As I’ve discussed many times in both blogs and podcasts, the move to public cloud comes with its challenges, sometimes it’s poor decision making, poor design or it’s just too complicated to integrate the flexibility and power of public cloud with your on-prem environment. However, you are probably also aware that this is beginning too change as more tech vendors look at ways of simplifying this by offering consistency and tooling to both ease the move to public cloud and simplify the integration with on-prem tech.
One such solution was announced by VMware at 2017’s VMworld conference and that was their partnership with Amazon Web Services (AWS) that allowed you to take a VMware stack inside of AWS that is completely yours, not shared, running your own environment, on top of Amazon hardware and managed completely by VMware. Delivering consistency of end point by providing and integrating with the VMware environment in your datacentre to deliver a seamless hybrid experience.
As with all things in the cloud these services continue to evolve and develop, so 12 months in I wanted to follow up on VMware Cloud on AWS (VMC) to see how it has changed, the lessons VMware have learned and what is coming in the near future to allow even more flexibility and tighter integration with your own on-prem enterprise technology.
Joining me to discuss this is Glenn Sizemore, Glenn is a Senior Technical Marketing Architect at VMware with a long and varied experience in the IT industry.
On this episode, Glenn shares a range of updates on what VMC is and where it’s heading, we talk about the importance of its hybrid design allowing customers to focus on workloads and not have to focus on complex infrastructure, simplifying cloud adoption for a range of enterprises.
We also look at how it goes beyond just simplifying the move to the cloud as the two-way relationship with AWS starts to offer the ability to move native Amazon services into your datacentre and we discuss how this is driving a different cloud strategy conversation.
Glenn also shares some plans for what we can expect to see in VMC especially when it comes to storage as VMware look to tackle both the needs of capacity intensive workloads as well as the need to offer integrations with 3rd party storage platforms, which will be crucial in ensuring VMC is a flexible enterprise platform and not one that is seen as a tool just to sell VMware technologies.
We finish up by discussing how you can start to build both proof of concepts and proof of value with VMC before you make a commitment, because it’s crucial to define outcomes with this platform, understand that the platform is right, before asking whether “you can afford it”.
To find out more you can check out the Virtual Blocks blog site as well as follow Glenn on twitter @glnsize.
Also, do check out these fascinating Tech Field Day presentations that Glenn did alongside NetApp.
If you want to pop back in time to hear our intro show to VMware cloud on AWS from last year, you can find that here.
Glenn provides some great insight into this interesting platform, enjoy the show.
Thanks for listening.
Techstringy 