It's been a week since Vmworld 2021 with significant announcements from Ragu and the team around multi-cloud enhancements. If you missed any of the sessions, please feel free to review the recap below (provided by our Presidio engineering teams and VMware counterparts):
VMware Delivers ‘Cloud?Smart’ Approach for the Multi?Cloud Era at VMworld 2021
- help customers navigate the multi-cloud era with the launch of VMware Cross-Cloud services
- average organization is running roughly 500 apps to drive their business,1?and those apps are distributed across clouds
- 75% of VMware customers are relying on 2 or more public clouds, and 40% are using 3 or more
- VMware Cross-Cloud services will deliver three key advantages:?
- an accelerated journey to the cloud?
- cost efficiency
- flexibility and control across any cloud
- VMware Cross-Cloud services is comprised of five core building blocks:
- A state-of-the-art 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 multi-cloud operations to connect and better secure all apps; and,
- A digital workspace to empower the distributed workforce along with edge solutions to deploy and manage edge-native apps.
VMware is announcing a variety of new innovations that span VMware Cross-Cloud services, including:
- Cloud Infrastructure and Management: Unveiling new multi-cloud innovations to help customers move to the cloud faster and more safely, accelerate app modernization, and adopt a cloud operating model.
- Apps: Introducing advancements in the VMware Tanzu portfolio to provide developers with the autonomy to build and deploy apps on any cloud.
- Edge: Introducing VMware Edge, a product portfolio that will enable customers to run and manage edge-native apps across multiple clouds, anywhere.
- Security and Networking: Announcing new security innovations to deliver end-to-end zero trust architecture inside and across cloud and app environments.
VMware Helps Customers Move to the Cloud with Flexibility and Speed
VMware Cloud, the industry’s first?and only?multi-cloud computing infrastructure?that enables customers to move?their?enterprise apps to the cloud in nearly half the time and less than half the cost.?These?new?innovations?include:
- 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; and,
- Tech previews that showcase the future of VMware Cloud.
Delivering Kubernetes-Based Containers and Infrastructure as a Service
VMware Cloud with Tanzu services is a new portfolio of managed Kubernetes services that will be available at no additional charge as part of VMware Cloud on AWS.
VMware Cloud Is Simpler and Safer for Enterprise Apps
VMware Cloud makes running enterprise vSphere apps in any cloud environment simpler and safer. Research shows VMware Cloud customers can achieve 300% faster Kubernetes deployment(1), 46% faster cloud migration(2), and 57% reduction in TCO(2).
SIMPLER:?VMware Cloud gives customers the flexibility to move to the cloud on their timelines and run vSphere workloads on the cloud of their choice. Only VMware Cloud runs as a native service in 100+ regions spanning all public clouds—Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud and Oracle Cloud—as well as 4,000+ partner clouds, in private data centers, and at the edge. With VMware Cloud Universal, customers can flexibly purchase and consume VMware Cloud from VMware or reseller partners, while benefitting from the economic value of existing VMware perpetual licenses.
- VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts will be available for purchase via the VMware Cloud Service Portal in VMware’s Q3FY22 and will enable customers to benefit from a cloud operating model for VMware Cloud infrastructure running in their own data center or thick edge locations. This fully-managed offering will enable greater control over data and apps with simple, scalable, and more secure on-prem VMware Cloud infrastructure delivered as a service with optimized access to 200+ native AWS services.
- Dell Technologies APEX Cloud Services with VMware Cloud is a Dell-managed service that brings the VMware Cloud experience to the APEX ecosystem. In private preview now with planned availability in VMware’s Q4 FY22, the infrastructure-as-a-service offering allows organizations to deploy pre-configured cloud instances in their data center or at an edge location or co-location facility.
- VMware vRealize Cloud Management enhancements deliver cloud-agnostic provisioning, proactive monitoring, capacity and cost optimization, app-aware troubleshooting, and end-to-end network visibility across all cloud environments. The new VMware Skyline Advisor Pro proactively prevents issues before they occur to help customers avoid costly unplanned IT downtime.
- VMware Marketplace adds capabilities that enable faster app development and delivery through a private service catalog that includes open source software (Bitnami), VMware and ISV solutions. Customers can now lower procurement cycles and deployment times by purchasing VMware and ISV solutions on the industry’s only multi-cloud marketplace.
- Project Arctic, a tech preview, will bring VMware Cross-Cloud services to the fingertips of millions of IT Admins. Project Arctic natively integrates cloud connectivity into vSphere and establishes hybrid cloud as the default operating model. Customers will be able to take advantage of unlimited cloud capacity on-demand and instantly access VMware Cross-Cloud services through vCenter.
