As VMware continues to educate customers about multi-cloud issues and the advantages of VMware's cross-cloud services in the cloud intelligent computing journey, one question that is often asked is, "How do I get started?" This blog series is designed to provide guidance to customers and review the top 10 areas of multicloud to describe where we should be focusing our attention. Additionally, we'll help you with demos, tools, and other resources. Before we get to our first topic, let’s review the journey of multi-cloud, cross-cloud services, and cloud intelligence.
With 87% of enterprises using two or more cloud services, having a multi-cloud strategy is crucial to maintaining enterprise competitiveness. As enterprises begin to develop multi-cloud services (whether through mergers and acquisitions, the need for specific cloud-native services, or developer preferences), siled operations, increased costs, and the conflict between developer speed and IT control Trade-offs are also starting to emerge.
About a decade ago, when enterprises began to experiment with public cloud, people tended to be cloud first . This phase focuses on building customer-facing applications, usually in a single cloud. They are beginning to see the benefits of creating modern applications in the public cloud and the ability to bring applications to market faster to gain a competitive advantage. This first wave of cloud innovation drove application innovation and rapid development. However, it has been investigated and confirmed that controlling and managing these applications and underlying infrastructure is a difficult problem for most customers.
In a survey of VMware customers, many described their current state as cloud chaos . Initially, more cloud options were valuable to customers, but ultimately led to a huge spike in complexity. Most people report that building new applications is slow and cumbersome, and managing their entire application portfolio in different clouds is difficult and costly. Each cloud requires your teams to use proprietary tools that are siled and incompatible with other cloud providers. At the same time, for ordinary employees, quick and secure access to critical applications from anywhere is a necessity, but it is also a challenge.
The ideal destination for every multi-cloud system development is cloud intelligence . Cloud intelligence means taking an architected and planned approach to multi-cloud and digital transformation. With the cloud intelligence approach, you can freely choose the appropriate cloud based on your application needs. The vast majority of companies taking a cloud intelligence approach say multi-cloud has a positive impact on their revenue, helps them retain and recruit top talent, and makes it easier to discover, manage and extract value from their data.
Now that we understand the issues customers face with multi-cloud, how do we solve them? The good news is, this is what VMware does best, abstract away . Just like with ESX, where we abstract the underlying hardware so that it can run virtual machines on different servers, we can apply the same concept to the multi-cloud problem of all clouds, using a set of services where we need them Provides a layer of abstraction and a unified set of tools to manage the entire multi-cloud environment.
Five key levels of abstraction:
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Application Platform - With Tanzu's abstraction of the application environment, we can build any application for any cloud using any application framework that developers are familiar with. This is all done in a repeatable, consistent and safe manner.
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Cloud Management - From an operations or management perspective, by abstracting this level through Aria's tools, we can provide a multi-cloud operations model and provide visibility into cloud spend.
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Cloud and edge infrastructure - By abstracting the infrastructure layer and leveraging VMware Cloud, we can run any application in any cloud or edge location.
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Security and Networking - When we abstract away the security and networking layers with NSX and Carbon Black, we can provide unified policies and protection regardless of the cloud.
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Workspace regardless of location - We provide access to services regardless of location or device, allowing users to get the best experience, all in a secure environment.
When you put all of this together, you form this new layer of abstraction that we call VMware Cross-Cloud Services . This portfolio of cloud computing services provides a unified, simplified way to build, operate, access and secure any application on any cloud.
We've built the portfolio as a comprehensive solution , but each one stands on its own, allowing customers to choose the cloud services that bring them the most value based on where they are in their cloud journey. Customers are using a combination of these services to drive three transformations: how to quickly develop and deploy applications; how to accelerate the transition to cloud services; and finally, how to empower their distributed work models.
Now that we have reviewed the challenges most customers face with multi-cloud and how to solve them with VMware cross-cloud services, we can answer the original question: "How do I get started?".
Author of this article: Dave Rollins, director of technical product marketing for VMware cross-cloud services.
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