Extra tags: Digital Transformation
As businesses of all sizes and industries continue to embrace digital transformation, cloud adoption has become a critical step in this journey. However, migrating to the cloud is not without its challenges, and organisations must navigate a complex landscape to unlock the full potential of the cloud.
Without a doubt, migrating to the cloud requires significant planning, coordination, and execution, and even the most well-prepared businesses may encounter unexpected issues during the process. These challenges can be daunting and can impact business operations, customer satisfaction, and even revenue. In this context, it's essential for businesses to identify and address the major pain points of cloud migration to ensure a smooth transition to the cloud environment.
Two Major Pain Points To Consider
Two of the most notable challenges are as follows, along with their potential solutions:
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Challenge 1: Moving beyond legacy systems. Legacy systems are generally unprepared for the cloud—outdated, cumbersome to manage and without the ability to adapt to new use cases or add new servers.
The Solution: Organisations with outdated legacy systems can start shifting to a hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) powered by VMware vSAN. This is the next logical step to build out the company’s digital foundation as an HCI enables the kind of consistent infrastructure and operations required for a multi-cloud environment. Using HCI also helps reduce maintenance complexity and costs while increasing operational speed and the ability to run more virtual servers.
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Challenge 2: Building on existing infrastructure and controlling costs. Conventional infrastructures are generally disparate, with each department operating its own server. This creates physical and operational silos that make management more complicated and costlier. It also prevents the delivery of uniform and reliable services while increasing the risk of an outage.
The Solution: The key here is to modernise the IT infrastructure for scale while making sure to maintain active data centres and disaster recovery sites. The way to do this is by leveraging a hybrid cloud platform that can create a consistent infrastructure layer on top of dissimilar hardware platforms. This enables an organisation to consolidate its IT silos while managing computing, storage and networking capabilities in a single pane of glass. These can all be done by virtualising non-virtualised environments and then combining them with an advanced HCI, like that offered by VMware.
The ”solutions” indicate how crucial it is for organisations to have the right cloud foundation in place to ensure success – just like a building requires a solid foundation to ensure its stability and longevity.
Virtualisation pioneer and multi-cloud leader VMware offers a comprehensive suite of cloud infrastructure and digital workspace solutions that can help organisations overcome the pain points of cloud adoption and build a strong cloud foundation.
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A Strong Cloud Foundation: VMware Cloud Foundation
Next, let’s take a closer look at how the aforementioned pain points can be addressed by VMware Cloud Foundation, a cloud solution chosen by businesses all around the world because of its key strengths:
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The flexibility to retain existing hardware investments.
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The capability to evolve hardware as needed over time.
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The ability to secure hardware and the cloud intrinsically.
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Scalability across existing and future environments.
Companies that have chosen VMware Cloud Foundation are reaping tremendous benefits, including the following:
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Increased resource utilisation by as much as 80%
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Reduced operational and maintenance costs even with an expanded IT environment.
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Enhanced IT response times through self-service provisioning.
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Increased visibility into resources to ensure compliance mandates.
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Maximisation of the cloud.
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Faster time to market.
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Cost-effective scaling for growth.
VMware Cloud Foundation makes all these possible by allowing organisations to build a highly virtualised Hyperconverged Infrastructure that enables consistency across private, public and edge environments—exactly the kind of foundation needed for a modern hybrid cloud.
CTC: The Right Connection to the Right Foundation
VMware has been helping thousands of customers around the world modernise their IT environments, and its VMware Cloud Foundation is foundational to making the most of the latest in cloud technologies. This is why you need to connect with VMware the soonest regardless of where your organisation is in its own cloud journey.
That is exactly what CTC Global Singapore can do: Get you a VMware Cloud Foundation expert to guide you in your modernisation and cloud efforts. A premier end-to-end IT solutions provider in Singapore, CTC has had a long, eventful history of providing excellent IT service in the Lion City, and it is continuing to do so 51 years after it was first established. CTC was founded back in 1972 and now boasts best-in-class expertise in a range of critical IT solutions, including HCI, big data analytics and, of course, cloud computing.
The preferred IT outsourcing destination for organisations in Singapore, CTC will help you derive the most value out of your cloud journey through the VMware Cloud Foundation.
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