At VMworld Europe in Barcelona, VMware is announcing updates that further its vision of enabling customers to leverage any cloud, to run applications anywhere and from any device.
This week at VMworld Europe in Barcelona, VMware is announcing a stepped up rollout of VMware Cloud on AWS, as well as updates to Cloud Foundation, its software defined data center (SDDC) platform that enables hybrid cloud deployments.
The updates further VMware‘s vision of “providing flexibility to customers to leverage any cloud, run applications where they want to run them as business mandates, and provide a great experience from any device,” Chris Wolf, CTO for Global Field and Industry at VMware, said to ZDNet.
With Cloud Foundation, businesses get the core SDDN components, like compute, storage, networking and security, for a “consistent set of operations no matter where an application runs,” Wolf explained.
Cloud Foundation 3.5 includes the latest versions of VMware software, including vSphere, vRealize Operations and vRealize Automation. It also adds NSX-T capabilities, as well as expanded composable infrastructure support.
With Cloud Foundation, “cloud becomes less of a place and much more of an operational model,” Wolf said. “I’m still interacting with the service in the same way, but the physicality of where that service might run can become a bit more arbitrary and more of a business decision.”
VMware is also now making Pivotal Container Service (PKS) available as a cloud service. PKS, unveiled last year, enables enterprises to quickly deploy enterprise-grade Kubernetes with vSphere. It allows for simple network and security provisioning with VMware NSX. With the update, customers can run and operate PKS across multiple clouds
“We’re not a cloud provider ourselves, so we can take the cloud neutral approach to make sure Kubernetes can run anywhere, on premise or in a data center or cloud,” Wolf said.
In terms of the expansion of VMware Cloud on AWS, it’s now coming online in Europe (Ireland), the US West (Northern California) and the US East (Ohio). The goal is for VMware Cloud on AWS to run in every AWS data center by the end of 2019.
VMware Cloud on AWS runs VMware’s SDDC on the AWS cloud, allowing customers to run any application across public, private or hybrid cloud environments.With the service, VMware’s vSphere, VSAN, and NSX all run on the AWS cloud. The service is optimized to run on dedicated, bare metal AWS infrastructure.
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