Explore the newfound direction of VMware cloud services

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  VMware shakes things up with vCloud Hybrid Service

  After years of delay, VMware finally makes a play for the public cloud with vCloud Hybrid Service. Available to early access customers, this infrastructure as a service (IaaS) offering allows vSphere and vCloud Director shops to extend virtual environments to the public cloud with VMware tools. Read Now

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  VCloud Air relegated to the role of bit player

  The buzz around VMware's vCloud Air platform has all but gone silent, and with the debut of Cross-Cloud Architecture and VMware Cloud Foundation at VMworld 2016 U.S., it looks like vCloud Air will continue to take a backseat within VMware's larger cloud computing strategy. Read Now

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  VCloud Air sale opens VMware to new opportunities

  In a move to redirect its focus to its ambitious Cross-Cloud Architecture, VMware sells vCloud Air to OVH, Europe's largest cloud provider, hammering the final nail in a product that never really manages to take off. Read Now

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  VMware discontinues vCloud Director for enterprise use

  VMware hasn't said goodbye to vCloud Director completely -- it'll continue to maintain a version of its middleware for service providers -- but it has split its intellectual property into new integrations with vCenter and vCloud Automation Center. Read Now

1Significant changes to VMware's cloud strategy

After a series of setbacks, VMware was forced to reassess its cloud strategy. In 2016, the company revealed its new vision for the cloud with its Cross-Cloud Architecture -- which consists of VMware Cloud Foundation and, as of 2017, Cross-Cloud Services -- its collection of SaaS services with VMware Cloud Services, updates to the vRealize platform and a combination of Photon Platform and vSphere Integrated Containers (VIC). Since then, VMware has made additional efforts to establish itself as a multi-cloud provider to address the growing customer demand for a multi-cloud environment and functionality.

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  VMware unveils updated cloud strategy at VMworld 2016

  VMworld 2016 sets itself apart from previous years' conferences by delineating a clear path for VMware cloud services with the debut of a three-pronged strategy: Cross-Cloud Architecture to extend the private data center into the public cloud; VMware Cloud Foundation to manage a private cloud; and a combination of Photon Platform and VIC for cloud-native strategy. Read Now

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  VMware exec talks future of NSX, hybrid cloud networking

  Hybrid cloud networking is set to play a major role in the future of NSX by extending networking and security to a public cloud, says Guido Appenzeller, chief technology strategy officer for the Networking & Security Business Unit at VMware. Read Now

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  VIO and vRealize satisfy open source cloud demands

  OpenStack shook up the open source cloud market in 2010, prompting a response from VMware. VMware Integrated OpenStack (VIO) replaces older IaaS offerings and provides a way to flexibly deploy instances. When paired with vRealize Suite, VIO makes it easy to deploy workloads on top of an IaaS cloud. Read Now

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  VMware's hybrid cloud strategy gets a facelift

  VMware's previous attempts to parlay its private cloud success into the public cloud sphere have been less than successful, but the company remains hopeful, and with VMware Cloud Foundation, Cross-Cloud Architecture and VMware Cloud on AWS, it might even stand a chance against Azure. Read Now

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  Cross-Cloud Architecture focuses on multi-cloud challenges

  VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture allows the customer to run identical VMware environments across the company's cloud partner network to eliminate vendor lock-in and integrates with Software-Defined Data Center (SDCC) Manager, vRealize tools and NSX to streamline multi-cloud management. Read Now

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  VMware aims to bring SaaS capabilities to cloud-native apps

  VMware Cloud on AWS might have hogged the spotlight at VMworld 2017, but the new VMware Cloud Services initiative, which will include products such as AppDefense, is yet another confident step from the company in the direction of becoming a cloud service provider. Read Now

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  VMware's next goal: Virtualize the cloud

  VMware applies its virtualization talents to the cloud with Cross-Cloud Services, the newest subset of VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture. Cross-Cloud Services aims to break down operational workload siloes by enabling common operations across private and public clouds. Read Now

2VMware makes cloud partnerships a priority

Unable to hold its own against established public cloud vendors, VMware has instead opted to break bread with its competitors in an effort to form mutually beneficial cloud partnerships. By collaborating with AWS, Pivotal Software, IBM, Google and more, VMware is slowly but steadily putting in the work to expand its multi-cloud offerings.

