VMware VCF - Meet Blockchain!

VMware is a company of extremes. On one hand, we continually surprise and delight IT rebels with software-defined solutions that dismantle hardware-centric icons. On the other hand, our products are valued for security, resiliency, and management - features that appeal to IT professionals who abhor risk. Industry watchers know that VMware’s unique value blend of innovation and secure stability has the power to disrupt market leaders. 

So, it is with great interest that I followed the inclusion of VMware Blockchain (VMBC) as a Forbes 50 leading Blockchain provider. VMBC delivers an enterprise-grade software platform for business-critical multi-party applications that has captured the imagination of the financial services community who see an effective way to leverage smart contracts, create or modernize multi-party workflows, and reduce errors and counter-party risk. By enabling a single, shared, source of truth, VMBC transforms message-based systems with data silos into API-based systems that are real-time, reliable, and auditable.

Here’s why Blockchain is such a natural fit for VMware customers.

1. Blockchain is architecturally aligned to scale-out software-defined infrastructure. Most people know Blockchain relies on a distributed ledger for completely secure and immutable transactions. It’s not a big leap to see how VMware is simplifying a scale-out enterprise blockchain experience by matching it to the scale-out, hardware-abstracted infrastructure that exists today as the VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF).
2. Both HCI and Blockchain save cost. HCI saves capex and opex costs by consolidating external storage into scale-out servers.  This economic flywheel underwrites the rapid pace of VMware vSAN’s 30,000 customers and explains why full-stack VCF now powers over 400 of Global 2000 customers. VMBC similarly saves costs with a processing-efficient design that delivers a shared source of truth that is immutable and auditable without the processing overhead normally associated with Blockchain.
3. Cloud Abstraction is the future for VMware and Blockchain. Imagine deploying a single Blockchain across multiple clouds to protect data integrity under an external malicious attack. This vision becomes viable when private, public, and emerging edge clouds support a consistent operating model based on the VMware Cloud Foundation.

Check out VMBC to see how, once again, VMware innovation is helping customers challenge the status quo where Blockchain combined with software-defined infrastructure will help establish the next wave of market winners.