VMware Cloud Foundation(VCF) is the industry’s first private cloud platform to deliver public cloud scale and agility with private cloud security, resilience and performance. This results in a very compelling return on investment and low overall total cost of ownership, which is a focal point of the IDC study. It delivers a consistent private cloud experience across ANY Environment – whether it’s a customer managed data center, edge location or any cloud endpoint with license portability. VCF empowers customers to deliver ANY Application by deploying both traditional or container apps with self-service catalogs and complete automation.
Today, the VCF team is excited to share the latest IDC Business Value Study findings, based on actual VCF customer interviews demonstrating how they experienced reduced infrastructure and operational costs, improved team efficiency, and a significant decrease in unplanned downtime.
VMware Cloud Foundation Outperforms Alternatives
In the IDC Business Value Study[1], published in August 2024, IDC evaluated the financial impact of VMware Cloud Foundation by interviewing organizations that are using VCF for running production workloads in their private and hybrid infrastructure deployments. Based on a global pool of customers, IDC interviewed large organizations from North America and EMEA, spanning diverse industry verticals such as healthcare, banking, government, higher education, IT services, retail, and telecom.
These customers required a secure, agile, and cost-effective private cloud infrastructure that addresses their priority business strategies. Most customers were using legacy 3-tier infrastructure environments before adopting VMware Cloud Foundation.
With VMware Cloud Foundation, these customers were able to consolidate workloads to lower capital expenditures, while orchestrating processes to gain better efficiency and lower operating expenditures. Gains in productivity were observed enabling organizations to build, test, and deploy applications and features faster, allowing them to deliver new software functionality with dramatically less friction.
Here are some of the key findings for this IDC study- Business Value of VMware Cloud Foundation[1]
- 564% three-year ROI
- 10 months to payback
- 34% lower infrastructure costs
- 53% infrastructure team efficiencies
- 52% security team efficiencies
- 42% lower three-year cost of operations
- 61% faster to deploy new VMs
- 98% less unplanned downtime
Core component of IT modernization (North America Government): “We deployed VMware Cloud Foundation as part of our modernization efforts … We want to centralize and consolidate our IT into a more affordable and effective platform. This was one key initiative with VMware Cloud Foundation — a centralized on-premises cloud offering of connectivity, elasticity, and everything to the cloud.”
Significant improvement in day-to-day operational efficiencies (North America Higher Education): “We’ve had nearly a 25% improvement in overall operational efficiency with VMware Cloud Foundation. Our IT teams are far more productive, and we have fewer headaches on normal break-fix and other day-to-day activities.”
Improved IT resiliency and availability (EMEA Healthcare): “Before VMware Cloud Foundation, an outage that affected a datacenter would have been catastrophic for the business and interrupted our delivery of services. However, when there was a problem with VMware Cloud Foundation, we didn’t even know we had a network failure — I discovered it by accident that evening.”
Much faster and easier provisioning of new compute resources (EMEA IT Services):“With VMware Cloud Foundation, we’re taking a hyperconverged approach, so it’s much easier to add another node. This makes adding capacity much easier than it was in the old models. There’s probably about a 70% saving in terms of effort when commissioning.”
Want to learn more about this IDC research and how organizations are benefitting by adopting VMware Cloud Foundation?
Download the full IDC report- Business Value of VMware Cloud Foundation
Download the Executive Summary- Business Value of VMware Cloud Foundation
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[1] IDC White Paper, sponsored by VMware by Broadcom, The Business Value of VMware Cloud Foundation, doc #US52312224, August 2024
