VMworld 2016: VMware announces strategy for cross-cloud support
Cross-cloud architecture will give customers the ability to manage, govern and secure applications running across public clouds, including AWS, Azure and IBM Cloud.
US-based virtual infrastructure company VMware has announced the extension of the company’s hybrid cloud strategy by laying-out plans for cross-cloud support.
Company informs that its cross-cloud architecture will give customers the ability to manage, govern and secure applications running across public clouds, including AWS, Azure and IBM Cloud.
While delivering his keynote address at the VMworld 2016, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger said “We believe that all businesses who want to thrive must embrace being a ‘digital business,.” Adding that “Partners and customers want to engage with a mobile experience, and there is no longer a distinction between digital and traditional. The VMware cross-cloud architecture is the strategy to run, manage, connect and secure apps in this all-digital world.”
In order to give a better idea of how cross-cloud services would function, Guido Appenzeller, chief technology strategy officer for networking and security at VMware, provided a tech preview of upcoming cross-cloud services.
The demos showcased how these offerings will allow central IT to protect data and applications and control costs while enabling developers and the businesses to innovate freely in the clouds they choose.
According to VMware, these new SaaS offerings are under development.
Gelsinger also highlighted the massive adoption of cloud but the minimal connection across these clouds and how businesses are grappling with this constraint. Citing an August 2016 Economist Intelligence Unit global survey, commissioned by VMware, which found that the majority of its 600 respondents noted IT complexity is harming the operations of the enterprise, Gelsinger said, “Cloud is contributing to this complexity and if not done right, can contribute to the inefficiencies as well.”
The correspondent is in Las Vegas at the invitation of VMware Inc.
