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Double-click into the concept of “cloud smart.” Take a closer look at the architectural evolution, from single-cloud to cross-cloud services.

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In today’s rapid pace of change, businesses that adapt quickly have a huge advantage. In multi-cloud environments, businesses gain agility for profound reinvention.

There’s freedom of choice as business needs and technologies change. There’s flexibility to quickly move things around and scale up or down. There’s access to leading-edge technology from cloud providers.

There are also new problems to solve in a multi-workload, multi-cloud and multi-workspace environment. IT leaders must learn and oversee different cloud operating models and tools and avoid common pitfalls: Are IT teams working in silos? Are there gaps in security? What about outdated infrastructure and monolithic applications? How does it all fit together?

It’s a phase of cloud adoption referred to as “<a href="https://news.vmware.com/vmware-explore/from-cloud-chaos-to-cloud-smart">cloud chaos</a>.” Despite all its potential, multi-cloud complexity can actually slow down innovation and inhibit new revenue growth and profit. But there are antidotes!

“What we realize is that it's fundamentally an architecture issue — that we need to move away from relying solely on single-cloud services and embracing what we call cross-cloud services,” said Kit Colbert, chief technology officer for VMware, at VMware Explore.

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“’Cross-cloud services means that we move those capabilities up, so now we can have the same networking, security and solution, for example, across multiple clouds, including private and edge,” said Amanda Blevins, vice president and chief technology officer for VMware Americas.

“And by embracing these technologies,” Colbert continued, “we can get you to ‘cloud smart.’”

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Cloud smart, explained by VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram, is the next stage of cloud adoption. Multi-cloud strategies in this phase are mature and sophisticated, and as a result, organizations see the bottom-line benefits of cloud.

Below, look at key <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3vKenLkmvI">cloud-smart strategies Raghuram outlined</a> and how cross-cloud services support each approach.

1.      Accelerated Application Development

Cloud-smart organizations are getting better and faster at building and operating cloud-native apps. There are three key areas ripe for innovation:

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Cross-cloud <a href="https://news.vmware.com/releases/vmware-explore-2022-tanzu-cloud-native-apps">app platform</a> services are a holistic, empowering solution for developers and platform operators alike. It’s a self-service experience. There’s automation and end-to-end security for the entire app development process. There’s greater visibility into the software supply chain. There’s a foundation for building and operating a modern container infrastructure at scale across any Kubernetes and any cloud.

Meanwhile, IT has “near real-time data, cost, automation, and operations all under one roof” using unified <a href="https://news.vmware.com/releases/vmware-explore-2022-multi-cloud-management">multi-cloud management</a> services. “Those insights that we need to operate efficiently and effectively going forward — this is where it's at,” said Carter.

2.      Consistent Enterprise Infrastructure

As enterprises transform and run workloads across clouds and at the edge, “there are some challenges here, as well,” Blevins said. “We want to make sure that we can meet our enterprise application requirements. We might want to do data center extension or cloud migration, and of course, we need to be able to recover from disasters like ransomware.”

<a href="https://news.vmware.com/releases/vmware-explore-2022-cloud-edge-infrastructure">Cross-cloud infrastructure</a> and <a href="https://news.vmware.com/releases/vmware-explore-2022-networking-security-multi-cloud">networking and security</a> services are a great start to a cloud-smart approach here. “It’s all about that consistent enterprise infrastructure for resiliency, performance and scalability — ubiquitously located across on-prem, all the major public clouds and out to the edge,” said Dave Morera, senior technical marketing architect for VMware. “You can uniquely protect your applications by stopping lateral movement of attacks. You can rapidly migrate and modernize your applications.”

3.      Frictionless End-User Experience

Now, all these apps built must be accessible and secure for a hybrid, distributed workforce. “We don't want to have a poor user experience,” said Blevins. “We don't want to have fragmented security. We want to make this easy on our operational teams.”

Cloud-smart organizations use cross-cloud <a href="https://news.vmware.com/releases/vmware-explore-2022-anywhere-workspace">anywhere workspace</a> services. “It enables all employees seamless and secure access to any app on any device from anywhere,” said Teresa Chen, product marketing director of digital workspace solutions for VMware.

With the anywhere workspace, IT can automate processes like onboarding devices, managing app entitlements and updating firmware. They can resolve issues faster using intelligence and machine learning. “This is a clear testament of the efficiency and simplicity it brings to IT,” said Chen.

