VMware’s Multi-Cloud Strategy Unlocks the Value
From Any Cloud While Delivering Better Security and Simplified
Operations
VMware Announces Intent to Acquire SaltStack to
Bolster Cloud Automation Portfolio
VMworld 2020 — This week at VMworld 2020, VMware, Inc.
(NYSE: VMW) announced new innovations to help customers build, run,
manage, connect, and protect any app on any cloud. Today, more than
15 million enterprise workloads run on VMware in the cloud, and
more than 4,300 partners offer VMware-based cloud services. This
includes all major public cloud providers. With these new and
updated offerings, customers and partners can unlock multi-cloud’s
full potential value by providing more developer freedom while
providing IT with consistent and efficient security and
operations.
The company also announced its intent to acquire SaltStack, a
pioneer in building intelligent, event-driven automation software.
Following close, SaltStack will enable VMware to significantly
broaden its software configuration management and infrastructure
and network automation capabilities. Read the full blog post
here.
At VMworld 2020, VMware is delivering a range of solutions and
services to help customers survive and thrive in the most turbulent
market in generations. VMware’s cloud, app modernization,
networking, security, and digital workspace platforms form a
flexible, consistent digital foundation on which to build, run,
manage, connect and protect applications, anywhere. Applications
are at the heart of digital transformation. They enable businesses
to deliver powerful and personalized digital experiences to
customers and employees. The complex and diverse needs of
applications drive the need for multi-cloud strategies. VMware
helps organizations at all points in their multi-cloud journey.
“VMware has reached a major milestone in its plan to unlock the
power of every cloud for every business. We now support customers’
application strategies by delivering VMware-based services on every
major public cloud provider and hundreds of VMware Cloud Verified
partners worldwide,” said Raghu Raghuram, chief operating officer,
products and cloud services, VMware. “As we drive our strategy
forward, we are expanding our portfolio of cloud infrastructure,
operations, and security services to enable faster application
migration and modernization, and better business agility and
resiliency.”
Delivering a Unified Platform for a Modern, Multi-Cloud
World
VMware supports organizations across all clouds and all
application types. The company offers a complete cloud portfolio
that delivers consistent infrastructure and operations and enables
a flexible and agile developer model. At VMworld, VMware is
announcing:
- Migrating and Modernizing Apps on VMware
Cloud on AWS: VMware Cloud on AWS momentum continues to
grow. As of August 2020, total VMs are up 140% and the total number
of hosts are up 130% year over year on VMware Cloud on AWS. More
than 600 channel partners have achieved a VMware Cloud on AWS
service competency, and there are 300+ certified or validated
technology solutions available to VMware Cloud on AWS customers.
Working with AWS, VMware’s preferred public cloud partner for
vSphere-based workloads, VMware is delivering innovations that will
give customers more capabilities to deploy, move, connect, and
protect applications at scale. Support for VMware Tanzu centralizes
operations and management of Kubernetes clusters. VMware Transit
Connect provides simple, consistent networking and security across
different cloud environments. VMware HCX enhancements make planning
and executing zero downtime mass application migrations easier.
Broadened support for VMware vRealize Cloud Management services
improves IT agility and maximizes uptime and performance, while new
and expanded disaster recovery capabilities help minimize business
disruptions. The new i3en.metal instance delivers four times the
raw storage capacity at roughly half the cost per GB of storage per
host of other offerings, and improves storage efficiency for data
intensive workloads with VMware vSAN compression.
- Running VMware Applications on Microsoft
Azure: the next-generation Azure VMware Solution enables
customers to easily extend or migrate on-premises VMware
applications to Azure. A first party Microsoft service, Azure
VMware Solution integrates with the Azure console, giving customers
the flexibility to use existing VMware tools and management
experiences, or leverage native Azure capabilities as desired.
Customers can achieve cost savings and better TCO for Windows
Server and SQL Server workloads running on Azure VMware Solution by
taking advantage of Azure Hybrid Benefits.
