This report by 451 Research explores the benefits of adopting platforms that support both traditional virtualization and cloud-native workloads.
Virtual machines — which use a hypervisor to abstract compute functions from underlying hardware and make those functions addressable via a consistent control plane — remain a core feature of the enterprise IT landscape. It is not hard to understand why: VMs provide out-of-the-box security, resilience and manageability that make them an intrinsic feature of most IT environments.