VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), in conjunction with the 2019 VMware Cloud
Briefing, today highlighted customers Bossa Studios, Rosendin
Electric, Stagecoach, Trend Micro, and Zipwhip, and how they are
addressing their hybrid cloud, multi-cloud and modern apps
strategies with VMware Cloud on AWS, CloudHealth by VMware, VMware
Secure State, and Wavefront by VMware.
The industry has seen massive adoption of cloud to power
applications during the last decade. Companies are defined by both
speed and strategy as the rapid decisions made by businesses will
be part of a lasting strategic blueprint deployed and leveraged by
the business.
Customers are building an architectural approach for technology
investments built around cloud, factoring in major new
developments, including:
- Hybrid Cloud – a proven model for unifying private cloud,
public cloud and edge with consistent infrastructure and operations
to gain the flexibility to work across a seamless pool of resources
for all applications.
- Multi-Cloud – a new reality that will enable organizations to
freely operate across multiple public cloud providers, selecting
services and innovation to power their business while managing
cost, complexity and risk.
- Modern Apps – The rise of Kubernetes as the emerging platform
of choice for next-generation mission critical applications that
will foster a new era of innovation and business change.
“Our customers are bringing together the worlds of hybrid and
native public cloud into a single, comprehensive strategy,” said
Kit Colbert, CTO of VMware Cloud, VMware. “Today, VMware has one of
the most proven, most widely deployed portfolios and playing a
leading role in driving the next generation of the cloud. We have
the unique opportunity to accelerate customers’ cloud journeys by
delivering the hybrid cloud, unifying the multi-cloud and building
a foundation for modern apps.”
Rosendin Electric Lights Up Cloud Strategy with VMware
Cloud on AWS
Rosendin Electric, Inc. is one of the largest electrical
contractors in the United States employing more than 6,000 people.
As the company has accelerated its growth, IT identified moving to
the cloud as a strategic IT priority for supporting the business.
Rosendin has a large and successful VMware on-premises environment,
so the company said it adopted VMware Cloud on AWS to create a
hybrid cloud environment that offers better scalability,
performance and overall economics. The environment also plays a
critical role in the company’s disaster recovery strategy.
“VMware has been a strategic IT partner for Rosendin for a long
time,” said Sam Lamonica, CIO, Rosendin. “For us, given our growth
rate and the needs of our business, scalable performance is key.
With an on-prem environment you’re limited to your existing
hardware, which means you’re equally limited on scalability. It’s
key for us to quickly spin-up VMs daily. This is a much easier
process in VMware Cloud on AWS. We also looked at the ROI with
respect to replacing a lot of our hardware infrastructure to
modernize our data center and the decision to adopt VMware Cloud on
AWS was an easy one.”
Stagecoach Improves Agility and Resiliency with VMware
Cloud on AWS
Stagecoach is a leading public transport company in the UK that
runs over 8,500 trains and buses, transporting over 2.5 million
passengers a day and employs around 26,000 people, according to the
company. VMware Cloud on AWS supports Stagecoach’s cloud-first
strategy by providing a VMware environment in the cloud to supports
business-critical applications. With VMware Cloud on AWS,
Stagecoach said it has gained new levels of agility, scale, and
resiliency through a multi-Availability Zone deployed platform.
VMware Cloud on AWS mitigated the company’s risk of moving
business-critical apps to the cloud because through a consistent
infrastructure and operational model. Learn more about Stagecoach’s
VMware Cloud story in this video.
Trend Micro Accelerates Cloud Migration with VMware
Cloud on AWS
Trend Micro is a global leader in cybersecurity solutions that
helps to make the world safe for exchanging digital information.
Trend Micro provides layered security for data centers, cloud
environments, networks and endpoints while seamlessly sharing
threat intelligence and providing a connected threat defense. Like
many companies, Trend Micro has a significant footprint in both AWS
and on-premises in a VMware-based private cloud. Trend Micro said
its IT team is leveraging VMware Cloud on AWS to migrate
VMware-based workloads to the public cloud with on-demand expansion
capabilities and little impact to application uptime. Learn more
about Trend Micro’s VMware Cloud story in this case study.
Bossa Studios Eliminates False Alerts with Multi-Cloud
Monitoring from Wavefront by VMware
Bossa Studios Ltd. is an independent games developer and
publisher. The company said its latest move from single player
gaming to online multiplayer gaming brought them further into the
cloud. The Bossa DevOps team includes both game developers and site
reliability engineers who are responsible for ensuring complex
back-end services enable games to function properly. This includes
dealing with inventory systems, log ins, connections, and voice
communications, and monitor the availability of their games. Bossa
operates in a multi-cloud environment, partially running on
premises, and partly in AWS, and developers are running CI/CD
pipelines pushing non-production code hourly with daily production
code pushes. Bossa noted that its previous commercial metrics
monitoring solution plagued the team with excessive false positives
and lacked visibility into pricing. The company adopted Wavefront
by VMware to address these issues.
“Our engineers want to spend more time on fixing things instead
of just trying to figure out what went wrong. That is why we
adopted Wavefront,” said Nick Warr, Head of IT, Bossa Studios.
“From the start, Wavefront made integration with our systems
effortless. Wavefront could work alongside, or above/in between our
current monitoring solutions, which allowed a much more relaxed
deployment, as nothing remained unmonitored as we deployed
Wavefront. Our developers like Wavefront Distributed Tracing which
is allowing for quicker well-informed iterations when
troubleshooting, for understanding where bottlenecks or problem
areas lie. They appreciate that Wavefront offers many SDKs
which enables us to tie in quickly to monitor our various moving
parts. This helps our small team to be more efficient and focus on
solving problems. With Wavefront, we can easily find code
bottlenecks which allows for more rapid iteration, and more rapid
improvements of our code.”
Zipwhip Manages Multi-Cloud Costs, Compliance and Risk
with CloudHealth and VMware Secure State
Zipwhip is a fast-growing SaaS company and a leader in business
text messaging that has embraced the public cloud to sustain a high
velocity of expansion. The company said it was processing millions
of messages per month and needed a way to quickly provision
infrastructure that would more easily scale alongside the business.
To unleash the cloud’s full potential for fueling innovation, the
company said they could not let visibility challenges or security
risks get in the way. The company is using VMware Secure State to
identify public cloud misconfigurations, visualize at-risk
infrastructure, correlate cross-cloud threat activity, and automate
security and compliance reporting across teams. Zipwhip also uses
CloudHealth by VMware to optimize a multi-cloud environment through
visibility, automation, and tighter control over cloud spend.
Together, these two products form a powerful pairing that enables
the company to effectively scale its growing business, according to
the company.
“We cannot let a lack of visibility or control derail our pace
of innovation and expansion, particularly when it comes to managing
proper security and managing cost across our multi-cloud
environment,” said Kolby Allen, Platform Operations Architect at
Zipwhip. “CloudHealth has enabled us to optimize for growth while
decreasing spend. With VMware Secure State, we can minimize the
risk of a security breach by reducing our attack surface and better
protect our cloud applications and data. Secure State enables us to
visualize risk with a graph view, so we can easily convey the
impact of changes to key stakeholders. For example, we can show
that something is not just affecting a server but also certain
databases that are connected to it. This helps us correlate
findings with user activity data and troubleshoot issues faster
with meaningful context.”
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