VMworld 2020 focused on the changing world, we have had a
lot of challenges to deal with this year.
We have had to deal with Covid-19, with inequality, and with
moving toward a new type of infrastructure for work, perhaps the days of
travelling hundreds of miles for work whether via trains, planes, or
automobiles is now not as important. Perhaps we should invest in digital
technologies to improve how we work.
This year has had the effect of accelerating companies into
the digital age, perhaps this will in turn make us closer and a truly global
community.
The tagline was Possible Together.
VMworld 2020 focused on Digital innovation.
The strategy is empowering Any App, on any cloud, on any
device.
VMware has a strategy moving forward. They will deliver the
digital foundation moving forward.
This consists of five critical building blocks
1.
App Modernisation
2.
Multi Cloud
3.
Digital Workspace
4.
Virtual Cloud Networking
5.
Intrinsic Security
App Modernisation is all about how we move applications
from monolithic apps to the containerised applications, Docker has become the
go to container engine, as we move to the multi-cloud world we have to ensure
that we have a consistent method of management, and this leads us to Kubernetes
and on to Tanzu, Allows you to run
your app across any cloud.
VMware vSphere now has the ability to run native Kubernetes
workloads/containers, and now with vSphere 7 U1 it’s even easier.
Moving forward, VMware are working closely with NVIDIA to
create an available Artificial Intelligent solution that will be available for
all, this is code named Project
Monterey
Multi-Cloud, is the strategic platform for moving the
company forward, companies take the best of all the clouds, and by using VMware
technologies they have a centralised view of these workloads, and it was also
announced that VMware have more 15 million workloads on VMware Cloud.
VMware cloud now runs on all the major public clouds.
VMware also have their Telco cloud and predict that this may
mean in the future that 5G may make WiFi obsolete.
Digital Workspace this has now taken hold as millions
of people started working from home, Workspace ONE,
SD-WAN and Carbon Black working together allows home users to work securely from
any location, run any application and work on any device
Virtual Cloud Networking is the software defined networking
that’s running the VMware Cloud, VMware’s NSX technology is now in use with
over 17,000 customers worldwide, NSX is a complete
networking solution delivered in software.
Intrinsic Security VMware are building security into
the datacentre, this allows for Security across Any App, Any Cloud, on Any
device, VMware provide Carbon Black
as the product to allow this functionality.
All of the above products above will accelerate us to the
future of digital working.
VMware are now focusing on the vertical industry solutions
and are focusing their efforts on Health Care, Education, Public Sector, Retail
and Financial Services.
I’ll be watching with interest to see how VMware innovates
in the future.