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VMware unveils new and enhanced portfolio offerings, Cross-Cloud services and significant partner announcements at VMware Explore to deliver a faster and smarter path to cloud for digital businesses

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SYDNEY, Australia – VMware Explore 2022 US - Today at <a href="https://www.vmware.com/explore/us.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">VMware Explore 2022</a>, VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) unveiled innovations, new offerings, services and expanded partnerships that further its commitment to help customers navigate and thrive in today’s multi-cloud world. As customers continue to evolve and digitise their businesses to innovate faster and better serve their own customers, VMware and its partner ecosystem are enabling businesses to select the right cloud for the right app.

“Whether you’re a challenger born in the cloud or an established player, the ultimate destination for customers is a multi-cloud environment that empowers teams to accelerate their digital innovation,” said Raghu Raghuram, CEO, VMware. “At VMware Explore, VMware and our partners are advancing our technology offerings to help customers gain advantages from a cloud-smart approach.”

<a href="https://news.vmware.com/vmware-explore/from-cloud-chaos-to-cloud-smart">Read Raghu Raghuram’s from Cloud Chaos to Cloud Smart blog post</a>

Many of these new capabilities are built on the <a href="https://www.vmware.com/cross-cloud-services.html">VMware Cross-Cloud™ services</a> the company <a href="https://news.vmware.com/releases/vmworld-2021-cross-cloud-services">introduced at VMworld 2021</a> and are designed to give organisations the strategic advantages of a cloud-smart approach. As organisations increase the number of clouds they support to accelerate their business goals, they experience an increase in operational complexity. VMware Cross-Cloud services deliver a unified and simplified way to build, operate, access, and better secure any application, on any cloud, from any device—across app platform, cloud management, cloud and edge infrastructure, networking and advanced security, and anywhere workspace.

Accelerate Enterprise Cloud Transformation

<a href="https://news.vmware.com/releases/vmware-explore-2022-cloud-edge-infrastructure">VMware is introducing cloud and edge infrastructure solutions</a> that help businesses accelerate their enterprise cloud transformation and enable customers to better run, scale and secure enterprise workloads across private and public clouds and at the edge. VMware and its public cloud partners also continue to help customers migrate and run those workloads in the public cloud of their choice. Additionally, <a href="https://news.vmware.com/releases/vmware-explore-2022-networking-security-multi-cloud">VMware unveiled networking and security innovations</a> to help customers further embrace the cloud operating model. Highlights include:

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Scale Cloud Native Platform Operations

VMware continues to help customers secure, run and manage all cloud native apps. <a href="https://news.vmware.com/releases/vmware-explore-2022-tanzu-cloud-native-apps">New advances to the VMware Tanzu portfolio</a> unlock developer productivity, deliver end-to-end security from build to production, and enable more secure multi-cloud operations at scale, regardless of where enterprises are in their Kubernetes journey. <a href="https://news.vmware.com/releases/vmware-explore-2022-multi-cloud-management">VMware also introduced a new multi-cloud management portfolio</a>—VMware Aria—which will provide a set of end-to-end solutions for managing cloud native applications and infrastructure. The new offerings will help customers manage their costs, performance, configuration and delivery across public and private clouds. Highlights include:

Empower the Hybrid Workforce

Customers continue seek to enable anywhere work with secure and frictionless experiences. This week’s advancements across <a href="https://news.vmware.com/releases/vmware-explore-2022-anywhere-workspace">VMware Anywhere Workspace</a> will inject automation into the end-user computing environments of organisations, enabling IT teams to do more with less. Updates include:

For the latest news and more on how VMware is delivering a faster and smarter path to cloud for digital businesses including a comprehensive list of partner announcements, visit the <a href="https://news.vmware.com/vmware-explore-2022-media-kit">VMware Explore 2022 media kit</a>.

VMware Explore is an evolution of the company's flagship conference, VMworld. VMware Explore aims to be the industry’s go-to-event for all things multi-cloud. This year, it will feature industry-led solution and technical sessions, an extensive ecosystem of 90% of the top cloud partners, a thriving marketplace of multi-cloud ISVs and several networking events. To learn more about VMware Explore, please visit: <a href="http://www.vmware.com/explore.html">www.vmware.com/explore.html</a>.

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At VMware Explore 2022, VMware unveils innovations, new offerings, services and expanded partnerships that further its commitment to help customers navigate and thrive in today’s multi-cloud world.

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Introduces new tech previews that will help transform the way customers consume networking and security across cloud environments

SYDNEY, Australia — VMware Explore 2022 – VMware Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today announced new innovations across its expanding networking and security portfolio that will help customers embrace the cloud operating model. These new innovations include:

“Enterprises are facing an unprecedented level of threat and complexity as they operate in today’s multi-cloud world,” said Tom Gillis, senior vice president and general manager of VMware’s Networking and Advanced Security business group. “VMware is radically transforming how our customers consume networking and security – allowing them to realise the agility and efficiencies of the cloud operating model through a cloud-smart approach. With a privileged position in the infrastructure and a scale out distributed software architecture, we’re able to leverage the intrinsic attributes of our platforms and deliver these unique solutions in a consumption-oriented manner.”

Simplifying Networking and Security for Multi-Cloud

In <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/networkvirtualization/2022/08/announcing-project-northstar.html/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Project </a><a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/networkvirtualization/2022/08/announcing-project-northstar.html/">Northstar</a>, VMware announces a major advancement of its NSX platform. Announced in technology preview today, Project Northstar will transform how enterprises consume networking and security in a multi-cloud world. Project Northstar will deliver multi-cloud networking, security, workload mobility and end-to-end threat detection and response with a centralised cloud-console for consistent and simplified software-as-a-service (SaaS) consumption. This family of services includes network & security policy management, network detection and response (NDR), network visibility and analytics (NSX Intelligence), advanced load balancing (ALB), and workload mobility (HCX) for private cloud environments and VMware Cloud deployments.

