Cloud is the default operating model for enterprises today, but adoption and value are often constrained by organizational structure. According to the Private Cloud Outlook 2025 report, one in three IT leaders say that siloed IT teams are the top barrier to private cloud adoption. Here’s how these silos can delay progress, and how organizations can remove them to unlock the full potential of a modern private cloud.
The Cost of Staying in Silos
Private cloud success depends on alignment of people, process, and technology. Silos break that alignment.
- People: Siloed teams focus narrowly on their own domains, creating inconsistent operations and governance. Nearly one-third of IT leaders reported struggles with security, compliance, and in-house expertise.
- Process: Traditional, ticket-based operating models make change slow and reactive.
- Technology: Each team’s preferred tools, vendors, and platforms add complexity, integration challenges, and inconsistent performance across environments.
The outcome is predictable: complexity increases and IT struggles to keep pace with business needs. The report reveals that 81% of enterprises are now reorganizing their IT around platform teams that are built for speed, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
The Transition to Platform Teams
How does a platform team operate differently? Instead of each team focusing on a specific domain and owning its own stack, a private cloud platform team delivers shared services—compute, storage, networking, and automation—through a common operating model.
In fact, enterprises that are more mature in their private cloud adoption experience significantly superior results in strategic impact and operational excellence, as showcased in the special report Private Cloud Outlook: The Maturity Advantage:
- They are 3x more likely to achieve their cloud goals and to repatriate workloads from public cloud
- They experience nearly 2x higher satisfaction across infrastructure, applications, and security
- They plan to accelerate their private cloud investments over the next three years and consistently rank cloud workloads as their top IT priority
VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) aligns to this model by unifying compute, storage, network, security, and lifecycle automation behind one operating framework.
VCF gives platform teams:
- A single, automated control plane for provisioning, scaling, and securing workloads.
- Consistent infrastructure and policy enforcement from core to edge.
- Integrated automation and lifecycle management to remove routine manual work.
- Support for both traditional, containerized, and AI workloads.
With VCF, IT can pivot from maintaining infrastructure to delivering it as a service—faster, safer, and with far less friction. As IT teams function more efficiently in a platform model, they can focus on delivering true business outcomes around modernizing infrastructure, application, or their security.
Our focus at Broadcom is pretty simple: We want to give our customers the best private cloud platform in the world. With VCF 9.0, we’re empowering them to break down organizational silos and reduce friction that too often hampers the business.
Hock Tan, President and CEO, Broadcom (https://www.broadcom.com/blog/private-cloud-done-right-why-vcf-9-0-changes-everything)
Re-Skilling IT for the Platform Era
Technology alone doesn’t eliminate silos. People do. That’s why closing the skills gap is critical. According to the Private Cloud Outlook 2025, one in three organizations say a lack of in-house expertise stands in the way of private cloud adoption.
According to Boston Consulting Group (BCG), achieving cloud benefits requires formal upskilling and training, but “unfortunately, companies often underinvest in training.”
To remove silos, workers need to be cross-trained across multiple technologies. Re-skilling and certifications offer career enhancement in a volatile market and also showcase adaptability as IT leaders are confronted with talent shortages and skills gaps.
Broadcom helps bridge that gap through VMware Cloud Foundation certifications and training. These programs prepare IT professionals to expertly design, deploy, and manage modern private clouds.
Role-based certifications are available for administrators, architects, and support engineers. The certifications help ensure that teams are ready for what’s next, whether that’s running mission-critical workloads, supporting AI initiatives, or modernizing application delivery.
Conclusion: Modern Cloud, Modern Teams
A unified private cloud platform aligns people, processes, and technology to a single operating model that delivers maximum benefits. By breaking down silos and equipping teams with the right skills, enterprises can capture the agility and efficiency they’ve been aiming for.
Learn how VMware Cloud Foundation 9.0 can help your organization align IT teams and get the most from its private cloud investments.