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  Cloud partnerships and acquisitions on the rise

  AWS and VMware's partnership, which brings VMware SDDC to the AWS cloud, is only the beginning of what looks to be a major cloud market trend. Cloud expert David Linthicum and analyst Dana Gardner discuss the momentum behind this trend and what to expect looking forward. Listen Now

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  Cautious optimism as VMware shops move workloads to public cloud

  Thanks to a partnership fomented in 2016 and a boost from VMware Cloud Foundation, shops can now move their existing VMware environments to IBM's cloud, but some would rather wait and see what VMware has up its sleeve after partnering with AWS. Read Now

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  VMware business model course corrects to cloud

  According to analyst Keith Townsend, VMware's business strategy is due for major overhaul, and change is in the wings with VMware Cloud on AWS, a product of the company's recent partnership -- but do other experts agree? Read Now

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  What does the Wavefront acquisition signify for VMware?

  VMware Cloud on AWS allows customers to safely try cloud technology from the comfort of their own infrastructure and brings VMware one step closer to becoming the binding cloud force it longs to be. It's just missing one thing: monitoring. That's where Wavefront comes in. Read Now

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  Make sense of VMware Cloud on AWS pricing

  After almost a year of waiting, VMware Cloud on AWS is finally here. As details around billing and pricing come into focus, customers would be wise to perform a cost comparison to an on-premises vSphere installation before they commit to a move. Read Now

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  Partnerships help VMware become a connective cloud fabric

  The past few years have taught VMware the invaluable lesson that providing and running a public cloud is hard work -- work best left to someone else. Bearing that in mind, VMware's made a concerted effort to establish itself as a management layer across clouds through partnerships with AWS, IBM, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Google. Read Now

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  Industry observers advise VMware Cloud on AWS adopters to take it slow

  Although VMware Cloud on AWS has generated substantial interest, beta testers caution that the platform is complex, comes with legacy infrastructure requirements and isn't as tightly integrated as expected. Read Now

3Key VMware cloud computing terms

Familiarize yourself with these key cloud computing terms, cloud companies and VMware products to get a sense of the bigger picture.

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  Amazon Web Services

  AWS (Amazon Web Services) is a comprehensive, evolving cloud computing platform provided by Amazon. Read Now

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  Cloud provider

  A cloud service provider, or CSP, is a company that offers some component of cloud computing -- typically infrastructure as a service, software as a service or platform as a service -- to other businesses or individuals. Read Now

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  Hybrid cloud

  Hybrid cloud is a cloud computing environment that uses a mix of on-premises, private cloud and third-party, public cloud services with orchestration between the two platforms.  Read Now

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  IBM

  IBM (International Business Machines) ranks among the world's largest information technology companies, providing a wide spectrum of hardware, software and services offerings.  Read Now

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  Multi-cloud strategy

  A multi-cloud strategy is the procurement of cloud computing services from two or more public cloud providers. A multi-cloud strategy gives business and IT pros the ability to mix and match cloud services from different vendors. Read Now

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  Native cloud application

  A native cloud application (NCA) is a program that is designed specifically for a cloud computing architecture. Read Now

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  NSX

  VMware NSX is a virtual networking and security software product family created from VMware's vCloud Networking and Security (vCNS) and Nicira's Network Virtualization Platform (NVP) intellectual property. Read Now

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  Private cloud

  Private cloud is a type of cloud computing that delivers similar advantages to public cloud, including scalability and self-service, but through a proprietary architecture. Read Now

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  Public cloud

  A public cloud is a platform that uses the standard cloud computing model to make resources, such as virtual machines (VMs), applications or storage, available to users remotely. Read Now

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  SDDC

  An SDDC (software-defined data center) is a data storage facility in which networking, storage, CPU and security are virtualized and delivered as a service. Read Now

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  Software as a service

  Software as a service (SaaS) is a software distribution model in which a third-party provider hosts applications and makes them available to customers over the Internet. Read Now

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  VCloud Air

  VMware vCloud Air is an Infrastructure as a Service offering based on VMware’s vCenter. VMware renamed its cloud computing service, which was formerly called vCloud Hybrid Service, as part of a larger rebranding strategy that coincided with VMworld 2014. Read Now

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  VCloud Director

  VMware vCloud Director (vCD) is deployment, automation and management software for virtual infrastructure resources in multi-tenant cloud environments. Read Now

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  VMware Cloud Foundation

  VMware Cloud Foundation is an integrated software stack that uses SDDC Manager -- an automated lifecycle management tool -- to bundle compute (vSphere), storage (VMware vSAN) and network virtualization (NSX) into a single platform that can deployed on premises as a private cloud or run as a service within a public cloud.  Read Now

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  VRealize Suite

  VMware vRealize Suite, formerly called vCenter Operations Management Suite, is a software platform designed to help IT administrators build and manage heterogeneous, hybrid clouds. Read Now

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  VSphere Integrated Containers

  VMware vSphere Integrated Containers allow an administrator to deploy and manage containers alongside their traditional VMs in vSphere. Read Now