- Simple, Scalable, More Secure
Infrastructure as-a-Service On-Premises: VMware Cloud on
Dell EMC, the data center-as-a-service offer of Dell Technologies
Cloud, adds new VMware HCX workload migration capabilities,
improved performance, new host types, and support for multiple
clusters within a single rack. New industry certifications provide
expanded support for customers in regulated industries.
- Run Kubernetes Workloads Anywhere:
VMware is announcing Tanzu support for VMware Cloud on AWS and
preview support for Google Cloud VMware Engine and Oracle Cloud
VMware Solution. VMware and Microsoft are also working closely
together to make the preview available to early adopters soon.
These updates provide customers with fast and more secure ways to
extend workloads to the cloud, and further bolster VMware’s ability
to offer customers a ubiquitous platform for running applications
on the infrastructure of their choice.
- Simple Disaster Recovery Service with
Cloud Economics: VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery is a new
on-demand, easy-to-use disaster recovery as a service (DRaaS) that
protects on-premises vSphere workloads onto VMware Cloud on AWS. It
combines efficient cloud storage with SaaS-based management for IT
resiliency at scale. Customers benefit from consistent VMware
operations across production and DR sites, and a ‘pay when you
need’ failover capacity model for DR resources.
- Single Marketplace Featuring Thousands of
Apps and Solutions: with the new consolidated VMware
Marketplace, customers can discover thousands of validated
third-party, open-source, and first-party solutions. These can be
deployed across vSphere, VMware Cloud on AWS, VMware Cloud on Dell
EMC and VMware Tanzu environments. With VMware Cloud Director
service integration, partners can offer tenants a modern
application catalog for developers.
Unifying Multi-Cloud Management and Operations
VMware Cloud Management enables organizations to consistently
deploy, operate, and govern applications, infrastructure, and
platform services across any cloud environment. New cloud
management innovations include the following:
- Innovative Cloud Management Hybrid
Subscription Solution: VMware vRealize Cloud Universal
combines SaaS and on-premises management software into a single
subscription license, enabling customers to use either method of
consumption interchangeably without the need to repurchase
different licenses to support each option. It includes vRealize AI
Cloud and other cloud-first capabilities across operations and
automation. These include federation capabilities for a consistent
multi-cloud management experience across deployments and VMware
Skyline integration, which enables proactive issue avoidance,
troubleshooting and automated workflows in a unified management and
support experience.
- AI-driven, Cloud-Delivered Application
Performance Optimization: formerly Project Magna, VMware
vRealize AI Cloud is an intelligent, self-tuning cloud service for
application performance optimization. It combines near real-time
and historical observability with reinforcement learning to
continuously adapt VMware cloud infrastructure to the changing
needs of application workloads. VMware vRealize AI Cloud helps
assure service-level agreements are met while enabling business
agility as customers scale and migrate workloads across
environments. At launch, vRealize AI Cloud supports VMware vSAN and
will be extended to other VMware solutions and application
optimization use cases in the future.
- Multi-Cloud Operations for Oracle Cloud
Infrastructure: CloudHealth by VMware now supports Oracle
Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), enabling enterprises to view all public
cloud costs from a single platform. Customers can also group assets
by business unit, department, cost center, and owner, for cost
reporting and showback using OCI tags and CloudHealth’s
Perspectives capability.
- Multi-Cloud Security Posture Management
and Compliance: CloudHealth Secure State adds real-time
monitoring for Google Cloud, as well as 20 new AWS and Azure
services, including managed Kubernetes and serverless
configurations. Organizations can more effectively scale security
and improve collaboration between teams through simplified
management of cloud accounts, custom compliance frameworks, and
Azure auto-remediation support.
Empowering Cloud Providers with the Complete VMware
Multi-Cloud Portfolio
VMware Cloud providers and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) are
trusted advisors for customers that need expertise and guidance
navigating their multi-cloud journey. New cloud services make it
easier for these partners to deliver and customers to consume
VMware’s expanding portfolio of multi-cloud services. These
include:
- VMware Cloud Partner Navigator:
formerly Project Path, VMware Cloud Partner Navigator enables
partners to expand business opportunities beyond their own clouds
to include the growing set of VMware-based clouds and services.
