Share on: Data is at the core of everything that VMware customers do. Data is the lifeblood of the modern enterprise, and their success is increasingly determined by the ability to extract value from it. This means that the value of cloud infrastructure(s) is expanding beyond just storing data into managing, sharing, and analyzing it. Today, the reality is that our customers must cope with several types of infrastructure, often resulting in silos. That siloing occurs not only in physical infrastructure but also in operational models, security, and compliance. Running one’s applications across such silos is complex, expensive, and risky. We call it “Cloud Chaos.” VMware’s strategy is to offer a layer of common abstractions for operations and a common platform for running any application on every type of cloud to become “ Cloud Smart. ” One aspect of those common abstractions has to do with data, which is at the epicenter of our customers’ digital transformation. VMware already offers a variety of multi-cloud options for storage, storage management, and data protection. However, the way data is consumed and managed is changing drastically. Applications (and developers) consume data using higher-level abstractions – for example, SQL APIs as opposed to […]