There are several ‘well-architected’ frameworks that exist in the market today. This guidance has primarily been focused on individual public cloud providers with an emphasis on cloud-only deployments. In contrast, VMware’s customer environments span across different deployment models such as private cloud (on-premises), public cloud and hybrid cloud. As organizations increasingly adopt multiple cloud providers to support their business interests, a need has emerged to offer prescriptive guidance and best practices supporting multi-cloud deployments.

VMware is best positioned to deliver comprehensive guidance to support customers throughout their multi-cloud journey. This paper introduces the new VMware Cloud Ready Framework (VMCRF) that builds upon the following VMware pillars — Plan, Build, Secure, Modernize, and Operate. These pillars will help customers execute against their multi-cloud strategy, and will help organizations build reliable, scalable, secure, and operationally efficient cloud environments.