VMware Cloud on AWS

IDC Verdict: VMware Cloud on AWS Outshines On-Premises with 50% Lower Costs, 95% Less Downtime and 361% ROI

We are pleased to announce that in a recent IDC study– “The Business Value of VMware Cloud on AWS for Creating VMware Hybrid Cloud Environments”, IDC affirmed that VMware Cloud on AWS delivers cost and staff efficiencies, in addition to benefits such as enhanced agility and performance and improved business results compared with their previous on-premises environments. Further, customers benefit from the ease of application migration compared with using another native public cloud solution.

As part of the 2024 IDC Business Value Snapshot, IDC interviewed current VMware Cloud on AWS customers who were using traditional on-premises infrastructure or some other traditional public cloud infrastructure before moving to VMware Cloud on AWS. IDC asked these customers about their experiences of using VMware Cloud on AWS. And based on these interviews, here are some of the great data points IDC documented:

  • As compared to traditional on-premises infrastructure, VMware Cloud on AWS delivers:
    • 361% three-year return on investment
    • $3.42 million higher revenue per 100 VMs per year
    • 95% reduced unplanned downtime
    • 63% faster to deploy new compute
    • ~50% lower cost of infrastructure and operations combined
    • 34% higher development team productivity
    • 32% higher IT infrastructure team efficiencies
  • As compared to traditional public cloud option, VMware Cloud on AWS delivers:
    • $198,700 per 100 VMs more value from faster migration
    • 52% less staff time required to migrate workloads
    • $143,400 per 100 VMs, business and productivity gains with faster migration

Here is what a key customer has to say about their experience of using the service:

“The biggest benefit for us of using VMware Cloud on AWS is having an on-demand service to support rapid business expansion. Without it, we’d need a lot of on-premises hardware and multiple datacenters.”

Please check out the Full Report, Executive Summary and Business Value Snapshot here

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