Virtual machines (VMs) are ubiquitous, supporting almost any workload, and often used in private cloud environments, where their speed and flexibility can help businesses quickly achieve business objectives. These efficiencies are especially beneficial considering that many workloads must remain on-premises or in colocation facilities to meet security and isolation requirements.

Yet, setting up and managing your virtualized environment can have its challenges. For example, organizations typically move through 6-9 month procurement processes to acquire virtualized compute and storage infrastructure. These drawn-out timelines slow not only application development and deployment, but also the ability to meet quickly evolving business demands.

Build & run hybrid multiclouds

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Flexibility and agility

By far the most important benefit of a properly architected hybrid cloud is increased business agility. You have ready access to resources to support new applications, accommodate development and testing projects, or to quickly address unanticipated needs. In an ideal world, workloads can be moved quickly between on-premises and cloud locations, and leverage resources from multiple locations. (Unfortunately, API and architectural differences between different cloud providers make this challenging).

Elasticity

Many industries experience big variations in resource demand. One clear example is retail, where activity spikes before the December holidays. A hybrid cloud model gives you the ability to respond elastically to resource demands. In a similar vein, many individual applications have big fluctuations in resource demand. Such applications need to run in an environment where they can grab resources when they are needed and release them when they are not, reducing overall expenses.

Self-service

A well-designed hybrid cloud can allow IT users—such as developers and line-of-business managers—to gain access to IT infrastructure and services through a self-service portal. This not only gives them immediate access to services, it reduces the burden on IT since it no longer has to serve as the middleman.

Faster delivery of new products and services

Hybrid cloud can help you deliver new products and services more quickly by eliminating barriers that slow your business and development teams down. New digital services become easier to create and deploy, and developers and test engineers can better access the resources they need when they need them.

Cost control

A hybrid cloud model lets you run every application as efficiently as possible, while adopting a pay-as-you-go model that reduces your capital investments in infrastructure and datacenters. Designing datacenters to accommodate peak loads only to have infrastructure sitting idle much of the time is a poor choice versus adding cloud resources when needed to accommodate peak periods.

Avoidance of lock-in

If you adopt a cloud-only model, it’s almost impossible to avoid getting locked into one or two cloud vendors. It can be cost prohibitive to get your data out of the cloud, so you need to exercise caution before you move data from datacenters into the cloud.

Access to the latest technology

In today’s competitive business environment, enterprises cannot afford to find themselves in a situation where they are unable to gain immediate access to technologies that could provide a business advantage. One example of this is AI. The large public clouds are innovating rapidly and offering competing services. A hybrid cloud model gives you the flexibility to use the best technology to seize opportunities.

Multi-Cloud Solutions

Redefine the foundation of IT to power every application on any cloud. With Multi-Cloud solutions from VMware, you can migrate to the cloud without recoding your apps, modernize your infrastructure, and operate consistently across the data center, the edge, and any cloud.

Cloud Operating Model

The operational framework that binds your business, application, and cloud strategies together from a people, process, and technology perspective.

Multi- Cloud Adoption

Redefine the foundation of IT to power every application on any cloud. With Multi-Cloud solutions from VMware, you can migrate to the cloud without recoding your apps, modernize your infrastructure, and operate consistently across the data center, the edge, and any cloud.

Multi- Cloud Management

The enabling technology that powers your cloud operating model. Multi- cloud management gives you control of your clouds and can serve as the catalyst for people and process transformation.