Digital Transformation with APM 4.0

Containers have become the preferred application development and deployment platform for new applications in both enterprises and service providers. In addition, companies are also looking to repackage and deploy existing applications within container environments. However, one of the most common concerns brought up by CIOs, CSOs and infrastructure technologists alike, is that of potentially reduced security – especially when compared to VM platforms. The reality is quite different. Containers can be a vehicle for improving data center and application security, but it does take putting in the right processes and laying the right foundation.

One of the key pillars of our VMware Cloud strategy is to form deep partnerships with major cloud providers to enable and streamline hybrid cloud adoption. Our partnership with IBM is a perfect example of this. Together we seamlessly integrate private and public cloud, and help lower the barriers to hybrid cloud adoption by delivering new solutions that help solve challenges such as workload portability, downtime, application dependency, network complexity and migration efficiency.

In its recent report “Predictions 2018: A year of reckoning”, Forrester predicts that 80% of firms affected by GDPR will not comply with the regulation by May 2018. Of those noncompliant firms, 50% will intentionally not comply.Compliance doesn’t have to be this difficult! What if you have an opportunity to facilitate GDPR compliance with a mature technology and significant cost reduction? Data virtualization is a mature, cost-effective technology that enables privacy by design to facilitate GDPR compliance.

While VMware workloads can now run natively on Google Cloud, they still require a rich set of data management tools. Cloud Volumes ONTAP equips you with everything you’ll need. Watch our webinar to learn how Cloud Volumes ONTAP and Google Cloud VMware Engine come together.