Atea is targeted on serving to organizations maximize the worth of their IT investments—from preliminary deployment, all through their lifecycle, and into the following era of expertise options. With virtually 8,000 staff positioned in 85 places of work throughout seven nations within the Nordic and Baltic areas of Europe, the corporate gives an entire vary of {hardware}, software program and companies to assist organizations resolve issues and acquire extra from IT to satisfy their enterprise goals.

As Håkon Gutierrez, Atea’s enterprise growth director, factors out, some of the vexing challenges many organizations face is complexity ensuing from years or a long time of IT updates and modifications, and Atea is uniquely in a position to assist them. “Complexity is one thing that favors Atea as a result of we have now a deep breadth of data throughout all of the IT distributors. That offers us the leverage to assist clients with any given problem.”

For greater than twenty years, Atea has been fixing advanced enterprise challenges in partnership with VMware. At present, which means enabling clients to undertake a multi-cloud technique. Gutierrez notes, “What we see is that our clients sometimes let their software outline the technique. And which means placing the appliance in the correct cloud, the place it’s most price environment friendly and performs the most effective. Our relationship with VMware is tremendous necessary in doing that.”

Bettering effectivity for a public sector buyer

With near 4,200 working inside Providers in its group, providing expertise in Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, AWS public clouds, in addition to non-public clouds and hybrid cloud environments, Atea is in an ideal place to assist organizations match their workload necessities to the correct cloud or clouds. And VMware performs a key position in enabling them to just do that.

“Our clients are transferring their purposes between on premises, off premises, non-public clouds and public clouds,” Gutierrez says. “Having the ability to provide cross-cloud companies with VMware is tremendous necessary for Atea to have the ability to optimize this multi-cloud atmosphere and allow clients to realize the enterprise outcomes they need.”

One instance is a public sector buyer positioned within the Nordics. This buyer has about 6,000 customers depending on an getting older knowledge middle, which the shopper needed to modernize. “Being a associate with VMware gave us the chance to suppose out overtly and extensively on doable options,” Gutierrez says.

Ultimately, Atea and VMware really helpful a hybrid cloud answer that might lengthen the group’s workloads from its on-premises knowledge middle into Azure, using the Azure VMware Answer. 

This enabled the shopper to get its workloads near cloud-native companies. Moreover, it improved the fee effectivity and resilience of the information middle by enabling purposes to reside each on- and off-premises.

“What we discovered after we moved the workloads into the Azure VMware Answer is that efficiency of the shopper’s SharePoint farm was enhanced by about 30 to 40 p.c,” Gutierrez studies. “Take into consideration 6,000 customers all the time going into purposes in several environments day by day. As an alternative of all the time having latency and ready three or 4 seconds earlier than they get to what they need to do, now they hardly wait in any respect. They now have a terrific expertise, which helps them be extra environment friendly. That’s a super-good return on funding.”

Cloud-smart options ship selection and adaptability

For Atea, being a part of the VMware cloud-smart ecosystem is all about offering clients with most selection and adaptability—permitting clients to position their workloads the place they need, when they need. And searching towards the longer term, Gutierrez is assured Atea’s partnership will solely proceed to offer clients with the correct choices to satisfy their evolving wants.

“Atea is optimistic about VMware’s multi-cloud roadmap and the reason being easy: as a result of it provides the shopper the power to decide on the place the appliance is most price environment friendly,” Gutierrez says. “And it helps us to ship applied sciences in Azure, GCP, AWS, on-premises, or anyplace.”

He concludes, “Atea is within the enterprise of digital transformation, and digital transformation is about ensuring the shopper is super-efficient. That could possibly be of their operational processes, the way in which they do enterprise, or it could possibly be about tradition. However on the finish of the day, all of it means enabling the shopper to get probably the most out of their expertise investments, and that’s accomplished with VMware.”

To be taught extra about modern, cloud-smart corporations like Atea, go to the assets on VMware Associate Govt Edge.