The world runs on the cloud
Worldwide end-user spending on public cloud services is forecast to grow 18.4% in 2021 to total $304.9 billion, up from $257.5 billion in 2020, according to Gartner, Inc. (1) In fact, cloud makes up 14.2% of the total global enterprise IT spending market in 2021, up from 9.1% in 2020.
Some of this growth was expected and some resulted from the absolute need for technology speed resulting from COVID.?According to Forbes, a full 97% of executives say that COVID sped up their digital transformation efforts. (2)
The VMworld 2021 content catalogue is an excellent snapshot of just how fast cloud technology has shifted and morphed in the last 18 months. Cloud is maturing. Most clients no longer live in an either or scenario — either cloud or on premises. They live in a world where they have hardware investments with sunk costs. They can’t just pick one architecture type. Many shops build new in the cloud and care for legacy either on premises or in a data center. CIOs are now being asked to do more faster, and not just in one cloud, but in many clouds plus on-premises and in the data center. Because the workloads don’t just live in one place, they live in many places. So how does a CIO solve the problem of leveraging their on-prem investments while taking advantage the speed and agility of the cloud in a global pandemic?
The answer in the real world is a hybrid approach that allows for a bridge between all footprints and takes advantage of the current skill set of the engineering staff. The answer also lies in using a technology that has been known and trusted for more than two decades, like VMware.?
Hundreds of thousands of IT professionals thought of VMware as their IT partner of choice in the first era of IT transformation around core projects like infrastructure consolidation through virtualization. These projects paved the way for massive cost and operational improvements. Today, these same IT professionals are turning to VMware for some of the next major transformational shifts in their environments, like multicloud.?It's for these reasons that I've decided to help people better understand how VMware and its offerings have evolved to meet the needs of IT teams.
In 2017, VMware introduced VMware Cloud (VMC) on AWS. This allowed IT teams to access VMware cloud directly on AWS infrastructure and still run the VMware virtualization stack. VMware allowed these teams to use their existing VMware licenses, discounts and agreements. Today, IT teams can continue to use vCenter — both on premises and with all vSphere workloads. It’s a familiar tool that many shops are already using and trained on. Other benefits of the solution include a unified management plane that connects public and -premises environments and provides a consistent management layer between the two footprints.?
But that’s not the whole story. It’s bigger than that. VMware claims to offer the industry’s first and only multi-cloud computing infrastructure supporting all clouds. Hard to argue, considering by 2020, three years after the launch of VMC on AWS, VMware Cloud went from running on AWS to availability on every major cloud globally.
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?There are hundreds of thousands of vSphere customers today who were looking for a bridge to the cloud. VMware Cloud provides that. VMware gets people to the cloud faster, offering more flexibility and choice. The “lift-and-shift” model can be a bit unrealistic and just plain risky. IT teams with complex data environments need a migration method that accounts for that complexity. The question becomes, “How do we create a step-by-step approach that guarantees success and avoids as much pain as possible?” Creating that plane with VMware limits that risk and pain and helps create success. It’s not just about how fast you to get to the cloud. While speed is important, arriving successfully can’t be discounted.
?Cloud is a foundational vehicle. It’s never really been about the cloud itself. It’s been about what the cloud can do to move business along faster. As we move into this next era, one of the ways organizations are using cloud to level up is via application modernization. At VMworld 2021, the application modernization story is front and center with a focus on deploying VMware’s Kubernetes runtime across platforms, first with vSphere and then at the edge with VMware Cloud Foundation. By building Kubernetes services directly into VMware Cloud, VMware has created the easy button for Kubernetes in VMware environments. This is application modernization with more speed and less risk. This is where cloud is headed.
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3 年Love the point you made about cloud being a “foundational vehicle”