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VMware strengthens cloud portfolio

Staff Writer
By Staff Writer, ITWeb
Johannesburg, 30 Aug 2019

VMware's annual VMworld conference is taking place in San Francisco this week and the Palo Alto-based company has made several announcements, including new and expanded cloud offerings. 

The VMware Hybrid Cloud Platform enables companies to build, run, and manage workloads on a consistent infrastructure across their data centre, public cloud, or edge infrastructure of choice, says Ian Jansen van Rensburg, senior systems engineer at VMware South Africa. 

He says the platform helps customers to migrate and modernise applications across these environments while simplifying cloud planning, deployment, costs, and ongoing operations

VMware Cloud delivers the hybrid cloud as a platform that covers all major public clouds, including AWS, Azure, Google and IBM, as well as more than 60 VMware Cloud Verified partners worldwide. 

During the tenth edition of  VMworld, the cloud and virtualisation software company also unveiled new research that illustrates the financial benefits that can result from migrating to VMware Cloud on AWS.

VMware Cloud on AWS is a jointly engineered service that brings the VMware software-defined data centre capabilities to AWS. The service offers ultra-fast cloud migration, powered by VMware HCX and vMotion combined with consistent hybrid cloud infrastructure and operations.

 The research, carried out by Forrester Consulting, showed the composite organisation (having 80 servers; 40 to 1 ratio of VMs to applications, $2 million annual software budget, and a three-year contract) saved 59% of operational costs in the cloud, versus the equivalent capacity on-premises.

Cloud providers, workspaces

VMware also announced innovations across the VMware Cloud Provider Platform. Cloud providers are now able to deliver industrialised hybrid clouds to customers from any location, including customer data centres, cloud provider data centres, VMware Cloud on AWS as a managed service, and hyperscale public clouds. 

“Our Cloud Provider strategy is to empower our partners with the flexibility to deliver the industrialised hybrid cloud, built on a VMware software-defined data centre, from whatever location the customer chooses,” Jansen van Rensburg adds.

The company also debuted new features on its VMware Workspace ONE digital workspace platform. 

 As part of this, VMware unveiled VMware Horizon Services for Multi-Cloud. This will allow IT administrators to automate brokering and management across multi-site environments. 

Allowing employees to log into the optimal virtual workspace, VMware Horizon Services for Multi-Cloud are designed to improve user performance, drive down costs, and support a range of use cases including disaster recovery, data centre expansion and cloud bursting, says Jansen van Rensburg.

VMware also introduced its Tanzu portfolio of products and services that Jansen van Rensburg says will transform the way enterprises build, run, and manage software on Kubernetes. This includes a technology preview of Project Pacific, focused on transforming VMware vSphere into a Kubernetes native platform in a future release, and VMware Tanzu Mission Control, a single point of control from which customers will manage all their Kubernetes clusters irrespective of where they run.

Leveraging the GPU

Finally, Nvidia and VMware stated their intent to deliver accelerated GPU services for VMware Cloud on AWS. According to the companies, this will power modern enterprise applications, including AI, machine learning, and data analytics workflows. 

These services will enable customers to migrate VMware vSphere-based applications and containers to the cloud, unchanged, where they can be modernised to take advantage of high-performance computing, machine learning, data analytics, and video processing applications.

 

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