VMware, Inc. announced advancements
to VMware Cloud that further the company's vision for delivering the
essential, ubiquitous Digital Foundation to support customers' and
partners' digital transformation. These advancements include updates to
VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware vCloud Director, and CloudHealth by
VMware, and increased access to Cloud Foundation-based services via new
VMware Cloud on AWS regions in Canada, Paris, and Singapore, and more
VMware Cloud Verified partners globally.
Every organization
is on a multi-cloud journey. According to Gartner, "by 2020, 75 percent
of organizations will have deployed a multicloud or hybrid cloud model(1)."
This journey is being supported by two primary cloud strategies: hybrid
cloud and native public cloud. While each approach is unique, they are
complementary, and most often exist simultaneously within the same
customer. Each path is intended to open new opportunities for a business
in a way that is differentiating, and to deliver tangible business
outcomes. Looking for the best path forward on this multi-cloud journey,
VMware's research shows that 83 percent of cloud buyers are seeking
consistent infrastructure and operations from the datacenter to the
cloud(2).
"VMware is helping customers leverage the
cloud to build, deploy and deliver the applications that drive their
business, and no other vendor spans the cloud industry as broadly or as
comprehensively as VMware," said Ajay Patel, senior vice president and
general manager, cloud provider software business unit, VMware. "VMware
provides customers the ability to operate in this multi-cloud reality,
providing consistent infrastructure and operations to help them match
the needs of applications to the best resources available, without
compromise."
Delivering the Hybrid Cloud with VMware Cloud Foundation
VMware
Cloud Foundation is the industry-leading solution for hybrid cloud that
expands the definition of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) by
unifying the essential cloud infrastructure capabilities of compute,
storage, networking and integrated cloud management. Cloud Foundation is
the only full-stack solution delivering consistent infrastructure and
operations to help customers modernize their data centers; rapidly
migrate applications and entire data centers to the cloud; scale on
demand for disaster recovery, global expansion and seasonal spikes; and
deploy next-generation applications in modern data center environments.
Today,
VMware announced VMware Cloud Foundation 3.7, which is expected to be
available on Dell EMC VxRail in VMware's Q1FY20, offering customers the
industry's first jointly engineered, hybrid cloud infrastructure stack
integrated with VMware's flexible, full stack HCI architecture, ready
for line-of-business applications. Cloud Foundation on VxRail
demonstrates the tight integration between Dell EMC and VMware,
incorporating unique, jointly-engineered features that simplify and
streamline operations, and deliver full stack, end-to-end lifecycle
management, through an automated hardware-through-software management
experience. Optimized for performance, scalability, user experience and
TCO savings, Cloud Foundation on VxRail can lower capital and
operational costs while providing unrivaled resiliency, predictability
and ease of deployment. New networking flexibility and integration, as
well as deployment options including appliance and integrated rack
offerings give customers flexibility when choosing Cloud Foundation on
VxRail.
"Demonstrating the strength of Dell Technologies, this
unique integration between Dell EMC VxRail and VMware Cloud Foundation
builds on the history of co-engineering to offer our customers an
experience unlike any other infrastructure running VMware Cloud
Foundation," said Gil Shneorson, senior vice president and general
manager, Dell EMC VxRail, "With this combination, we have enabled the
fastest, simplest and most seamless way to deploy and operate a hybrid
cloud with VMware."
Additionally, the new Cloud Foundation 3.7
release supports fully automated deployment of VMware Horizon 7 virtual
desktop infrastructure (VDI). Cloud Foundation accelerates the delivery
of Horizon 7 benefits by providing complete infrastructure automation
for Horizon 7 environments, including the installation of Horizon 7, App
Volumes, User Environment Manager, and Unified Access Gateway. Cloud
Foundation couples ready-to-use infrastructure with line-of-business
application deployment, enabling customers to deliver infrastructure and
applications to business customers at the speed of cloud.
Cloud
Foundation is the foundation for cloud infrastructure as a service from
VMware and VMware Cloud Verified partners as well as forthcoming VMware
managed SDDC as-a-service offerings for on-premises and the edge.
