By most accounts, the hybrid cloud approach to IT is not just in ascendancy—it’s ruling the roost. Estimates vary, but computing trend surveys are typically finding an overwhelming number of respondents have established a hybrid cloud strategy, if they aren’t there already.
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The motivation is clear: The rise of the digital economy has changed expectations for IT organizations. Applications need to get to market faster, which means IT must provide resources faster to the internal teams responsible for delivering apps. Because on-premises infrastructure is typically not sufficient to keep up with demand, enterprises are combining private and public clouds to stay on pace.
For IT leaders, the next challenge is to maintain order in the court. And the judicious move is to implement a cloud management platform, or CMP.
In brief, a CMP helps IT provision services across multiple clouds as efficiently as possible via automation. In addition, a CMP provides ongoing management and optimization capabilities to ease IT administration and maintain performance.
We contend there are three principal reasons for implementing a CMP:
1. Meet today’s competing priorities for bi-modal IT
Cloud computing imposes a variety of conflicting forces on IT teams. And CMP will be pivotal in addressing the ultimate challenge: Deliver services with speed and agility while maintaining control of the IT environment and reducing costs.
2. Prepare for the future
Workloads are increasingly a mix of traditional and modern application architectures, and they will be provisioned in a mix of physical and virtual environments. It takes the right CMP platform to manage such a complex set of management requirements.
3. Gain compelling business and IT benefits
In a cloud environment, what’s good for IT is good for the business. With a well-architected, enterprise-ready CMP, IT can accelerate service delivery, control IT assets, enhance efficiency, provide a choice of services to stakeholders, and strengthen the ties between IT and business units.
In our eBook, “Top 3 Reasons Why You Need Cloud Management,” we expand on these reasons and take a closer look at the highest value use cases for CMP solutions, including examples of how CMP is making a difference for three enterprises using VMware cloud management platform solutions.
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