Cloud Foundation will be available from the third quarter of 2016.
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VMware, Inc is a provider of virtualization infrastructure solutions and cloud infrastructure solutions.
“A few key things that happened around building that service, from a technology point of view, is that besides the core replication and orchestration capabilities, we are building in multitenancy support because that’s what you need in the cloud environment”, she said.
Citing IDC’s prediction that IoT spending will grow to almost $1.3tn by 2019, VMware is hoping to carve out a nice chunk of that revenue – on the basis that enterprises will need huge IT resources to turn their pilot projects into large-scale commercial offerings.
And, with more than 500 clients engaged, the global partnership between IBM and VMware is helping more organisations extend existing workloads to the cloud in hours, versus weeks or months.
Onstage, CEO Pat Gelsinger noted its “cross-cloud” framework targets enterprises looking at becoming a “digital business” by giving customers the ability to manage, govern and secure applications running across public clouds, including Amazon’s AWS, Microsoft Azure and IBM Cloud.
Over the previous year, VMware has extended vSphere to support OpenStack and cloud-native technologies to improve the developer experience for building applications using open APIs and container technology while addressing enterprise IT requirements. IBM Cloud, for example, will be offering support for Cloud Foundation and will apply customers’ existing VMware licenses to the use of VMware services on IBM Cloud, said Raghuram.
For the first time, VMware Cloud Foundation offers a new as a service option that delivers the full power of the SDDC in a hybrid cloud environment.
QxStack powered by VMware Cloud Foundation uses the VMware SDDC Manager, which automates lifecycle management and operations. The Company develops and markets its product and service offerings within three product groups, which include software-defined data center (SDDC), hybrid cloud computing and end-user computing (EUC). “We think VMware is uniquely positioned in industry to be a neutral provider of those services”, he said. “Geographic cloud, different providers in different markets and a lot of those are service providers and many of those are built on VMware technologies”, said Gelsinger.
“The public Cloud is SoftLayer”. IBM isn’t seen by anyone as a leader in the public cloud, and VMware, while enjoying a massive installed base, isn’t particularly seen as the avenue to deliver real enterprise agility.
And so we come to this year’s VMworld amid an ever-growing uptake of cloud products and the increasing attention to new, non-virtualization-based infrastructure approaches. Robert LeBlanc, SVP of IBM Cloud joined Gelsinger on stage as IBM is the first VMware vCloud® Air™ Network partner to deliver the new offerings. “The VMware of the future is about providing cloud freedom”. It’s not an easy question to answer, but it’s one that VMware is now taking direct aim at with a new cross cloud services approach being demonstrated today at the VMworld event by Guido Appenzeller, Chief Technology Strategy Officer at VMware.
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To extend a VMware private cloud to VMware vCloud Air, the latest version of Hybrid Cloud Manager offers new enhancements for application migration and to help improve the performance of the connection between the two environments. vCloud Air Hybrid Cloud Manager enables users to extend on-premises networks to vCloud Air over a software-defined WAN.
