The relentless digitization of nearly all aspects of business operations and customer engagement activities has increased demands on IT and cloud operations teams across all organizations’ locations. Cloud adoption is a vital part of this IT modernization trend. ESG research reveals that the average organization typically uses three to five public clouds, even while continuing to own and operate multiple on-premises data centers.
Organizations are embracing multi-cloud environments. Even though cloud adoption is increasing, they are not abandoning on-premises infrastructure—especially for mission-critical workloads. Rather, organizations are leveraging both public cloud resources and on-premises infrastructure together to scale effectively enough to meet business demands.
On-premises continues to be essential to IT infrastructure strategy
Cloud technology offers great innovation for enterprises- including hyper-scalability, minimal maintenance, flexible consumption, built-in resilience, and the ability to access workloads from anywhere. However, enterprises have valid reasons for maintaining workloads in their on-premises data centers. These reasons include predictable costs, low latency, data sovereignty, regulatory compliance, and the challenges associated with refactoring and migrating complex workloads.
The modernization of IT has become indispensable
ESG Take: IT modernization is no longer a discretionary, “nice idea” concept. Organizations must modernize if they wish to create a truly flexible, efficient, scalable, future-proof IT framework that corresponds to how, when, and where applications reside today.
But staying on-premises today can result in missing out on cloud innovations.
Truly digital enterprises remain intent on accelerating innovation and improving developer operations, even though their application environments are becoming more diverse and demanding. Supporting virtual machines and container-based applications must be at the top of the priority list for those IT leaders who have the unenviable job of simplifying operations simultaneously across on-premises and public cloud environments.
Considering today’s significant skills gaps in Kubernetes expertise, it’s unrealistic for organizations to think they can simply hire more talent to facilitate container-based application development. Instead, they need a platform that can extend across the full on-premises/public cloud environment. This type of solution will provide the consistency necessary to properly build, run, and manage modern applications while promoting optimal workload portability.
VMware vSphere+ delivers IT modernization
Imagine a scenario where the advantages offered by public clouds could be utilized by on-premises workloads. Envision a situation where accessing new capabilities through SaaS not only frees you from maintenance hassles but also expedites the implementation of enhancements. Consider a world where developers can effortlessly provision infrastructure on-premises, just as they do in the public cloud. Picture an infrastructure where services can be consumed as required and effortlessly scaled up during periods of high demand. And the best part? All of this is within your reach today.
ESG Take: vSphere+, the enterprise workload platform, is an excellent choice for any digital enterprise that is embracing IT modernization for innovation and accelerated application development and delivery.
vSphere+ brings the benefits of the cloud to on-premises workloads, delivering high-value cloud services for IT admins and developers to centralize management, boost productivity and accelerate innovation for traditional and next-gen applications.