Apps are at the center of what organizations do. Multi-cloud environments are the reality where it all happens: where companies create, deploy, operate, secure and access applications.

Everyone’s in this multi-cloud universe together: DevOps, DevSecOps, security professionals, platform operators, cloud architects and executives. And it’s together, that cloud-smart companies will make the cloud work the way it should — with more options and less complexity, more choice and no compromise.

<a href="https://news.vmware.com/vmware-explore/from-cloud-chaos-to-cloud-smart">Chart the journey now from cloud chaos to cloud smart</a>, and learn what the journey looked like for <a href="https://news.vmware.com/vmware-explore/becoming-cloud-smart-learn-from-cvs">one cloud-smart company</a>.

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PALO ALTO, Calif. September 14, 2022 – VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today announced that leading analyst firm IDC ranked VMware No. 1 in the worldwide IT automation and configuration management (ITACM) software market for 2021. As the industry requirements for IT automation and configuration management software shift to optimize applications and infrastructure supporting digital and customer-facing applications in dynamic environments, VMware is committed to supporting customers through this transition.

“For the fifth year in a row, our customers have helped VMware top the list in Worldwide IT Automation and Configuration,” said Purnima Padmanabhan, senior vice president and general manager, Cloud Management, VMware. “VMware continues to invest in multi-cloud automation and management solutions that empower organizations to automate and refine the full lifecycle of cloud operations, and more easily navigate the opportunities and challenges of today’s rapidly changing market environment.”

Sustaining Leadership in IT Automation and Configuration Management

The IDC report, “Worldwide IT Automation and Configuration Management Software Market Shares, 2021: Economic Recovery Drives Growth,” (doc #US49218922, June 2022) analyzed revenue and growth rate for the total market in calendar 2021, as well as revenues, shares and growth rates of select leading vendors. According to the report, the market grew to $9.1 billion in calendar 2021, an 11.9% growth from calendar 2020.

The IDC report emphasizes VMware’s continued “focus on its management portfolio, spreading R&D investments across core management suites (vRealize Suite and vCloud Suite) that can enable a lower TCO for its franchise products across datacenter, desktop, networking, security, telecom, and storage products.” The report further states that in calendar 2021, “The move to add more SaaS delivery solution options across the Cloud Management Business Unit has also been well received by customers.”

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VMware announced that IDC ranked VMware No. 1 in the worldwide IT automation and configuration management (ITACM) software market for 2021.

For the fifth year in a row, our customers have helped VMware top the list in Worldwide IT Automation and Configuration. VMware continues to invest in multi-cloud automation and management solutions that empower organizations to automate and refine the full lifecycle of cloud operations, and more easily navigate the opportunities and challenges of today’s rapidly changing market environment.

5 Years and counting-VMware ranked #1 in Worldwide IT Automation and Configuration Management by IDC

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A key theme at this year’s <a href="https://www.vmware.com/explore/us.html?src=ps_62842e3f6213d&cid=7012H000001Kc4GQAS&gclid=Cj0KCQjw0oyYBhDGARIsAMZEuMsQL4ByQrq95bAvH0wOkgNWohwKGYtHprr3NQJkWslYoMERZh90FVgaAnf8EALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds">VMware Explore 2022</a> focused on how organizations navigate the challenges of moving from “cloud chaos” to “cloud smart.” With a cloud smart approach to building multi-cloud architectures, enterprises have the freedom to select the right cloud for the right app<a>. </a>(VMware CEO Raghu Raghuram shared additional perspective on <a href="https://news.vmware.com/vmware-explore/from-cloud-chaos-to-cloud-smart">cloud smart</a><a>.)</a>

During this year’s General Session, we discussed this journey in detail with one leading organization and VMware customer – <a href="https://www.cvshealth.com/news-and-insights/articles/health-care-from-the-heart">CVS Health, one of America’s most innovative health solutions companies</a> with more than 9,600 pharmacy locations nationwide and over 300,000 employees. 85% of Americans live within 10 miles of a CVS pharmacy location, with 4.8 million consumers visiting a location daily, and 45 million unique digital consumers further expanding its online reach.

I was honored to be joined on stage at VMware Explore by Roshan Navagamuwa, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer of CVS Health, to learn more about how CVS Health leverages a “technology forward” cloud-smart strategy.