“As an innovator in software-defined networking, VMware offers a full-stack of networking and security services in an integrated solution that benefits thousands of enterprise customers today,” said Umesh Mahajan, senior vice president and general manager for VMware’s Networking and Security business unit. “Customers are seeking a uniform policy model across multi-cloud deployments, along with consistent network connectivity, security, and load balancing services. With Project Northstar we continue to shape how enterprises consume networking and security in a multi-cloud world.”

Today, with the latest update to VMware NSX 4.0 and VMware vSphere 8, <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/networkvirtualization/2022/08/announcing-dpu-based-acceleration-for-nsx.html/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">NSX networking and security functions can now be implemented on Data Processing Units</a> (DPUs, also known as SmartNICs) connected to the host hypervisor. Offloading NSX services to the DPU can accelerate networking and security functions without impacting the host CPUs, addressing the needs of modern applications and other network-intensive and latency-sensitive applications.

Strengthening Lateral Security <a></a><a></a>

The growth in laterally moving threats requires security teams to pay closer attention to east-west network traffic. Examining traffic through network taps is no longer sufficient. Modern distributed cloud architectures can further exacerbate blind spots. VMware’s architecture allows customers see processes running in an endpoint, packets crossing the network, access points, and the inner workings of both traditional and modern apps to identify and stop threats others can’t. As part of today's announcements, VMware is strengthening its lateral security capabilities by embedding network detection and visibility into Carbon Black Cloud's endpoint protection platform, which is now available to select customers in early access. This extended detection and response (XDR) telemetry adds network detection and visibility to endpoints with no changes to infrastructure or endpoints, providing customers with extended visibility into their environment across endpoints and networks leaving attackers nowhere to hide.

Limited visibility into the east-west traffic between microservices also puts modern applications at greater risk. Project Trinidad, which is in tech preview, extends VMware's API security and analytics by deploying sensors on Kubernetes clusters and uses machine learning with business logic inference to detect anomalous behaviour in east-west traffic between microservices.

Findings from VMware’s recent <a href="https://news.vmware.com/releases/vmware-report-warns-of-deepfake-attacks-and-cyber-extortion">Global Incident Response Threat </a><a href="https://news.vmware.com/releases/vmware-report-warns-of-deepfake-attacks-and-cyber-extortion" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Report</a> reveal that ransomware actors continue to evolve their cyber extortion strategies. Ransomware will continue to be a business reality, and VMware uniquely makes recovery from an attack faster, more predictable, and less prone to error with <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/virtualblocks/2022/08/30/the-need-for-ransomware-recovery-as-a-service-introducing-vmware-ransomware-recovery/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">VMware Ransomware Recovery for VMware Cloud DR</a>, a new offering unveiled at VMware Explore. This new, purpose-built ransomware recovery-as-a-service solution enables safe recovery that prevents re-infection of IT and line-of-business production workloads through its innovative use of an on-demand isolated recovery environment on VMware Cloud on AWS. Guided recovery workflows allow customers to quickly identify recovery point candidates, validate restore points using embedded behavioural analysis, and recover data with minimal loss.

Expanding Security for the Data Centre and Cloud Edge

Last year, VMware announced the industry-first elastic application security edge (EASE) which enables the networking and security infrastructure at the data centre or cloud edge to flex and adjust as app needs change. To help customers preserve their investments in expensive hardware appliances that are incapable of adapting to changing app environments, VMware is introducing:

Securing the Edge for the Distributed Workforce

In the past two years, enterprise customers have fundamentally changed how they build and deploy networks and access to support distributed workers. The market for secure access service edge (SASE) solutions is expected to nearly triple by 2026 with security being a key driver of growth as enterprises strategically invest for the new age of distributed applications and hybrid work, according to the Dell'Oro Group1. A leader in SD-WAN2, VMware is now offering additional deployment flexibility to customers who want a multi-phase journey from their current network and endpoint management solutions to a next-generation SASE offering by adding new web proxy-based connectivity to VMware Cloud Web Security.

VMware Cross-Cloud™ services Helps Customers Navigate the Multi-Cloud Era

At VMware Explore 2022, VMware is unveiling new and enhanced offerings for VMware Cross-Cloud services to help customers navigate the multi-cloud era with freedom, flexibility and security. VMware Cross-Cloud services is a portfolio of cloud services that deliver a unified and simplified way to build, operate, access, and better secure any application on any cloud from any device. VMware Cross-Cloud service pillars include 1) App Platform 2) Cloud Management 3) Cloud & Edge Infrastructure 4) Security & Networking, and 5) Anywhere Workspace. For the latest news and more on how VMware is delivering a faster and smarter path to cloud for digital businesses, visit the <a href="https://news.vmware.com/vmware-explore-2022-media-kit">VMware Explore 2022 media kit</a>.

VMware is a leading provider of multi-cloud services for all apps, enabling digital innovation with enterprise control. As a trusted foundation to accelerate innovation, VMware software gives businesses the flexibility and choice they need to build the future. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, VMware is committed to building a better future through the company’s 2030 Agenda. For more information, please visit <a href="https://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=smartlink&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.vmware.com%2Fcompany&esheet=52787028&newsitemid=20220721005271&lan=en-US&anchor=www.vmware.com%2Fcompany&index=9&md5=8afe7ba2d36912953923dda1bf1573ca" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.vmware.com/company</a>.

