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Native public clouds are critical to the digital future of organizations worldwide. Known for bringing consistent infrastructure and operations to private and hybrid clouds, VMware has emerged as an indispensable partner to IT organizations on the journey to the native public cloud.

Moreover, Milin Desai, general manager of VMware Cloud Services, wants to make it very clear to everyone: VMware is not only serious about supporting customers who are adopting native public clouds, but also delivering real value for customers running applications in native cloud environments. Recent announcements—including the introduction of VMware Kubernetes Engine (VKE) and the addition of 35 new integrations to Wavefront—demonstrate the company’s commitment to bringing continuous innovations and new value not only to clouds based on VMware Cloud infrastructure but also to public cloud environments.

Below, find out more about the native public cloud strategy of an IT industry pioneer.

Q&A: Milin Desai with the Latest on VMware Cloud Services

1. How does public cloud adoption factor into VMware’s vision and strategy?

At VMware, we enable choice. When we pioneered server virtualization, we provided data center operators a choice over hardware by abstracting physical compute and memory from their existing, underlying infrastructure. In the past decade, we extended that principle to networks, storage, operations and management, meeting the customer on their terms.

Now, as IT transitions to public and managed clouds as a destination for their applications, we enable customers to choose whichever cloud environment best meets their business needs. We do that by offering a valuable set of cloud services for whichever path IT chooses: extending existing VMware workloads to a hybrid cloud, natively operating VMware workloads in a public cloud or managing and securing VMware workloads in a multi-cloud environment.

2. How is VMware helping customers as they adopt native public clouds?

Public cloud adoption changes the dynamics of our customers’ organizations. It is critical that we understand the primary use cases and concerns emerging as a result of the adoption and usage of public clouds, including these three distinct decision-makers:

1. Central ITis increasingly tasked to extend beyond the data center to leverage and benefit from public clouds. Many organizations mandate a “cloud-first” initiative. Today we enable this team to start getting the business and agility benefits of the cloud without having to re-tune or rethink everything. We do this by delivering the VMware software-defined experience (as a service) with global partners like IBM, Rackspace and OVH, as well as with offerings such as VMware Cloud on AWS in partnership with Amazon. Customers leverage this capability to accelerate their go-live disaster recovery plans from months to weeks, to migrate and evacuate regional data centers in days as opposed to months and to optimize and reduce spending without additional retooling and retraining. Additionally, with these innovations central IT gains the luxury of infinitely scalable and globally available capacity consumed as an operating expense, with consistent management, security and
2. App development teamsuse open frameworks (g., Jenkins, Prometheus, K8s, Terraform, etc.) and choose public cloud services that enable them to build the most innovative applications. VMware is starting to engage with this audience via offers around K8s (both as a product with Pivotal Container Service or as a fully managed service with VKE), and a cloud-scale metrics collection platform (Wavefront by VMware) without compromising developers’ choice of frameworks or clouds. Increasingly we also talk to them about delivering compliance as code thereby enabling them to adhere to corporate standards as part of the CI/CD pipeline.
3. Cloud operationsis an emerging function in IT that ensures business controls are maintained without imposing a central gate on public cloud adoption. The tools that this organization uses can be categorized as “just-in-time” to enable compliance, cost and ongoing cloud operations. At VMware, we offer services that deliver core capabilities to this audience so they can help manage a multi-cloud environment that provides infrastructure and services in a frictionless fashion.

Our services provide capabilities that appeal to these very unique users. This helps reduce tool sprawl, which has attendant issues of price, complexity and integrability. As an example, Wavefront can be used by developers to instrument and monitor their applications, as well as by cloud operators to monitor their cloud infrastructure (e.g., instances, storage, Database as a Service, serverless and more).

3. What is VMware’s approach to building services for the public cloud?

All of our cloud services, whether built from the ground up or acquired, are architected and engineered to serve a multi-cloud reality. VMware focuses on leveraging the latest cloud-native, “born in the cloud,” approaches to building our SaaS offerings. This, in turn, builds deep empathy and understanding of what real application developers and public cloud operators contend with regularly.