Customers gain greater flexibility and choice to run applications
in the cloud that best meets their operational and business
requirements, with one-click application and service deployment,
and access to a robust marketplace. Partners can also provide
customers direct access to VMware’s growing portfolio of
application modernization, business continuity, and multi-cloud
operations services.
- VMware Cloud Director 10.2: adds a
set of capabilities that will enable partners to expand their
service offerings with enhanced network and security services,
lower costs with increased storage flexibility and efficiency, and
accelerate support for developers and DevOps engineering with a
full development infrastructure.
Customer and Partner Commentary
S&P Global Ratings is the world’s leading provider of
independent credit ratings. Rob Roday, associate director of
cloud infrastructure and end user computing, S&P Global
Ratings, said, “As a result of our dynamic business environment,
our IT team was asked to complete a planned five-year cloud
migration in just 14 months. This would address rising on-prem data
center costs while improving both business resiliency and user
effectiveness. With our move to VMware Cloud on AWS, we estimate
savings in the range of $20 million dollars. Using HCX, we
seamlessly re-platformed 150 business critical apps to VMware Cloud
on AWS with no business disruption in just eight months. With
VMware Site Recovery, we've cut the time and number of people
required for DR testing by more than 50 percent and reduced our
risk through new levels of automation.”
The Scottish Government’s Agriculture and Rural Economy
Directorate is one of the largest departments in the Scottish
Government. Neill Smith, head of IT Infrastructure, Agriculture
and Rural Economy Directorate, Scottish Government, said, “VMware
Cloud on AWS enables us to think differently about many aspects of
our IT strategy, and look at how we could modernize as we migrate
to the cloud. Using the people and skills we already had in place,
we converted our on-prem Solaris app to VMware and Linux,
re-platformed to VMware Cloud on AWS, and ran a DR test scenario in
three weeks. This proved we could move to the cloud quickly and
cost effectively, we could start moving away from purchasing and
managing hardware. Long-term goal, we believe VMware-based hybrid
cloud can bring us transformational change, enabling us to reduce
human errors, further improve security, and deliver a better
experience to our users through use infrastructure as code, greater
automation, more intrinsic security, and access to native AWS
services.”
iSelect is Australia’s leading destination for comparison and
purchasing across insurance, utilities, and personal finance
products. Shannon Henwood, head of technology, iSelect, said,
“VMware Cloud on AWS enabled us to move to the cloud in weeks not
months and address our new reality of a distributed workforce
because of the global pandemic. We have deployed a
multi-availability zone stretched cluster using VMware Cloud on AWS
to maximize availability, uptime, and resiliency for our
mission-critical workloads. VMware Cloud on AWS was instrumental in
helping us move an entire physical call center with 500+ employees
to a work from home, cloud-native environment practically
overnight.”
Harman designs and engineers connected products and solutions
for automakers, consumers, and enterprises worldwide. Ashok
Madhuranath, senior manager of cloud architecture and operations at
Harman, said, “As our multi-cloud cloud strategy grew, we lacked
the tooling necessary to operate efficiently across both AWS and
Azure. CloudHealth by VMware provides us with a centralized view of
our entire multicloud environment. As the global pandemic took
hold, cost became an even higher priority. With CloudHealth’s
Rightsizing recommendations in combination with other features
& internal automation, we estimate we are now saving upwards of
$1M a year in cloud spend.”
Sky UK Limited is a British broadcaster and
telecommunications company. James Cruickshank, solution
architect, Sky UK, said, “The automatic tuning and detuning that
vRealize AI achieves is near impossible for a human or team of
humans to do and the resulting improvement in latency and increased
throughput of the vSAN clusters is a good story for Sky. With
vRealize AI optimization we anticipate less complaints about
performance from application owners and we have made our
infrastructure massively more efficient without spending any
additional money on servers or disks.”
