VMware Cloud and new subscription option unveiled
- Date: 28 June, 2021
VMware announced the launch of VMware Cloud together with a new subscription model that will simplify multi-cloud consumption for customers.
VMware has made a significant move in its multi-cloud strategy by aligning its Cloud Foundation and Tanzu products under the umbrella term of ‘VMware Cloud’, whilst also offering a flexible subscription model.
The new VMware Cloud is at the centre of VMware’s plans to provide a portfolio of modular cloud services that run on VMware Cloud Foundation infrastructure, as well as on native public cloud infrastructure.
A VMware spokesperson explained that “This foundation enables customers to run VM-based applications or container-based applications in a consistent way, and lets developers connect to the native cloud services on any of these platforms, and then IT can manage and secure them all in a centralised fashion”.
Along with the launch of VMware Cloud, VMware has also announced other new offerings that bring a more integrated experience to customers. These are:
- VMware Cloud Universal - a flexible subscription option that simplifies the purchase and consumption of VMware multi-cloud infrastructure and management services. The Cloud Universal subscriptions allow customers to purchase credits that apply to VMware’s cloud infrastructure and management services deployed either on premises, on VMware Cloud on AWS , or on VMware Cloud on Dell EMC
- VMware Cloud Console - a single monitoring and management environment for VMware Cloud products across on-premises, cloud and edge environments. This integrated portal will allow customers to allocate, manage and better optimise all VMware Cloud resources
- VMware App Navigator - a new service for assessing and prioritising app transformation initiatives across an entire application estate based on the value of each app
The new offerings are designed to make the purchase of VMware products more flexible, in order to meet demand from those organisations that are increasingly choosing multi- or hybrid cloud deployments as their strategic direction.
Raghu Raghuram, chief operating officer of products and cloud services for VMware, explained the overall rationale behind the new offerings, saying: “The way customers can consume VMware Cloud is as a set of modular services. They can just consume the VMware Cloud Foundation infrastructure or they can just consume Tanzu on any cloud, or they can just consume our cloud management portfolio on any cloud. Collectively, this provides a holistic set of multi-cloud services that all work together as an integrated multi-cloud solution”.