EP24 - VMware Multi-cloud strategy: Are you also confused ?

<p>VMware is an on-prem company, actually they do data center compute/network virtualization better than anybody else. However, their Multi-cloud portfolio and strategy is confusing. This should not come as a surprise as like many other legacy on-prem vendors, they face the “incumbent dilemma”. This post does a good job explaining &nbsp;<a href="https://rishidean.com/2014/12/08/incumbents-dilemma-why-disrupting-yourself-is-hard/">https://rishidean.com/2014/12/08/incumbents-dilemma-why-disrupting-yourself-is-hard/</a></p> <p>VMware do accept the fact that applications their infrastructure was servicing is now rapidly moving to cloud and Michael Dell recently confirmed &nbsp;"even days of hybrid-cloud are long gone, next phase is Multi-cloud". <a href="https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/dell-hybrid-cloud-long-gone-multi-cloud-next-phase/2021/10/">https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/dell-hybrid-cloud-long-gone-multi-cloud-next-phase/2021/10/</a></p> <ul> <li>This BTW is not new as Gartner and modern born in the cloud networking vendors such as #Aviatrix have been talking about this for more than 2 years now] <a href="https://aviatrix.com/gartner-cloud-networking-market-guide/">https://aviatrix.com/gartner-cloud-networking-market-guide/</a></li> </ul> <p><br></p> <ul> <li>Enterprise&nbsp;must think of&nbsp;“end state&nbsp;architecture&nbsp;“ in cloud and strive to get to&nbsp;that&nbsp;destination as&nbsp;quick as possible. Intermediate temporary parking lot approaches, even though could be necessary to meet DC shutdown deadlines, they are costly as it slows down realization of&nbsp;true cloud agility and operations teams delay their ramp up to support future state architecture. Cloud partners like <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/feed/hashtag/?keywords=accenture&amp;highlightedUpdateUrns=urn%3Ali%3Aactivity%3A6856063897150091264">#accenture</a> are maturing their app migrations skills tremendously moving businesses with minimum disruption. This will continue to get better.<br> </li> <li>Lastly <a hre