VMworld: VMware Outlines Product Strategy for Multicloud Era
VMware's CEO says: “It’s no longer about a ‘cloud first’ approach; it’s about being ‘cloud smart.'"
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VMware Cross-Cloud services allow customers to choose the services needed on the desired cloud to meet evolving business demands. VMware Cross-Cloud services is comprised of five core building blocks:
· A platform for building and deploying cloud-native apps.
· Cloud infrastructure for operating and running enterprise apps.
· Cloud management for monitoring and managing the performance and cost of apps across different clouds.
· Security and networking that spans across entire multicloud operations to connect and better secure all apps.
· A digital workspace for the distributed workforce along with edge solutions to deploy and manage edge-native apps.
VMware also announced a variety of new features that span VMware Cross-Cloud services. Alongside apps, it is focusing on cloud infrastructure and management, edge, and security and networking.
VMware unveiled new advancements for VMware Cloud, its multicloud computing infrastructure.
· A new portfolio of managed Kubernetes services to modernize apps on VMware Cloud.
· Capabilities that will make it simpler and safer to run enterprise apps in VMware Cloud.
· A new initiative supporting the need for customers to run their business in sovereign clouds.
· Tech previews that showcase the future of VMware Cloud.
The vendor revealed updates to its end-to-end zero trust architecture.
· Secure workload access for Zero Trust inside clouds and data centers.
· Elastic application security edge for stronger and more flexible cloud-to-cloud security.
· VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery and VMware Carbon Black Cloud for ransomware protection and recovery.
· CloudHealth Secure State for better visibility and security across multiple public clouds.
· API security and Kubernetes Security Posture Management for better protecting modern apps.
· VMware SASE and VMware Workspace ONE for a safer distributed workforce.
Elsewhere, the firm introduced VMware Edge. This brings together products from across its portfolio that enable organizations to run, manage and secure edge-native apps across multiple clouds at both near edge and far edge locations. VMware Edge solutions are designed for edge-native apps and their performance and latency requirements.
· VMware Edge Compute Stack is an integrated VM and container-based stack to enable organizations to modernize and secure edge-native apps at the far edge. It will be available in Standard, Advanced and Enterprise editions. VMware also plans to develop a lightweight version to provide an extremely thin edge for lightweight apps.
· VMware SASE combines SD-WAN capabilities with cloud-delivered security functions. This includes cloud web security, zero trust network access, and firewalling. These capabilities are delivered as a service across both the near and far edge locations from a global network of points of presence (PoPs).
· VMware Telco Cloud Platform has been delivering near edge solutions to service providers, from their 4G/5G core all the way to the radio access network (RAN). By helping them modernize their network underlay, VMware enables them to deliver overlay edge services to their consumer and enterprise customers.
Elsewhere, the firm introduced VMware Edge. This brings together products from across its portfolio that enable organizations to run, manage and secure edge-native apps across multiple clouds at both near edge and far edge locations. VMware Edge solutions are designed for edge-native apps and their performance and latency requirements.
· VMware Edge Compute Stack is an integrated VM and container-based stack to enable organizations to modernize and secure edge-native apps at the far edge. It will be available in Standard, Advanced and Enterprise editions. VMware also plans to develop a lightweight version to provide an extremely thin edge for lightweight apps.
· VMware SASE combines SD-WAN capabilities with cloud-delivered security functions. This includes cloud web security, zero trust network access, and firewalling. These capabilities are delivered as a service across both the near and far edge locations from a global network of points of presence (PoPs).
· VMware Telco Cloud Platform has been delivering near edge solutions to service providers, from their 4G/5G core all the way to the radio access network (RAN). By helping them modernize their network underlay, VMware enables them to deliver overlay edge services to their consumer and enterprise customers.
VMWARE VMWORLD — “Multicloud is the digital business model for the next 20 years,” according to VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram.
With VMware VMworld 2021 kicking off Tuesday, he said: “It’s no longer about a ‘cloud first’ approach — it’s about being “cloud smart.”
VMware’s Raghu Raghuram
He noted that organizations should have the freedom to choose the “right” cloud, based on their strategic business goals.
As such, VMware has unveiled VMware Cross-Cloud services to help customers navigate the multicloud era. The group of integrated services promised to help deliver “a faster and smarter path to cloud.”
VMware says today, the average organization runs 500 applications to drive its business. and those apps are distributed across clouds. Three in four (75%) VMware customers rely on two or more public clouds, and two in five (40%) use three or more. This multicloud approach allows organizations to be much more agile and resilient.
However, a multicloud environment is more diverse, complex and distributed than anything organizations have managed in the past. This complexity often forces tradeoffs between moving fast and managing risk, resulting in slower execution while increasing costs.
Click through the slideshow above to find out more about VMware Cross-Cloud and the features that span the services.
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