VMware Cloud Packs: Accelerate your cloud transformation with tailored products

How do you accelerate and modernise your cloud transformation?

By using products that meet your needs, no matter where you are in your transformation.

In practice, many organisations are adopting the multi-cloud model. This means using cloud services from two or more providers to achieve a degree of flexibility, optimise performance and costs and, of course, avoid cloud lock-in.

It is therefore a cloud computing model that combines multiple types of cloud. This could be multiple public clouds - a hyperscaler or colocation - two or more private clouds, or a combination of both, across which an organisation distributes its applications and services.

In addition to the benefits mentioned above, factors such as improved performance and user experience - enabling employees to get the best results regardless of their location - are also very important. Ultimately, the goal is to run workloads where they are most efficient.

In summary, an intelligent multi-cloud approach provides organisations with predictable costs and optimises their workloads/applications, which is essential for implementing a sustainable transformation strategy. VMware calls this approach "cloud smart".

This approach should always be tailored to an organisation's needs and provide a holistic solution that goes hand in hand with standardisation and automation across different cloud environments. This is the only way to realise the full potential of the cloud.

An intelligent multi-cloud approach could look like this:

1. virtualise computing and create a modern workload platform for virtual machines, virtual desktops and containers to use standardised building blocks for the SDDC.
2. add automated storage and management to break down traditional IT silos and reduce costs - without compromising security, flexibility or scalability.
3. With a complete private cloud (computing, storage, networking, management automation and security in a single platform), organisations benefit from flexibility, scalability and ease of use.

The benefits of VMware CloudPacks for a multi-cloud approach are as follows

To help accelerate your cloud transformation, VMware has developed a new suite of four Cloud Packs. These bundle multiple products to deliver the following value

• Future-proof your infrastructure with cross-premises hybrid cloud services.
• Accelerated time to deployment to gain or maintain competitive advantage
• Simplified processes for fast, repeatable and maintainable deployments
• Reduced risk through monitoring, actionable insights and performance optimisation
• Lower TCO for on-premises deployments with increased infrastructure utilisation and automated lifecycle management.

VMware Cloud Packs can help you accelerate your journey to the enterprise cloud, unify cloud operations, and meet your cloud migration goals within your planned timeframe.

1. Compute with advanced automation

This means organisations can easily extend on-premises workloads to cloud services. You can modernise applications and support DevOps initiatives.

It delivers the performance required for mission-critical enterprise workloads, including AI/ML, and provides a flexible, self-service infrastructure platform with tools, libraries and policies.

The benefits are

• Simplifies operations in distributed environments with a unified platform for existing and new (Kubernetes) workloads.
• Promotes business agility and productivity with a cloud-managed and SaaS-enabled platform.
• Supports private cloud automation and governance with DevOps-based provisioning and infrastructure security
• Delivers application-aware, intelligent remediation for continuous performance optimization

2. HCI

With HCI, you can centrally manage a large number of remote sites. The benefits are better performance, increased developer productivity through embedded Kubernetes integration, rapid expansion to the edge or public cloud - and ultimately, cost sav

3. HCI with Advanced Automation

Managing a secure multi-cloud environment requires visibility and continuous optimisation. This infrastructure automation platform delivers these benefits.

4. VMware Cloud Foundation

Cloud Foundation brings all the benefits of the cloud to on-premises infrastructure, making it an ideal all-in-one solution for building a private cloud. Computing, networking, storage and management automation, as well as security and an embedded Kubernetes, are provided by a single platform. In addition, data security against cyber-attacks is guaranteed by intelligent firewalls.

See how to benefit

• Private cloud platform with scalable infrastructure
• Simplify application modernisation
• Support for DevOps initiatives
• Support high-performance applications with GPUs to accelerate workloads supporting advanced analytics, ML/KI and VDI solutions

VMware Cloud Services als Add-on

The four VMware Cloud Packs are complemented by add-on cloud services for applications, security, networking and end-user computing.

Advanced security and network services

• Data Protection and Disaster Recovery - Protect your data and easily access it in the event of a disaster.
• Ransomware Recovery - Fast recovery of critical applications and resilience support.
• Intrusion Detection and Prevention - Signature- and behaviour-based detection of ransomware and other threats.
• Network Detection and Response - Detect and defend against ransomware
• Advanced Load Balancer - Simplify application deployment and get multi-cloud load balancing firewalls for web applications and container ingress services.

Modern applications

With Tanzu Mission Control, you benefit from simplified multi-cloud and multi-cluster Kubernetes management with a central hub.

End-user services

With VDI/Desktops, you can efficiently and securely deliver virtual desktops and applications (whether on-premises or in the cloud) and defend against more attacks with workload and endpoint security.