VMworld 2017 Day 2 General Session
The
presentation started with a Q&A session with Pat, Sanjay and Ray.
The first
question was related to VMware and the Cloud. The answer came back with VMware’s
vision of cross cloud mobility, we saw over the day a seamless vMotion from a
Private Cloud running VMware Cloud Foundation to AWS and back again, zero
downtime to the VM.
There was
also mentions of the VMware VDI Horizon on Azure.
VMware on
IBM , VMware on OVF and VMware containers with Google Cloud.
VMware’s
goal is to allow seamless hybrid cloud on any or multiple cloud providers.
The next
question was on Licensing, the answer was that with Dell/EMC and VMware that
this is an ongoing quest and to watch out for future developments.
For the
doers, the next question was about the HTMLv5 Client and the answer was that in
the very near future a fully functional HTML5 client will be available.
The next
question was about Pivotal container services, the answer being that the goal
is to have a truly containerised app, that will run anywhere and on any cloud
and to allow these apps to be created and maintained in an agile manner.
Pat described
the pendulum effect of centralised and decentralised IT, and they are now
seeing a distributed cloud with IoT, we now have edge devices such as traffic
signals collecting data and needing to be secure, with devices collecting data
and then reporting back to a virtual representation of that device, for troubleshooting
and improving the device, one of the booths was showing how GE are collecting
data from jet engines.
With
Dell/EMC/VMware now under one umbrella, the advent of VXRail allows a single
box to run all the services, with VMware Cloud Foundation a private/public
cloud can be built quickly.
Second part of General Session
This section
was really a sales pitch, even as a VMware VCI and VCPx4, I didn’t realize that
VMware now have over 200 apps.
The video
showed something I’m used to, someone comes along and says “would you do x?” I
say yep, they then say “Great we need it next week and really you should have
been working on it months ago”
The point is
VMware via VMware Clound Foundation and VMware Cloud services it allows for a
truly Agile environment.
Pulse IOT
allows management of Edge and IoT devices.
Wavefront
allows SaaS based self service analysis.
Appsense
learns about what is good and then profiles what is good and then reports on
what is bad.
VMware’s
vision of security is stop trying to capture what is good, but instead capture
what is good, analyse and then fix what is bad.
Conclusion
What I’ve
learned so far is that VMware are no longer just an Infrastructure company,
they are fast becoming a cloud company, an Enterprise mobility company, with
Dell/EMC a hyper-converged company.
Their cloud
services are allowing companies to leverage multiple public cloud providers and
allowing companies to have a seamless automated hybrid cloud.
The future
is hybrid, not all cloud, just look at cars.
