According to a study by Ovum, 80 percent of business-critical workloads and sensitive data still run in-house in companies - only 20 percent in clouds.
The reasons are concerns about performance and regulatory requirements. Enterprises need an open, hybrid cloud approach to developing, operating and distributing applications in a multicloud environment.
IBM and VMware are delivering new solutions for secure hybrid cloud adoption without the typical costs and risks otherwise associated with retooling processes, new application architectures and changing security regulations.
Part of the announced news is a fully automated, highly available and global cloud architecture from IBM for business-critical VMware workloads. This eliminates cloud application downtime and enables automatic failovers within an IBM cloud region.
This architecture is managed by IBM Services. To support workloads in enterprise data centers, VMware vRealize Operations are now available on IBM Power Systems.
With VMware vRealize Operations for Power, IT managers monitor their heterogeneous infrastructures from a central dashboard. This leaves them with more resources as they no longer need to switch between multiple tools to manage their growing IT environment.
IBM and VMware also announced that VMware will use IBM Watson to enhance its customer services around VMware support portals.
Instead of static drop-downs, VMware customers can use Watson to communicate with the portal in natural language. Watson recognizes product types and versions, analyzes issues, and immediately routes requests to an appropriate engineer, leading to faster results and better customer service.
IBM and VMware remain true to their promise to develop new solutions and services to help enterprises move to the cloud.
"These recent announcements mean our customers can move, modernize or run any application in the IBM Cloud - whether VM or containerized, traditional or mission-critical"
Pat Gelsinger, CEO of VMware, explains.
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