“Migrating an app from on-premises to Amazon to Microsoft Azure – there are lots of complications of getting to do that and I don’t think they’ve conquered all of that and reached the true promise of portability”.
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VMware states that it can run full OpenStack in as little as two VMs with its optimized and architected management control plane.
“A significant challenge for most enterprises is moving their containerized applications into production considering the variety of operational requirements”, said Ray O’Farrell, executive vice president and chief technology officer, VMware.
“CIOs and IT professionals now need to manage a multiple-device, multiple-application and multiple-cloud world, and they don’t have the tools to do that”, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger told Bloomberg in an interview.
VMware Horizon enables customers to quickly deliver virtualized desktops and applications through a single platform, creating a secure digital workspace. IBM offers a complete portfolio of cloud services supporting a wide range of applications including big data, analytics, mobile and cognitive computing.
Admiral – A built-in container management portal for VMware vSphere Integrated Containers that developers and application teams can use to accelerate application delivery.
If you ask that customer how many public clouds it would ideally prefer to be in, he continued, “the vast majority of the answers, about 70 percent, are saying, ‘We want to be in multiple public clouds, because there’s a major cost factor”. SDDC Manager builds and maintains the entire VMware cloud software stack, freeing cloud administrators from the complex and tedious task of installing, configuring, managing and updating their cloud infrastructure. The architecture is built on VMware’s Cloud Foundation, a package that includes vSphere, Virtual SAN, NSX and SDDC manager.
VMware releases updates to many of its products about once every four months, mixing bug fixes and small feature upgrades.
VMware is building on the partnership that it announced in June with enterprise security firm Tanium and the solution they developed called TrustPoint.
“You have to stay current, but taking a leap to another management thing, when what we have works, is [not necessary]”, Gray said. The names that flashed on the screen behind him were CoreOS, Hashicorp, JFrog, Mesosphere, Pivotal, and Rancher Labs.
“Innovation is key to Banca Popolare di Sondrio’s long-term success and its ability to deliver new customer value”, said Piergiorgio Spagnolatti, head of infrastructure, Banca Popolare di Sondrio.
Regardless of the approach, Gelsinger says, the ability to deploy application workloads anywhere in a way that enables IT organizations to manage and secure them regardless of where they happen to be running is becoming a crucial IT requirement.
During Monday’s press conference, VMware SVP Raghuram noted that subscriptions to VMware Cross-Cloud Services will be treated separately from the components in its new Cloud Foundation. That’s understandable considering the objective behind that program: to bring containers to vSphere.
For the time being, VMware is focused on aligning itself with the services most commonly used by VMware’s existing customer base, who are increasingly widening the pool of public cloud providers they use for business agility, cost-savings and other practical purposes. With 2015 revenues of $6.6 billion, VMware is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA and has over 500,000 customers and 75,000 partners worldwide.
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While the VMware Cloud Foundation extends the company’s core virtualization and SDDC technologies to private and hybrid clouds, the new Cross-Services offering targets existing and new customers with a SaaS-based offering that doesn’t require existing VMware infrastructure, company officials said.
