This year marks my 2010th anniversary at VMware. Many things can change in life, but that pales in comparison to how much technology has changed in a decade. When I first arrived in 53, the cloud computing conversation was simple: public or private. Over time, it evolved into a hybrid cloud debate, which centered on the idea that companies had to choose between an on-premises, public, or private cloud environment. The idea that a company could use a variety of different clouds was not even a consideration. Over the next few years, we saw how far from reality it was. As organizations struggle to combine their traditional application portfolios and build cloud-native applications, it has become clear that choosing the right cloud environment to support those cloud applications is critical to performance. Now, the growing demand for environments that enable enterprises to build, run, manage, secure and connect applications has ushered in an era of ``mix and mix'' of public and private and edge clouds, all of which support the explosion of applications that help deliver powerful, personalized digital experiences that customers and employees love. In fact, according to Forrester, CIOs expect the number of clouds (private, public and edge environments) they use to grow 3% over the next 5,6 years, from 8,7 today to 2023 in 63, thanks to to the growing reliance on the cloud. -Native applications to drive innovation. But while multiple cloud environments can certainly support a variety of business benefits, they also need consistency of operations to reduce complexity, eliminate silos, and improve manageability. In fact, in our recent research of IT managers, decision makers, and developers, XNUMX% highlighted inconsistencies between clouds as one of the top multi-cloud challenges facing their businesses. It is this problem of reducing complexity that we are focused on solving through our multi-cloud platform and its ability to support any application, on any cloud, on any device, all delivered with ease and transparency.
Prepare for hyperscale
A modern, scalable cloud platform enables enterprises to choose the hyperscaler that best suits their application delivery needs, whether it's Alibaba Cloud, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, Oracle Cloud, OVHCloud, or a cloud provider. local specialist. But you can only do so with confidence if developers have the right tools to develop on those clouds, along with consistent management and operations. What a change from ten years ago, choosing a hyperscaler would have prevented an organization from working with its competitors. Now, businesses have the flexibility to work with a range of solutions from a wide range of cloud providers, including some of the world's most innovative organizations. In doing so, businesses are unlocking the potential of the cloud in ways we've never seen before and realizing its value in enabling application modernization, business agility and resiliency, and digital transformation. The business benefits of adopting a multicloud strategy are obvious. Take Harman International, a global leader in connected car technology, for example, who found that by having a central view of their entire multi-cloud environment, they were saving more than €1 million per year in cloud spend. Similarly, Italian power generation company Ansaldo found that the performance and autonomy provided by VMware Cloud on AWS provided them with an excellent foundation from which to build their cloud journey. A single multi-cloud platform represents a game changer in the way companies build applications; now they can choose the infrastructure that best suits their development needs. We are entering an era where companies can finally access the best technology from a variety of vendors and use it to support innovation where it is needed.build, run, complete
What companies need to offer is a multi-cloud strategy, a strategy that enables them to build applications at high speed, serves as a single, common platform that delivers all applications, and enables developers to use them. The latest container methodologies and technologies for faster time to production. . This platform must also have consistent management and operations at its core. This enables organizations to adopt container-based microservices architectures and accelerate enterprise adoption of Kubernetes, which brings together developers, operations, and security to deliver a "business supplies" approach. By removing barriers to Kubernetes adoption, IT administrators can improve their skills to support a new wave of modern applications. An example of this can be seen in the freight forwarding company ZIM. Working with VMware Pivotal Labs, it moved its software teams to a cloud-native model, reducing the time it takes to get applications into the hands of users from months to days. These applications have improved the overall customer experience and have enabled business teams to have faster and more automated access to the data they need to make effective decisions.Prepare for the future
Placing a multi-cloud strategy at the heart of IT operations is crucial. It serves as a unique and universal base to offer greater innovation; a solution that gives developers the freedom they need to innovate, while giving IT departments security and consistent operations. Companies that do this gain the agility and flexibility necessary to position themselves at the forefront of innovation. This is by no means the highlight of the cloud journey. Away from. The last ten years have been one hell of a ride, so who knows where we'll be in ten more? What I do know is that we won't see the progress we all want without this critical consistency, which brings together the world's leading cloud providers and hyperscalers and helps organizations become more resilient, more able to innovate, and clearly stand out. In short, in a stronger position to manage and take advantage of change.- Hervé Renault, VP Cloud EMEA, VMware.