New capabilities expand access and lower the
costs for organizations of all sizes to migrate and modernize
VMware-based enterprise applications to VMware Cloud on AWS
VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today announced new capabilities
designed to further improve the economic value of VMware Cloud on
AWS while meeting an evolving set of requirements for application
modernization, business continuity and resiliency, and cloud
migration. These new offerings include the new Amazon Elastic
Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) i3en instances that can deliver nearly
50% lower cost per GB of raw storage, a 2-host SDDC configuration
that lowers the entry price for production environments by 33%, and
a new multi-tenant cloud management service that enables partners
to support 5-10x more customers with no additional upfront costs,
while enabling smaller organizations to purchase VMware Cloud on
AWS on a per VM rather than per host basis.
VMware Cloud on AWS is a jointly engineered service that brings
VMware Cloud Foundation to Amazon Web Services (AWS), with
optimized access to AWS services. The service offers ultra-fast
cloud migration, powered by VMware HCX and vMotion combined with
consistent hybrid cloud infrastructure and operations. Once
applications are migrated, customers can run, manage, and modernize
these applications with the VMware Tanzu portfolio as well as
integrate native AWS services. As of June 2020, total VMs are up
3.5x and total number of hosts up 2.5x year over year. More than
500 channel partners have achieved a VMware Cloud on AWS service
competency, including 43 with a Master Services Competency, and
there are more than 300 certified or validated technology solutions
available to VMware Cloud on AWS customers.
“VMware Cloud on AWS unlocks the power of cloud, enabling
customers to rapidly migrate apps, scale resources up or down based
on demand, deliver resources for new remote work initiatives, and
drive app modernization strategies,” said Mark Lohmeyer, senior
vice president and general manager, cloud services business unit,
VMware. “Along with AWS, VMware’s preferred public cloud partner
for vSphere-based workloads, we are accelerating service innovation
and broadening access to VMware Cloud on AWS to help more
businesses support the demands of a broad range of enterprise
applications and use cases, while delivering the best economic
value.”
“Customers want cloud services that are available anywhere they
operate in the world, can deliver real business value and financial
savings, support their needs instantly as priorities change,” said
David Brown, vice president, EC2, Amazon Web Services, Inc. “We are
delighted to be working with VMware to allow customers to build and
operate applications in AWS Regions, using the same foundation they
use in their data centers today, which is why VMware Cloud on AWS
is our preferred service for all vSphere-based workloads.”
VMware Cloud on AWS Delivers New Innovations, Better Cloud
Economics
VMware continues to deliver key capabilities that enable
customers to accelerate their migration and modernization journey
and further support business resiliency with VMware Cloud on AWS.
VMware announces the following enhancements that will help
customers migrate and modernize applications while driving better
cloud economics from VMware Cloud on AWS.
New i3en.metal Instance: this new
host type is based on 2nd generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable
Processors. It’s designed for storage-dense workloads with
high-performance requirements and delivers superior economics at
scale for data center migration and disaster recovery
transformation projects. These new instances deliver 4x the raw
storage capacity at roughly half the cost per GB of storage per
host of current offerings. In addition, it comes with low latency
Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe) SSD capacity for applications
that require high random I/O access to large amounts of data such
as relational databases. Native encryption at the NIC level offers
better security for east-west traffic within the SDDC boundaries.
Customer can gain even better economics by mixing and matching i3en
instances for storage demanding workloads with i3.metal instances
for compute/memory demanding workloads.
“The exponential growth of data generation
and consumption and the rapid expansion of hyperscale computing
necessitate a highly flexible and scalable cloud architecture,”
said Jason Grebe, corporate vice president and general manager,
Intel Cloud and Enterprise Solutions Group. “Second Generation
Intel Xeon Scalable processors are designed to take full advantage
of the scalable memory, storage and network bandwidth offered by
VMware Cloud on AWS. Intel has partnered with VMware and AWS to
provide customers with a powerful foundation for digital
transformation.”
2-Host Production Cluster Lowers Starting
Cost by 33%: The 2-host cluster provides a new, smaller
minimum environment for production workloads, enabling even more
customers, partners, and managed service providers (MSPs) to get
started with VMware Cloud on AWS. The 2-host cluster is ideal for
proving the value of VMware Cloud on AWS and reducing cost of
getting started. With the 2-host cluster, customers can get started
with persistent VMware Cloud on AWS environments at up to 33
percent lower cost of entry than a 3-host cluster.
Embrace cloud native infrastructure with
VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid: Organizations can deploy,
scale, and manage containerized applications on VMware Cloud on AWS
with the addition of Tanzu Kubernetes Grid. Tanzu Kubernetes Grid
packages open source technologies and automation tooling to help
customers get up and running quickly with a scalable, multi-cluster
Kubernetes environment. With Tanzu Kubernetes Grid on VMware Cloud
on AWS, customers can deploy their SDDC in the cloud, with all the
required components needed to architect and scale Kubernetes to fit
their needs.
