If organizations must get their specialized SaaS applications to work together like their old software suites did, the openness of each application’s APIs and how well pre-configured these APIs are with all of the other SaaS applications in use is critical. The complexity of this integration task increases geometrically with the number of solutions that must interconnect. One way of simplifying this task is to commit to a unified content strategy across SaaS applications, and to only select products that are easy to integrate with each other an ...

Moving from legacy to cloud infrastructure is a huge win for business, but the process requires a fundamental shift in organizational culture and business processes, both inside and outside IT. In fact, managing this change may be the biggest challenge your company faces when moving to the cloud, unless you’re equipped with the resources that make for a simple, successful transition. ...

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As companies continue to evolve in the face of global change, so too must their cloud strategies. Cloud usage is at scale, especially for large enterprises where most use multi-cloud in some form. But even if a multi-cloud strategy seems like the inevitable, a well-formed and successful multi-cloud strategy is not a given. Being “cloud-smart” means that enterprises can scale their cloud environments as their usage increases and an organization grows in size while maintaining centralized visibility, a proper governance framework, and keeping clo ...

IDC spoke with organizations to understand the IT and business impact of running applications on VMware Cloud on AWS compared to running those on other public cloud solutions. Some of the Key findings include:

57% lower cost of migration
46% faster migration
83% less unplanned downtime
351% 3-year ROI

In addition, study participants have recorded improvements in terms of infrastructure availability, performance, and staff time requirements by running workloads on VMware Cloud on AWS.

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