The path to the cloud is unique for each business. It all depends on various factors, such as the organisation’s specific business needs, risk tolerance, available internal resources, financial goals, and even the ecosystem of technologies already in place.
By taking a hybrid cloud approach and leveraging the combined resources of public and private cloud environments, businesses are able to reap the benefits from the assured costs, operations and security of on-prem systems as well as the increased agility, adaptability and elasticity of the public cloud. As such, the hybrid cloud has become the preferred cloud deployment for digitally transforming organisations.
However, moving to the hybrid cloud is no simple process, with increased complexity in terms of security and ensuring seamless synchronisation between the private and public cloud. Furthermore, it’s much more difficult to maintain clear visibility into your cloud resources, making it much harder to meet regulatory compliance and monitor costs. In fact, Gartner predicts that by 2024, 60% of infrastructure and operations leaders will encounter public cloud cost overruns that will negatively impact their on-premises budgets.
In this article, we will explore how VMware Cloud (VMC) on AWS can help your organisation to address such challenges and achieve hybrid cloud success!
VMware Cloud on AWS
Five years ago, a combined team of hundreds of engineers from VMware and AWS worked for over two years developing the VMware Cloud solution. To put it simply, VMware Cloud on AWS is the VMware cloud foundation or VMware infrastructure stack hosted on Amazon Web Services. It allows businesses to leverage everything VMware is renowned for in terms of infrastructure software – vSphere (compute virtualisation), NSX (network virtualisation), and vSAN (storage virtualisation) – and take major steps towards not only a hybrid cloud but also a Software Defined Data Centre (SDDC) future.
VMware has historically been used to great success in data centres across the globe. And this VMware and AWS partnership is designed to deliver a fast, simple, and cost-effective path to the cloud while enabling organisations to modernise their applications easily.
The Value of VMware Cloud on AWS For Your Business
- Expanded Functionality
The VMware stack provides far more capabilities than cloud-only alternatives. More features are available on the cloud than you could ever hope to implement on your own. VMware Cloud on AWS extends beyond the capabilities of a standard VMware deployment. You will have access to all the features of the most recent version of VMware, including those added to NSX, vSAN, and vSphere just for you. Because VMware handles all of the upgrades, patches, and upkeep, and because VMC is hosted in AWS, you have instantaneous access to all of the AWS cloud services that are geographically close to your application and so provide better performance.
- Easy Adoption
If you are just getting started with the cloud but already have expertise with VMware on-premises, you will have no trouble adapting to VMware Cloud on AWS. The reason why vSphere on-premises and vSphere in the cloud can communicate with one another is that they are identical. The same vCenter administration console appears and performs the same in the cloud as it does on-premises. By not having to hire new skills or require existing techs to expand their skill set, the investment in your current VMware administrators may be protected through the deployment of these mirrored interfaces. Due to this, getting up and running with the service is a lot quicker than if you had to learn an entirely new platform
- Agile Scaling Capability
Organisations hurried to empower and protect their new remote workers after COVID-19 safety precautions sent 80-90% of the workforce home. Data centres and BDi farms were not designed to handle the surge, and it is not viable to construct additional data centres quickly enough. In order to meet their needs rapidly, businesses had to locate pre-existing gear, data centres, and software. Virtual Machine Consolidation on Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the answer since it is designed for growth and is not constrained by the restrictions of on-premises servers.
- The Transition from CAPEX to OPEX
Moving from a CAPEX to an OPEX model is one of the most significant shifts people are witnessing with VMC on AWS, as it frees you from extremely lengthy and costly contracts for data centres and DR locations.Virtual machine cloud computing (VMC) allows you to switch to an OPEX model and spread your costs out over time without having to worry about hardware, maintenance, or upgrades. Furthermore, the reduction in personnel costs prompts a discussion between IT and finance departments on how to use resources most effectively.
- Low Cost
You probably already use VMware and identify it as a premium brand but if you are only considering the cost from a computational perspective, it could seem like you are paying more. Compare the cost of running your business without VMC on AWS to the cost of running your business with VMC on AWS, and you will find that VMC is the more cost-effective option. When you consider all the managerial tasks that are no longer your job, you can save even more time and money. If you are already invested in the VMware ecosystem, you may take advantage of VMware’s hybrid loyalty programme, which provides benefits and discounts to you.
To that end, VMware Cloud on AWS provides the simplest entry point into the cloud and/or hybrid architecture, especially for existing VMware users. In addition to a consistent operating paradigm and the option to keep using tried-and-true VMware tools, rules, administration, and investments in third-party tools, the service also makes use of the hundreds of services available in the AWS ecosystem.
And to that end, the easiest and simplest entry point to leveraging VMware Cloud on AWS is by partnering with a reputable and respected technology partner such as Pro-Datech, which boasts a nearly two-decade relationship with VMware. As a result, Pro-Datech has kept apace with VMware technology and solutions and now has the expertise to set up VMware Cloud on AWS for any business big and small. And with a crack team of engineers who have undergone certified training, Pro-Datech is in the best position to help organisations considering cloud adoption or are already in the process of cloud migration.
So, the next time you’re thinking about a hardware renewal or VMware version upgrade, think about making the switch to VMware Cloud on AWS—with Pro-Datech helping you out, and if you are interested in the preposition, contact them directly here.
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