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The abracloud survey tag on WindowsForum.com follows discussion of the Panorama AbraCloud 2026 survey from the Brazilian Association of Cloud Infrastructure and Services, which examines how Brazil's domestic cloud providers are responding to rising VMware costs and AI hardware shortages. The tagged thread highlights a notable shift toward KVM-based virtualization as regional providers seek alternatives to established hyperscale platforms such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, and Oracle. For WindowsForum readers, this topic connects enterprise virtualization economics, cloud infrastructure strategy, and hardware supply pressure with the practical question of how service providers outside the major hyperscale ecosystems adapt their platforms.
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    Brazil Cloud Providers Shift to KVM as VMware Costs and AI Hardware Shortages Bite

    When global enterprise architects think about cloud computing, the conversation almost always starts and ends with the usual hyperscale suspects: Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud, and Oracle. It is easy to assume that regional infrastructure providers around the world...