Today, VMware announced the expanded global availability of Cloud
Foundation-based services from VMware and its partners, including:
- More VMware Cloud on AWS Regions:
VMware Cloud on AWS is powered by Cloud Foundation, and is delivered,
sold and supported by VMware and its partners. With the addition of the
AWS Canada (Central), AWS EU (Paris), and AWS APJ (Singapore) regions
VMware Cloud on AWS is now generally available in 13 AWS regions
globally. VMware and AWS continue to work to bring the service to major
AWS regions worldwide by the end of calendar year 2019.
- More Partners Offering Services for VMware Cloud on AWS:
there are more than 60 partners building or delivering managed service
offerings for VMware Cloud on AWS, and more than 280 partners have
achieved the VMware Cloud on AWS Solution Competency, less than one year
from the launch of the VMware Cloud on AWS partner program.
- More VMware Cloud Verified Partners:
VMware now has 35 VMware Cloud Provider Program partners that have
achieved Cloud Verified status. VMware Cloud Verified partners are a set
of strategic partners offering a complete VMware SDDC as a service as
well as value-added services and support from their data centers via
Cloud Foundation. The Cloud Verified trust mark gives enterprises
confidence their cloud provider offers the most complete and advanced
VMware technologies, with consistent infrastructure and operations
across clouds.
Powering New VMware Cloud Provider Service Offerings
Collectively,
VCPP partners serve more than 150,000 customers with millions of VMs
deployed. These customers benefit from a robust, differentiated set of
enterprise-class clouds using the latest VMware innovations to simplify
hybrid cloud adoption and management with consistent infrastructure and
new cloud services.
The new VMware vCloud Director 9.7 release
will allow cloud providers to further differentiate their hybrid cloud
offerings and deliver new services through centralized global cloud
management, expanded scalability, and an enhanced extensibility
framework. The vCloud Director platform will unify private and
multi-tenant cloud management across a cloud provider's global footprint
of VMware-based environments, simplifying monitoring and management
from on-premises vSphere environments to multi-tenant provider clouds.
The updated extensibility framework will enable cloud providers to offer
new, differentiated services on their multi-tenant platform from
industry-leading third-party solutions from ecosystem partners such as
Cohesity, Dell EMC and Rubrik.
The new VMware vCloud
Availability 3.0 will unify onboarding, migration and disaster recovery
services to and between multi-tenant clouds, helping cloud providers
offer new availability services with compelling economics. The native
integration with vCloud Director and a modern user interface will
provide a simple customer experience for rapid service delivery and
management.
Accelerating Cloud Success with CloudHealth By VMware
Enterprises
turn to the cloud for its promise of agility, security and faster time
to market, but all too often cost challenges derail these efforts and
prevent businesses from capitalizing on the cloud's full potential for
transformation. With more than 4,000 customers, CloudHealth by VMware
enables customers to manage, operate and better secure their multi-cloud
environments. With CloudHealth, customers collaborate across lines of
business to make intelligent decisions related to cost management,
security, and governance while scaling their multi-cloud environments.
CloudHealth delivers next-generation cost management capabilities that
can increase return on investment in cloud by showing customers where
budgets are spent, which applications consume the most resources, and
how to right size their environments - even as they rapidly scale.
New
features in CloudHealth will expand on the platform's robust cost
management functionality, and will include enhanced multi-cloud
reporting, multidimensional reporting, workspaces reporting, enhanced
amortization, convertible Reserved Instance (RI) exchanger automation,
container cluster visibility, and cross-family rightsizing for Amazon
EC2. Additionally, the CloudHealth platform now integrates with the
Wavefront by VMware cloud analytics and monitoring platform. Through
this integration, CloudHealth customers can access Wavefront cloud
performance metrics via their CloudHealth platform for rightsizing and
performance optimization via a business lens. By using CloudHealth and
Wavefront together, CloudHealth takes advantage of Wavefront's vast
real-time, highly granular, multi-cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP) infrastructure
usage metrics, and provides effective recommendations for cost savings
to customers.