CIO OPINION
CIO
opinion
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APPLICATIONS
ARE FUNDAMENTAL
TO HOW MODERN
BUSINESSES WORK,
COMPETE AND EVOLVE.
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Joe Baguley, VP and CTO EMEA, VMware
Kubernetes takes
centre stage in 2019
Joe Baguley, VP and CTO
EMEA, VMware, looks at
the rise of Kubernetes.
M
ake no mistake that the
businesses that survive and
thrive today will be those that
continuously experiment. Think Jeff Bezos
advocating the need for ‘high-quality,
high velocity decisions’ – speed matters
in business, and new ideas, new products
and new strategies require a nimble and
fresh approach.
How to drive innovation at scale is on
the minds of CIOs I speak to and, clearly,
others in the industry – whether that’s
by better ‘adapting to a multi-cloud
world’ or ‘leading their organisations
through a period of multiplied
innovation and disruption.
Today, that’s an approach that simply
boils down to getting applications and
data into the hands of users as fast as
possible. Applications are fundamental to
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how modern businesses work, compete
and evolve. But let’s be honest, when
talking about modern app development
and delivery we are talking about multiple
data centres, traditional and cloud
native applications, multiple clouds, all
to be managed, all in one complex and
interlinked network.
Operation models have to keep up with
this rapidly evolving cloud architecture –
and without consistency and automation,
businesses simply can’t function and will
fall behind.
So, how do forward-looking organisations
keep up? What should CIOs looking
at their cloud-native app strategy be
thinking? The answer lies in a technology
that is making a rapid shift from the
darkest reaches of IT into broader
business parlance as it takes a central
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