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    VMware Goes GA with Its Development Cloud on AWS

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    Chris Preimesberger
    Published August 28, 2017
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      One of the main news items announced Aug. 28 from the main stage at VMworld 2017–about VMware Cloud services now becoming available to run on AWS–isn’t really news at all; it originally was revealed here in eWEEK nearly a year ago. Thus, one has to wonder: Did VMware and Amazon think we’d all forgotten about it?

      Well, we haven’t.

      Now there’s no questioning the fact that an alliance of any sort between the world’s largest and most successful cloud services provider and the world’s largest/most successful virtualization software and services developer is, and was, major IT news—back in October 2016. In truth, the beta period of this landmark deal comprised most of the last 10 months; now the throttle has been moved to “full speed ahead” general availability as of today.

      For the IT and software development sectors, the deal means that VMware mainstays such as all its software-defined data center ware—vCenter, NSX, vSphere, VSAN and others—will run on AWS instead of VMware’s own cloud. Like any other cloud deployment, the partnership enables VMware to focus on developing its products and not have to deal with the issues around hosting them, which has never been its primary business.

      VMware Made a Similar Decision Many Companies Have Made

      In fact, VMware has made the same decision—to have its services made available on a major internet hosting service—as thousands of companies have made, since AWS rejiggered the idea of ASPs (application service providers) and started the cloud-services boom with S3 (Simple Storage Service) in 2006.

      VMware Cloud on AWS is run, marketed and supported by VMware, like most typical cloud deployments. However, the service will be integrated with AWS’s own cloud portfolio, which provides computing, databases, analytics and a few different levels of storage, among other features.

      VMware Cloud on AWS is a jointly architected service that represents a significant investment in engineering, operations, support and sales resources from both companies. It will run on dedicated AWS infrastructure.

      Key Features

      VMware Cloud on AWS features:

      • enterprise capabilities of VMware SDDC with the agility, functionality and operational expertise of AWS’s public cloud;
      • identical skills, tools, and processes for managing private and public cloud environments, so users have consistent operations, improved productivity and reduced costs;
      • fast and bi-directional workload portability between private and public clouds;
      • flexibility to choose where to run applications based on business needs, while having access to a broad set of AWS services and infrastructure elasticity for VMware SDDC environments;
      • rapid time to value with the ability to scale host capacity up or down in a few minutes, and spin up an entire VMware SDDC in under a couple hours; and
      • the ability to run, manage and secure applications in a hybrid IT environment without having to purchase custom hardware, rewrite applications, or modify operating models.

      “VMware and AWS are providing a new-gen platform for any application,” VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger said at the Las Vegas conference, being staged at Mandalay Bay. “VMware Cloud on AWS gives customers an integrated hybrid cloud that delivers the same architecture, capabilities and operational experience across both their vSphere-based on-premises environment and AWS.”

      VMware Cloud on AWS is aimed at customers planning to migrate applications to the public cloud, develop entirely new applications, extend the capacity of their data centers for existing applications, or quickly provision development and test environments, the company said.

      Key Data Point: Containers, Microservices Are Supported

      A key consideration: This also will support containerized workloads and DevOps services such as Pivotal Cloud Foundry and others, using VMware Horizon. VMware and AWS also said they plan to continue to innovate together to add new capabilities and additional AWS regions to support customers that want to use VMware Cloud on AWS for disaster recovery, data center consolidation and geographic expansion.

      While many large IT organizations have deployed applications on public cloud platforms, such as AWS, Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform, a high number of them still run most of their workloads in their own data centers. Giving IT managers a way to deploy workloads in the cloud using the same underlying software stack and management tools they use in-house will make things run smoother when using cloud services.

      VMware Cloud on AWS replaces VMware’s vCloud Air, a business it sold to France-based OVH last April, Mark Lohmeyer, VMware’s Vice-President of Products for the Cloud Platform business unit, told eWEEK.

      France’s OVH Has Taken Over vCloud Business

      “OVH bought vCloud Air to expand their business into the U.S.,” Lohmeyer said. “They’ll be taking care of all the vCloud Air customers going forward. They’re a very well-respected service provider that understands the VMware environment. It was important to us that customers who had invested in vCloud Air were going to be well taken care of.”

      The service is initially available in the AWS U.S. West (Oregon) region and will expand to AWS regions worldwide in 2018, Lohmeyer said. As of Aug. 28, users can deploy this service hourly and pay only for each hour that a host is active in their account. Pricing and requirements can be found here.

      VMware said it will make one-year and three-year subscription options available in the future. VMware’s Hybrid Loyalty Program will provide discounts to customers with on-premises VMware vSphere, NSX, and/or vSAN licenses. The pricing model, combined with the VMware Hybrid Loyalty Program discounts, will offer TCO benefits on a per-VM basis to both VMware and AWS customers.

      To get started with VMware Cloud on AWS, go here.

      Chris Preimesberger
      Chris Preimesberger
      https://www.eweek.com/author/cpreimesberger/
      Chris J. Preimesberger is Editor Emeritus of eWEEK. In his 16 years and more than 5,000 articles at eWEEK, he distinguished himself in reporting and analysis of the business use of new-gen IT in a variety of sectors, including cloud computing, data center systems, storage, edge systems, security and others. In February 2017 and September 2018, Chris was named among the 250 most influential business journalists in the world (https://richtopia.com/inspirational-people/top-250-business-journalists/) by Richtopia, a UK research firm that used analytics to compile the ranking. He has won several national and regional awards for his work, including a 2011 Folio Award for a profile (https://www.eweek.com/cloud/marc-benioff-trend-seer-and-business-socialist/) of Salesforce founder/CEO Marc Benioff--the only time he has entered the competition. Previously, Chris was a founding editor of both IT Manager's Journal and DevX.com and was managing editor of Software Development magazine. He has been a stringer for the Associated Press since 1983 and resides in Silicon Valley.
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