AWS Who??
There's been a lot of hype about the new VMware / AWS partnership, including articles like this one. The keyword though is new. This is your company's valuable data we're talking about here. Do you really want to risk it by being the first one to buy VMware Cloud on AWS? Do you want to be the guinea pig?
Here's all you really need to know:
Three key points for IT leaders:
- Having options for both the self-managed AND managed cloud is a huge plus for NaviSite. Not all companies want to take on the burden (nor do they have the cloud expertise) that's associated with deploying and managing their data in the cloud on their own. What you get with AWS is servers in their cloud - not support.
- NaviSite outperformed AWS in this head-to-head competition.
- NaviSite was named VMware's 2015 Global Partner of the Year.
The bottom line...
Organizations are embracing digital transformation and Cloud now more than ever - these sentiments were echoed at VMworld 2016.
Within the next 3-4 years, 75% of organizations' data centers will be obsolete. If you're going to be in the cloud eventually, why not get their before your competitors? However, here's a very telling statistic:
89% of VMware environments are STILL hosted on premise.
That's A LOT of VMs that will be migrated, or at least replicated to the Cloud. The race is on. Which provider will you go with - NaviSite or AWS? The choice is clear.
Jeremy Leveille is a Channel Sales Manager for NaviSite, a Cloud Managed Services Provider. Jeremy is a Cloud Computing Advocate, CIO's Best Friend and Enabler of Digital Transformation. He can be found on LinkedIn or on Twitter @leveillejeremy. The views expressed in this blog post are Jeremy's and do not reflect those of his employer.