Increasingly, more and more companies are embracing a multi-cloud approach as part of their IT/Digital transformation strategy, mainly to meet various business and technology requirements, as no single cloud model can fit the diverse requirements and workloads across different business units.

To put the above in context, I am sharing with you all, one of my recent engagements in the UK Public Sector where customer has adopted Private/Hybird Cloud on Vxrail/VMware, VMC on AWS as their IaaS and Azure as PaaS. I have been told that they are the first UK local government organisation who has chosen VMC on AWS for their public cloud. It was a proud moment, for both of us. I love it when a plan comes together!

It was a very interesting and long engagement, from start to finish. It began with the usual – a dominant public cloud provider assessed their environment and suggested that all workload can be hosted on public cloud (rolling my eyes right now). I hope you do get the idea! Anyhow, the customer had an aging infrastructure and cloud first strategy. After assessing the workload and basic 2 x W (Why and What), they were in agreement with me that multi cloud was what they needed, for all of the following reasons:-

• Price flexibility: Better pricing flexibility by leveraging different cloud platforms.
• Risk mitigation or redundancy: By spreading workloads and data across multiple cloud platforms, companies can reduce downtime and have a smoother disaster recovery plan.
• Unlimited scalability and better agility: Elasticity and agility to empower business units as they grow, and meet the demands to access more data.
• Avoid vendor lock-in: The option to adapt to changes in the marketplace, without reworking the whole cloud architecture to suit one vendor.
• Adopt use of best practices: Best practices built on one cloud vendor can be applied across the enterprise to departments using other cloud vendors.

The on-prem Solution was based on Dell EMC HCI(Vxrail), NSX for network virtualization and on top of that the VMware vRealize suite for the on-prem Cloud functionality. The VMC on AWS had very similar setup and both were managed by a single vCenter server, providing a single pane of glass management for on-prem and off-prem environment.

If you have any questions on this, please do not hesitate to contact me.

Finally, I would like to introduce VMware hybrid Cloud assessment. VMware Hybrid Cloud Assessment (HCA) helps in making decisions and Cloud readiness. It’s fast and easy. HCA provides cloud cost insights in less than three hours.

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