VMware, Explore, Carbon Black, NSX, and vSphere are registered trademarks or trademarks of VMware, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and other jurisdictions. This article may contain hyperlinks to non-VMware websites that are created and maintained by third parties who are solely responsible for the content on such websites.

At VMware Explore 2022, VMware announces new innovations across its expanding networking and security portfolio that will help customers embrace the cloud operating model.

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VMware Research Reveals Agencies are Navigating Compliance, Security and Upskilling Employees Amid Cloud Adoption

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Today, at the <a href="https://upgather.com/vmware/public-sector-innovation-summit/">Public Sector Innovation Summit</a>, VMware announced findings from a study on how government agencies are scaling use of multi-cloud environments for mission success. The study, titled “<a href="https://www.vmware.com/learn/1380503_REG.html?src=wb_624ed0c315228&cid=7012H000001KaLSQA0">Multi-cloud Is The New Frontier Of Government IT</a>," conducted by Forrester Consulting, found while the move to multi-cloud is a priority, agencies face challenges supporting growing cloud environments, including compliance standards, data security and upskilling employees.

A ‘Cloud‑Smart’ Approach for the Public Sector

The survey captures responses from more than 500 agency leaders and IT decision-makers at federal, state, and local governments in the United States and Canada and discovered that while agencies are accelerating cloud adoption, multi-cloud environments are far more diverse, complex, and distributed than anything organizations have managed in the past. This can create barriers or force trade-offs between moving fast and managing risk. The challenge lies in finding the right tools and platforms to meet agency demands and keep data and processes safe and compliant. The study found when selecting cloud platform providers, the top priorities for agencies were: 

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To achieve a faster and smarter path to multi-cloud, agencies are focused on scaling security and upskilling employees in tandem with cloud adoption. More than half of agencies (57%) expressed concern about data security as they look to increase cloud adoption and 65% of agencies have plans to increase their investment in professional development for their developers.

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“Multi-cloud is the new reality for government agencies but as they increase cloud investments, they also need to lay the technical and cultural foundation,” said Jennifer Chronis, vice president, public sector, VMware. “VMware is uniquely positioned to meet our customers wherever they are on their digital transformation journeys and help them take full advantage of multiple clouds. Across the public sector, we are giving our customers the power to accelerate innovation and improve resiliency on a trusted digital foundation.” (<a href="https://twitter.com/jenniferchronis">Twitter</a>,<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/jennifer-chronis-4a11745/"> LinkedIn</a>)

The full study, complete with recommendations for a ‘cloud-smart’ approach to the multi-cloud era can be downloaded <a href="https://www.vmware.com/learn/1380503_REG.html?src=wb_624ed0c315228&cid=7012H000001KaLSQA0">here</a>.

Learn more at the Public Sector Innovation Summit

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VMware’s Public Sector Innovation Summit brings together leading technologists from the private sector, along with IT leaders and experts from federal, state, and local government. This year’s theme, “A Holistic Multi-Cloud for Mission Success,” explores how agencies can reimagine mission success innovating across clouds.

The summit will take place at the Ritz Carlton Pentagon City in Arlington, Virginia, from 8:30 a.m. – 1:15 p.m. ET. It will also be live streamed. To learn more or to register to attend, please visit: <a href="https://upgather.com/vmware/public-sector-innovation-summit/">Public Sector Innovation Summit 2022</a>.

To learn more about VMware is helping the public sector innovate, please visit:

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VMware commissioned a survey, undertaken by an independent research organization, Forrester Consulting, in March 2022. 501 agency leaders and IT decision-makers at federal, state, and local governments were surveyed on cloud practices including strategy, process, and solutions. The research was conducted in the United States and Canada.

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VMware announced it has been named an Innovation Leader in the Frost Radar™: Enterprise Health Cloud Infrastructure and Platform Service Providers by Frost and Sullivan.

Today at the HIMSS 2022, VMware showcases the latest solutions to help healthcare organizations around the world enable smart, connected, patient-centered care. Learn more:

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VMware Unveils ‘Cloud Smart’ Approach for the Multi-Cloud Era! Read more about VMware Cross-Cloud Services, announced at VMworld 2021:

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New Solution Will Improve Spectrum Efficiency for Mobile Networks by as Much as 2X
 
