Originally posted on VMware Blogs by Lisa Young
Standardization in business is a simple concept. Create streamlined processes that can be applied across multiple situations to create efficiencies and economies. In the multi-cloud era, that practice is often easier said than accomplished. With enterprise workloads and applications spread across on-prem and diverse cloud providers, standardization can seem unattainable.
Trends in the Multi-Cloud Era
Unmanageable Complexity
With workloads spread across both cloud and on-prem infrastructure, enterprises are facing growing complexity.
New Roles
Employees are stepping up into new roles to manage these new models, observability engineers, site reliability engineers, platform operators, and more.
Technology Continues to Expand
The importance of security and governance continues to climb— and cost exponentially.
However, as enterprises continue to grapple with the complex, multi-cloud architectures standardization is the only way out. Stephen Elliot, vice president, IDC, and Purnima Padmanabhan, senior vice president and general manager, VMware share, their insights into the challenges enterprise organizations face and what can be achieved by standardizing functions across clouds.
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