SAFER:?VMware uses the power of software, a scale-out distributed architecture, and a cloud delivery model for better security and data protection that’s easier to use. VMware Cloud customers benefit from consistent security policy and features across all environments.
- VMware NSX tapless NDR, Secure Workload Access, and Elastic Application Security Edge are new innovations that are advancing security inside and across VMware Cloud environments.
- VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery enhancements accelerate ransomware recovery and help restore services and data faster.
- VMware Carbon Black Cloud Workload, VMware NSX Advanced Firewall, and VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer help VMware Cloud on AWS customers reduce attack surface, improve application availability and uptime, and make security operations more effective.
- Stretched Cluster support for environments as small as two hosts improves resiliency for VMware Cloud on AWS customers of all sizes.
Future of VMware Cloud
VMware is showcasing additional R&D investments and innovations currently underway for VMware Cloud with the following tech previews:
- Project Capitola:?a software-defined memory implementation that will provide the best price-performance ratio for current and next-gen applications by aggregating memory tiers across DRAM, PMEM, NVMe and other future technologies.?Read more about the partners supporting Project Capitola here.
- Project Cascade:?this tech preview will address the needs of developers and DevOps professionals with an industry standard programmatic interface powered by Kubernetes that provides a common declarative consumption interface for both infrastructure (IaaS) and containers (CaaS).
- Project Ensemble:?designed as a unified control plane for VMware Cloud, Project Ensemble will further improve operations by delivering a unified view across vRealize Cloud Management services.
VMware Propels App Modernization for Customers on Any Cloud
VMware Tanzu Application Platform Adds Capabilities to Beta Release
Introduced in its first beta1?at?VMware SpringOne 2021, Tanzu? Application Platform? delivers a superior developer experience for enterprises building and deploying apps and APIs on any Kubernetes. It gets software teams to production faster and sustains them over time by automating source to production pipelines and coordinating the efforts of development and operations teams.
At VMworld 2021, VMware is announcing new capabilities to the Tanzu Application Platform Beta that will deliver the full end-to-end developer and operator experience including:
- Supply chain choreography: based on the open source cartographer project, allowing app operators to create pre-approved paths to production for developers that integrate Kubernetes resources and existing toolchains
- Developer tooling including IDE plugins: giving developers the opportunity to interact with the platform or its open source components easily and efficiently to execute important and frequent pre-commit development tasks
- Intrinsic security:?adding features for signing, scanning and storing images along the path to production
- Service bindings:?Operators can specify how endpoints and credentials from data services are exposed to workloads in a portable and Kubernetes-native way
- Source controller:?Enables app developers to create or update workloads from local source code
- Convention Service:?a framework for platform operators to configure policies of deployed workloads to enable that all workloads to follow the best practices
Introducing Freely Available Software to Experience VMware Tanzu
VMware Tanzu Community Edition is a freely available, easy to manage Kubernetes platform for learners and users.?
VMware Accelerates Customers’ Journey to Zero Trust Security
Deliver consistent security for endpoints, virtual machines and containers with an end-to-end Zero Trust architecture. The new advancements unveiled today span:
- 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; and,
- VMware SASE and VMware Workspace ONE for a safer distributed workforce.
VMware Charts Course for Customers to Seize Opportunity at the Edge
?introduced?VMware Edge, a product portfolio that will enable organizations to run, manage and better secure edge-native apps across multiple clouds, anywhere.
“A new type of workload is emerging—edge-native apps—that must run at the edge to perform as intended. AR/VR, connected vehicles and immersive gaming are becoming mainstream. 5G has made the use of collaborative robots, drone fleets and digital twins a reality,” said Sanjay Uppal, senior vice president and general manager, Service Provider and Edge, VMware. “VMware delivers a trusted foundation—a multi-cloud edge—to help organizations move forward in the new edge reality.”
VMware Edge solutions include:
- VMware Edge Compute Stack, unveiled today at VMworld 2021, is a purpose-built, integrated VM and container-based stack that will enable organizations to modernize and secure edge-native apps at the far edge. VMware Edge Compute Stack will be available in Standard, Advanced and Enterprise editions. VMware also has plans to develop a lightweight version of VMware Edge Compute Stack to provide an extremely thin edge for lightweight apps.
- VMware SASE?combines SD-WAN capabilities with cloud-delivered security functions, including 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 the largest communication service providers in the world from their 4G/5G core all the way to the radio access network (RAN). By helping service providers modernize their network underlay, VMware enables them to deliver overlay edge services to their consumer and enterprise customers.