SYDNEY, Australia – June 16, 2021 – As communication service providers (CSPs) move to open radio access network (O-RAN) architectures, the door to innovation opens. Partnering to accelerate this innovation, Cohere Technologies and VMware (NYSE: VMW) today announced they are developing an O-RAN solution to help CSPs improve network and spectrum efficiencies and deliver new and differentiated services and experiences for their customers.
“The RAN is by far the most costly and complex part of a CSP network as workloads that run there require ultra-low latency and high performance,” said Stephen Spellicy, vice president of product marketing and solutions, Service Provider and Edge, VMware. “Our ongoing work with Cohere Technologies shows the value of disaggregating hardware functions and moving them to the telco cloud. Our solution is designed to help accelerate RAN automation, optimisation, and monetisation by enabling CSPs to deploy intelligent, cloud-native RAN applications created by a growing xApp developer community.”  
The solution will bring together:
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<li>VMware’s RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) Platform</li>
<li>Cohere’s Spectrum Multiplier and Cloud Scheduler xApps</li>
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The RAN Intelligent Controller (RIC) is a new function introduced by the O-RAN Alliance that enables CSPs to deploy cloud-native control and management apps in the RAN. Essentially, it virtualises the RAN Centralized Units (CUs) and Distributed Units (DUs), where complex RAN intelligence was previously embedded.
VMware has designed its RIC platform keeping developer experience at the centre and offers a RIC Software Developer Kit (SDK) to any third-party developer to build apps that can be deployed in the RAN. Today most of these apps are geared toward making the network faster, including Cohere&#8217;s Spectrum Multiplier xApp.
Cohere’s Spectrum Multiplier and Cloud Scheduler xApps improve spectral efficiency for CSPs by as much as 2x by enabling existing mobile networks to communicate with multiple users simultaneously on the same time and frequency resources. This is achieved by using dynamic and smart pairing as well as precoding techniques. The result is improved spectral efficiency and network latency that helps CSPs deliver a better user experience and ease capacity bottlenecks when demand is high. It makes their network better equipped to deliver bandwidth-sensitive services like AR/VR streaming, 360/4K videos, and immersive gaming, among others.
“CSPs are spending tens of billions of dollars on 5G spectrum and being able to get the most out of that investment is critical,” said Ray Dolan, Chairman and CEO of Cohere Technologies. “Cohere is the first company to overcome the latency challenges of moving critical intelligence from the RAN to the cloud using VMware’s RIC Platform. Our software, when running on VMware’s RIC platform, provides CSPs with a powerful solution to extend spectral efficiency and deliver a great user experience to customers accessing 5G services.”
The solution is expected to be available by the end of the calendar year. To learn more about the VMware and Cohere Technologies partnership, as well as VMware’s plans for its RIC platform:
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<li>Read a perspective on today’s announcement from VMware Director of R&#038;D Rakesh Misra: <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/telco/oran-cohere-partnership/">VMware and Cohere Technologies Demonstrate the Power and Potential of Open RAN</a></li>
<li>Read a perspective on today’s announcement from Cohere Technologies CEO Ray Dolan: <a href="https://www.cohere-technologies.com/blog/spectrum-multiplier-vmware-cohere">Spectrum Multiplier and Telco Cloud Innovation for Mobile Operators</a></li>
<li>Check out how Vodafone is working with VMware, Cohere Technologies, and other partners to accelerate innovation in its RAN in <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/telco/vodafone-ran-partnership" target="_blank" rel="noopener">this blog post</a></li>
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About Cohere Technologies
Cohere is the innovator of massive MIMO scheduler and Delay-Doppler channel software for mobile and enterprise networks, and the developer of the Orthogonal Time Frequency Space (OTFS) 6G wireless system. Cohere is a member of the Next G Alliance, the O-RAN Alliance, the Open RAN Policy Coalition, the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) and the National Spectrum Consortium (NSC). Cohere is headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. For more information, please visit: <a href="http://www.cohere-technologies.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.cohere-technologies.com</a> and follow us on Twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/Cohere_4G_5G">@Cohere_4G_5G</a>.
About VMware
VMware software powers the worldâs complex digital infrastructure. The companyâs cloud, app modernisation, networking, security, and digital workspace offerings help customers deliver any application on any cloud across any device. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, VMware is committed to being a force for good, from its breakthrough technology innovations to its global impact.
 
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New Solution Will Improve Spectrum Efficiency for Mobile Networks by as Much as 2X

VMware and Cohere Technologies to Bring Intelligent, Cloud-Native Applications to Open Radio Access Networks

