You’ve deployed VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), slashed provisioning times to minutes, and hit 99.99% uptime. Yet board scrutiny is intensifying, and your CFO is still asking the hard question: Where is the financial return?
Speeding up infrastructure doesn’t automatically generate business ROI. To the contrary, it can accelerate enterprise waste. Without financial governance, high-speed provisioning leads to unmapped workloads, hoarded computing resources, and runaway AI “token taxes.” Quite simply, there’s a big difference between meeting an operational SLA and delivering a business outcome.
As Stephen Elliot, Group Vice President, Software Development and IT Operations at IDC, notes:
“The core issue is a value translation gap: product teams drive innovation, infrastructure teams speak cores and clusters, and finance speaks budgets and ROI, with no leader connecting platform spend to business outcomes.” (Source: “ValueOps for Private Cloud: Proving Business and Financial Alignment for the VCF Platform.”)
ValueOps® by Broadcom bridges this gap. By creating a digital thread that connects strategy, applications, and VCF telemetry directly to executive OKRs, ValueOps enables infrastructure leaders to execute a three-part blueprint:
Know what you own: Eliminate VM sprawl and shadow AI by linking hypervisors and instances directly to business owners. By establishing these capabilities, customers have cut three-year TCO by 39%.*
Boost density: Use predictive analytics to maximize VM-to-host ratios. In this way, organizations realize a 34% hardware cost reduction, without compromising SLAs.*
Connect spending to value realization: By connecting consumption to revenue and OKRs, teams can demonstrate an average 564% 3-year ROI and free more than 54 full-time employees (FTEs) for strategic innovation.*
Stop assuming your private cloud is delivering ROI. It’s time to start proving it.
A: Without financial governance, high-speed provisioning often leads to enterprise waste, including unmapped workloads, hoarded computing capacity, and runaway AI token taxes.
A: The value translation gap refers to the disconnect between different groups. For example, product teams are focused on innovation, infrastructure teams on cores and clusters, and finance teams on managing budgets. The problem is that no leader takes ownership for connecting spending to outcomes.
A: ValueOps creates a digital thread that links strategy, applications, and VCF telemetry directly to executive OKRs. With these capabilities, teams can optimize density, eliminate VM sprawl, and prove return on investment.
A: IDC benchmark data indicates an average 564% 3-year ROI with a 10-month payback. Organizations also achieve a 34% reduction in hardware and cloud costs, 98% downtime reduction, and the ability to reallocate more than 54 full-time employees to strategic innovation.
*Source: IDC, “The Business Value of VMware Cloud Foundation,” Business Value White Paper, sponsored by VMware by Broadcom.