We regularly speak to technology executives focused on building IT roadmaps to ensure their organizations can deliver fast, agile, high-quality, and secure application services across multiple sites and providers. The top criteria include global delivery of services, business continuity, cloud-smart flexibility, and cost management.
The good news—there’s no reason to transform most of your VMs into containers. For many organizations, this is accomplished through VMware hypervisor-hosted application services that continue to serve businesses well. The reality is that a combination of VMs, containers and a smattering of bare metal will probably be the norm across core and edge locations for years to come.