At VMware Explore Las Vegas, VMware President, Summit Dhawan introduced 5 new, major innovations that strengthen VMware’s Cloud and Edge Infrastructure offering, part of VMware Cross-Cloud services. VMware Cross-Cloud services give you standardized ways to build, operate, access, and secure your applications on any cloud.
VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), the heart of VMware’s Cloud and Edge infrastructure offering, delivers a complete, virtualized cloud stack that includes compute (VMware vSphere), storage (VMware vSAN), networking (VMware NSX) and management (VMware Aria) capabilities. VMware Cloud, built on VCF, runs on every cloud that matters to your business including private cloud, public cloud, partner cloud, and edge cloud.
The five major announcements that Summit addressed are recapped for you below:
Introducing VMware VSAN MAX
Continuing VMware’s commitment to support customers’ most critical workloads with flexibility, performance, and efficiency, VMware introduced vSAN MAX. vSAN MAX delivers a new, optional disaggregated storage deployment model built on vSAN Express Storage Architecture and leveraging VSAN’s proven and highly efficient storage model. This new offering supports the needs of organizations with data intensive applications (such as emerging AI/ML apps) that need to be able to scale storage independent of compute considerations.
Watch here: https://youtu.be/J2gA_R-lJRs?si=LByPOwKl7L5eX29m&t=35
VMware Cloud Foundation Enhancements
Major announcement number two focused on new capabilities in VCF that allow cloud administrators to seamlessly upgrade to the latest version of VCF. The new upgrade model makes is significantly easier to upgrade the entire virtual cloud infrastructure stack with upgrades being achieved at a speed that is three times faster than previous version upgrades. This new upgrade capability greatly simplifies the lives of cloud administrators who are responsible for making sure that their end users always have access to the latest and most innovative infrastructure offerings that support the building and running of applications on any cloud.
Watch here: https://youtu.be/J2gA_R-lJRs?si=LByPOwKl7L5eX29m&t=63
Introducing VMware NSX+
As part of VMware’s commitment of simplifying multi-cloud use, VMware introduced VMware NSX+, a new multi-cloud service offering. NSX+ is a cloud-delivered networking, security, and advanced load balancing as-a-service offering for NSX that allows networking, security, and operations teams to consume and operate NSX services from a single cloud console across private, hybrid, and public clouds. NSX+ enables consistent policy management, unified visibility, network detection and response, advanced load balancing, and simplified cloud operations, helping organizations accelerate multi-cloud deployments at scale.
Watch here: https://youtu.be/J2gA_R-lJRs?si=LByPOwKl7L5eX29m&t=114
Introducing Virtual Private Cloud networking (delivered as part of NSX+)
Announcement number four focused on how cloud administrators can now quickly and easily deliver to their developers and other end-users, virtual private clouds. This new capability allows cloud administrators to deliver an environment that provides full isolation of networking, security, and other services to multiple tenants on a shared VMware Cloud infrastructure managed by a single global NSX interface. Cloud administrators can also maintain supervisory control and set operational guardrails on a per VPC basis; helping to ensure that changes made in one VPC environment have no impact on other cloud tenants.
Watch here: https://youtu.be/J2gA_R-lJRs?si=LByPOwKl7L5eX29m&t=160
Enhancements To VMware Ransomware Recovery solution
VMware Ransomware Recovery is an award-winning VMware Cloud service designed to help organizations recover from fileless attacks using behavioral analysis of powered-on VMs in cloud-based isolated recovery environments (IREs). Announcement number five addressed enhancements to this offering. Specifically, VMware announced the availability of capabilities that support simultaneous multi-VM recovery operations. This same solution will also deliver by end of the fiscal quarter, new capabilities that enable customers to run production workloads in the cloud until forensics are completed and the on-premises datacenter is fortified.
Watch here: https://youtu.be/J2gA_R-lJRs?si=LByPOwKl7L5eX29m&t=185
Missed Las Vegas?
VMware Explore will continue beyond Vegas with upcoming events scheduled for Europe and Asia. Check VMware.com for locations and registration information. You can also view much of the content from VMware Explore Las Vegas in the Explore Video Library.
