VMware presents the evolution of VMware Cloud, available as a consistent multi-cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) deployable on-premises, in public clouds, and through VMware partners.
This reimagining of VMware Cloud is driven by the recognition that multi-cloud strategies too often are accompanied by enormous complexity and cost. There is a need for a solution that combines the richness of multi-cloud with the simplicity and management of a single cloud. Indeed, 89% of tech executives agree that their organization “needs to deliver more operational simplicity and with a consistent performance across clouds.”[1] And 91% agree those clouds “should ideally operate as ‘one cloud’, regardless of provider.”[2] But in the absence of this ideal, customers increasingly are forced to choose between performance, cost, and data security on the one hand, and efficiency and agility on the other.
VMware Cloud: Built Upon VMware Cloud Foundation
VMware Cloud is designed to help IT modernize, optimize and protect infrastructure, which in turn enables business agility, application developer velocity and resiliency. It combines VMware Cloud Foundation software and VMware Cloud services. This enables customers to employ the best innovations from VMware’s on-premises and public cloud software offerings into a unified stack to deliver a consistent cloud infrastructure and cloud operating model across any on-premises, hyperscaler cloud, or VMware Cloud provider environment.
VMware Cloud services take this foundation to the next level, integrating the following services:
- Infrastructure and Cloud Management
Infrastructure and operations services to deliver lifecycle management, inventory management and VM services from the VMware Cloud console.
Learn about faster lifecycle services, improved GPU processing power to support AI application acceleration, four times more storage performance, and new multi-cloud networking and services in our VMware Cloud Foundation releases. - Network and Security Operations
Cloud-delivered network and security management that provides a multi-cloud network fabric with complete L2-L7 networking, advanced load balancing, threat intelligence, security functionality, including available advanced threat protection and monitoring. - Developer Ready Infrastructure
Cloud-connected developer services that complement the embedded Kubernetes runtime to provide developers with additional tools and libraries to build clusters, and leverage recently available VPCs in a self-service manner using APIs and infrastructure as code. - Ransomware and Disaster Recovery
Complete disaster and ransomware recovery workflows that deliver accelerated multi-cloud recovery from modern ransomware at scale, including fileless attacks that are difficult to identify.
Learn about new Ransomware Recovery as-a-service enhancements for faster recovery, including our concurrent multi-VM operations, ability to run production VMs in the cloud until on-premises is safe to resume, and more.
Introducing VMware Cloud Editions: The Path to Multi-Cloud Transformation
Five purpose-built VMware Cloud editions (formerly VMware Cloud Packs) offer customers choice and flexibility at every stage of their cloud transformation journey. Whether customers are just beginning this process, or seeking to build upon their existing VMware Cloud Foundation and vSphere deployments, these targeted solutions feature the best and most impactful innovations from VMware’s on-premises and public cloud software offerings, combining them to deliver a powerful, consistent infrastructure environment that runs wherever your apps are, with enterprise-level application, security, and management services.
Customers can also choose the management option and hardware platform that best suit their needs:
- Customer Managed: Customers may deploy their VMware Cloud editions in their own data centers – utilizing VxRail or vSAN ReadyNodes – or their choice of colocation partners with full control of the infrastructure environment.
- VMware Managed: Customers who desire a business-ready plug-and-play service may opt to deploy VMware Cloud on AWS, a VMware-managed cloud service with fully integrated hardware and software. Alternatively, VMware Cloud on Equinix Metal will offer a distributed cloud service, jointly managed by VMware and Equinix, enabling customers to separately purchase software and hardware as a service for maximum flexibility.
- Provider Managed: New VMware Cross-Cloud managed services based on prescriptive VMware Cloud editions to lower total cost of ownership (TCO) for on-premises infrastructure.
At VMware, we recognize that your infrastructure is a means to an end, and therefore our innovations need to deliver enhanced capabilities while also reducing complexity. Accordingly, customers will also enjoy a unified VMware Cloud console that provides a seamless management experience with global inventory, standardized onboarding, scalable life cycle services, storage services, and a well-architected framework to ease IT operations and improve IT productivity. In other words, it will make it easier for you to focus on what matters.
VMware Cloud Editions: Uniquely Designed, Specifically Targeted
The new suite of five VMware Cloud software editions accelerate cloud transformation and enable IT teams to modernize, optimize and protect their multi-cloud environment so they can remove the roadblocks the business or developers encounter on a daily basis.
Advanced and Enterprise Editions: Harnessing the Power of VMware Cloud Foundation
As the above graphic illustrates, each VMware Cloud edition is thoughtfully designed to bring the customer through their multi-cloud journey. Understood in this way, VMware Cloud Advanced and VMware Cloud Enterprise effectively represent the culmination of that journey. These two editions harness the full power of VMware Cloud Foundation and enable you to take utilize the full array of VMware Cloud services.
Thanks to the available cloud admin services, customers can upgrade – without disruption – and obtain ready access to full-stack benefits of the cloud for on-premises workloads. These editions also provide embedded developer services that enable the transformation of existing virtual infrastructure into an enterprise-ready Kubernetes platform. And, of course, customers will enjoy enhanced operations efficiency through the central VMware Cloud console.
Essentials, Standard, and Pro Editions: Modernizing Infrastructure and Delivering Cloud Benefits
Customers early in their journey may choose to begin with VMware Cloud Essentials, Standard, or Pro editions, which offer selected compute, storage and cloud management capabilities necessary to modernize your infrastructure and deliver the benefits of cloud to on-premises environments.
Simplify Your Multi-Cloud Journey Now
VMware Cloud delivers the right developer-ready infrastructure for your applications, enabling you to continuously optimize performance and costs, and better protect the business from threats.
In short, multi-cloud has never looked so simple, and it’s never been so smart.
Experience VMware Cloud for yourself with a free trial. You can also utilize these free discovery analysis tools for modernizing your infrastructure and ransomware recovery to gain insights on how best to begin your cloud journey.
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[1] VMware FY24 Enterprise Operational Excellence Study, March 2023; N=2,000 Enterprise Technology Decision Makers
[2] VMware FY24 Q1 Executive Pulse, January 2023; N=396 Enterprise Technology Executives managing more than one cloud platform
