VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), in conjunction with VMworld 2019 Europe,
today highlighted how EMEA customers News UK, ClickSoftware,
Discovery, and StepStone are using CloudHealth by VMware and VMware
Secure State to unleash the cloud’s full potential for agility,
growth, and innovation, and to better address common multi-cloud
challenges related to cost, scale, security, and visibility.
A majority of organizations are on a multi-cloud journey, and
increasingly customers are bringing together investments in
multiple public cloud providers, with a unified hybrid cloud
environment to execute a single cloud strategy to support the needs
of applications. CloudHealth enables customers to manage, operate
and better secure their multi-cloud environments. With CloudHealth,
customers collaborate across lines of business to make intelligent
decisions related to cost management, security, and governance
while scaling their multi-cloud environments. VMware Secure State
is an intelligent multi-cloud security platform that helps
organizations identify public cloud misconfigurations, visualize
at-risk infrastructure, correlate cross-cloud threat activity, and
automate security and compliance reporting across teams. Together,
these cloud services are enabling VMware to build a model where
customers can deploy, run, manage, connect, and better protect any
app on any cloud.
“Our customers sit at the cutting edge of innovation in the
cloud,” said Tom Axbey, vice president and general manager,
CloudHealth by VMware. “As they build out their cloud centers of
excellence and redefine what’s possible, VMware is acting as a
trusted partner helping in the ongoing success of their businesses.
VMware is helping the next generation of cloud leaders to not be
derailed by the complexities of the cloud, but rather empowered
with speed, a more informed cloud management and security strategy,
and rapid business decision making.”
News UK Manages Spend, Enforces Centralized
Governance
News UK publishes Britain's best-selling and best-known
newspapers, including The Sun and The Times, and acquired Wireless
in 2016, which includes one of the world's biggest sports radio
station talkSPORT and Virgin Radio UK. To keep pace with the
ever-changing media landscape, News UK said it runs all of its
digital properties in the cloud, allowing the company to easily
scale up in order to meet demand.
“Cloud complexity can present a major challenge if you don’t
know how to address it,” said Iain Caldwell, Head of
Infrastructure, News UK and News Corp EMEA. “Tracking and managing
change across our environment, while enabling innovation across the
business, is complex. What CloudHealth delivers in terms of
optimization is key, as is giving finance visibility of spend."
How News UK tackled this challenge – enforcing centralized
governance with CloudHealth – and the company’s learnings will be
covered in a session at VMworld entitled, “Migrate Your Business to
the Cloud and Keep Your Expenses on the Ground.”
Visibility Enables ClickSoftware to Maintain Business
Momentum
ClickSoftware, a leading provider of workforce management
solutions on a global scale, provides solutions that are used by
major brands including Ericsson, National Grid, Orange, and Liberty
Mutual. With field service management offerings that are trusted by
large enterprises, the company said it relies on the cloud to help
customers deploy its SaaS solution quickly and easily. The
challenge, however, was that ClickSoftware needed a way to keep
cost in check and maintain visibility as the company’s cloud
adoption steadily increased. CloudHealth -- with its cost
governance and automation capabilities, customizable dashboards and
integrated reporting -- was the perfect solution.
“CloudHealth has an intuitive interface, which gives us a full
view into all our assets,” said Eran Sharon, Cloud Services Program
Manager, ClickSoftware. “We saw value very quickly, within the
first few weeks, and have since used it to put policies and alerts
in place that delivered immediate benefits, even beyond cost
savings. Striking that balance of speed with control is exactly
what you want in a cloud program, if your business is going to
continue to be a market leader.”
Global Growth Spurs Focus on Security at
Discovery
Discovery is a financial services company
headquartered in South Africa that operates in the healthcare,
life assurance, short-term insurance, savings and investment, and
wellness industries. It is pioneering a business model which
incentivizes people to be healthier, while enhancing and protecting
their well-being. The company’s unique approach has created
substantial new business growth, according to the company,
manifesting in its globally recognized Vitality shared-value
insurance model, currently active in 22 countries with over 10
million members. Discovery said it embraced the public cloud to
scale globally and maintaining the agility and speed for which the
development team is known.
“We release products every year yet run a fairly lean cloud
security and operations team. The ‘fail fast’ mentality of the
cloud certainly fits our operating model,” said Johan Marais,
Virtualization Manager, Discovery. “At the same time, we need to be
available to our customers whenever they need us and make sure we
aren’t introducing additional risk into our environment. From a
technology standpoint, that means adopting solutions that simplify
visibility and scale quickly to match our growing infrastructure
complexity. VMware Secure State gives us real-time insight into our
security posture and automates reporting, so we can proactively
manage misconfigurations, threats, and compliance risks.”
StepStone Optimizes Cost Across Brands
StepStone is a global online job board business consisting of
over 10 top brands. It is part of Axel Springer Digital Classifieds
GmbH, allowing customers to find new employees in more than 135
countries and matching candidates with more than 600,000 jobs per
month. The company said its cloud usage has steadily increased
since the initial migration of their production infrastructure, and
today they use CloudHealth to forecast spend and identify
underutilized assets.
“With visibility into spend by environment, team, and brand,
CloudHealth has enabled us to drive a culture of accountability and
innovation,” said Tristan Greaves, Group AWS Programme Manager,
StepStone. “The reports give teams a consolidated view into their
assets so they can drill down as needed. With multiple teams across
multiple countries, that’s a lifesaver for me, my team, and the
business.”
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