Continuing the multi-cloud development strategy advocated in the past, VMware announced the launch of the next-generation VMware Cloud infrastructure at VMware Explore 2023, allowing enterprises to deploy application services faster, improve service operation efficiency, enhance threat protection capabilities, and recover from threat attacks faster, further strengthening "cloud intelligence" practices.
The next-generation VMware Cloud infrastructure integrates VMware Cloud Foundation software and VMware Cloud services, and can also integrate local and public cloud software products into the same stack to build a cloud environment that spans any endpoint and responds to ultra-large scale.
The new generation of VMware Cloud is available in Essentials, Standard, Pro, Advanced, and Enterprise editions. It can be deployed in your own data center, managed through hosting, hosted through VMware Cloud on AWS, distributed cloud services through VMware Cloud on Equinix Metal, and even VMware cross-cloud managed services provided by partners such as IBM Cloud. This reduces the overall cost of building services in your own environment and accelerates cloud migration.
The new version of VMware NSX+, formerly Project NorthStar, is a multi-cloud network managed service built for VMware Cloud. It will strengthen VMware Cloud's core networking and security capabilities by implementing a cloud operating model with zero electronic work orders, zero customized security or load balancing hardware, and a zero-trust architecture. It can also be centrally managed through a single cloud control platform, thereby achieving simplified installation and consistent management operations.
In addition, VMware announced the launch of NSX+ VPC virtual private cloud service, which can build multiple completely isolated network environments on the VMware Cloud architecture to ensure that the service can operate in a completely secure environment without affecting the operation of other network environments due to changes in a single network environment.
In terms of service storage expansion, VMware announced the launch of VMware vSAN Max, a service for larger cloud scales, allowing enterprises to build more flexible, highly performant, and cost-effective virtual storage solutions. It can also meet petabyte-level data storage needs. While providing greater scalability and operational flexibility than traditional storage solutions, it can effectively reduce overall deployment costs and even flexibly expand storage space outside the computing architecture. A single cluster can support up to 8.6PB of capacity and achieve 360 million IOPS (input/output per second).
Built on the vSAN ExpressStorage Architecture, vSAN Max can accelerate the recovery of discrete device failures by 93%. Combined with hardware and license consolidation, it can reduce the overall deployment cost of mission-critical databases by 30%.
vSAN Max will be sold separately from the current vSAN service and will be priced on a per-TB subscription basis. It is expected to be launched in the second half of this year.
Ransomware attacks employ fileless techniques, making them difficult for standard backup scanning mechanisms to detect. Enterprises typically employ isolated recovery methods to restore attacked services more quickly. However, within the VM Cloud architecture, combined with the VMware Ransomware Recovery service, unforeseen downtime can be reduced by up to 75%, enabling services to be restored in a shorter time.
This update to the VMware Ransomware Recovery service adds recovery capabilities for multiple virtual machines and releases a preview of network security storage technology. By integrating recovery workflows with native vSAN snapshots, data reconstruction is accelerated, allowing the service to recover faster after an attack.
VMware emphasizes the continued strengthening of its "Cloud Smart" approach based on its multi-cloud strategy. The core idea is to significantly reduce the time enterprises and developers spend on operations and management. It also includes integrating more computing resources through automated management and virtualization, allowing cloud-native application services to perform as if they were running on local devices, thereby promoting the growth of cloud service applications.
At the same time, VMware announced the integration of more automatically generated artificial intelligence at VMware Explore 2023. VMware also stated that it will use this to strengthen its "cloud intelligence" approach to make multi-cloud management applications simpler.
