Analyst Insight Series: Consolidated, Consistent and Simplified Operations Deliver on The Promise of Platform Engineering

Discover more from VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Blog Related Articles Build, Deploy, and Scale with Confidence: vSphere Kubernetes Service 3.5 is Now Live with 24-Month Support VCF Breakroom Chats Episode 71: Maximizing VCF Resource Prudency through Capacity Management Government-Ready NVIDIA AI Enterprise Containers Now Available for Customers of VMware Private AI Foundation with NVIDIA Guest post by Jay Lyman , Senior Research Analyst, S&P Global Market Intelligence 451 Research This blog is the second in our series, “Effective Platform Engineering: Priorities, Pitfalls and Success in Taming Complexity and Managing Today’s Enterprise Infrastructure and Applications. ”(read the first blog here ) and a companion to the analyst report, “ Cost, Productivity, Security Shape Today’s Platform Engineering ” To implement effective platform engineering, enterprise teams must address significant challenges related to complexity and integration across infrastructures, applications, tools and teams. Key to overcoming these challenges are consolidated, consistent and simplified operations that enhance developer productivity, increase cost efficiency, and improve quality and security. Tackling integration and complexity IT teams commonly cite integration and complexity as hurdles to effective platform engineering and DevOps, as highlighted in our Voice of the Enterprise survey (see figure below). Challenges in adopting platform engineering Q. What challenges, if any, do you expect (or have you encountered) in adopting platform engineering? (Select top 3). Base: Respondents whose organizations have platform engineering initiatives. Source: 451 Research’s Voice of the Enterprise: Cloud Native, Platform Engineering 2024. Simplified operations focused on unified lifecycle management can help reduce the complexity of modern enterprise infrastructure and applications, including rapidly evolving tools and platforms such as Kubernetes. While Kubernetes promises effective management of applications and infrastructure at massive scale, it can also introduce complexity due to its various open-source components for orchestration, monitoring, observability and security. These components require centralized and consistent support to enhance operational efficiency, collaboration, governance and control. The platform approach Enterprises can simplify operations by consolidating and ensuring consistency across compute, storage, networking and security resources through a unified platform that can integrate with other tools and platforms across software development and deployment processes.