This week at AWS re:Invent 2019, VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) is
demonstrating how customers around the world are selecting VMware
Cloud on AWS to migrate and modernize their applications. Customers
adopting VMware Cloud on AWS include 888 Holdings, AIT Worldwide
Logistics, Department of Customer Service NSW, EMPLOYERS, Equinix,
Optage, and ZENRIN DataCom, all of which are taking advantage of
VMware’s consistent cloud infrastructure and operations to reduce
the cost, complexity and risk of moving VMware-based applications
to the cloud. VMware also announced the company is opening a Beta
program for the forthcoming VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts.
VMware Cloud on AWS is a jointly engineered service that brings
VMware’s enterprise class software-defined data center capabilities
to Amazon Web Services (AWS), with optimized access to AWS
services. The service offers fast cloud migration, powered by
VMware HCX and vMotion combined with consistent hybrid cloud
infrastructure and operations. Once applications are migrated,
customers can extend the capabilities of applications through
integration of native AWS services, such as Amazon Simple Storage
Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Relational Database Service (Amazon
RDS), and Amazon SageMaker. Customers can run containers and
Kubernetes on VMware Cloud on AWS today with VMware PKS, and in the
future, leverage Project Pacific, which will transform VMware
vSphere into a Kubernetes native platform. Through innovative
technology such as Bitfusion and partnerships with industry leaders
such as NVIDIA, customers will be able to enrich existing
applications and power modern enterprise applications with AI/ML
and data analytics workflows through best-in-class GPU acceleration
services.
VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts Beta is Open
VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts will bring consistent hyperscale
cloud infrastructure and innovative services to the data center in
a jointly engineered solution that can eliminate the customer
burden of managing on-premises hardware. VMware Cloud on AWS
Outposts will be a fully-managed VMware SDDC as a service powered
by VMware Cloud Foundation that includes a comprehensive set of
software-defined services for compute, storage, networking,
security, and cloud management running on AWS Outposts hardware in
customers’ data centers or co-location facilities. The VMware Cloud
on AWS Outposts Beta program(1) is open to a select set of
customers in the U.S. region. Interested parties can nominate
themselves for the program here and you can read the blog about
VMware Cloud on AWS Outposts here.
VMware Cloud on AWS Customers Share Their
Stories
888 Holdings is one of the world's most popular online gaming
entertainment and solutions providers. Eran Elbaz, CIO, 888.com,
said, “We operate in a highly regulated industry that has stringent
data security and disaster recovery requirements. We built out a
new on-prem data center based on VMware Cloud Foundation, using NSX
for advanced security through micro-segmentation. VMware Cloud on
AWS gives us a cost-effective disaster recovery option built on the
same consistent cloud infrastructure. With VMware Site Recovery and
leveraging AWS Direct Connect, we’re able to protect 100’s of
workloads and 100TBs of data and meet our mandated five minute
recovery point objective.”
AIT Worldwide Logistics is a global transportation management
leader with a flexible business model to deliver tailored supply
chain solutions for sea, air and ground freight. Mike Tegtmeyer, VP
Global Infrastructure & Security of AIT Worldwide Logistics,
said, “We have a long-term strategy to be out of the data center
business, and the first transition we are making is with our
disaster recovery environment. With VMware Cloud on AWS managed by
Rackspace, we are implementing cloud-based DR as a Service that
will enable us to more cost-effectively maintain continuity of
operations and reduce the overall risk to our business. We will
also be able to establish burstable capacity based on usage, and
utilize Rack Connect Global to provide LAN speed connectivity
between a geo-adjacent data center and our current on-prem
mainframe.”
