Today at VMworld 2018 in Las Vegas, VMware Inc. announced that it was making additions and enhancements to its Cloud Operations Services to tackle the issues of multi-cloud environments head on. According to the company these new services will enable cloud operations, DevOps, and security and compliance teams to better manage cloud costs, operations, security, and compliance across clouds. The enhancements announced today include new cloud automation services, VMware Cloud Assembly, VMware Service Broker, and VMware Code Stream; a new cloud configuration security and compliance service, VMware Secure State; and significant enhancements to Wavefront by VMware.
Multi-cloud environments are not an emerging trend, they are here. As organizations find ways to store and analyze their data they need to leverage different public cloud options. This is one way to meet the needs but it presents issues of its own, mainly disparate tools and an overall lack of visibility into one's own data. To help assuage some of the fears of multi-cloud VMware has rolled out its Cloud Services that help to unify the experience for Cloud Engineering and Operations teams. These services give users visibility into their cloud resources that in turn helps them to manage costs, increase efficiencies such as resource utilization, and can help them gain insights.
One of the quickest ways to improve efficiencies is to automate mundane tasks. VMware is rolling out new automation services that promise to ease and speed up the development and deployment of applications. Consisting of VMware Cloud Assembly, VMware Service Broker and VMware Code Stream, these automation services can not only make it easier to create and deploy applications but also can enable cloud flexibility and choice, and control risks. Benefits and features include:
One of the earlier concerns, and criticisms, of the public cloud was security. While they have come a long way in the last few years, security is still something that has to remain a top priority. On this front VMware has its Secure State that it states addresses violations in cloud configurations in real time by automating configuration security and compliance monitoring in native cloud environments. This service can keep security breaches from happening, which not only save time and money, but retains customer confidence. VMware Secure State provides:
The final area where VMware is tackling for multi-cloud environments is with monitoring and analytics. Wavefront is the company's cloud-native monitoring and analytics platform that VMware claims can give instant insight into performance of highly distributed, web-scale applications. New updates and enhancements include:
Availability
The new capabilities for Wavefront by VMware are generally available. VMware Cloud Assembly, VMware Service Broker, and VMware Code Stream are initially available today. VMware Secure State is currently in public beta.
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