Availability
Azure VMware Solution, CloudHealth support for OCI, VMware Cloud
on AWS support for VMware Tanzu, VMware Cloud on Dell EMC updates,
VMware vRealize Cloud Universal, and VMware Marketplace are all
available. VMware Cloud Partner Navigator is in preview. All other
products and services announced herein are expected to be available
in VMware’s fiscal Q3 FY21 which ends on October 30, 2020.
Additional Resources
- What’s new with VMware Cloud on AWS
- What's New in the latest release of VMware Cloud on Dell
EMC
- Announcing VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery: On-demand DRaaS to
Protect your vSphere Workloads
- Announcing VMware vRealize Cloud Universal
- Announcing: VMware vRealize AI Cloud Availability
- Introducing CloudHealth Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Support
- CloudHealth Secure State: New Capabilities to Combat
Multi-Cloud Security Risks
- New Unified Partner Platform is Here: VMware Cloud Partner
Navigator
- Announcing Major Updates in VMware Cloud Director
News at VMworld 2020
Read a summary of today’s news from Chris Wolf: VMworld 2020:
Innovating with the Expectation of Change
- VMware Announces Future-Ready Workforce Solutions to Address
the Needs of the Distributed Workforce
- VMware Delivers Intrinsic Security to the World’s Digital
Infrastructure
- VMware Expands Tanzu Portfolio and Partnerships to Accelerate
Customers’ Infrastructure and Application Modernization
Efforts
- VMware Unveils Project Monterey: Re-Imagining Hybrid Cloud
Architecture to Support Next-Generation Applications
- VMware Delivers the Next Wave of Virtual Cloud Network
Innovation to Connect and Protect Today’s Distributed, Multi-Cloud
Enterprise
- For information on all news announcements at VMworld 2020, view
the online media kit
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Forward-Looking Statements
This announcement contains forward-looking statements including,
among other things, statements regarding VMware's intention to
acquire SaltStack, the expected benefits of the acquisition and
complementary nature and strategic advantages of combined offerings
and opportunities after close. These forward-looking statements are
subject to the safe harbor provisions created by the Private
Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results could
differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking
statements as a result of certain risk factors, including but not
limited to: (1) the ability of the parties to satisfy closing
conditions to the acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (2)
economic and market conditions, regulatory requirements and other
corporate considerations that could affect the timing and closing
conditions to the acquisition; (3) the ability to successfully
integrate acquired companies and assets into VMware; (4) the impact
of the COVID-19 pandemic on our operations, financial condition,
our customers, the business environment and the global and regional
economies; (5) VMware’s customers’ ability to transition to new
products, platforms, services, solutions and computing strategies
in such areas as containerization, modern applications, intrinsic
security and networking, cloud, digital workspaces, virtualization
and the software defined data center, and the uncertainty of their
acceptance of emerging technology; (6) competitive factors,
including but not limited to pricing pressures, industry
consolidation, entry of new competitors into the virtualization
software and cloud, end user and mobile computing, and security
industries, as well as new product and marketing initiatives by
VMware’s competitors; (7) VMware's ability to enter into and
maintain strategically effective partnerships; (8) rapid
technological changes in the virtualization software and cloud, end
user, security and mobile computing industries; (9) other business
effects, including those related to industry, market, economic,
political, regulatory and global health conditions; (10) VMware's
ability to protect its proprietary technology; (11) VMware's
ability to attract and retain highly qualified employees; (12) the
continued risk of litigation and regulatory actions; (13) adverse
changes in general economic or market conditions; (14) changes in
VMware's financial condition; and (15) VMware's relationship with
Dell Technologies, the potential impact of Dell's investigation of
strategic alternatives with respect to its interest in VMware, and
Dell's ability to control matters requiring stockholder approval.
These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this
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effect as well as other risks detailed in documents filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, including VMware's most recent
reports on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K
that we may file from time to time, which could cause actual
results to vary from expectations. VMware assumes no obligation to,
and does not currently intend to, update any such forward-looking
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