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VMware Telco Cloud Platform RAN Extends the Benefits of Network Disaggregation and Virtualisation from the Core to the RAN
SYDNEY, Australia. – April 28, 2021 – Communication service providers (CSPs) are modernising their networks as quickly as they can to bring new 5G services to customers. First with the core—the heart of the network. And now further out to the edge. They want to bring the benefits of the cloud to the parts of the network that connect mobile phones and other wireless devices back to the core. That’s why VMware (NYSE: VMW) is today announcing VMware Telco Cloud Platform RAN. It is a platform that enables CSPs to virtualise radio access network (RAN) functions and implement an open RAN architecture.
“A modern, open, and disaggregated RAN offers CSPs the single best opportunity to rapidly monetize 5G services,” said Sanjay Uppal, senior vice president and general manager, Service Provider and Edge, VMware. “New 5G services rely on CSPs to be able to host apps at the edge, close to end customers. A virtualised and open RAN allows CSPs to deliver these new edge services to customers directly from RAN sites. With Telco Cloud Platform RAN, we accelerate the disaggregation of the proprietary RAN and enable CSPs to modernise their RAN so they can monetise the 5G services they deliver across their network.”
A Path for RAN Modernisation
VMware Telco Cloud Platform lets CSPs quickly deploy and efficiently run virtualised network functions (VNFs) and containerised network functions (CNFs). And it lets them do so with agility and scalability across 5G networks. VMware Telco Cloud Platform RAN takes the VMware Telco Cloud Platform for the core and extends it to the RAN. It helps CSPs virtualise RAN functions on a platform specifically optimised for the RAN and with support for Intel FlexRAN software reference architecture.
This same platform can also be used for Open RAN (O-RAN). It gives CSPs the flexibility to evolve to the future – from traditional RAN to virtualised RAN (vRAN) to O-RAN – without having to disrupt their operations or overhaul their network design.
“The transformation of the RAN will significantly change how operators purchase, construct, and maintain their mobile networks. It presents a significant economic opportunity and will allow for the introduction of new capabilities and expand the pool of solution providers. We forecast the convergence of openness and virtualisation will generate around $3.4 billion in annual revenues by 2025, giving it about 9.5% of the total 4G and 5G RAN market1,” said Daryl Schoolar, Practice Leader, Fixed and Mobile Infrastructure, Omdia. “But before we get there, operators must figure out how to transition from legacy solutions to open and virtualised architectures without disrupting their services – quite a task. VMware, with its history of helping operators make this transition in other parts of the network, is in a strong position to support operators as they make this transition with their radio access networks.”
Telco Cloud Platform RAN helps customers:
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<li>Achieve cloud-first automation by programmatically provisioning network functions across distributed vRAN sites, no matter what workloads they host. It gives CSPs the flexibility and efficiency to deploy vRAN functions wherever they are needed. And it helps connect siloed parts of the network. When combined with consistent operations across the Telco Cloud, it simplifies operations and lets CSPs quickly scale and tailor their 5G services for specific enterprise use cases.</li>
<li>Accelerate monetisation by quickly introducing new 5G and edge services. Powered with VMware’s open ecosystem of partners and technologies, such as Multi-Access Edge Computing (MEC) and network slicing, which are faster and let CSPs more easily serve different industries and verticals.</li>
<li>Keep networks safe as CSPs have a huge number of new vRAN sites and devices connecting to the RAN. It lets CSPs apply consistent security policies to all their RAN sites to help reduce the chance of configuration errors or other changes that can put them at risk. With VMware’s intrinsic security approach, each vRAN function is also isolated within the virtualisation layer. This keeps them separate from other systems and further protected.</li>
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“Our entire 5G network will be cloud-native, and we will leverage the VMware Telco Cloud Platform to adopt an O-RAN architecture for all RAN sites,” said Marc Rouanne, executive vice president and chief network officer, DISH. “We are working with the best hardware and software providers and VMware is helping us achieve this vision. We believe this path will enable us to deliver amazing experiences and services to our customers faster and more efficiently.” 
Under the Hood VMware Telco Cloud Platform RAN has been optimised for Intel’s FlexRAN software reference architecture. The platform consists of:
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<li>VMware vSphere ESXi. Optimised for the deployment and management of virtualised and containerised RAN functions.VMware vSphere ESXi. Optimised for the deployment and management of virtualised and containerised RAN functions.</li>
<li>VMware Tanzu for Telco. Takes VMware’s standards-compliant distribution of Kubernetes for container orchestration and enhances it with telco features. This delivers the scalability, performance, and availability that CSPs need in service.</li>
<li>VMware Telco Cloud Automation. A cloud-first, vendor neutral way to orchestrate infrastructure, containers as a service (CaaS), and telco network functions and services. It also automates their management across any network and any cloud.</li>
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“5G is fueling rapid transition to virtualisation and cloud-native technologies, and communications service providers are seeking network infrastructure solutions to help them quickly and efficiently get to market as well as capture the enormous opportunities in front of them,” said Dan Rodriguez, corporate vice president and general manager, Network Platforms Group, Intel. “Our collaboration with VMware in this area began more than a year ago and bringing it to fruition with the VMware Telco Cloud Platform RAN will help our mutual customers achieve greater agility as they evolve their RAN to deliver new 5G and edge services.”
It Takes A Village to Disrupt an Industry
To maximise performance and improve resource utilisation, VMware tests and integrates its RAN-optimised platform with key RAN vendors. It partners with industry-leading system integrators. And it builds in its virtualisation and cloud-native expertise. All to make VMware Telco Cloud Platform RAN a compelling RAN solution for CSPs for both today and tomorrow.
Thierry Maupile, executive vice president of strategy and product management at Altiostar, said, “Open and virtual RAN architectures are the result of innovation around openness, programmability, and automation. This vision can only be achieved through collaboration among a growing ecosystem of partners. Altiostar and VMware have brought our solutions closer together through in-depth integration testing and validation of our Open vRAN software with the Telco Cloud Platform RAN.”
Bejoy Pankajakshan Chief Strategy Officer at Mavenir, said, “Mavenir is building the future of networks with cloud-native software that runs on any cloud and transforms the way the world connects. Working with VMware’s Telco Cloud Platform as a common infrastructure platform, Mavenir will continue to deliver Open RAN, vRAN and other 5G components to empower Communications Service Providers (CSPs) and enterprises to transform their businesses toward 5G.”
Kraig Ecker, senior vice president of global service providers at WWT, said, “As the industry moves toward 5G, RAN will become increasingly software-driven and built with a variety of vendors. This brings added complexity to consuming this transformational technology and places an added emphasis on supply chain and integration services. By combining WWT’s IT consulting and services with VMware’s Telco Cloud Platform, we are well positioned to help service providers navigate their network transformation.”
David Trigg, vice president of market development at Dell Technologies, said,“Open architectures mark the future for communications service providers as it gives them the freedom to work with the best and brightest in the industry. Combining our enterprise leadership in open infrastructure with VMware’s software and Intel’s vRAN architecture, we are providing CSPs with a strong foundation to accelerate innovation while partnering with them to fast-track their business opportunities.”
Where to Learn More
To learn more about Telco Cloud Platform RAN:
<ul>
<li>Read <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/telco/ran-transformation/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">a perspective</a> on today’s announcement from Lakshmi Mandyam, vice president of product management, Service Provider and Edge, VMware.</li>
<li>Download the whitepaper, <a href="https://telco.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/microsites/telco/vmware-o-ran-whitepaper.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">ORAN: Defining the Path for Innovation in the RAN</a></li>
<li>Connect with us on <a href="https://twitter.com/vmwaretelco" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/vmware" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/vmware-nfv/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">LinkedIn</a>, and <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZTvfJMhQ5Oc5TFw465tcJQ" target="_blank" rel="noopener">YouTube</a>.</li>
</ul>
Source: 1. Omdia Mobile Infrastructure Market Tracker - 4Q2020
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Technology Leaders Will Convene to Accelerate the Evolution of the Internet and Enable the Next Generation of Human Experiences
 
