Number of Virtual Cloud Network Customers Has
Grown on Average 50 Percent Each Fiscal Year Since May 2018, Now
Totaling More than 15,000
VMware NSX-T 3.0 and vRealize Network Insight
5.2 Simplify Cloud and Container Networking, Security, and
Application Discovery to support Agility and Business
Continuity
VMware Brings One-Click Automation Matching the
Public Cloud Experience
VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today announced the number of Virtual
Cloud Network customers now exceeds 15,000, including 89 of the
Fortune 100 and eight of the top 10 Telcos, and has grown on
average 50 percent each fiscal year since May 2018. VMware’s
Virtual Cloud Network solution is an integral component of VMware
Cloud Foundation, which is offered on all major hyperscale cloud
providers – AWS, Azure, Alibaba Cloud, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud and
Oracle Cloud – and uniquely enables VMware to make private clouds
as efficient and agile as public clouds and support business
continuity efforts.
The company also announced new networking and security
innovations that will significantly enhance any company’s ability
to deliver the public cloud experience on-premises. With the VMware
NSX-T 3.0 and VMware vRealize Network Insight 5.2, enterprises gain
even higher levels of automation and insight for networking
functions that span services from Layer 2 switching all the way to
Layer 7 application firewall, load balancing and IDS/IPS
filtering.
Seven years ago, VMware pioneered software-defined networking,
de-coupling network functions from physical devices analogous to
de-coupling virtual servers from physical servers. This helped
reduce application deployment times from months to minutes and made
microsegmentation economically and operationally feasible to help
stop the internal, lateral spread of malware. Two years ago, VMware
introduced the Virtual Cloud Network, extending virtual networking
and security capabilities from edge to core to cloud for any
workload running in VMs, containers, or bare metal. Today, VMware’s
Virtual Cloud Network solution is the industry’s only complete
Layer 2-7 virtual networking stack, delivering highly innovative
capabilities for switching, routing, firewalling, and SD-WAN
completely in software for enterprise and Telco/5G
environments.
“Our Virtual Cloud Network solution is helping our customers
provide the public cloud experience on-premise, removing the
inefficient IT ticket requests and long waits for networking and
security changes,” said Tom Gillis, senior vice president and
general manager, Networking and Security Business Unit at VMware.
“Across private, public and Telco clouds, and from the data center
to the branch office, the Virtual Cloud Network has simplified
networking, and saved customers time and money. Our data shows
customers can experience as much as a 59 percent reduction in
capital expenditures and 55 percent reduction in operational
expenditures over traditional networking solutions (1).”
New Innovations for The Virtual Cloud Network
Automation and replacement of legacy network and security
infrastructure continue to be the key drivers for adoption of the
Virtual Cloud Network. Today, VMware is delivering new innovations
against its vision for the Virtual Cloud Network as the enabler for
delivering the public cloud experience on premises:
Delivering the Public Cloud
Experience: Adoption of cloud computing and support for
digital business initiatives demand improved data center network
agility and business continuity. NSX-T 3.0 introduces NSX
Federation, enabling enterprises to deliver a cloud-like operating
model with fault isolation domains and global policies that are
synchronized across all locations. A fault isolation domain allows
customers to better ensure that networks aren’t brittle. They will
now be able to contain any network problems to a single zone
minimizing the severity and impact of problems when they arise.
VMware vRealize Network Insight 5.2 introduces flow-based
application discovery across multiple VMware platforms using
machine learning to better understand categorized applications by
tier.
Making Security Intrinsic: VMware
is taking internal security to the next level following the
introductions of the industry-first Service-defined firewall and
NSX Intelligence with the general availability of Intrusion
Detection and Prevention (IDS/IPS) capabilities for the
Service-defined Firewall. NSX Distributed IDS/IPS takes advantage
of VMware’s unique intrinsic understanding of the services that
make up applications to match IDS/IPS signatures to specific parts
of the application. NSX Distributed IDS/IPS signatures are
application specific and only applied to the appropriate servers,
resulting in fewer false positives and significantly higher
throughput. These capabilities enable efficiency and flexibility
that cannot be matched by legacy and proprietary hardware-defined
systems and are a major differentiator of the software-based
scale-out approach of VMware NSX.
Full Stack Networking and Security for
Modern Applications: Applications and microservices run on a
wide variety of heterogenous endpoints such as VMs, containers, and
bare metal servers, creating a challenge to consistently connect
and secure them. NSX-T treats containers and VMs as first-class
citizens, having supported Kubernetes platforms for more than two
years. With the NSX-T 3.0 release, enterprises can extend its full
stack container networking services including switching, routing,
distributed firewall, micro-segmentation, and load balancing to the
newly released VMware vSphere with Kubernetes and VMware Cloud
Foundation 4 platforms, the VMware Tanzu portfolio, and non-VMware
Kubernetes platforms.
