VMware Delivers ‘Cloud-Smart’ Approach for the Multi-Cloud Era at VMworld 2021

Introducing VMware Cross-Cloud services to help deliver freedom, flexibility and security for customers across any cloud

VMworld 2021, VMware, Inc. announced its strategy to help customers navigate the multi-cloud era with the launch of VMware Cross-Cloud services. This group of integrated services will help deliver a faster and smarter path to cloud for digital businesses, providing customers with the ability to build, run and better secure apps across any cloud with freedom and flexibility.

Today, the average organisation is running roughly 500 applications to drive their business, and those apps are distributed across clouds. Seventy-five percent of VMware customers are relying on two or more public clouds, and 40% are using three or more. This multi-cloud approach increases app velocity and innovation and allows organisations to be much more agile and resilient. However, a multi-cloud environment is far more diverse, complex, and distributed than anything organisations have managed in the past. This complexity often forces trade-offs between moving fast and managing risk, resulting in slower execution while increasing costs. VMware’s strategy is built to help customers eliminate the tough choices and challenges by giving them a powerful combination of freedom and control in their multi-cloud business.

To help customers navigate the multi-cloud era, VMware Cross-Cloud services will deliver three key advantages: an accelerated journey to the cloud, cost efficiency, flexibility and control across any cloud. VMware Cross-Cloud services expands the capabilities of VMware’s product portfolio for a multi-cloud world and will allow customers to pick and choose the services needed on the desired cloud to meet evolving business demands. VMware Cross-Cloud services is comprised of five core building blocks:

A state- of-the-art platform for building and deploying cloud-native apps;

Cloud infrastructure for operating and running enterprise apps; Cloud management for monitoring and managing the performance and cost of apps across different clouds;

Security and networking that spans across entire multi-cloud operations to connect and better secure all apps; and,

A digital workspace to empower the distributed workforce along with edge solutions to deploy and manage edge-native apps.