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Cut security TCO by consolidation, not by compromise
Lower cost per protected workload, without accepting more risk. One security baseline replaces appliance estates, tool sprawl and per-platform rebuilds.
HSM-grade key custody at VM economics. Your existing estate coexists — nothing gets written off.
The line items that grow every year rarely say “security” on the invoice. They say hardware refresh, another tool, another renewal you couldn't negotiate.
HSMs and fixed security hardware mean capex, capacity planning, datacenter dependency and stranded investment the moment you scale, move or modernize. The appliance protects keys; nothing protects the budget line.
Every team and every platform reimplements encryption, secrets handling and access patterns — the invisible line item is security engineering spent rebuilding what already exists elsewhere in the estate.
When keys live in one provider's KMS and controls are bound to one platform's tooling, every price increase lands without leverage, and every migration re-buys the security stack. Lock-in is a pricing position, not just an architecture.
The mechanism: decouple protection — keys, secrets, sealed workloads — from specific hardware and specific cloud control planes, so security is built once and travels everywhere.
HSM-grade key management running in confidential compute — no hardware procurement, no capacity planning, elastic with demand. Your existing HSM estate coexists, with a migration path you control.
A central vault layer with policy, rotation and time-bound credentials replaces the scattered per-platform secret stores and their per-platform operational overhead — one governance model instead of five.
The same confidential baseline deploys on AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, European providers and on-prem. Build the pattern once; the sixth platform costs configuration, not another security project.
Secure-by-default blueprints and attestation replace per-workload security engineering and manual sign-off cycles — and audit evidence generates from live operations instead of consuming weeks per cycle.
The comparison worth running
We won't put a savings percentage on a page that hasn't seen your environment — the honest version is a structure, run against your real numbers. Four lines decide the outcome, and we'll run them with you.
Appliance costs avoided. Hardware refresh, hosting, maintenance contracts and the capacity you bought for peak — against key custody that scales as software.
Duplicated engineering recovered. The hours each team spends rebuilding encryption, secrets and access controls per platform — against building the pattern once.
Audit effort compressed. Weeks of evidence assembly per cycle, per framework — against evidence packs generated from how workloads already run.
Leverage restored. The renewal you can't negotiate because leaving is unthinkable — against spend where every provider, including us, prices knowing you can leave.
Denser consolidation. Applications consolidate onto fewer systems as infection risk and access paths are reduced — or removed entirely.
Consolidation savings depend on what you actually run today. An estate heavy with appliances, platform sprawl and manual audit cycles has more to recover than a lean one — which is why the comparison above comes before any number does.
And the point is never headcount theater: the win is redirecting security engineering from rebuilding controls to using them, and turning unpredictable renewals and refresh cycles into a spend line you can actually forecast — while the protection level goes up, not down.
What budget owners ask
Doesn't cheaper security mean weaker security?
Usually — which is why the hero says “not by compromise.” The savings here come from consolidation and automation, while the control level rises: encryption extends to data in use, keys move into your custody, and operators lose readable access. Cost per protected workload drops because the denominator grows and the duplication disappears, not because anything is switched off.
What happens to the HSMs we already bought?
They keep working. The vHSM coexists with legacy HSM estates and offers a gradual migration path — you retire hardware on its depreciation schedule and your terms, not in a forced rip-and-replace. Nothing on your books gets written off to start — and the vHSM offers to hold the keys where you need them, at a cost that fits the value for you.
Where do savings show up first?
Two paths tend to pay back first. One: consolidating key management onto a single vHSM instead of running many variants (where separate instances aren't required) — appliance and per-platform tooling costs are concrete and the migration is contained. Two: moving legacy applications off expensive, hard-to-maintain infrastructure into right-sized confidential environments — freeing up systems and reducing exposure. Workload and audit savings compound from there.
Isn't consolidating on your platform just a new lock-in?
The answer is structural: the baseline is cloud-agnostic, deploys into your own accounts, and your keys stay in your custody — so the cost of leaving us is low by design. That property is also exactly what restores your leverage with everyone else. The VMware exit page covers the acute version of this logic.
How does pricing work?
Simply enough to model in the worksheet: platform pricing without appliance capex, scaling with what you protect. For current terms, see how pricing works — and bring your renewal quotes to the first call; the comparison is more useful than the price list.
Do we need to move our whole estate?
No. You move the applications you choose, at the pace that fits — and cost is only incurred for the deployed estate.
The consolidation case rests on replacing appliances and per-platform tooling with these.
HSM-grade custody as software — no hardware refresh, no capacity planning.
Central lifecycle and policy instead of five per-platform secret stores.
Build the security pattern once; the next cloud costs configuration, not a project.
Audit artifacts generated from live operations rather than assembled per cycle.
Bring last year's security spend_
The appliance line, the tool list, the audit hours, the renewal you resented. We'll run the four-line comparison against your real numbers and show you where consolidation pays — and where it doesn't.
Facing a forced migration too? See the VMware exit page.
