The Taneja Group polled over 300 VMware customer organizations about their IT priorities, challenges, and adopted capabilities to determine effective paths to streamlining and automating data center operations.

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Automating Application
and Infrastructure
Delivery
United Kingdom Edition

2. Grow Your Business Faster, Smarter
With Automated Delivery
IT must supply the infrastructure and applications
users need — quickly and cost effectively.
Automated application and infrastructure
delivery can help:
To determine a dependable path
to automation, Taneja Group
polled over 300 VMware
customer organisations
about IT priorities, operational
and business challenges, and the
capabilities they plan to adopt to
address those challenges.
Bring new products
and services
to market faster
Grow business
at the expense
of competitors

3. Overcome the Challenges
of Manual Delivery
Manual provisioning
decreases agility and slows response time
Physical storage
reduces deployment choice and increases costs
Manual tools
and slowed app release cycles
delay launch and impact of new solutions
Lack of transparency
in service costs can cause overspend

4. Automation Can Help
Your Business Thrive
66%
Provisioning
Time
70%
Productivity
25-40%
IT
Responsiveness
VMware customers experienced
substantial benefits:

5. Roadmap to Automating App
and Infrastructure Delivery
Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase 3
Provisioning
Cloud Environment
Networking & Storage
Dev, Test & Release
Costing
Infrastructure
Private, public, hybrid
Dev productivity
Infrastructure level
Apps & middleware
Multiple hybrid clouds
Automated services
App release automation
Service level
VMware customers found this
roadmap most effective when
enabling key capabilities:

6. Application and Infrastructure Delivery
Automation Drives Real Results
Dramatically reduced
provisioning times
for new infrastructure
and apps
Increased flexibility
of deployment
Significant gains
in administrative
productivity
Improved control
and costing
of IT resources

7. VMware Solutions
for Your Automation Roadmap
Provisioning
vRealize Automation
Cloud
Environment
vRealize Suite
vCloud Connector
vCloud Air
Networking
& Storage
VMware NSX
VMware Virtual SAN
vRealize Automation
Dev, Test
& Release
vRealize Automation
vCode Stream
Costing
vRealize Automation
vRealize Business
Professional
Services
VMware can help you
determine an automation
solution for your business needs

8. VMware Suites
We Can Simplify the Process of Automation
• vRealize Log Insight
• vRealize Operations
• vRealize Automation
• vRealize Business
For public and hybrid cloud
environments, we recommend
vRealize Suite, which includes:
• vSphere
• vCenter Site Recovery Manager
• vRealize Operations
• vRealize Automation
• vRealize Business
For vSphere environments,
we recommend vCloud Suite,
which includes:

9. Learn More
Gain broader insight into automation, learn more
about our survey results, and see how VMware
can provide you with greater business agility
at a greater cost-efficiency.
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