As modern businesses experience an explosion in the amount of applications that generate data, and the desire to, store, and analyze that data grows, it comes as no surprise that VMs are seeing enormous growth in popularity and usage. This boost in interest stems largely from the benefits that arise from secure, high availability cloud architectures. In fact, it’s a hot topic at this week’s VMworld 2019, where two separate learning tracks are focused on increasing hybrid cloud and multi-cloud adoption. With data volumes and VMs quantities on the rise, transitioning from on-premises technology to cloud or hybrid cloud solutions is a high priority.

While many IT teams are racing to the cloud, the majority of VMware Virtual Machines (VMs) are still running on-premises.