“It is all about the App”. Data center innovations are designed to deliver efficient, secure operations for businesses, ensuring the best possible experience for end-users.
Modern data centers, however, are complex with a mix of vendors and technologies, each with its own benefits. Managing them all can be challenging. VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) simplifies this by providing a comprehensive platform that streamlines data center modernization and application deployment.
This blog post introduces a webinar that you can listen to in its entirety here where VCF experts discuss its core functionalities and how they help organizations deploy, run, monitor and protect both their traditional and modern applications.
Trusted Foundation for the Traditional Enterprise Applications
VCF is trusted by our customers to run their most-demanding business applications such as Oracle, Microsoft, and SAP for several reasons:
- Streamlined Infrastructure Management: VCF simplifies managing your data center by providing a single platform for compute, storage, networking, and security. This reduces complexity and allows you to focus on managing your applications.
- Consistent Performance and Security: VCF delivers a reliable and secure foundation for your traditional applications. It ensures consistent performance across your private and hybrid cloud environments, while also providing robust security features to protect your data.
- Resource Efficiency: VCF can help you optimize resource utilization for your traditional applications. This can lead to cost savings by reducing the amount of hardware required.
- Scalability and Agility: VCF allows you to easily scale your infrastructure up or down to meet the demands of your traditional applications. This provides the agility needed to adapt to changing business needs.
- Integration with Existing Tools: VCF integrates with your existing VMware tools and skillsets, making it easier to manage your traditional applications in a private cloud environment.
VCF offers the required performance, reliability and security to run critical business applications that have been battle-tested in the largest and most-demanding enterprise environments.
Check out our website here and the latest reference architectures here for more details.
Built for Next-Generation of Applications and Data Services
Additionally to the benefits listed above, VCF is also future-proof and includes a lot of innovations to accelerate modern application development with consistent operational experience and toolsets across platforms with better data security, privacy and performance. More specifically, VCF ensures that the developer experience is optimal with:
- Native Kubernetes Integration: VCF enables to run Kubernetes workloads natively on the hypervisor layer making it familiar and developer-friendly for building and deploying modern applications.
- Cloud Consumption Interface: VCF provides also a simple and secure self-service consumption of all the Kubernetes-based, desired state IaaS APIs available with the vSphere platform via a unified single consumption interface with services aggregated from multiple supervisor clusters for both on-demand infrastructure (IaaS) and containers (CaaS) across VMware Cloud Infrastructure. Read more here.
- Native Data Services: By embracing cloud-native and AI technologies, developers can deliver apps and services to market faster. This is why VCF now empowers IT organizations with key native data services enabling two main use cases:
- Database as a Service (DBaaS): enterprise-hardened data services that are easy to manage and consume by developer
- Private AI: vector databases to improve the quality of enterprise LLM outputs with RAG workflows.
Conclusion
Check out our website here and the latest reference architectures here for more details.
Independently if you are running traditional and/or modern applications, VCF seamlessly combines the power of vSphere, NSX, vSAN, as well cloud and performance management from Aria to deliver:
- Unmatched performance and security: Run and protect your most demanding applications with confidence.
- Proven operational efficiency: Manage and optimize the infrastructure for your apps with advanced visibility, automation, and operations.
- Unparalleled agility and choice: Flexibly build & run your apps at scale across any cloud end-point – private, partner, public, or edge – with a consistent developer experience using modern containers or VMs.