SYDNEY, Australia. – April 15, 2021 – Vapor IO and VMware today announced the Open Grid Alliance (OGA), an industry alliance that will define and accelerate the Open Grid, an evolutionary rearchitecting of the Internet. Dell Technologies, DriveNets, MobiledgeX, and PacketFabric will join Vapor IO and VMware as founding members. The alliance will work to evolve the Internet to be a global, shared platform that distributes compute, data, and intelligence to when and where it’s needed, on demand.
&#8220;The Internet was built from the core out. Now we need to rebuild it from the edge in,&#8221; said Cole Crawford, founder and CEO of edge infrastructure company Vapor IO. &#8220;The alliance will accelerate a decades-long journey of innovation at all levels of the stack, from fibre optics to workload automation. We want to align thought leaders, technologies and investments to bring forth applications that simply cannot be delivered on the Internet we have today. The Open Grid is for everybody; it will only emerge from deep industry collaborations, and that&#8217;s why we formed the Open Grid Alliance.&#8221;
The OGA will include leaders from myriad industries and disciplines, leveraging domain expertise that spans the entire stack, encompassing the physical infrastructure as well as the software-driven networking, virtualisation, automation, and application layers. Working groups will provide a platform for these voices to present ideas, facilitate discussions, and offer suggestions. In addition, the organisation will serve as an educational resource and knowledge hub for future Open Grid technologies and innovations.
“As human experiences evolve from basic content consumption to real-time immersive collaboration, we see the Internet evolving toward a compute grid and eventually, an intelligence grid. This evolution will enable highly-interactive intelligence applications to be distributed around the globe, on demand,” said Kaniz Mahdi, vice president of advanced technologies, VMware. “We’ve never built something of this scale, and it will require bridging of disparate technologies with multiple levels of abstraction. This will only be possible with a deeper level of collaboration across wireless, cloud, and networking industries.”
As part of its charter, the OGA will embrace technologies that distribute the economics and flexibility of the cloud through the network edge all the way to end users, making it possible to build new classes of applications that support billions of intelligent devices, the data that they generate, and the new networking infrastructure that underpins their seamless operation.
The OGA will define key principles for the Open Grid and identify interoperable technologies that adhere to those principles. It will document how these technologies will impact cloud providers, developers, vendors, communication service providers (CSPs), internet service providers (ISPs), and end users. The OGA will promote collaboration and open architectures that will enable the dynamic geo-distribution of workloads.
&#8220;The business of the internet has been the greatest predictor of value creation in our digital economy and created a whole new way of doing business. It removed geographic barriers and changed the way we connect,â said Vish Nandlall, vice president, Technology Strategy and Ecosystems for Dell Technologies. &#8220;As a founding member of the OGA, Dell Technologies sees this as an opportunity to deliver an edge internet tier to tackle the unprecedented innovation taking place today, extend its reach of the internet and drive greater innovation in areas such as intelligent connected vehicles, smart cities, industry 4.0, and connected healthcare.&#8221;
&#8220;New immersive technologies, interactive applications, and industry 4.0 solutions present a new challenge to the way applications meet subscribers in infinite locations. It requires network functions to be distributed across the connectivity grid at a high elasticity and scale,&#8221; said Ido Susan, CEO of DriveNets. &#8220;DriveNets disrupted networking by building networks like cloud. We are now excited to extend this work by teaming up with this great group of visionaries and form the Open Grid Alliance to rearchitect the Internet.&#8221;
&#8220;A true Open Grid will enable consistency and predictability across multiple clouds and mobile telecom networks with the highest quality of performance. This will make it possible to build next-generation applications and services that leverage the wireless cellular network infrastructure,&#8221; said Jason Hoffman, CEO of MobiledgeX. &#8220;Telecommunications providers require applications that can scale globally and dynamically across highly distributed networks and infrastructure. The Open Grid Alliance is starting one of the most important industry conversations.&#8221;
“We believe connectivity should be democratised and automated,” said Dave Ward, CEO of PacketFabric. “An Open Grid will incorporate the latest in network automation to deliver applications where and when they&#8217;re needed. The ability to provision network routes on demand will play a critical role. We&#8217;re proud to support the Open Grid Alliance in its efforts to bring together multiple industries to architect the most affordable infrastructure that connects users and devices to clouds and private network interconnections.&#8221;
Support for Open Grid Alliance
“A world of one trillion intelligent devices means compute is more heterogeneous and diverse than ever before, underscoring the need for software and silicon solutions that address the full scope of challenges from edge to cloud,” said Dermot O’Driscoll, vice president of product solutions, Infrastructure Line of Business, Arm. “We remain committed to working with the industry, through initiatives like Project Cassini and Platform Security Architecture, to help standardise a secure, cloud-native approach to edge computing.”
“Crown Castle’s industry expertise, along with its land and fibre at the edge, will play an important role in modernising the internet,” said Paul Reddick, vice president of strategy, business and product development at Crown Castle. “We support the Open Grid Alliance&#8217;s efforts to organise an ecosystem that brings this about.”
To increase the diversity of viewpoints, the Open Grid Alliance welcomes members from the technology industry, academia, and public institutions. To find out more about joining the OGA, visit the organisation’s website: <a href="http://www.opengridalliance.org/">www.opengridalliance.org</a>
Additional Resources ●    Read The <a href="http://tiny.cc/OGManifesto">Open Grid Manifesto</a> ●    Read a perspective on the announcement from Vapor IO’s Cole Crawford in <a href="https://vapor.io/why-we-joined-the-open-grid-alliance">this blog post</a> ●    Read a perspective on the announcement from VMware’s Kaniz Mahdi in <a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/telco/reimaging-edge-open-grid/">this blog post</a> ●    Follow <a href="http://twitter.com/opengridallianc">@OpenGridAllianc</a> on Twitter
About Open Grid Alliance
The Open Grid Alliance (<a href="http://opengridalliance.org/">http://opengridalliance.org</a>) is a member-supported collaboration organisation that produces vendor-neutral strategies to re-architect the Internet with grid topologies needed to scale globally. Founding Open Grid Alliance members include Dell Technologies, DriveNets, MobiledgeX, PacketFabric, Vapor IO, and VMware with an invitation for more organisations and contributors. The Open Grid Alliance welcomes additional participants, contributors and supporters. If you have an interest in participating in upcoming reports or submitting a guest post to the Open Grid Alliance Blog, feel free to reach out by emailing <a href="mailto:info@opengridalliance.org">info@opengridalliance.org.</a>
 
