VMware announced the number of VMware Sovereign
Cloud providers has more than doubled to 25 partners globally. VMware is
also announcing VMware Tanzu on sovereign cloud, VMware Aria Operations
Compliance pack for sovereign clouds, and new open ecosystem solutions.
Together these new Sovereign SaaS innovations will enable partners to
deliver services equivalent to those found in public clouds, while also
better assuring data is protected, compliant, and resident within
national territories. With sovereign SaaS, VMware Sovereign Cloud
Providers can build highly differentiated solutions to capture modern
workloads, simplify operations with continuous compliance monitoring,
and support data monetization with lower risk.
The VMware Sovereign Cloud Framework and associated capabilities that
make up the VMware Sovereign Cloud Initiative are aligned with Gaia-X
and other global data sovereignty regulations to further simplify the
delivery of sovereign clouds. New VMware Sovereign Cloud providers
include Advanced Wireless Network Co., Ltd., Fundaments B.V., Hitachi,
Ltd., Macquarie Government, National Information Center, NCS PTE Ltd.,
PT Aplikanusa Lintsarta, Tata Communications Limited and Credence.
VMware is now building a portfolio of sovereign SaaS offerings. Partners
deliver sovereign SaaS natively using VMware software running in their
sovereign cloud data centers, completely disconnected from the public
Internet. All data remains resident and exists only within a given
sovereign region, with no access by foreign jurisdictions, no data or
metadata leaves the country or provider.
"There is no data sovereignty without cloud sovereignty. And sovereignty
does not have to come at the expense of cloud innovation," said Rajeev
Bhardwaj, vice president, cloud provider platform solutions, VMware.
"With our new sovereign cloud innovations, we're again setting the
agenda by bringing SaaS services into sovereign environments. This will
enable VMware Sovereign Cloud providers to help their customers innovate
and drive digital transformation while reducing the risk of unlocking
the value of data."
VMware Tanzu on Sovereign Cloud
Highly regulated customers recognize the strategic need to modernize
applications to improve customer engagement with enhanced security,
efficiency, and resiliency. Containers and Kubernetes offer a pathway to
modernization. With VMware Tanzu on sovereign cloud, organizations can
build, run, manage, and better secure modern applications consistently
on sovereign cloud infrastructure with enterprise Kubernetes built in.
The Tanzu portfolio simplifies platform operations and frees developers
to move faster and access the right resources for building the best
applications. Sovereign-ready Tanzu is delivered by partners natively
from their sovereign cloud data centers, completely disconnected from
the Internet. VMware Tanzu on sovereign cloud includes:
Tanzu Kubernetes Grid: VMware's
enterprise-ready, Kubernetes runtime provides customers with simplified
installation, automated multi-cluster operations, and integrated
platform services. Carvel-based tooling provides a set of reliable,
single-purpose, composable tools that aid in application building,
configuration, and deployment to Kubernetes. For sovereign clouds, Tanzu
Kubernetes Grid includes open source components such as Fluent Bit,
Prometheus, Grafana, and Contour that offer monitoring and ingress
capabilities. Organizations can observe and adapt based on open-source
metrics, traces and logs which display where Kubernetes cluster failures
may arise, and better ensure traffic is safe and allowed.
Tanzu Application Platform: Sovereign-ready
Tanzu Application Platform provides development teams with the tools
and services they need to get their code to production faster and more
securely. Tanzu Application Platform has added air-gapped installation
for enhanced security and compliance in sovereign cloud environments.
Developer productivity has been enhanced with the addition of Dynamic
API spec registration using the Backstage API plugin to more securely
automate publishing, consumption, and collaboration on APIs for software
development. A new, centralized vulnerability monitoring dashboard will
aid app teams with their pre-deployment security checks and secure app
deployments. Tanzu Application Platform has added support for Red Hat
OpenShift, Jenkins, and Carbon to expand the footprint of ecosystem
integrations.
Tanzu Mission Control: Sovereign-ready
Tanzu Mission Control will provide policy-based cluster automation and
management at scale for better visibility, control and security for
operators, more consistency and speed for DevOps, and flexibility and
autonomy for developers. Tanzu Mission Control will enable sovereign
cloud partners to benefit from full Kubernetes visibility while
maintaining full control over their network infrastructure connectivity.
