With March announcements VMware continues cloud construction
VMware continues cloud construction with March announcements of new features and other enhancements.
VMware Cloud Provides Consistent Operations and Infrastructure Via: VMware.com
With its recent announcements, VMware continues cloud construction adding new features, enhancements, partnerships along with services.
VMware continues cloud construction, like other vendors and service providers who tried and test the waters of having their own public cloud, VMware has moved beyond its vCloud Air initiative selling that to OVH. VMware which while being a public traded company (VMW) is by way of majority ownership part of the Dell Technologies family of company via the 2016 acquisition of EMC by Dell. What this means is that like Dell Technologies, VMware is focused on providing solutions and services to its cloud provider partners instead of building, deploying and running its own cloud in competition with partners.
The VMware Cloud message and strategy is focused around providing software solutions to cloud and other data infrastructure partners (and customers) instead of competing with them (e.g. divesting of vCloud Air, partnering with AWS, IBM Softlayer). Part of the VMware cloud message and strategy is to provide consistent operations and management across clouds, containers, virtual machines (VM) as well as other software defined data center (SDDC) and software defined data infrastructures.
In other words, what this means is VMware providing consistent management to leverage common experiences of data infrastructure staff along with resources in a hybrid, cross cloud and software defined environment in support of existing as well as cloud native applications.
Building off of previous announcements, VMware continues cloud construction with enhancements to their Amazon Web Services (AWS) partnership along with services for IBM Softlayer cloud as well as OVH. As a refresher, OVH is what formerly was known as VMware vCloud air before it was sold off.
Besides expanding on existing cloud partner solution offerings, VMware also announced additional cloud, software defined data center (SDDC) and other software defined data infrastructure environment management capabilities. SDDC and Data infrastructure management tools include leveraging VMwares acquisition of Wavefront among others.
VMware Cloud Updates and New Features
- VMware Cloud on AWS European regions (now in London, adding Frankfurt German)
- Stretch Clusters with synchronous replication for cross geography location resiliency
- Support for data intensive workloads including data footprint reduction (DFR) with vSAN based compression and data de duplication
- Fujitsu services offering relationships
- Expanded VMware Cloud Services enhancements
VMware Cloud Services enhancements include:
- Hybrid Cloud Extension
- Log intelligence
- Cost insight
- Wavefront