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PALO ALTO, Calif. – November 17, 2020 – VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today unveiled the Modern Network framework to enable businesses, and their IT and application development teams, to accelerate adapting to a new normal. To help customers realize a modern network of their own, VMware also announced further enhancements to its virtual networking products and services.
For businesses today, the ability to rapidly and cost effectively respond to change is paramount. Application developers need to quickly deploy, test, and iterate applications. The infrastructure powering applications needs to deliver the efficiency of cloud operating models. Applications need to run on everything from private clouds to public clouds to edge computing, and the user to application experience needs to be great, no matter the user’s location. Traditional hardware-centric networking models simply don’t meet the needs of today’s business realities. The Modern Network framework addresses all of these needs.
The <a href="https://www.vmware.com/solutions/virtual-cloud-network.htmlhttps://www.vmware.com/solutions/virtual-cloud-network.html">Virtual Cloud Network</a> embodies the Modern Network framework. More than 18,000 organizations have modernized their networks using VMware’s Virtual Cloud Network solution. These customers are embracing a cloud operating model, launching workloads with full automation, and eliminating weeks and months of wait time to update a firewall or load balancer. They are virtualizing everything from the data center to the branch to the end user. The Virtual Cloud Network gives organizations an end-to-end solution to deploy applications and make sure they are running optimally and efficiently, while enabling a great user experience.
“Our customers must efficiently manage the rapid shift to remote work, deliver applications faster and more securely, and reduce the cost and complexity of connecting and protecting the distributed enterprise,” said Rajiv Ramaswami, chief operating officer, products and cloud services, VMware. “The Modern Network framework enables our customers to do this. It turns the old way of thinking about networks as hardware appliances, switches, and routers in enterprise networks on its head and instead, takes a top-down view that puts users and applications first. This is the promise we are delivering on with the Virtual Cloud Network.”
The Modern Network Framework Explained
In the traditional model, a network is assembled from distinct devices—switches, routers, firewalls, IDS/IPS systems, load balancers, and more—that are deployed separately and typically configured manually using ticketing systems. This is a bottom-up view, requiring the application to use whatever the infrastructure has available. The Modern Network framework takes a top-down view, creating a network that understands the needs of the application and programmatically managing infrastructure to meet those needs. The Modern Network framework is described by three key pillars.
The first pillar, Modern Application Connectivity Services, enables developers to connect the microservices of a modern application more securely while reducing latency, increasing security, and maintaining application availability. This is done with self-service tools that developers can use without help from central IT.
Underneath this, the Multi-cloud Network Virtualization pillar provides a complete set of essential network services that are fully automated and defined in software. These services include all essential networking functions including security and load balancing. Virtualization and analytics span end to end, from the data center to the branch office and all the way to the end user. Automation is applied not just to the orchestration of a workload, but also day two operations.
Despite the microservice-level abstractions of the first pillar and the scale-out software network infrastructure of the second pillar, at the bottom, packets still need to travel through wires and silicon. The Physical Network Infrastructure pillar is all about providing high capacity and low latency connectivity. It’s about keeping it simple and letting the software do its job.
In the Modern Network framework, security is intrinsic to every pillar.
Taken together, the three pillars and the principles they lay out are the foundation of public cloud architectures. VMware makes them available in every cloud.
The Virtual Cloud Network is a Modern Network, and it Just Got Better
The Virtual Cloud Network, powered by the VMware NSX family of products, enables the public cloud experience for enterprise workloads running in private and multi-cloud environments. Just as in the public cloud, NSX enables automated deployment of the full workload. NSX provides infrastructure services that are defined entirely in scale-out software, delivered on general purpose servers, and built into the CI/CD pipeline so the services are automatically deployed with the application. Enterprises can now deploy full workloads with a single click without opening tickets which might take weeks of manual effort to close.
To achieve this level of cloud operation, VMware NSX delivers the industry’s only complete L2-7 virtual networking stack—switching, routing, firewall, security analytics, advanced load balancing, and container networking. VMware extends the Virtual Cloud Network to connect and protect modern application environments with VMware Tanzu Service Mesh and support for Project Antrea, an open source project that enables Kubernetes networking and security wherever Kubernetes runs. The Virtual Cloud Network runs on non-virtualized bare metal servers, VMs, containers, and across every cloud.
The Virtual Cloud Network doesn’t stop in the data center. The VMware SASE platform converges VMware SD-WAN, cloud security, and zero-trust network access with best-in-class web security to deliver flexibility, agility, and scalability for supporting a work from anywhere workforce. With VMware vRealize Network Insight and VMware Edge Network Intelligence, the Virtual Cloud Network includes advanced analytics that yield better network uptime and resiliency and faster troubleshooting. vRealize Network Insight can measure the life of a packet from the database all the way to the end user, spanning both physical and virtual infrastructure; a unique capability that makes troubleshooting easier.
Today, VMware announced the following enhancements to the Virtual Cloud Network portfolio:
Extending the Future Ready Workforce Solution with VMware SD-WAN Work from Home Subscriptions
The branch is now anywhere a user can connect to the company network to access the resources they need, including at home. VMware is extending the Future Ready Workforce Solution with new VMware SD-WAN work from home subscriptions. These new offerings will provide individual business users optimized network connectivity, more assured application performance, and better security at an affordable low price. Starting at price points lower than the cost of a mobile phone line, and with bandwidth ranging from 350Mbps to 1Gbps, the new subscriptions enable business users to get the best application performance while working from home. These new offerings are available today.
 
