Today at VMware Explore 2022,
VMware, Inc. unveiled innovations, new offerings, services
and expanded partnerships that further its commitment to help customers
navigate and thrive in today's multi-cloud world. As customers continue
to evolve and digitize their businesses to innovate faster and better
serve their own customers, VMware and its partner ecosystem are enabling
businesses to select the right cloud for the right app.
"Whether
you're a challenger born in the cloud or an established player, the
ultimate destination for customers is a multi-cloud environment that
empowers teams to accelerate their digital innovation," said Raghu
Raghuram, CEO, VMware. "At VMware Explore, VMware and our partners are
advancing our technology offerings to help customers gain advantages
from a cloud-smart approach."
Read Raghu Raghuram's from Cloud Chaos to Cloud Smart blog post
Many of these new capabilities are built on the VMware Cross-Cloud services the company introduced at VMworld 2021 and
are designed to give organizations the strategic advantages of a
cloud-smart approach. As organizations increase the number of clouds
they support to accelerate their business goals, they experience an
increase in operational complexity. VMware Cross-Cloud services deliver a
unified and simplified way to build, operate, access, and better secure
any application, on any cloud, from any device-across app platform,
cloud management, cloud and edge infrastructure, networking and advanced
security, and anywhere workspace.
Accelerate Enterprise Cloud Transformation
VMware is introducing cloud and edge infrastructure solutions that
help businesses accelerate their enterprise cloud transformation and
enable customers to better run, scale and secure enterprise workloads
across private and public clouds and at the edge. VMware and its public
cloud partners also continue to help customers migrate and run those
workloads in the public cloud of their choice. Additionally, VMware unveiled networking and security innovations to help customers further embrace the cloud operating model. Highlights include:
- VMware vSphere 8 ushers
in a new era of computing by supporting DPUs (Data Processing Units)
alongside CPUs and GPUs-making the future of modern infrastructure
accessible to all enterprises. vSphere 8 will also supercharge
customers' workload performance, improve operational efficiency and IT
productivity, accelerate innovation for DevOps, and more.
- Through a next-generation storage platform optimized for modern hardware with hyperconverged infrastructure, VMware vSAN 8 introduces breakthrough performance and hyper-efficiency. The
new vSAN Express Storage Architecture will enhance the performance,
storage efficiency, data protection and management of vSAN running on
the latest generation storage devices.
- VMware Cloud Foundation+ will unveil a cloud-connected architecture for managing and operating full stack HCI in data centers.
- VMware Edge Compute Stack 2 will
help customers address the needs of simplicity and scale at the edge
including support for smaller cluster sizes to run containers
efficiently on smaller COTS hardware.
- Project Northstar, a preview of a major advancement of the VMware NSX platform, for multi-cloud networking, security, and end-to-end visibility.
- Project Watch,
a new approach to multi-cloud networking and security that will provide
advanced app to app policy controls to help with continuous risk and
compliance assessment.
Scale Cloud Native Platform Operations
VMware continues to help customers secure, run and manage all cloud native apps. New advances to the VMware Tanzu portfolio unlock
developer productivity, deliver end-to-end security from build to
production, and enable more secure multi-cloud operations at scale,
regardless of where enterprises are in their Kubernetes journey. VMware also introduced a new multi-cloud management portfolio-VMware Aria-which
will provide a set of end-to-end solutions for managing cloud native
applications and infrastructure. The new offerings will help customers
manage their costs, performance, configuration and delivery across
public and private clouds. Highlights include:
- VMware Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations-including
VMware Tanzu Mission Control, VMware Aria Operations for Apps, and
VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid-will simplify Kubernetes delivery,
management, and reliability.
- New features in VMware Tanzu Mission Control will
extend and optimize multi-cloud, multi-cluster Kubernetes management
capabilities. This includes a preview for lifecycle management of Amazon
Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) clusters, integration with VMware Aria
Automation, continuous and consistent cluster lifecycle management via
GitOps, and application reliability with cross-cluster backup and
restore.
- VMware Aria Graph, a graph-based data store technology that will reduce multi-cloud complexity across any cloud, any app, and for every persona.
- VMware Aria Hub,
formerly Project Ensemble, which will provide centralized views and
controls to manage the entire multi-cloud environment, and leverages
VMware Aria Graph to provide a common definition of applications,
resources, roles, and accounts.
Empower the Hybrid Workforce
Customers continue to seek to enable anywhere work with secure and frictionless experiences. This week's advancements across VMware Anywhere Workspace will
inject automation into the end-user computing environments of
organizations, enabling IT teams to do more with less. Updates include:
- The next generation of VMware Horizon Cloud that will enable multi-cloud agility and flexibility
- Broader
Digital Employee Experience solutions that go beyond Workspace ONE UEM
managed devices to now include VMware Horizon and third-party managed
and unmanaged devices.
- The extension of Workspace ONE Freestyle Orchestrator to mobile devices and third-party apps, for multi-platform automation and orchestration.