While the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated the demand for flexibilities in cloud computing and data centers to speed up digital transformation for businesses, picking the right technology has often been challenging for them. For most businesses that have workloads on-premise, remote working required them to have access to their data centers or the private cloud.
As such, some companies opted for a hybrid cloud approach, whereby they relied on the public cloud for several applications and workloads. As the public cloud-enabled then greater flexibility, especially when it came to costing and scalability, companies began using more than one public cloud.
With organizations now driven by the urgency to go fast and digitize, the multi-cloud is now the model for digital businesses seeking to achieve rapid transformation. VMware is enabling digital innovation with enterprise control in this multi-cloud environment. VMware recently announced new advancements for VMware Cloud, the industry’s first and only multi-cloud computing infrastructure that enables customers to move their enterprise apps to the cloud in nearly half the time and less than half the cost.
When it comes to cloud computing and data centers, integrating them can be a challenge, depending on the requirements of each provider. The same applies to multi-cloud as well. Each cloud provider has its unique tools and capabilities that can be challenging when it comes to integrating them.
For app modernization, 91% of executives surveyed by VMware agree that their major app initiative in 2021 is to migrate and modernize legacy apps. It is also expected that 20% of average growth of modern apps across cloud and data center by 2024, surpassing traditional apps.
(Source – VMware)
Integrating multi-cloud computing and data centers
According to Raghu Raghuram, CEO of VMware, VMware Cross-Cloud services provide a new set of integrated services that help customers achieve an accelerated journey to the cloud, cost efficiency, flexibility, and control across any cloud.
“Multi-cloud is reshaping industries and advancing us all into a new digital business model, and these new services give organizations the freedom and flexibility to navigate this complex new environment. Accelerating the cloud journey is now cost-efficient, secure, and fully customizable,” said Raghu.
At the same time though, Raghu agreed that integrating with each cloud can be challenging, which also makes VMware Cross-Cloud services powerful.
“Customers can rely on us to take on that burden of helping them integrate and operate across multiple clouds. We are doing the heavy lifting to make sure they have the services they need so that they can operate across whatever cloud environment meets their needs. If you just look at what we have done with VMware Cloud – we now have the VMware Cloud infrastructure and operations stack running in every major hyperscale cloud worldwide,” explained Raghu.
While Raghu acknowledges that integrating is not as easy as it seems, he believes VMware is succeeding in enabling it. For him, they are taking on the tough problems to help their customers succeed.
With that said, VMware Cloud gives customers the flexibility to move to the cloud on their timelines and run vSphere workloads on the cloud of their choice. It is important to note that only VMware Cloud runs as a native service in 100+ regions spanning all public clouds—Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, and Oracle Cloud— as well as 4,000+ partner clouds, in private data centers, and at the edge.
With VMware Cloud Universal, customers can flexibly purchase and consume VMware Cloud from VMware or reseller partners, while benefitting from the economic value of existing VMware perpetual licenses.
Project Arctic
One of these is Project Arctic, the next evolution of vSphere. vSphere is VMware’s cloud computing virtualization platform. It includes an updated vCenter Configuration Manager, as well as vCenter Application Discovery Manager, and the ability of vMotion to move more than one virtual machine at a time from one host server to another.
The tech preview will bring VMware Cross-Cloud services to the fingertips of millions of IT Admins. Project Arctic natively integrates cloud connectivity into vSphere and establishes hybrid cloud as the default operating model. Customers will be able to take advantage of unlimited cloud capacity on-demand and instantly access VMware Cross-Cloud services through vCenter.
Project Arctic will allow businesses to:
- Upgrade their infrastructure to as-a-service
- Expand capacity on-demand
- Leverage VMware Cross-Cloud services
“The whole idea of Project Arctic is to make is simple for cloud computing and data centers. For example, developers can go into vCenter and see a cluster of servers in their own data center, and if they wanted to expand and add additional capacity, they can easily click that cluster and it on the cloud in that environment. We want to make intuitive for them within their known environment” said Mark Lohmeyer, senior vice president and general manager, cloud infrastructure business group, VMware.
As businesses adopt more cloud services to run their applications, being able to work on them with seamless integration is key to ensure businesses can meet growing customer demands quickly and efficiently.
Source: techwireasia
