New IDC Study Shows the Business Value of Azure VMware Solution
367% 3-year ROI, 37% lower 3-year cost of operations, 9 months to payback – those are just some of the impressive results enterprises have achieved with Azure VMware Solution that you’ll find in the recently released IDC study, “The Business Value of Azure VMware Solution.” IDC interviewed multiple customers from a variety of industries to document their experience with Azure VMware Solution and quantify the financial and operational benefits it provides.
How Azure VMware Solution gets you to the cloud faster and for less
Azure VMware Solution is a Microsoft Azure service jointly engineered with VMware that provides the VMware infrastructure stack – vSphere, vSAN, and NSX – on dedicated bare-metal cloud hosts in Azure regions worldwide. With Azure VMware Solution, VMware users can rapidly migrate workloads to a fully consistent VMware platform in the Azure cloud, letting them skip tedious and expensive cloud re-platforming and preserve their IT team skills and operational processes. Azure VMware Solution includes the VMware licenses and Azure physical infrastructure in a single subscription available by the hour, or as 1- or 3-year reserved instances for greater savings. Azure VMware Solution also shares compelling Azure incentives like Azure Hybrid Benefit and free Extended Security Updates for Windows Server 2012 and SQL Server 2012.
Impressive savings numbers, even more impressive customer endorsements
The study, authored by IDC’s Gary Chen and Matthew Marden and commissioned by VMware, provides convincing validation of the value provided by Azure VMware Solution. As IDC found, “Study participants reported that the solution has provided a cost-effective, efficient, and high-performing platform that allows them to leverage existing investment and expertise in VMware and Microsoft technologies while benefiting from the agility and flexibility of the Microsoft Azure cloud.” IDC’s findings won’t surprise our Azure VMware Solution customers who have been making it the key to their cloud migration and modernization success for four years.
The IDC study is packed with impressive figures quantifying savings Azure VMware customers have realized (see sidebar,) but the user testimonials included by IDC make an even stronger case. Here’s just a sampling from the users IDC spoke with:
“If we weren’t using Azure VMware Solution, migration would take a lot longer, two to three times longer at least”
“For the same applications, we had a team that was totally dedicated with our on-premises setup, and they have drastically reduced the time required to 60–70% with Azure VMware Solution.”
“Azure VMware Solution replaced a massive on-premises infrastructure that we had to refresh and keep maintained. To do what we’re now doing with Azure VMware Solution would have cost 50% more on premises.”
“The servers we had on premises would not have been enough for what we’re now doing with Azure VMware Solution. We’ve not only avoided having to refresh the old servers, but we’ve avoided expanding. …By reducing our server footprint, our team has time to do work improving and analyzing our systems and do more projects, including innovation.”
“Azure VMware Solution helps us build a hybrid cloud infrastructure so that we can keep sensitive data on premises and use the Azure cloud. … We chose Azure VMware Solution because VMware is a leader in the space, has better integration with the Microsoft ecosystem, as well as good performance, better customer support, and strong overall innovation.”
“We’re avoiding additional infrastructure for disaster recovery with Azure VMware Solution. On top of other IT infrastructure savings, we’re avoiding around one million dollars in additional costs per year.”
Download and share the IDC study today
If you still need convincing of the business value of Azure VMware Solution, or if you’ve already decided on it, but need the validation of an IDC study to convince others, “The Business Value of Azure VMware Solution” is ready for you to download and share in three formats:
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