From "Cloud First" to "Cloud Only" and "Cloud Chaos" to "Cloud Smart".

Welcome to MCM - Multi Cloud Monday! ;)

For many companies, cloud brings a high degree of flexibility, new opportunities, speed and agility, and above all, a great #customerexperience . Retailers can reach and understand their customers better, logistics companies can predict their delivery times more accurately, and car manufacturers are opening up new services to serve their clients and and therefore generate new revenue streams. None of these examples would be as easily possible without cloud (don't get me wrong, I'm not saying these were easy projects).?According to a recent study by #Forrester, more than 3 in 4 IT executives say they were able to?increase revenue through application modernization, and more than 9 in 10 CIOs say #applicationmodernization is their top priority.

But what's the other side of the multi-cloud world? Some organizations are running hundreds and thousands of new applications developed and deployed in any cloud. They have moved from a "cloud first" model to a "cloud only" model and now face an environment of siloed cloud infrastructure, fragmented application access experiences, frantic #DevOps and #security challenges we wouldn't dream of in the past.?

What does this do to an organization that owns enterprise applications and is responsible for production without downtime? What does this mean for teams of experts who have end-to-end responsibility for applications and infrastructure, and who must care for all, whether it's on-premise or in a public cloud? A brave new multi-cloud world can lead to stress, to firefighting, Friday afternoon swiveling, jumping from one incident to another, from one cloud to the next to understand the impact.... Is this the wonderful world of multi-cloud? I'm sure you'll agree with me when I say, no, it's not - so what now?

#VMware Aria makes all this #multicloud complexity invisible by not replacing your existing tools, but integrating them and giving you the features of a single pane of glass that frees you to focus on growing your business, not maintaining it:

Aria Hub and Aria Graph, along with the new end-to-end services, give you

1. A unified view of applications and workloads in any cloud, regardless of where the workloads reside.
2. Full federation across multiple tools, which means data from existing tools can be leveraged and integrated.
3. New end-to-end services like Aria Guardrails, Aria Migration and Aria Business Insights will help you further standardize, accelerate and gain new insights.

Our goal as VMware is to help you on your journey from Cloud Chaos to Cloud Smart.?My journey today, brought me to VMware Explore and I am looking forward to see you there during the next 3 days and to talk about what advantages a multi-cloud world can offer for your business. Join me on this journey, either in Barcelona or via our virtual #VMwareExplore event.?