A traditional three-tier infrastructure setup spans servers, a separate storage array, and physical networking. It creates silos, makes management difficult, and forces you to buy and scale each layer independently from the other.

VMware Cloud Foundation takes those three layers into one software-defined platform running on standard servers. The solution is one of consolidation. Below, we’ll explore what makes modernisation difficult and where VMware fits.

Legacy systems that won’t integrate

Your infrastructure is a set of siloed components that are complex, slow and costly to integrate. Building something modern that also has to slot into those existing systems only adds to that complexity, which is why modernisation projects stall.

VCF ships compute, networking, storage, management and security integrated as one package, so the private-cloud deployment lands in hours rather than months or years.

Its integrated Kubernetes runtime means the one platform runs your traditional VMs and your modern AI, ML and containerised workloads together, so the new doesn’t have to be bolted onto the old.

Inconsistency across environments

Vendor lock-in and dependence on familiar but different hardware provide an IT environment with no familiarity between points. Your IT is rigid and hard to change, with modernisation costs threatening to derail your operation.

VCF has built-in HCX, which moves workloads between your endpoints without re-architecting them, and it extends across on-premises, private, and public clouds, leaving no touchpoint unturned for that consistent experience.

Security and compliance

It’s impractical to have one security policy when you have such a distributed estate. GDPR, HIPAA, and the rest have rules to follow.

VCF is a solution to that compliance as its controls cover microsegmentation, encryption, access, data governance, auditing, threat detection, and compliance enforcement — all easily managed and configured to your requirements.

Escalating costs that creep up

How easy is it to predict when over-provisioning, sprawl, and running costs are going to spike your costs? Not very.

VCF customers reached a 42% lower three-year cost of operations with its automation and lifecycle management (VMware Cloud Foundation, IDC). It reduces your costs with more VMs on each host. You can then buy fewer servers and less networking hardware.

The skills gap

One VMware environment across every endpoint. That’s what changes your management approach here. The old way of working requires expertise in cloud, orchestration, and DevOps, but the new one only asks them to use familiar tools.

There isn’t a retraining bill or hiring requirement with VMware Cloud Foundation; it’s easy enough to learn and fits into your infrastructure.

As one of around 40 VMware by Broadcom partners in the UK, DSI Technology Services is committed to helping organisations maximise the value of their VMware by Broadcom investment as we work towards Premier Partner status.

We support customers using VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) and VMware vSphere Foundation (VVF), helping them fully utilise the capabilities included in their licences.

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