Expanded Networking Options: VMware
Transit Connect (Preview) will eliminate the hassles of
self-deploying and managing complex configurations to establish a
connectivity fabric across VMware Cloud on AWS SDDCs, Amazon
Virtual Private Clouds (Amazon VPCs), and on-premises environments.
The solution, which is based on the AWS Transit Gateway service, is
a high-bandwidth, low latency and resilient connectivity solution
that will be operationally simple with automated provisioning and
controls. The connectivity model automatically scales up/down
linearly as new environments are added or removed from a group,
providing users with flexibility. Additionally, with support for
the industry-leading VMware SD-WAN, users at branches or remote
locations can have a better network connectivity to workloads
deployed on VMware Cloud on AWS. VMware SD-WAN provides a
cloud-delivered, transport-agnostic architecture supporting and
optimizing any WAN link or combination of links.
Multi-tenancy lowers MSPs costs, opens new
opportunities with SMBs: VMware Cloud Director service
provides MSPs with a pay-as-you-grow model, thus reducing the
overhead costs to pursue small and medium sized businesses. The
service enables partners to provide flexibility in pricing and
environment size by dividing their VMware Cloud on AWS SDDC
environments into multi-tenanted resource pools, with fine-grained
control of resource allocation and support for differing
consumption models. MSPs can quickly implement changes to resource
pools across hosts and pair regions to support geo-expansion and
quickly adapt to changing customer requirements. They can also
accelerate time-to-market by reducing operational overhead with
familiar management and a consistent experience for their end
customers.
Enabling Business Continuity with VMware Cloud on AWS
VMware Cloud on AWS helps businesses alleviate potential
disruptions, delivering a seamlessly integrated hybrid cloud
environment in under two hours from any of the 17 AWS Regions
worldwide, and scaled to support more users, more workloads, and
urgent demands in minutes. With Horizon 7 VDI on VMware Cloud on
AWS, customers can quickly set up and scale cloud-delivered virtual
desktop infrastructure to support remote employees, temporary
workers, and contractors. VMware Site Recovery and VMware Cloud on
AWS provide infrastructure risk mitigation and enable customers to
implement proactive disaster avoidance. VMware has also announced
its intent to acquire Datrium, and, after the deal closes, plans to
expand on the performance-optimized VMware Site Recovery disaster
recovery as a service (DRaaS) solution with a cost-optimized
option. For more details about all of VMware’s solutions for
business continuity, visit here.
VMware Cloud on AWS Customers Share Their Stories
West Windsor-Plainsboro Regional School District in central New
Jersey serves approximately 9,900 students. Harry Doctor,
technology manager for WW-P school district, said, “We originally
selected VMware Cloud on AWS to support disaster preparedness,
providing resiliency for our VMware Horizon virtual desktops and
other critical applications. When it was confirmed that New Jersey
schools would remain closed for the rest of the 2020 school year,
we were able to quickly shift strategies and immediately burst our
infrastructure using VMware Cloud on AWS to support remote learning
for nearly 10,000 students. This service enabled us to respond more
than 10 times faster than we could have if we had needed to deploy
additional physical servers to support the increased workloads.
What would have taken eight weeks took five days, because no
additional hardware was required. We were able to keep learning and
operations as close to business as usual as possible, even in the
face of unprecedented challenges. A lot of people wish they had a
deployment like this stood up when the pandemic started.”
ZOZO Technologies, Inc supports the R&D and IT operations of
ZOZO Inc., including Japan’s largest online fashion shopping
website, ZOZOTOWN, which the company says offers more than 7,600
brands and 3,000 new items per day for purchase online. Nobuhiko
Watanabe, Team Leader, Development Division of ZOZO Technologies,
said, “We experience a huge surge in shopping traffic to our
website, sometimes more than three to four times the usual traffic
on an average day, during seasonal sales. This meant we needed to
scale up our IT infrastructure very quickly to ensure a smooth and
seamless online retail experience for our customers and over 1,300
store owners. VMware was successful in scaling up to 100 hosts
on-demand through VMware Cloud on AWS during the 2019-2020
Christmas / New Year sales period. During the COVID19 quarantine
and summer sales event this year, there was an increase in traffic,
but we achieved similar success, despite our teams working entirely
from home. With VMware Cloud on AWS, we were able to scale up hosts
easily and without any disruption. Both successes demonstrate the
power of a consistent cloud infrastructure and operations to enable
our business to scale on demand and help meet business continuity
requirements.”
Additional Resources
- Read about the most recent updates to VMware Cloud on AWS in
this blog
- Follow the latest on VMware Cloud on AWS in the VMware Cloud
Community
- Check out all of these resources for VMware Cloud on AWS
- Learn more about the VMware Cloud on AWS use cases
- Learn more about the Cloud Economics of VMware Cloud
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