Get Thee to the Cloud: App Modernization vs Cloud Transformation

“Go to Cloud” is becoming a board-level mandate. But that can mean a number of things, from the application architecture to the operating model to the infrastructure itself. How do you as a technology leader make sense of this very broad request? Meanwhile, the pandemic has accelerated digital business initiatives. Ultimately, it’s the application that delivers new capabilities to customers and employees; but transformation occurs at several layers to support those applications. Often certain technology choices force you to change all the layers together, at the same time, creating more complexity and taking longer to realize business value. At VMware, we see our customers navigating three transformations, each of which supports digital business, cloud transformation, and app modernization at different levels. In this talk, James Watters and Kit Colbert will discuss how the cloud mandate breaks down across: - Creating a better (digital) customer experience to drive more top line revenue - Delivering these updates faster and more securely - Optimizing infrastructure costs by closing datacenters and moving workloads to cloud