HOW TO NAVIGATE MULTI-CLOUD COMPLEXITY

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Table of Contents

Everyone Is Going Multi-Cloud 3

What Makes Multi-Cloud So Complicated? 3

How VMware Solves the Challenge of Multi-Cloud 4

VMware NSX® Solutions for Multi-Cloud 4

Advantages of a Unified Platform 5

Bring Clarity to Your Multi-Cloud Strategy 5

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Everyone Is Going Multi-Cloud As technology continues to drive rapid changes across industries, IT organizations are quickly moving away from a centralized data center model to a model where apps and data are mobile and distributed. Many have taken the leap from managing a single public or private cloud to adopting several clouds, hoping to accelerate innovation and empower their workforce.

It’s a cloud-driven worldAs applications and data continue to drive digital transformation, businesses are looking for new ways to delight and engage customers. Airlines are working to improve the passenger experience with streaming services and payment capabilities connected to the cloud. Restaurants are trying to be the first choice for diners, with mobile apps that make ordering easy and fast.

IT organizations are at the center of it all, as they must find a way to meet the needs of the business without jeopardizing security or time to market. But even as they’ve augmented their data centers with the cloud, they haven’t yet been able to realize the speed and efficiency they need. This paper explores the challenges of multi-cloud and how IT teams can achieve more agility and operational efficiency through the network.

What Makes Multi-Cloud So Complicated? The promise of the cloud is that it delivers a short, smooth on-ramp to business results—the ability to scale quickly to meet marketplace demands and seize a competitive advantage. And while those benefits can be realized, many organizations have discovered that it isn’t as easy as it looks, especially with the use, or planned use, of multiple clouds to run their business.

In their haste to adopt the cloud, many didn’t take time to address the divergent expectations and demands on IT and the business. Over time, that has led to misalignment and frustration.

Businesses want freedom and control• In the digital era, businesses want the freedom to innovate across any cloud so

they can bring new ideas to market fast.

• Businesses want control over operations and costs, while protecting applicationsand data.

Yet IT bears much of the responsibility• IT is accountable for managing, securing, connecting, and maintaining compliance

across private and public clouds—a real challenge to the traditional IT model.

• There’s a consistency gap between managing on-premises infrastructure and cloudinfrastructure. Workload migration across sites is frequently not seamless, whichcauses new silos to form.

There’s no doubt that the cloud is vital for today’s businesses. It’s not a question of whether to adopt multiple clouds, but how to take a strategic approach for maximum benefit to both IT and the business. Organizations that get it right will be able to innovate faster, accelerate application development, and deliver new customer experiences.

85% of organizations described themselves as having a multi-cloud posture.1

1. IDC, Worldwide Enterprise Networking Predictions, 2018

2. RightScale, State of the Cloud Survey, 2018

3. IDC, Worldwide Enterprise Networking Predictions, 2018

Organizations are leveraging

5 CLOUDSon average.2

94% of enterprises are challenged with multi-cloud complexity.3

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“ VMware is a key partner for Amadeus, and we are collaborating very closely to build our next generation of platforms, whether that’s containers, VMs, bare metal or OpenStack. Automation with NSX gives us the flexibility to deploy on the public or private cloud.”

WOLFGANG KRIPS

EVP GLOBAL OPERATIONS AND GENERAL MANAGER

AMADEUS IT GROUP

How VMware Solves the Challenge of Multi-Cloud As applications become increasingly distributed, the underlying foundation that connects and secures it all becomes increasingly vital. The network has long been important, but today it plays a critical role in empowering IT organizations to meet the urgent and changing demands of diverse environments. But it can’t be just any network, and it can’t be developed on the same principles as legacy networks, or it simply won’t work.

VMware® provides the modern network virtualization solution that aligns the business and IT around the same objectives. It can truly transform your organization by bringing networking consistency and security across sites and clouds, with a level of automation that streamlines multi-cloud operations.

Network virtualization changes everything:• Dev teams enjoy the freedom to spur innovation in the cloud. With VMware

solutions, developers can take their pick of cloud platforms, giving them totalflexibility in how they bring new solutions to market.

• IT organizations maintain control of the network. VMware provides a consistentnetworking framework across sites, for greater agility, security, and visibility. IT alsobenefits from streamlined operations and better cost oversight, with the ability toavoid becoming “locked in” to a single cloud provider.

With cloud networking solutions from VMware, your application teams and IT teams can work toward the same goals. Built on the foundation of VMware NSX® technology, these solutions bring your networking and security infrastructure into the digital era.

VMware NSX® Solutions for Multi-Cloud VMware NSX® Data CenterThe network virtualization and security platform for the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC), NSX Data Center reproduces the entire network model in software, so that you create and provision any network topology—from simple to complex multi-tier networks—in seconds.

NSX Data Center also creates a common operating environment for all of your applications, whether they’re on-premises or off. With a streamlined workflow enabled by automation, you’ll be able to get more done faster, with security that’s built-in and tied to applications and data.

VMware NSX® CloudA solution that provides consistent networking and security for applications that run natively in public clouds, NSX Cloud delivers enterprise-class capabilities such as micro-segmentation, which enables easy control over east-west traffic between application workloads running in the cloud. As a result, you gain precise control over cloud networking and increased network visibility and analytics.

VMware NSX® Hybrid ConnectNSX Hybrid Connect delivers secure and seamless app mobility and infrastructure hybridity across vSphere 5.0+ versions, on-premises and in the cloud, providing high-performance, highly secure, and optimized multi-site interconnects.

“ By implementing VMware NSX, we are connected to our own Helvetia Private Cloud, and have the option of outsourcing workloads into external clouds in a safe manner and thus run a cross-cloud strategy.”

MICHAEL WELTE

HEAD OF SERVICE AND CLOUD MANAGEMENT

HELVETIA

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Advantages of a Unified Platform A common operating environment from VMware is the answer to multi-cloud complexity. It provides a single point of control to break down silos and give you more freedom. You’ll benefit from:

• High operational efficiencyNSX solutions eliminate manual network configuration and reconfiguration withautomation, allowing you to quickly grow or shrink applications across environments.

• High workload mobilityThe NSX platform enables a fast, low-touch migration process that allows you torealize secure, seamless application mobility across your sites and clouds.

• Improved standardizationWith NSX technology, you can provision and manage networking and securityservices within a single management interface, for consistency and scale across allyour environments.

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Bring Clarity to Your Multi-Cloud Strategy An industry leader in virtualization, VMware enables organizations to navigate multi-cloud complexity in the digital era. With a common operating platformt across on-premises, private clouds, and public clouds, it brings networking and security consistency across all of your environments. With this newfound cloud freedom, IT and the business can become partners in innovating across clouds—without adding cost and complexity.

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