VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), today 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
FoundationVMware 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
OfferingsCollectively, 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
VMwareEnterprises 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.
Customer Commentary“HM Health Solutions is a
Pennsylvania based IT Service Provider that delivers business
solutions to health plan payers serving over 10 million members. To
serve our customers, we give access to our in-house Windows
applications to external customers through VDI running on VMware
Cloud Foundation,” said Joe Elliott, Manager, VDI Services, HM
Health Solutions. “With VMware Cloud Foundation, we have a scalable
and consistent hyperconverged infrastructure that supports anywhere
from 10-12 thousand virtual desktops in an active-active
environment across multiple data centers. Cloud Foundation enables
us to spin up new customer environments in as little as two hours
where it used to take days, and we now have a much more resilient
architecture. Most importantly, the automated lifecycle management
enables us to simply click a button and patch our entire
infrastructure stack, which is amazing.”
“VMware Cloud on AWS was a perfect fit for us when we made the
decision to move to a new cloud environment,” said John Meyer,
Chief Information Officer, United Way of Massachusetts Bay and
Merrimack Valley. “Getting the initial set up took just a few
hours, and our entire environment was up and operational in just
3-4 weeks with zero downtime. This was critical as our small IT
team had to migrate clouds during our high season of donations. We
particularly like that we can manage our cloud environment through
the vCenter portal and that we can access native AWS services. By
moving to VMware Cloud on AWS we also now have a more highly
available and more secure environment, and a better disaster
recovery strategy.”
“Coinstar is one of the world’s largest fully automated networks
of self-service kiosks for converting change into cash, e-gift
cards or charitable donations,” said Jason Friedlander CTO,
Coinstar. “Working with Rackspace, VMware Cloud Verified partner,
we successfully migrated thousands of VMs off legacy systems to a
modern Rackspace-managed software-defined data center environment
based on Cloud Foundation in less than five months, improved
business operations and reduced IT costs. We estimate Coinstar is
saving 40 percent over our previous spend in our legacy colocation
environment with a lot of other pluses to our partnership. In
addition, our elastic virtualized infrastructure has allowed us to
grow internationally and launch new products.”
Additional Resources
- Read this blog to learn what’s new in VMware Cloud on AWS
- Read about vCloud Director 9.7 and vCloud Availability 3.0 in
these blogs
- Read the CloudHealth blog to learn more about the latest
updates
- Bookmark the VMware Cloud Communities page for the latest on
VMware Cloud
- Follow updates about VMware Cloud on Facebook, LinkedIn,
Twitter, and YouTube
- Gartner, Inc., “Market Insights: Making Lots of Money in the
New World of Hybrid Cloud and Multicloud”, September 7, 2018
- VMware Cloud Journey study, 2018
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security, and digital workspace offerings provide a dynamic and
efficient digital foundation to over 500,000 customers globally,
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