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CHAPTER 3 Supporting Workloads Anytime, Anywhere 25 These materials are © 2020 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Any dissemination, distribution, or unauthorized use is strictly prohibited. Chapter 3 IN THIS CHAPTER » Managing workloads on-premises and in the cloud » Running your mission-critical applications » Addressing remote office and branch office challenges » Delivering virtual desktops "as-a-service" » Measuring success in terms of time-to-value » Reducing cost and latency in the datacenter » Supporting big data on a really big scale (tens of petabytes) » Transforming storage with flash technology and next-generation HCI Supporting Workloads Anytime, Anywhere D o you know where your workloads are? No, really. Can you say with certainty exactly which servers or environments are hosting which workloads? There was a time when these weren't hard questions to answer. Everyone knew that the enter- prise resource planning (ERP) system ran on the server named "Spock" and the customer relationship management (CRM) sys- tem ran on the server named "Snoopy." Today, as workloads have increasingly been virtualized, they move dynamically across different physical hosts and even differ- ent datacenter and cloud environments. For example, autoscaling capabilities enable new instances of an application or workloads