Moving VMware Workloads to the Cloud

Why, despite the inherent advantages of cloud, do 80 percent of mission-critical workloads and sensitive data remain on premise? This question loomed large at a specially-convened CBR Dining Club event, in association with IBM, which took place in early February.The theme of the evening, ‘Moving VMware workloads to the cloud’, traded on the complementary benefits of virtualisation and cloud computing – namely, combining the efficiency and effectiveness of the virtual machine with the agility and elasticity of cloud. Opening the discussion, Lucas Wager, Cloud Sales Manager at IBM, suggested the 20 percent of workloads currently on cloud were there because migration was relatively easy. In some cases, these were “born-on-the-cloud workloads”, he said.