The announcement includes the general availability of the VMware vCloud NFV platform, a new VMware Ready for NFV accreditation program and new carrier-grade services delivered by VMware and VMware partners.
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The company also previewed a new technology, Project Michigan, that can deploy a secure enterprise gateway across vCloud Air offerings, including Disaster Recovery and Dedicated Cloud services.
VMware has also chosen to show its continued support for the container trend by expanding its support for vSphere Integrated Containers.
“Enterprises are looking to move their applications to the cloud, and increasingly see a hybrid strategy to cloud adoption as the right answer”, said Bill Fathers, executive vice president and general manager, Cloud Services Business Unit, VMware. This digital business transformation presents an opportunity for CIOs and IT teams to help their organizations become more agile, to build and deliver both traditional and cloud-native applications more rapidly, and drive down costs without sacrificing governance.
Behind the updates is the idea of accelerating the unified delivery of services across both public and private clouds. It is created to support any application.
VMware vCloud Air Monitoring Insight and Enhanced Identity Access Management are expected to be generally available for VMware vCloud Air Virtual Private Cloud in Q4 2015.
VMware pinned the releases together with the announcement of vCloud Director 8, aiming to help customers build differentiated cloud services that are hybrid ready. The blueprints come with out-of-the-box support for VMware vCloud Air and Amazon Web Services (AWS), including new support for VMware vCloud Government Service and AWS GovCloud (US), OpenStack Kilo, and updated heterogeneous hypervisors including VMware vSphere 6 Update 1, Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 R2, and KVM 3.4 and 3.5.
VMware vCloud Air Monitoring Insight and Enhanced Identity Access Management: VMware is providing new resources to have greater transparency and deeper integration with VMware vCloud Air.
VMware also intends building on existing support for VMware Photon OS on the VMware vCloud Air platform by adding support for VMware vSphere Integrated Containers on VMware vCloud Air.
New unified service blueprints will enable the modelling of infrastructure, networks, security, applications and custom IT services including their relationships and dependencies within a graphical canvas.
“This is going to change with VMware’s hybrid networking services that offer intelligent routing, strong encryption, WAN acceleration, VXLAn extension and direct connect”.
Expanded support for vSphere Integrated Containers on VMware vCloud Air is expected to be available in 2016.
Kathy Gibson reports from VMworld in Barcelona – Intelligent networking is at the heart of the unified hybrid cloud. The integration between the platform and VMware infrastructure and services helps customers to more easily adopt a software-defined data center architecture.
VMware has announced the launch of a number of network functions virtualization (NFV) offerings to help communications services providers (CSPs) migrate their infrastructure to a software-based model.
Organizations can centrally manage billing across all of those clouds thanks to the centralized pricing management capabilities introduced in the new release of vRealize Business Standard that is rolling out alongside the automation suite.
This update also integrates with NSX 6.2 and VMware Identity Manager. vRealize Automation 7 enhances extensibility through an Event Broker allowing new functionality to be plugged-in without changing core code to preserve upgradability as well as simplified consumer APIs to request and manage services.
“Agility is key to Symantec’s ability to accelerate innovation and lead the cybersecurity industry forward”, said Chandra Ranganathan, senior director, IT Infrastructure Services, Symantec. T-Systems as part of Deutsche Telekom Group, has developed a hybrid cloud portfolio of products based upon VMware technology. The vRealize Suite is available in two editions: Advanced ($6,750 per CPU) and Enterprise ($9,950 per CPU). The software is sold standalone in 25 OSI packs at $200 per OSI.
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“Everything is built in software, and VMware is the only company that can do that”, says Li. With 2014 revenues of $6 billion, VMware has more than 500,000 customers and 75,000 partners.
