VMware Cloud Assumes New Mantle as Multicloud Adoption Soars
… our customers will want to transact.” That’s because, she said, “it is the next step in uncoupling the purchase decision from the deployment plan.”
When it comes time for the channel to provide VMware Cloud Universal, partners will be able to engage more deeply with value-added services across the customer life cycle, Palmer added.
The next new piece of VMware Cloud is the Cloud Console. As the name implies, it’s a monitoring and management portal for VMware Cloud infrastructure, regardless of where it’s deployed. The Cloud Console also allows users to redeem credits, provision eligible VMware Cloud Universal deployments and get support from VMware.
Finally, VMware created App Navigator for faster app and cloud modernization. It’s actually a service where customers work with VMware experts. Together, the parties figure out what lives in an organization’s app portfolio and then decide what to do with those programs.
Prepping for the Next Cloud Wave
Raghu Raghuram is COO of products and cloud services at VMware.
“We are on the cusp of the next evolution of cloud and apps,” he said. “Architectures are becoming distributed and increasingly multicloud, while modern applications will soon outnumber traditional apps. The challenge for any CIO is to take advantage of this new innovation without introducing more complexity and risk.”
VMware Cloud, with its new elements, addresses those challenges, VMware says.
“VMware continues to provide our partners more support and tools to differentiate and transform their business and VMware practices,” Palmer said. The VMware Cloud platform gives partners “one of the most complete solutions for helping their customers accelerate both application and infrastructure modernization,” she added.
Organizations in all English-speaking countries now have access to Cloud Universal, Cloud Console and App Navigator.
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