There is a new IT approach called cloud-native behind this digitalization trend, which is one of the driving forces of business digitalization. The cloud-native methodology allows enterprises to greatly increase developer productivity, allowing them to deliver new apps and services to the market much more quickly than before; they can therefore improve customer experience and satisfaction. If adopted successfully, the cloud-native methodology can also help to cut operations and infrastructure costs, as well as to enhance app security. 

In the next chapter, Chapter 14, High Performance Computing for Machine Learning, you will learn about the specific aspects of virtualization that can enhance the productivity of a high-performance computing (HPC) environment. We will explore the capabilities which are enabled by VMware vSphere to meet the requirements for researching computing, academic, scientific, and engineering HPC workloads.