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Unlock Efficiency with IBM Cloud for VMware | FNTS

Written by FNTS Blog | December 3, 2024

Empowering organizations to optimize IT infrastructures, VMware promotes virtualization and cloud solutions that enable efficiency, flexibility and scalability to drive agility, security and cost savings. In fact, VMware is the predominant virtualization platform for on-premises deployments of mission critical applications. However, organizations that manage their own on-premises VMware infrastructure can encounter the following obstacles:

  • significant capital outlays for maintenance, licensing and operational costs;
  • resource allocation;
  • surmountable time managing and overseeing equipment;
  • technical issues with on-premises setups that result in lengthy downtime;
  • legacy on-premises setups that are not built for scale.

IT teams don’t want to spend time managing hardware. They want to innovate and add value to their organization. Partnering with an IBM Cloud provider like FNTS can ensure your VMware environment is set up for success.

Explore the Economic Impact, Benefits of IBM Cloud for VMware

As enterprises look to embrace hybrid cloud and innovative AI to modernize virtualized applications, IBM Cloud for VMware solutions provide a secure, flexible and reliable hybrid cloud platform that seamlessly enables the modernization and management of VMware workloads, while balancing the critical aspects of cost, agility and security.

According to a Forrester economic impact report, organizations that utilized IBM Cloud for VMware over three years had an average 201% return on investment. They also reduced data center costs, improved operational efficiencies and simplified security and compliance efforts.

By simplifying migration to the cloud, IBM Cloud for VMware solutions enable enterprises to scale resources up and down without overprovisioning.

Other benefits of IBM Cloud for VMware include:

  • compatibility with existing VMware environments;
  • ease of deployment and consistent management across cloud and on-premises environments;
  • custom infrastructure fit based on the security and compliance needs of workloads;
  • high infrastructure speed and reliability;
  • access to disaster recovery, backup, security and compliance solutions;
  • access to flexible, consumption-based pricing;
  • greater control and transparency over cloud resources to promote high performance.

Download this IBM White Paper to read more about the benefits of IBM Cloud for VMware

Promote Business Continuity

In today’s world, it’s not just about backup and recovery. It’s also about ensuring that businesses are always up and running and able to recover applications, data and workloads completely and quickly. Any failure in doing so creates the risk of losing revenue, brand confidence and customer goodwill. In essence, we are talking about overall business continuity.

Business continuity is comprised of backup and recovery, as well as high availability of mission-critical workloads at any given time. Maintaining business continuity and improved IT resiliency are more important than ever for any enterprise in the digital era. The flexibility and agility of the cloud makes it an optimal solution to mitigate risks and ensure continuous business operations. In fact, most IT decision-makers look at the cloud as a solution to improve uptime, performance and availability of applications, data and workloads.

Determine if IBM Cloud for VMware is Good Fit

Are you trying to decide if IBM Cloud for VMware solutions are ideal for your organization? For most organizations, the issue is not whether to utilize IBM Cloud for VMware, but when and how to migrate workloads. Below are key considerations:

  • focus on the timing and seamless implementation to avoid interruptions;
  • quick access to automation and high availability are essential;
  • selection of the right enterprise-grade cloud provider is key to maintaining continuous business operations for successful implementation;
  • find a provider that meets the business, application and high availability requirements, as well as the level of support and expertise needed to be successful;
  • a clear set of objectives and key performance indicators (KPIs) will keep the project focused and on track.

Download a Decision-Maker’s Guide on Maximizing Business Continuity with VMware in the Cloud →

The FNTS Difference

An IBM Delivery Partner since 2004 and a current IBM Business Partner, FNTS has expanded its IBM Cloud infrastructure capabilities, which include IBM Cloud for VMware.

IBM Cloud through FNTS accelerates and optimizes your journey to the cloud, so you can get to market faster and more cost-efficiently. Organizations can access a full suite of cloud computing services that include VMware solutions through a subscription-based platform. Because of our technical expertise, size and scale, we have become a trusted advisor to ensure cloud consumption aligns with organizational budgets. Our trusted advisors assess complex business and technical requirements to identify the best cloud computing subscription for applications. We right-fit environments, so organizations avoid oversubscribing. On average, we help organizations save 10% to 20% on IBM Cloud subscriptions.

In addition, FNTS is a Premier tier VMware Cloud Service Provider (VCSP) in the Broadcom Advantage Partner Program. VCSP Premier partners have highly developed VMware practices and a consistent track record of delivering client satisfaction. Being a VMware Cloud Service Provider demonstrates the depth and breadth of our VMware practices and ability to fuel innovation and virtualization for clients that utilize our IBM Cloud (public cloud), FNTS Cloud (private cloud) or Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service. Our partnership also opens the door for us to provide additional technical and go-to-market support that helps clients deliver a consistent hybrid cloud experience with enhanced managed services and specialization for their demanding or high-performance workloads.

To explore our comprehensive cloud offerings that are compatible with VMware environments, please complete our FNTS contact form to get in touch with a member of our team.