For years, many chief information officers (CIOs) checked out VMware-to-cloud migrations with a wary pragmatism. Manually mapping dependencies and rewriting legacy apps mid-flight was not an attractive, low-lift proposition for enterprise IT teams.
However the calculus for such decisions has modified dramatically in a brief time frame. Following recent VMware licensing changes, organizations are seeing greater uncertainty across the platform’s future. At the identical time, cloud-native innovation is accelerating. In line with the CNCF’s 2024 Annual Survey, 89% of organizations have already adopted no less than some cloud-native techniques, and the share of corporations reporting nearly all development and deployment as cloud-native grew sharply from 2023 to 2024 (20% to 24%). And market research firm IDC reports that cloud providers have grow to be top strategic partners for generative AI initiatives.
That is all happening amid escalating pressure to innovate faster and more cost-effectively to satisfy the demands of an AI-first future. As enterprises prepare for that inevitability, they’re facing compute demands which can be difficult, if not prohibitively expensive, to take care of exclusively on-premises.
