VMware announces the next wave of Virtual Cloud Network
innovation for enabling a public cloud experience and best meeting
the needs of applications and users
VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today unveiled the Modern Network
framework to enable businesses, and their IT and application
development teams, to accelerate adapting to a new normal. To help
customers realize a modern network of their own, VMware also
announced further enhancements to its virtual networking products
and services.
For businesses today, the ability to rapidly and cost
effectively respond to change is paramount. Application developers
need to quickly deploy, test, and iterate applications. The
infrastructure powering applications needs to deliver the
efficiency of cloud operating models. Applications need to run on
everything from private clouds to public clouds to edge computing,
and the user to application experience needs to be great, no matter
the user’s location. Traditional hardware-centric networking models
simply don’t meet the needs of today’s business realities. The
Modern Network framework addresses all of these needs.
The Virtual Cloud Network embodies the Modern Network framework.
More than 18,000 organizations have modernized their networks using
VMware’s Virtual Cloud Network solution. These customers are
embracing a cloud operating model, launching workloads with full
automation, and eliminating weeks and months of wait time to update
a firewall or load balancer. They are virtualizing everything from
the data center to the branch to the end user. The Virtual Cloud
Network gives organizations an end-to-end solution to deploy
applications and make sure they are running optimally and
efficiently, while enabling a great user experience.
“Our customers must efficiently manage the rapid shift to remote
work, deliver applications faster and more securely, and reduce the
cost and complexity of connecting and protecting the distributed
enterprise,” said Rajiv Ramaswami, chief operating officer,
products and cloud services, VMware. “The Modern Network framework
enables our customers to do this. It turns the old way of thinking
about networks as hardware appliances, switches, and routers in
enterprise networks on its head and instead, takes a top-down view
that puts users and applications first. This is the promise we are
delivering on with the Virtual Cloud Network.”
The Modern Network Framework Explained
In the traditional model, a network is assembled from distinct
devices—switches, routers, firewalls, IDS/IPS systems, load
balancers, and more—that are deployed separately and typically
configured manually using ticketing systems. This is a bottom-up
view, requiring the application to use whatever the infrastructure
has available. The Modern Network framework takes a top-down view,
creating a network that understands the needs of the application
and programmatically managing infrastructure to meet those needs.
The Modern Network framework is described by three key pillars.
The first pillar, Modern Application Connectivity Services,
enables developers to connect the microservices of a modern
application more securely while reducing latency, increasing
security, and maintaining application availability. This is done
with self-service tools that developers can use without help from
central IT.
Underneath this, the Multi-cloud Network Virtualization pillar
provides a complete set of essential network services that are
fully automated and defined in software. These services include all
essential networking functions including security and load
balancing. Virtualization and analytics span end to end, from the
data center to the branch office and all the way to the end user.
Automation is applied not just to the orchestration of a workload,
but also day two operations.
Despite the microservice-level abstractions of the first pillar
and the scale-out software network infrastructure of the second
pillar, at the bottom, packets still need to travel through wires
and silicon. The Physical Network Infrastructure pillar is all
about providing high capacity and low latency connectivity. It’s
about keeping it simple and letting the software do its job.
In the Modern Network framework, security is intrinsic to every
pillar.
Taken together, the three pillars and the principles they lay
out are the foundation of public cloud architectures. VMware makes
them available in every cloud.
The Virtual Cloud Network is a Modern Network, and it Just
Got Better
The Virtual Cloud Network, powered by the VMware NSX family of
products, enables the public cloud experience for enterprise
workloads running in private and multi-cloud environments. Just as
in the public cloud, NSX enables automated deployment of the full
workload. NSX provides infrastructure services that are defined
entirely in scale-out software, delivered on general purpose
servers, and built into the CI/CD pipeline so the services are
automatically deployed with the application. Enterprises can now
deploy full workloads with a single click without opening tickets
which might take weeks of manual effort to close.
To achieve this level of cloud operation, VMware NSX delivers
the industry’s only complete L2-7 virtual networking
stack—switching, routing, firewall, security analytics, advanced
load balancing, and container networking. VMware extends the
Virtual Cloud Network to connect and protect modern application
environments with VMware Tanzu Service Mesh and support for Project
Antrea, an open source project that enables Kubernetes networking
and security wherever Kubernetes runs. The Virtual Cloud Network
runs on non-virtualized bare metal servers, VMs, containers, and
across every cloud.
The Virtual Cloud Network doesn’t stop in the data center. The
VMware SASE platform converges VMware SD-WAN, cloud security, and
zero-trust network access with best-in-class web security to
deliver flexibility, agility, and scalability for supporting a work
from anywhere workforce. With VMware vRealize Network Insight and
VMware Edge Network Intelligence, the Virtual Cloud Network
includes advanced analytics that yield better network uptime and
resiliency and faster troubleshooting. vRealize Network Insight can
measure the life of a packet from the database all the way to the
end user, spanning both physical and virtual infrastructure; a
unique capability that makes troubleshooting easier.