End-to-End Visibility and
Analytics: VMware vRealize Network Insight, available as
on-premises software or SaaS, provides end-to-end network
visibility and analytics to optimize network performance and
troubleshoot the entire Virtual Cloud Network, including the
virtual overlay and physical underlay, and spanning data centers,
multi-cloud environments, and branch locations. New flow-based
application discovery leverages unsupervised learning, statistical
techniques, enriched network flows, and advanced application
labelling algorithms to discover application and tier boundaries,
providing insights into network communication density, applications
patterns, and enhanced security recommendations. Other enhancements
include, AWS Direct Connect support, VMware SD-WAN application and
business policy statistics, enhanced Kubernetes visibility and
support for VMware NSX-T 3.0.
Networking for Next-Generation Telco
Clouds and 5G: With the Virtual Cloud Network, operators can
build scalable networks to support 5G and edge strategies. VMware
NSX plays a key role in accelerating network performance and
efficient end-to-end network operations in the network core,
serving as an SDN layer for virtual network functions. NSX-T 3.0
introduces capabilities such as L3 EVPN for VM mobility, multicast
routing for scalable networking, and accelerated data plane
performance. Additionally, VMware SD-WAN acts as an intelligent
overlay in conjunction with 5G’s network sliced underlays to
deliver more cost-effective, high-performance, application-aware
services at the network edge.
Virtual Cloud Networking for Azure Edge
Zones: VMware is working with Microsoft to offer SD-WAN
solutions for Azure Edge Zones, which deliver Azure services and
enable customers to seamlessly deploy and run Virtual Network
Functions (VNFs) including VMware SD-WAN by VeloCloud. The VMware
SD-WAN solution is fully integrated with the Azure portal and will
enable Zero Touch Provisioning across Azure Edge Zones while
shielding customers from operations and VNF life cycle management
complexities. VMware SD-WAN makes intelligent decisions based on
network conditions and steers traffic on the optimal network path
that meets SLAs and helps optimize the user experience for
applications such as Office 365 or Microsoft Teams.
Virtual Cloud Network Empowers a Remote Workforce
With VMware NSX and SD-WAN, organizations can support business
continuity with more secure, reliable access for traditional and
SaaS applications, including VoIP, UCaaS, collaboration, and VDI,
from providers such as Microsoft, Zoom, Vonage, Ring Central,
Windstream. With VMware NSX, customers can protect their remote
workers who are using virtual desktops to access enterprise
applications. NSX allows customers to easily microsegment and
comprehensively enhance the security of their VDI environment
without making any changes to their existing network
infrastructure. VMware SD-WAN delivers an optimal teleworking
experience for work-at-home users. VMware SD-WAN recently released
significant enhancements for enterprise routing and security,
analytics, and management as well as specific enhancements for
business continuity and work from home deployments. To help
organizations quickly empower a remote digital workforce, VMware is
offering a comprehensive solution with Secure VDI with NSX and
offering the VMware SD-WAN Work @Home free trial, which provides
end user hardware and hosted services for up to 90-days for up to
100 employees using two Work @Home bundles.
Proposed Customer and Industry Commentary
IDC is a premier global provider of market intelligence,
advisory services and events. Brad Casemore, research VP for
datacenter networking at IDC said: “In a world increasingly defined
by hybrid IT and multicloud, network agility must involve not just
network automation, but intelligent network automation capable of
delivering actional insights. Modern cloud-native applications and
multicloud deployments have resulted in the need for network and
security services to become software-defined, distributed, and
increasingly composable and modular so that they can be applied on
a per-application basis. With a complete Layer 2-7 portfolio –
built both organically and through acquisitions such as VeloCloud,
AVI Networks, Nyansa and Veriflow – VMware is well positioned to
help enterprises successfully address the proliferation of
multiple, heterogenous siloes of infrastructure created by modern
applications and to deliver a simpler approach to providing
intelligent networks for hybrid IT and multicloud
environments.”
Ceridian is a leading provider of Human Capital
Management software, transforming the employee experience through a
combined payroll, HR, benefits, workforce management, and talent
management solution. Warren Perlman, CIO at Ceridian said: “For
Ceridian, cloud is the play. We’re looking to drive the highest
levels of automation across our environment like you get in the
public cloud. The VMware Virtual Cloud Network gives us this model
for networking and security. VMware NSX enables Ceridian to treat
network infrastructure as code to deliver new software releases and
deploy our applications much faster. VMware has helped us change
our network security architecture by replacing many physical
security solutions with the VMware Service-defined Firewall. VMware
vRealize Network Insight provides network visibility and real-time
access to application and network security information that
previously took multiple people and multiple solutions to
gather.”
Availability
VMware NSX-T 3.0 is generally available today. VMware vRealize
Network Insight 5.2 is expected to be available in VMware’s fiscal
Q1 FY21 which ends on May 1, 2020.
Additional Resources
- Read more details about VMware NSX-T 3.0 in this blog
- Read more about vRealize Network Insight 5.2 in this blog
- Read about how VMware will deliver networking solutions for
Azure Edge Zones
- Check out more details about the Virtual Cloud Network
1-Estimates based on VMware’s DICE ROI and Value Modeling tool
which contains detailed real-world customer data, April 2020
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