New Capabilities for Connecting, Protecting, and Automatically Scaling Modern Applications  Modern applications have thousands of components that need to be connected and protected. VMware Tanzu Service Mesh is an exciting new technology that controls the communication between each of the thousands of components, enforcing security policy and measuring performance and other critical functions, regardless of the underlying infrastructure. VMware is announcing a preview of a unique Attribute-Based Access Control policy model that will bring “who, what, where, when and how” simplicity into modern application policy creation.
Further, VMware is announcing NSX Advanced Load Balancer integration with Tanzu Service Mesh. This integration will enable application developers using Kubernetes to launch an application with all required load balancing capabilities without ever having to touch the infrastructure. API driven, this combined solution will deliver high availability and security for modern applications via load balancing and web application firewall capabilities. This integration is expected to be available in VMware’s Q1 FY22.
Infrastructure that Measures and Fixes Itself
Users and modern applications expect the network to “just work.” When infrastructure is virtualized, it can actually adapt to changes and heal itself. VMware SD-WAN technology takes multiple unreliable network connections and makes them behave like a single ultra-high-performance network. For a work from home user, this means video collaboration applications simply work all of the time. In the data center, VMware’s monitoring and management software now includes powerful new network modeling capabilities that act as a “pre-flight check” to verify an application is reachable across both physical and virtual infrastructure. Together, these new capabilities, which are available today, make troubleshooting faster and more efficient, and represent an important step towards self-healing networks.
Network Virtualization that Runs on SmartNICs for the Next-Generation of Servers
VMware announced Project Monterey, a collaboration with leading hardware providers to deliver network and server virtualization that runs on a SmartNIC. This novel architecture promises a leap forward in computing power and efficiency, as well as pervasive, distributed security. Virtualization and security functions are offloaded to the SmartNIC, freeing up CPU cycles to run applications and creating meaningful cost savings. VMware is announcing that the NSX Services-Defined Firewall running on a Monterey SmartNIC will be able run stateful Layer 4 firewall services at line rate. These same SmartNICs will also be able to run Layer 7 stateful firewall, as well as VMware’s curated IPS signatures. This capability will allow enterprise customers to attach a tuned, ultra-fast, ultra-smart firewall to their most valuable workloads – the database apps that hold their sensitive data.
Industry and Customer Commentary
“IDC is seeing that the traditional hardware-defined, device-centric method of building, operating, and securing networks is being supplanted by a cloud-centric, software-based approach. In fact, IDC research shows that by 2023, more than 55 percent of enterprises will replace outdated operational models with cloud-centric models that facilitate rather than inhibit organizational collaboration,” said Brad Casemore, research vice president, datacenter and multicloud networking, IDC. “Software-based approaches such as the VMware Virtual Cloud Network can help customers modernize both their network infrastructure and operating model, across clouds, datacenters, and the extended enterprise.”
“Around major sporting events, we need to be able to scale out hundreds of apps in seconds and give customers a consistent, reliable, and secure experience,” said Ben Fairclough, lead infrastructure architect at William Hill. “VMware provides us with a modern network that allows us to automate deployment of critical micro-segmentation functionality through the NSX Distributed Firewall using APIs. Tight integration in our environment means our developers know and understand how security policies are put together to ultimately simplify the entire deployment sequence. Our work with VMware gives us confidence that our security posture is as tight as it can be while deploying applications very quickly.”
“When we considered our network modernization process, one of the key factors was supporting a shift to multi-cloud to ensure continuous delivery,” said Thomas Squeo, CTO at Intrado Digital Media. “The network virtualization, analytics, and visualization capabilities included in VMware’s virtual cloud network portfolio made that easy. We’ve created a “5S” framework focused on the stability, scalability, security, speed and savings we need to be successful in meeting our application SLIs, SLOs, and error budget deployments.”
“Tools like the VMware software-based load balancer give us that next-generation functionality to dynamically scale up the throughput capacity to where it needs to go,” said Zack Milem, cloud solution architect at Trend Micro. “By tying our products together with VMware’s modern networking components, Trend Micro is creating a seamless experience in which our business units and our end-users can access applications and infrastructure capacity at any time, wherever they are.”
 
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