The Department of Customer Service NSW functions as a service
provider which supports sustainable government finances, major
public works and maintenance programs, government procurement,
information and communications technology, corporate and shared
services, consumer protection, and land and property administration
of the government in New South Wales, Australia. Richard Harvey,
senior manager cloud services, Department of Customer Service NSW,
said, “Working with VMware business partner, Tracer Cloud, we were
able to migrate not only our most critical customer-facing
applications to the public cloud, but thanks to the security and
compliance of the VMware Cloud on AWS solution, we were also able
to move applications that were originally flagged for private
cloud. This allowed us to use public cloud solutions such as
elastic file storage, and now places us in an excellent position to
easily transform applications into other AWS cloud solutions in the
future. We needed a knowledgeable partner to support us on this
journey because we had an aggressive timeframe. Tracer Cloud
designed and delivered our VMware Cloud on AWS solution with
Megaport connectivity to provide a flexible, robust, scalable
solution that was available in days, not months. Tracer Cloud and
VMware were able to build the environment as a proof of concept,
which gave us 60 days to prove the concept at a relatively low
price before going into a production environment.”
EMPLOYERS provides workers' compensation insurance and services
for small businesses in low-to-medium hazard industries. Jeff Shaw,
executive vice president and CIO, EMPLOYERS, said, “With VMware
Cloud on AWS, we’ve become more agile, efficient and secure. We
successfully migrated 350 applications to the cloud in less than
one year. In several instances, migrations scheduled to take
several days were completed in a matter of hours. We plan to use
VMware Cloud on AWS for disaster recovery as a service, which is
much more cost-effective and operationally efficient than our
previous on-prem, self-managed system. For our DevOps teams and
developers, application deployments that used to take six to nine
months are now done in only two weeks. This rapid digital
transformation, made possible by our move to a cost-effective,
high-performance and secure environment in VMware Cloud on AWS has
strengthened the relationships between IT and the business.”
Equinix is a global interconnection and data center company that
connects the world's leading businesses to their customers,
employees and partners. Milind Wagle, senior vice president, Chief
Information Officer, Equinix, said, “Equinix is using VMware Cloud
on AWS to easily and rapidly migrate our on-premises application
footprint to the cloud. As a key component in our company’s
cloud-first infrastructure strategy, Equinix is using VMware Cloud
on AWS with AWS Direct Connect to accelerate our digital
transformation efforts and provide our enterprise customers with
new capabilities faster, improved service uptime and redundancy
benefits.”
Optage Inc. is an information and telecommunications company
providing optical fiber network services to individuals and
enterprises, and also operates MVNO and energy services. Kiyoshi
Fukui, Systems Infrastructure Team, Platform Equipment Construction
Department at Optage, said, “We adopted VMware Cloud on AWS because
it combines the unique flexibility of the public cloud with same
infrastructure and operational procedures as our on-premises VMware
environments. We can now respond to unplanned resource requests
from business-facing system administrators. With Stretched
Clusters, we’re able to maintain business uptime and resiliency,
and VMware HCX provides a valuable tool for moving workloads
between our data center and the cloud without any disruption.”
ZENRIN DataCom Co., LTD provides map and navigation services by
combining search engines and various content data based on Zenrin
Group's map assets. Mr. Daisuke Watanabe, Deputy General Manager of
Technology Planning Dept. Technical Division at ZENRIN DataCom,
said, “AWS is our preferred cloud provider of choice, however, we
needed an environment that could support the large investment we
had made in our existing VMware environment. Refactoring
applications and retraining all our staff in order to move to the
cloud would not be cost effective. This made VMware Cloud on AWS
the perfect fit for us. We’ve migrated 700 VMs and will eventually
have more than 1500 VMs running in VMware Cloud on AWS. We didn't
have to modify our applications, nor change their operation, and
using L2 extension and vMotion, we migrated without changing the IP
addresses. We are already experiencing higher storage I/O
performance, and from a cost perspective, we believe that without
VMware Cloud on AWS, our development costs may have been double or
triple.”
Additional Resources
- Read about the most recent updates to VMware Cloud on AWS in
this blog
- Follow the latest on VMware Cloud on AWS in the VMware Cloud
Community
- Check out all of these resources for VMware Cloud on AWS
- Learn more about the VMware Cloud on AWS use cases
- Learn more about the Cloud Economics of VMware Cloud
- Legal notice - there is no commitment or obligation that
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