Today, VMware announced the following enhancements to the
Virtual Cloud Network portfolio:
Extending the Future Ready Workforce
Solution with VMware SD-WAN Work from Home Subscriptions
The branch is now anywhere a user can connect to the company
network to access the resources they need, including at home.
VMware is extending the Future Ready Workforce Solution with new
VMware SD-WAN work from home subscriptions. These new offerings
will provide individual business users optimized network
connectivity, more assured application performance, and better
security at an affordable low price. Starting at price points lower
than the cost of a mobile phone line, and with bandwidth ranging
from 350Mbps to 1Gbps, the new subscriptions enable business users
to get the best application performance while working from home.
These new offerings are available today.
New Capabilities for Connecting,
Protecting, and Automatically Scaling Modern
Applications
Modern applications have thousands of components that need to be
connected and protected. VMware Tanzu Service Mesh is an exciting
new technology that controls the communication between each of the
thousands of components, enforcing security policy and measuring
performance and other critical functions, regardless of the
underlying infrastructure. VMware is announcing a preview of a
unique Attribute-Based Access Control policy model that will bring
“who, what, where, when and how” simplicity into modern application
policy creation.
Further, VMware is announcing NSX Advanced Load Balancer
integration with Tanzu Service Mesh. This integration will enable
application developers using Kubernetes to launch an application
with all required load balancing capabilities without ever having
to touch the infrastructure. API driven, this combined solution
will deliver high availability and security for modern applications
via load balancing and web application firewall capabilities. This
integration is expected to be available in VMware’s Q1 FY22.
Infrastructure that Measures and Fixes
Itself
Users and modern applications expect the network to “just work.”
When infrastructure is virtualized, it can actually adapt to
changes and heal itself. VMware SD-WAN technology takes multiple
unreliable network connections and makes them behave like a single
ultra-high-performance network. For a work from home user, this
means video collaboration applications simply work all of the time.
In the data center, VMware’s monitoring and management software now
includes powerful new network modeling capabilities that act as a
“pre-flight check” to verify an application is reachable across
both physical and virtual infrastructure. Together, these new
capabilities, which are available today, make troubleshooting
faster and more efficient, and represent an important step towards
self-healing networks.
Network Virtualization that Runs on
SmartNICs for the Next-Generation of Servers
VMware announced Project Monterey, a collaboration with leading
hardware providers to deliver network and server virtualization
that runs on a SmartNIC. This novel architecture promises a leap
forward in computing power and efficiency, as well as pervasive,
distributed security. Virtualization and security functions are
offloaded to the SmartNIC, freeing up CPU cycles to run
applications and creating meaningful cost savings. VMware is
announcing that the NSX Services-Defined Firewall running on a
Monterey SmartNIC will be able run stateful Layer 4 firewall
services at line rate. These same SmartNICs will also be able to
run Layer 7 stateful firewall, as well as VMware’s curated IPS
signatures. This capability will allow enterprise customers to
attach a tuned, ultra-fast, ultra-smart firewall to their most
valuable workloads – the database apps that hold their sensitive
data.
Industry and Customer Commentary
“IDC is seeing that the traditional hardware-defined,
device-centric method of building, operating, and securing networks
is being supplanted by a cloud-centric, software-based approach. In
fact, IDC research shows that by 2023, more than 55 percent of
enterprises will replace outdated operational models with
cloud-centric models that facilitate rather than inhibit
organizational collaboration,” said Brad Casemore, research vice
president, datacenter and multicloud networking, IDC.
“Software-based approaches such as the VMware Virtual Cloud Network
can help customers modernize both their network infrastructure and
operating model, across clouds, datacenters, and the extended
enterprise.”
“Around major sporting events, we need to be able to scale out
hundreds of apps in seconds and give customers a consistent,
reliable, and secure experience,” said Ben Fairclough, lead
infrastructure architect at William Hill. “VMware provides us with
a modern network that allows us to automate deployment of critical
micro-segmentation functionality through the NSX Distributed
Firewall using APIs. Tight integration in our environment means our
developers know and understand how security policies are put
together to ultimately simplify the entire deployment sequence. Our
work with VMware gives us confidence that our security posture is
as tight as it can be while deploying applications very
quickly.”
“When we considered our network modernization process, one of
the key factors was supporting a shift to multi-cloud to ensure
continuous delivery,” said Thomas Squeo, CTO at Intrado Digital
Media. “The network virtualization, analytics, and visualization
capabilities included in VMware’s virtual cloud network portfolio
made that easy. We’ve created a ‘5S’ framework focused on the
stability, scalability, security, speed and savings we need to be
successful in meeting our application SLIs, SLOs, and error budget
deployments.”
“Tools like the VMware software-based load balancer give us that
next-generation functionality to dynamically scale up the
throughput capacity to where it needs to go,” said Zack Milem,
cloud solution architect at Trend Micro. “By tying our products
together with VMware’s modern networking components, Trend Micro is
creating a seamless experience in which our business units and our
end-users can access applications and infrastructure capacity at
any time, wherever they are.”
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