The majority of organisations in Asia Pacific are already using multiple public clouds but only 38% have a fully defined multi-cloud strategy. VMware identifies those organisations as “Cloud Smart”, wherein they have smart business environments to innovate and scale securely across multiple environments.
According to VMware’s Multi-Cloud Maturity Research Report, Cloud Smart organisations in Asia Pacific have experienced the following benefits:
- See a positive impact in their revenue and profitability (97%)
- Data monetisation being a significant source of their current revenue (41%)
- Have better control on cloud costs, thanks to better visibility and control over their multi-cloud operations
- Able to better address data sovereignty concerns as they can easily manage (92%) and secure (89%) data in whichever nation it resides
- See little to no improvement needed to secure their organisation’s data (93%), end-user employee data (93%) and customer data (92%) as they have good visibility and control over their apps and data across multiple clouds.
This is exemplified in the case of International SOS, a health and security services firm. “We need an equally agile and available IT backbone to support the millions of assistance calls we get each year from the more than 9,000 organisations we support worldwide. Only a multi-cloud approach can provide that certainty, flexibility and reliability, but we need to be able to manage multiple clouds efficiently and cost-effectively,’’ says Henk Van Rossum, general manager for Group Cloud, Infrastructure and Operations at International SOS.
He continues: “To be smart in how we deploy technology to support our 13,000-strong medical, security and logistics experts worldwide for the millions more they support in turn, we needed to adopt a Cloud Smart approach to have that visibility, security and control over all our apps, data and processes on any cloud. We are glad to be able to do so with VMware and show how to fully leverage multi-cloud to save lives.”
Paul Simos, VMware’s vice president and managing director for Southeast Asia and Korea, says: “The findings are clear – organisations in our region are committed to being Cloud First, but many are fast approaching a plateau in their multi-cloud usage. Instead of adopting a Cloud Smart approach, many organisations are at risk of entering a state of Cloud Chaos, losing visibility and control as more and more of their apps and data are spread across more and more clouds.
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“Organisations need to make their investments in multi-cloud work harder. It is time to shift gears and transition to a Cloud Smart strategy not just to weather what is to come, but to continue getting the scale of productivity and profitability they have been enjoying when they first moved to the Cloud far into the future.”
