernize their data centers with the confidence that their data resilience remains intact across any compute, storage, or network layer.”

— Wenhao Xu, Co-founder & CEO, Arcfra

“As enterprises navigate the complex landscape following the Broadcom/VMware acquisition, they shouldn’t have to choose between moving to a more cost-effective platform and maintaining strong disaster recovery. Our partnership with Arcfra closes the resilience gap that often arises during platform transitions, enabling customers to deploy robust disaster recovery on-premises or across hybrid cloud environments including AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI. RackWare delivers industry-leading RPO and RTO, with fully automated failover across private and public infrastructure, all while lowering total cost of ownership.”

— Bryan Gobbett, CEO, RackWare

Resources

To learn how to modernize your data center without sacrificing resilience, download the Arcfra + RackWare Joint Solution Brief or contact the teams directly:

• Arcfra: www.arcfra.com | info@arcfra.com
• RackWare: www.rackwareinc.com | info@rackwareinc.com