We build on our core value proposition of managing and operating private clouds while embracing newer approaches both organically and inorganically. For example, we extended the VMware SDDC to the public clouds through our partnerships, including Amazon Web Services (AWS) and IBM Cloud. Additionally, our expanding portfolio of services helps solve multi-cloud problems. The recently launched VMware Kubernetes Engine is a new service that delivers dial-tone Kubernetes (K8s) in the native public cloud. On the other hand, we acquired CloudCoreo, a security and compliance solution, to provide robust coverage whether the workload is in the data center or the public cloud.

4. How does VMware make the numerous cloud services available into a fast, frictionless experience for IT?

By understanding these different decision-makers and their needs, we enable IT teams to win and collaborate. Delivering a delightful experience is vital to succeed in this new world. That starts with simple things like bring-your-own enterprise identity, self-service demos, integrated learning and help modules and more. The goal is to enable IT to get to their outcomes with the least amount of friction.

Multi-cloud computing could create blind spots and give rise to new operational silos within an organization. To help overcome these issues, our software-as-a-service cloud services help customers visualize, manage, secure and operate their multi-cloud environments with the same consistency they have come to expect from their VMware software-defined data center (SDDC) stack.

5. What’s next for VMware Cloud Services?

We are focused on delivering faster time to value while providing a more simplified experience, whether the application is private, hosted or public. With this fundamental principle, we are focused on two essential elements going forward with cloud services:

1. Deliver a set of solutions that help manage, secure and operate applications running on VMware-based clouds and public clouds.
2. Deliver capabilities to refactor existing applications or build new applications with their choice of destination and ecosystem all while working with community-based frameworks.

Sources: VMware/Radius

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Cloud adoption in the enterprise is accelerating at a near breakneck pace. In what is becoming a common trend, enterprises worldwide are racing to adopt cloud technology in response to a myriad of business needs—revenue generation, improving business applications, better decision-making—to make their organizations more profitable and effective.

Further fueling this growth in cloud adoption is the pressure to create applications that work effectively in an increasingly hybridized cloud environment. The lines between private, public, and hybrid cloud are blurring, and their distinctions are becoming less relevant. “Customers want to deploy to any cloud without regard to location,” says Mike Hulme, senior director of VMware Cloud marketing. “They want a simple cloud strategy to manage complexity and risk as they work across multiple clouds.”

Business and IT leaders have traditionally spoken different languages, with goals, objectives, and priorities often in conflict with each other. But as the cloud matures, the enterprise has a set of technologies and tools that bring business and IT together. Cloud technology provides what both sides of the enterprise technology divide need to align around timelines and access to new levels of innovation, without jeopardizing any of the standard IT requirements—but only when done correctly.

The Right Way

Enterprises want the flexibility to develop any type of application, deploy it to any cloud, and deliver it to any device. When organizations introduce this degree of flexibility and heterogeneity into their IT environments, however, the level of complexity typically rises. And with rise in complexity comes a level of risk due to inconsistent security, management, and governance models. At the least, this can be a drain on efficiency while introducing unexpected costs. At worst, the security of intellectual property and customer information could be threatened.

“Accessing the kind of flexibility IT needs to drive business innovation, without introducing complexity and risk, is only possible when utilizing a consistent infrastructure and consistent set of operations,” Hulme says. “VMware delivers just this, with VMware’s cloud infrastructure operating in more than 4,000 partners across more than 100 countries worldwide.”

One Cloud Strategy

Through VMware Cloud™, enterprises gain access to a comprehensive set of cloud products and services, available on-premises or in the cloud. VMware Cloud unifies existing investments, resources, skills, and teams and allows a business to tap into the broadest set of cloud providers around the globe.

VMware’s cloud strategy also tackles head-on the fact that application development, particularly containerized (cloud-native) app development, is more demanding than ever. VMware Cloud provides the optimal stable environment for compute, storage, and networking—creating the best infrastructure environment for these applications. In addition, VMware delivers the kind of operational support, cloud services, and other investments that, until now, have been missing from cloud-native apps.

Announced this morning at VMworld, VMware is providing the resources, tools, and building blocks to satisfy what containerized applications need in production. VMware’s approach will accelerate enterprise adoption of containers and allow companies to get more value, faster, out of containerized apps.

VMware’s cloud strategy also takes aim at the silos that have traditionally existed between the data center and the cloud. VMware Cloud delivers consistent infrastructure across clouds, creating a more seamless extension of the data center to the cloud, reducing costs and effort, and creating new opportunities for customers to work across the clouds that best fit their business needs.

*This article originally taken from VMware/radius