According to the survey, modern applications are considered critical by most CIOs to remain price competitive (53%); stay ahead of the competition (52%); and maintain more efficient, lower-cost supply chains (51%). A majority also agrees that multicloud infrastructure can accelerate innovation within their organizations.

Seventy percent say their companies would benefit from greater simplicity across their many platforms, and 68% want a more seamless developer experience. ...

Important as the cloud already is, next-generation cloud and multicloud are expected to play even more important roles in the global, digital economy. In fact, 64% of CIOs believe that multicloud infrastructure will help accelerate innovation in their companies in the next few years.In a survey of more than 600 CIOs conducted by Forbes Insights on behalf of VMware, executives around the globe were asked to identify their priorities between now and 2025, their concerns looking forward and how their role is changing. ...

A global survey of 600 technology decision-makers conducted by MIT Technology Review Insights, in association with VMware, finds that most organizations in Asia-Pacific and the world over had largely prepared for the online commerce and remote working the pandemic made compulsory.

More than three-quarters of Asia-Pacific organizations had made digital and IT investments—and their efforts augmented their collective ability to handle new ways of doing business. ...

While the business goals and schedule for this cloud-first approach are often well-defined, the path to realize them is not. There are significant technical, organizational and operational hurdles to overcome, and some organizations have found these challenges more difficult and time-consuming than expected.

Managing multi-cloud environments can be especially challenging. Too often, IT capabilities and resources haven’t been fully addressed. ...

How has the COVID-19 pandemic and the necessity of the distributed, anywhere workforce shifted the future of work? Forrester Consulting conducted a survey, commissioned by VMware, to global future-of-work decision-makers with responsibility for strategy and security from various global industries on how the challenges of moving to an anywhere workforce has changed the way they do business and the way they perceive business will continue to be done.

Discover insights from these business leaders to improve your organization’s security posture ...