13. Any Application,
Anywhere
Architect, deploy, and
run all traditional and
modern applications
Open
Management
Flexible choice to manage
your cloud infrastructure
and your applications
Unified Platform
On- and off-premise cloud with a common
Software-Defined Data Center platform, built on
VMware’s best-in-class compute, network, and
storage virtualization solutions
HYBRID CLOUD
PRIVATE MANAGED
Your Data
Center
vCloud Air
Network
PUBLIC
vCloud
Air
You want to talk about vCloud Air – I want to talk about this guy –
a story is told that at the end of one semester, Einstein handed the exam papers he had set for his students to his intern. As the intern glanced at the papers he said: “I am sorry professor, but there seems to be some mistake, these are the same questions as last year”, Einstein turned to him and said “oh no, no mistake, the questions are the same, but this year, the answers are different”
It’s the same story here….
As early as 2009 it became clear that virtualisation while creating profound change and significant benefit, was a transitional technology. In his 2008 book “the big switch” Nick Carr identified the twin technologies of virtualisation and the internet as leading to something much greater. Something we now call “the cloud”
At ViFX we have built our business and our reputation on bringing clients the benefits of the transition to virtualisation and the cloud. If you have heard me before, then you might be familiar with my argument that the journey is both economically driven (the benefits of agility and cost efficiency will bake “cloud” the dominant choice in the long run), and not optional – we are on this journey like it or not, and our only choice is how quickly we can achieve the benefits – ideally before our competition does. This means that he biggest challenge for large organisations is how to make progress given substantial inertia, investment and risk aversion.
As you will see over the next hour, we now see a path through complexity and architecture that delivers the benefits of hybrid infrastructure – secure, sovereign data through in house resources with seamless connection to on-demand, scaleable, self serve and pay as you go public cloud resources in vCloud air.
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Every industry is transforming: healthcare, education, retail, transportation, agriculture, or government services. Movies
Work no longer a place, Work is something you do
Liquid environment has created new business opportunities
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In this environment, every industry is transforming. Everything from healthcare, education, retail, transportation, agriculture, or government services. Literally every industry is experiencing disruption at some level.
One great example is entertainment. Think about how differently we consume media, like movies, these days. How often do you physically go to the movie theatre? Hollywood studios can release new movies directly to millions of viewers on their TVs, computer screens, and mobile devices…instantly. And, if you’re like me, you prefer the convenience of on-demand entertainment where you can relax in your own home, wearing your pajamas, snuggled on your own couch.
This liquid environment has created so many new business opportunities.
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new class of competitors .. by companies less than 2- 3 years old
new class of threats … new avenues of vulnerabilities.
requires a new class of thinking .. But 1 thing for sure – business leaders placing IT at forefront of strategic thinking
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But it also has created new uncertainties and risk.
It can bring a new class of competitors. There are entire industries, established industries, that have been disrupted by companies less than 2 or 3 years old.
This shifting landscape is also introducing an entirely new class of threats. The very technology that is creating so much opportunity is simultaneously opening up new avenues of vulnerabilities.
The bottom line…it all requires a new class of thinking.
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Technology is at the heart of disruption
Software playing a key role … and explosion of data.
Dominant technological forces: mobility and cloud.
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Technology is at the heart of disruption in the marketplace. Software is playing a key role, as is the explosion of data. But two of the largest, most dominant technological forces are mobility and cloud.
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Instant … “on demand” world IT Services & Data at push of button
Fluid … a liquid environment … IT must be agile to meet evolving expectations
Secure … protect brand, data, reputation
We call it Brave New IT optimized for development and delivery of ALL apps: traditional, client-server applications … modern, cloud-native apps … on any device…safely.
IT must have bold and decisive attitude ... make calculated moves to new IT model. VMW strategy based on the needs of this new model – your needs
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At VMW, we believe that in order to meet the increasing expectations and demands coming from the business while harnessing all the opportunities that the mobile-cloud era offer, requires a complete new model for IT service delivery. A model that is
Instant … because we exist in an “on demand” world and literally need IT services and data available at the push of a button.
Fluid … because we’re operating in a liquid environment, where IT must be agile to meet evolving expectations and requirements.
Secure … because at the end of the day, everything is for naught if our brand, our data, or our reputation are significantly compromised.
We call this Brave New IT – An IT model that is optimized for the development and delivery of ALL applications, that means both tradition, client-server applications as well as modern, cloud-native apps, to be consumed on any device…safely.
To truly transform, and keep up with the expectations of business, IT must face these challenges and uncertainty with a bold and decisive attitude, and make thoughtful, calculated moves to a new model of IT
Starts with applications and Services. Bus cares about apps
App landscape is diverse: traditional, client-server apps modern, cloud-native apps. IT has to manage them all
Architecture of underlying infrastructure:
Few years ago VMW SDDC, best architecture for instant, secure& fluid model of IT
Abstraction, pooling
Applied to storage, networking
One unified hybrid cloud with a common cloud management platform
We call this “One Cloud for Any Application”
Runs on a wide variety of hardware infrastructure = choice
Our Business Mobility solutions enable safe consumption of apps and content on any device…
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Let’s talk about our innovations, and our new architecture for IT.
Everything we do starts with an orientation around applications. What business cares about is expedient access to applications. But the application landscape within most businesses is diverse: there are traditional, client-server applications, there are new modern, cloud-native applications. And IT needs to manage ALL of them.
Serving apps efficiently all starts with the architecture of the underlying infrastructure and data center. A few years ago, VMware introduced the concept of a software-defined data center. We believe a software-defined data center is the best architecture for this instant, secure and fluid model of IT.
VMware’s architecture for the SDDC builds upon the core concepts that made compute virtualization so radically impactful, namely abstraction and pooling…and applied those virtualization fundamentals to the other key assets within the data center: storage and networking.
This architecture can be leveraged not just in your on premises data center, or your private cloud, but also by your public clouds. For example, your data center can extend to the VMware vCloud Air public cloud or one of the many managed clouds within the vCloud Air Network of service providers. The result is one unified hybrid cloud. All of these environments are managed from a common cloud management platform.
Built upon the software-defined data center architecture, we call this unified hybrid cloud “One Cloud for Any Application”. It runs on a wide variety of hardware infrastructure…whether you want to leverage your existing infrastructure, or adopt converged or even hyper converged infrastructure…One Cloud offers complete choice.
Now we talked about how applications are ultimately what users care about. Our users are increasingly expecting to consume their apps on the devices of their choice. Our Business Mobility solutions enable the safe consumption of applications and content on any device…all effectively managed by IT.
Option 1 – Connect over the Internet via HTTPS. End users can access public-facing workloads. Administrators manage the environment.
Option 2 – Site to Site IPSec VPN. Edge Gateway at vCloud air is VPN endpoint. Use any on-prem VPN concentrator.
Option 3 – Direct Connect private WAN link
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Quick summary – reinforce excitement
Q&A session
Thank the speakers
Thank everyone for coming
We’ll be hanging around for a bit if anyone wants to have a chat afterwards