Simplified Kubernetes cluster management from a single control plane
will help eliminate cumbersome and time-consuming tasks to streamline
operations. VMware is working to add support for private deployments of
Tanzu Mission Control in sovereign cloud environments. The solution is
in private beta today.
VMware Data Solutions: VMware Data
Solutions (formerly Tanzu Data Services) support compliant and
conformant data management. Customers have access to a self-service user
interface and API for lifecycle management of these services so they
can tune their instances for optimal performance of their applications.
VMware RabbitMQ is a lightweight and easy-to-deploy message broker that
supports multiple messaging protocols and can be deployed in distributed
and federated configurations to meet high-scale, high-availability
requirements. VMware SQL is a relational database service providing
cost-efficient and flexible deployments on-demand, at scale, while
automating time-consuming administration. VMware Data Solutions are
integrated with VMware Cloud Director, further simplifying operations
and deployment to sovereign cloud environments. VMware RabbitMQ is
available and VMware SQL is in preview with more services to come.
VMware Aria Operations for Sovereign Clouds
VMware Aria Operations Compliance pack for sovereign clouds provides
continuous compliance monitoring, reporting, remediation, and automation
capabilities that help partners remain compliant with both regulatory
benchmarks and VMware Sovereign Cloud guidelines. Sovereign-ready Aria
Operations provides comprehensive capabilities across availability,
performance, capacity management, cost management, and compliance for
infrastructure or applications. VMware Aria Operations Compliance packs
include out-of-the-box regulatory compliance kits, configuration checks,
and reporting based on the 20-point Sovereign controls such as
microsegmentation, data at rest and in-transit encryption, and ISO 27000
compliance. Full integration with VMware Cloud Director and a unified
dashboard provide an automated and efficient way to demonstrate
compliance across the complete sovereign cloud infrastructure. VMware is
announcing initial availability for VMware Aria Operations Compliance
pack for sovereign clouds.
Open Ecosystem Solutions for Sovereign Clouds
Working with its open ecosystem partners, VMware has delivered
third-party offerings from partners such as Cloudian, Veeam and Fortanix
for Object Storage, ransomware protection, backup/recovery, and key
management. These services are tightly integrated with VMware Cloud
Director for multi-tenant deployment and a seamless user experience.
VMware continues to build this open ecosystem with the unveiling of the
following new partner services:
Risk and Compliance management: VMware has collaborated with Caveonix to deliver a fully integrated security, compliance, and governance platform
within the sovereign domain to manage the data sovereignty compliance
requirements of sovereign cloud. The platform continuously monitors and
assesses the security and compliance posture of the VMware environment
to help ensure immediate reporting and mitigation of any drift, thus
protecting all data assets stored in the sovereign cloud.
Data Lakehouse as a Service: VMware Tanzu
Greenplum, a massively parallel processing (MPP) data warehouse
platform, seamlessly integrates with Cloudian HyperStore S3-compatible
object storage to deliver the same data lakehouse architectures
available in public clouds to sovereign clouds. This VMware-certified solution
enables new efficiencies and savings and is ideal for the creation and
deployment of advanced analytics models for complex enterprise
applications. Customers can vary the number of compute nodes running
Greenplum or storage nodes running HyperStore elastically,
independently, and on-demand, allowing customers flexibility and better
economics within the sovereign cloud environment.
"For years, OVHcloud has developed a strong partnership VMware," said
Thierry Souche, chief technology officer, OVHcloud. "With the strengths
of our common offering in the field of Hosted Private cloud, we now
embrace a new step with the deployment of sovereign-ready Tanzu in a
completely trusted and isolated mode that protects data all along its
lifecycle. Building on this unique commitment among the world's leading
cloud technology players, we are very proud to deploy best in class
solutions that will address cloud native application and platform needs
with cutting edge solutions. Data sovereignty has never been more
important for IT decision makers in Europe, and we're pleased to further
expand our portfolio to help them seize the full potential of a trusted
cloud."
"We have now established foundational sovereign cloud capabilities in
our Nordic data center network for our customers and are actively taking
existing and new customers to this new modern solution," said Alberto
Valero, Head of Technology & Growth for Tietoevry Connect. "We see
that the next logical step for us to help our customers in their
digitalization transformation is to provide for them the Tanzu
Application Portfolio. With Tanzu Application Platform, customers get a
very comprehensive tool set supported by our professional services to
significantly improve their ability to boost their data driven
ecosystems. We are really excited about the possibilities these bring to
power up the data economy in the digital sovereign context."