Posted by Bangalore: VMware’s new VMware Cloud helps customers gain multi-cloud benefits and deliver modern applications. VMware Cloud is a distributed, multi-cloud platform that enables organisations to speed up application modernization across the data centre, edge and any cloud.
The new cloud platform provides advantages to both developers and IT operators. For developers, it offers increased productivity with the ease to build and deploy to any cloud and the IT units can modernize infra, apps and operations with better economics and less risk.
With the launch of the new cloud platform, the company also announced three new offerings for customers:
VMware Cloud Universal: a flexible subscription that simplifies the purchase and consumption of VMware multi-cloud infrastructure and management services.
VMware Cloud Console: a single monitoring and management environment for VMware’s cloud infrastructure regardless of where it’s deployed.
VMware App Navigator: a new offering for assessing and prioritizing app transformation initiatives across an entire application estate based on the value of each app.
“We are on the cusp of the next evolution of cloud and apps. Architectures are becoming distributed and increasingly multi-cloud, while modern applications will soon outnumber traditional apps. The challenge for any CIO is to take advantage of this new innovation without introducing more complexity and risk,” said Raghu Raghuram, COO – Products and Cloud Services, VMware.
“VMware’s Cloud is the only cloud solution today that customers can use in the data centre and on any cloud, accelerating their modernization journey with speed, simplicity, and better security,” added Raghuram.
With the company’s Cloud Universal, Raghuram pointed out that customers can make a single purchase and gain the ability to deploy apps across any environment, then move them as business or application requirements change.
Modular, Multi-Cloud Services for All Applications, Everywhere
Application initiatives are driving better business outcomes, an elevated customer experience, innovative digital services, and the anywhere workforce. VMware research shows that 90% of app initiatives are focused on modernization, and 80% of organisations today deploy applications in a distributed model across data centre, cloud, and edge.
The new cloud platform is available for both on-premises and cloud. It comes with unified security and operations, supporting traditional and modern applications; connecting to all native cloud services, and meets the requirements of both developers and IT operators.
The new platform offers customers the simplicity of a single cloud operating model for their multi-cloud reality, and gain portability to help minimize the challenges of single cloud silos.
It’s customers can realize substantive benefits including as much as 80% better developer productivity with VMware Tanzu Application Service), 59% lower operational costs, and 46% faster cloud migration.
With the new platform, customers can deploy apps to the company’s Cloud Foundation running in AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud and Oracle Cloud, on Dell EMC, and across hundreds of cloud verified partners.
VMware Marketplace provides customers access to thousands of validated third-party and open-source developer solutions. The company’s cloud customers can also deploy and operate across native public clouds, and give developers access to all native cloud services.
Better Economics, Simplified Operations and Faster App Modernization
New VMware Cloud Universal subscription offers customers more flexibility and portability to adopt cloud at their own pace and benefit from a single operating model across clouds.
Probably, it is ideal for customers with hybrid cloud architecture, having extended or variable cloud migration timelines and cloud bursting requirements. And even for customers that desire an OPEX model for on-premises infrastructure.
With Cloud Universal, customers purchase credits for VMware’s multi-cloud infrastructure and management and apply these credits to deployments of VMware Cloud Foundation on-premises, on AWS or on Dell EMC. Benefits of VMware Cloud Universal will include:
Choice and flexibility: buy once and deploy any eligible service at any time during the contract.
Convertibility: convert and apply unused on-premises Cloud Foundation credits deployment towards VMware Cloud on AWS at any point during the term. This convertibility is made possible through the new VMware Cloud Foundation Subscription license.
Built-In Kubernetes: VMware Tanzu Standard edition for simplified deployment and operation of Kubernetes.
Multi-cloud Management and Operations: VMware vRealize Cloud Universal for SaaS-based multi-cloud management.
VMware Success 360: designed to help customers continually realize the value and achieve faster outcomes, Success 360 includes success planning, ongoing adoption guidance, design workshops and proactive support.
For this new subscription, the company has introduced its Cloud Console that delivers end-to-end visibility and control of all its cloud infrastructure across on-premises, cloud and edge environments.
Cloud Console is an integrated portal where customers can allocate, manage and better optimize all VMware Cloud resources. Through Cloud Console, customers can redeem credits, provision deployments of Cloud Universal eligible offerings, and reach out to VMware support organisations.
The new VMware App Navigator service engagement helps organisations prioritize app modernization initiatives and drive key decisions based on business value. App Navigator is an agile approach to application portfolio analysis. The service leverages automated tooling and hands-on work to minimize risk and accelerate app migration and modernization.
“With this announcement, customers have the ability to use the same VMware Universal Credits towards the deployments of VMware Cloud on AWS as well as VMware on-premises,” said Matt Garman, VP – Sales and Marketing, AWS.
“Dell Technologies and VMware are committed to driving the future of IT infrastructure through deep collaboration.” said Arthur Lewis, President, Solutions and Portfolio Management – Dell Technologies Global Infrastructure Solutions Group.
Availability
The new Cloud Universal is available today in all English-speaking countries including India. VMware Cloud Foundation Subscription is only available through VMware Cloud Universal.
Convertibility of the Cloud Foundation subscription to VMware Cloud on AWS is expected to be available in VMware fiscal Q1 FY22. And its convertibility on Dell EMC is expected to be available in VMware’s 1HFY22. The company has made its Cloud Console and App Navigator available to customers.