Article in The New Stack, by Jason English
Assess assets, leverage partners, and diversify platforms to modernize your VM fleet for hybrid cloud.
Most of us lack the talent or skill to free climb an open rock face, even if we are inclined to do so.
Similarly, modernizing legacy enterprise computing estate and applications to manage complexity, unlock developer velocity, and accelerate business innovation can seem like a steep uphill climb. Budget and resources are always limited, and success requires learning new skills.
This transformation will present an even steeper grade if you are a VMware customer, given the dynamics caused by Broadcom’s recent acquisition of VMware. As Broadcom implements a product portfolio restructure, updates to product innovation investments, and pricing changes, IT executives and architects should start climbing toward a modern hybrid cloud platform immediately and chart out a de-risked path toward laying the foundations for modernizing their applications.
Why Transform a VM Fleet Now?
Any enterprise that has been in business for more than a decade will have a variety of conventional servers, VMs, network hardware, and container workloads running critical applications that they cannot allow to slip.
At the same time, companies must deliver on modern expectations of our application estate, such as agility, portability, high performance, and data sovereignty, or risk falling behind. IT executives must deliver new application functionality through cloud native and hybrid cloud architectures with the speed and scalability to meet customer demands in today’s competitive marketplace without breaking a constrained budget.
To climb into a hybrid cloud future, enterprises will need:
- Data interoperability and workload portability. Since no enterprise is an island, modern applications must support data from various sources: sensors on the edge, distributed cloud services, streaming Kafka topics, and cloud data warehouses. These data combine to enable advanced, compute-intensive workloads such as machine learning, AI inferencing, and analytics…
Read the whole article on The New Stack here: https://thenewstack.io/hybrid-cloud-made-simple-steps-to-transform-your-vm-fleet/ .
©2024 Intellyx B.V. Intellyx is editorially responsible for this document. At the time of writing, Nutanix is an Intellyx customer, and VMware and Broadcom are former Intellyx customers. None of the other organizations mentioned here are Intellyx customers. No AI bots were used to write this content. Image source: Photo by Luis Andrés Villalón Vega on Unsplash (supplied by The New Stack).
