Overview
Over the last five years, the cloud has revolutionised working practices across the private and public sectors. Often, however, highly regulated sectors — such as financial services — have found it difficult to realise the full benefits that cloud offers.
The need to achieve and demonstrate elevated levels of security and compliance has made it difficult for them to migrate the fullest range of workloads and applications to the cloud. But recent innovations and architectures from VMware now challenge the status quo.
VMware recognised that embracing a multi-cloud operating model, powered by the NSX+ portfolio, is key to regulated industries balancing the needs for compliance with the capabilities of cloud. With heavy penalties at play, attitudes would not be changed overnight, and significant market education would be required.