VMware delivers 'cloud-smart' approach for the multi-cloud era at VMworld 2021

At VMworld 2021, VMware, Inc. announced its strategy to help customers navigate the multi-cloud era with the launch of VMware Cross-Cloud services. This group of integrated services will help deliver a faster and smarter path to cloud for digital businesses, providing customers with the ability to build, run and better secure apps across any cloud with freedom and flexibility.

Today, the average organization is running roughly 500 applications to drive their business and those apps are distributed across clouds. 75% of VMware customers are relying on two or more public clouds, and 40% are using three or more.

This multi-cloud approach increases app velocity and innovation and allows organizations to be much more agile and resilient. However, a multi-cloud environment is far more diverse, complex, and distributed than anything organizations have managed in the past.

“Multi-cloud is the digital business model for the next 20 years, as entire industries reinvent themselves,” Raghu Raghuram, chief executive officer, VMware, said.

This complexity often forces trade-offs between moving fast and managing risk, resulting in slower execution while increasing costs. VMware's strategy is built to help customers eliminate the tough choices and challenges by giving them a powerful combination of freedom and control in their multi-cloud business.