VMware Cloud

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2021: Launch VMware Cloud

On April 15, 2021, VMware introduced the VMware Cloud distributed multi-cloud platform, designed to create a productive environment for customers by allowing them to host applications in any cloud. The company provided customers with updated multi-cloud capabilities, as well as enabling them to create applications to meet critical business challenges based on the VMware Cloud platform, which helps accelerate application upgrades in data centers, peripherals, and clouds.

VMware Cloud accelerates application upgrades with modular multi-cloud services. Illustration: zdnet.com

According to the company, this platform has the capabilities for developers and other IT specialists, who are often forced to compromise in their work. With VMware Cloud, software developers can be more productive by building and hosting their applications in any cloud. Also, the platform allows IT departments to modernize infrastructure and operational processes. Together with the launch of VMware Cloud, VMware announced offerings that will provide users with a more integrated experience:

• VMware Cloud Universal - This subscription optimizes the acquisition and use of VMware services for multi-cloud infrastructure and management services.
• VMware Cloud Console is a unified environment for monitoring and managing VMware Cloud infrastructure regardless of location.
• VMware App Navigator is a solution for evaluating and prioritizing application transformation initiatives across the entire enterprise application portfolio.

Multi-cloud platform offerings and options. Illustration: zdnet.com

Application modernization initiatives help you optimize your business and customer experience, create digital services, and implement a remote employee model. Organizations participating in the VMware survey say that 90% of application-related initiatives come down to upgrades. At the same time, 80% of respondent companies deploy applications according to a distributed model in data centers, cloud and peripheral environments.

VMware Cloud is designed for both local and cloud environments, enabling a single security and operational model. It supports traditional and modern applications, provides connectivity to all native cloud services, and meets the requirements of developers and IT operators. The value of VMware Cloud to businesses is the ease of use of multi-cloud environments within a single cloud platform and the ability to migrate data to address the disparity of cloud environments. VMware Cloud users can also optimize their development productivity by 80% with Tanzu Application Service, reduce operating costs by 59%, and accelerate migration to the cloud by 46%.

VMware Cloud enables companies to deploy applications on the Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, and Oracle Cloud, in the VMware Cloud on Dell EMC, and in the clouds of hundreds of VMware Cloud Verified partners.

As part of the updated VMware Cloud Universal subscription, companies get updated capabilities when implementing cloud technologies and using a unified multi-cloud model. VMware Cloud Universal is suitable for enterprise customers with a hybrid cloud architecture; Have special requirements for migration to the cloud plan to use the OPEX model for the local infrastructure. Within VMware Cloud Universal, companies receive preferential terms for multi-cloud infrastructure services to deploy VMware Cloud Foundation to their own data centers, VMware Cloud on AWS, or VMware Cloud on Dell EMC. VMware Cloud Universal capabilities:

• Choice and flexibility: Companies invest once and are able to deploy any required service at any time during the contract term.
• Cloud Acceleration Benefits (CAB) - Provides flexibility for companies migrating to multi-clouds by reusing VMware licenses already invested in perpetual licenses.
• Kubernetes support: VMware Tanzu Standard deployment and use of Kubernetes platform.
• Multi-Cloud Usage and Administration - VMware vRealize Cloud Universal enables you to manage multi-cloud environments by accessing SaaS model controls.
• VMware Success 360 - A service that includes tools for phased implementation planning, additional guidance, design workshops, and customized support to help customers achieve transformation goals.
• VMware Cloud Console complements your subscription and provides complete transparency and control over your entire VMware Cloud infrastructure in your local, cloud, and peripheral environments. Cloud Console is an integrated portal that provides the ability to allocate, monitor, and optimize all VMware Cloud resources. Here, companies can deploy the necessary VMware Cloud Universal offerings and contact VMware support.