Multi-Cloud: Strategy or Inevitable Outcome? (or both?)
In my last blog, we talked about the idea that multi-cloud is an inevitable outcome whether you have a strategy or not–making the argument that a strategy allows for thoughtful planning and preparation. What kind of a good corporate citizen would I be if I didn’t talk through how VMWare can help you build and deliver that multi-cloud strategy? In this post I’ll to do just that.
VMware’s Approach
VMware’s approach can help at any stage–wherever your business is at any given moment. Our goal is to reduce the effort it takes to deliver multi-cloud to your organization. Here’s how we’re doing it:
Step by Step: Hybrid cloud is often a step on the path to multi-cloud, and VMware Cloud is engineered to simplify migrating your applications to the cloud. Using VMware HCX, you can bulk migrate hundreds of apps a week! Once apps have been moved to the cloud, then you can modernize them. Many companies make the mistake of trying to modernize before they migrate to the cloud. But migrating then modernizing allows the organization to take advantage of all the cloud benefits, including self-service APIs, dynamic infrastructure (new servers in just a few minutes), new infrastructure services (for example, Kubernetes) or application services (such as databases and messaging systems).
We have found this model is more successful for our customers for two reasons. First, there’s often an urgent business driver to move out of the datacenter. Perhaps a colo is coming off lease or the CFO wants to reduce costs. Quickly migrating to the cloud, without having to wait the months or years it can take to modernize, allows the business to realize its goals. Second, the actual process of modernization is faster, due to all the advantages mentioned above the cloud environment provides.
Multi-Cloud: We recognize there is no “one size fits all” approach to multi-cloud. Therefore, we have solutions for each of the different multi-cloud approaches discussed in the last blog:
- Consistent pperations: VMwareoffers many “cross-cloud” operations products, including vRealize (enterprise management), CloudHealth (cost management), Carbon Black (security), Tanzu Mission Control (Kubernetes management), Tanzu Observability (observability) and VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery (DR). Each of these products is designed to work across many clouds, enabling businesses to implement a common tool and operational model across diverse clouds and on-premises.
- Consistent infrastructure: Just like in the hybrid cloud use case, VMwareCloud provides a consistent infrastructure platform across clouds for multi-cloud. VMware Cloud is now running in AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle and 4,000-plus VCPP partners. This means that whatever clouds you have chosen for your multi-cloud strategy, VMware Cloud is already running there ready to support your applications.
- Consistent applications: The Tanzu portfolioof offerings enables a “build once, run anywhere” app architecture though a big emphasis on Kubernetes and Spring. Tanzu Kubernetes Grid provides the consistent runtime platform with upstream conformant Kubernetes, Tanzu Application Service enables your developers to embrace cloud native patterns and accelerate app delivery, and Tanzu Service Mesh supports both of those with policy-based, app-centric networking and security. These environments can be seamlessly managed by
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