During one of the most uncertain periods in recently history, <a href="https://www.cvshealth.com/news-and-insights/articles/our-covid-19-response#:~:text=As%20a%20leading%20health%20solutions,administration%20to%20millions%20of%20people.">CVS Health played an instrumental role in responding to the challenges of COVID-19.</a> Since the pandemic began, it has administered more than 50 million vaccines and more than 32 million COVID-19 tests. The company continues to embrace innovation in order to meet the health needs of customers, including increasing mental and virtual health services.

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Begin with a focus on organizational goals.

As Roshan put it, “We started with our imperatives as a health care business, which are to drive improved outcomes, lower costs, higher levels of engagement, and broader access to high quality care. Our initial focus was making the consumer experience easier and more convenient, leveraging smarter and more efficient technology.” He stressed the importance of enabling colleagues across CVS Health with the tools and capabilities they need to keep customer promises in a dynamic and fast-paced environment. Underpinning these consumer and colleague capabilities are cloud-based platforms and automated processes.

The journey to cloud smart requires taming complexity.

CVS Health’s cloud journey initially began with its digital and analytics team, expanding over time to include its broader community of application developers. Use cases grew quickly from scale-scale opportunities to products and experiences that are now core to the business.

In early stages of the cloud journey, teams worked with speed and loose coordination in a federated governance model. A few years ago, however, Roshan described reaching an inflection point with large independent implementations within each cloud provider that led to increased cost and complexity.

Roshan’s team took a step back and reset to a more enterprise-optimized approach by consolidating into one team managing an integrated hybrid multi-cloud service and centralized controls and governance. Today, CVS Health leverages a more cohesive hybrid multi-cloud operating model focused on its priorities of ensuring reliable, secure operation with financial control and accountability; an increasingly better developer experience; and reusable products that are easier to integrate.

All of these capabilities ultimately enable business value with the agility needed to deliver on CVS Health’s mission; an example can be seen in their ability to quickly build and integrate health equity analytics into its COVID-19 response, distributing millions of vaccines to underserved populations.

Break down silos as technology teams continue to converge in function.

Roshan and I also discussed the trend of convergence among technology teams. I know from my own conversation with many customers and CIOs that a common challenge has been organizations keeping cloud teams in their own silos. Many “cloud first” enterprises have set up a variety of siloed teams – public cloud operations, platform engineering, and private cloud teams. While the formation of these teams has helped organizations cultivate specialized skill sets, it has also often created complexity, confusion, and chaos.

Roshan shared how CVS Health tackled this challenge, converging multiple teams into a more cohesive cloud services team. This helped streamline a number of burdensome processes, optimize workloads, and drive more automation – ultimately shortening the journey from idea to working software. This was also true of the team’s approach to strengthening the colleague experience. “We converged disparate teams that delivered and supported colleague technology into one team, focused on colleague experience,” Roshan said. “We were intentional about the technology choices best suited to support a mobile workforce and our retail team members – especially our front-line health care workers like pharmacists and nurse practitioners.” As he shared with us, streamlining the colleague experience has allowed their focus to be centered on patients rather than burdensome manual processes.

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VMware’s portfolio of cross-cloud services enables organizations to navigate their own journeys to cloud smart and ensure accelerated app dev, consistent enterprise infrastructure, and frictionless app-access experience.<a id="_msocom_1"></a><a id="_msocom_1"></a>

The promise of multi-cloud is enabling organizations to focus their time, energy, and resources on innovations that improve customer experience and accelerate growth. I was inspired to hear from Roshan how embracing the potential of cloud smart has helped to enable CVS Health’s impact in delivering consumer-centric health care.

Learn more about our <a href="https://news.vmware.com/vmware-explore-2022-media-kit" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">latest innovations announced at VMware Explore.</a>

With a cloud smart approach to building multi-cloud architectures, enterprises have the freedom to select the right cloud for the right app.

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As President of VMware, Sumit Dhawan leads the company’s go-to-market functions including WW Sales, Strategic Corporate Alliances, Customer Experience and Success (CXS), Global Industries, Marketing, and Communications. With over 25 years of experience in the tech industry, Sumit is a seasoned executive with a proven track record of building and running market-leading businesses. He is a strong advocate for delivering an exceptional experience to customers and partners, and for supporting diverse teams, inclusive cultures and equitable environments that encourage the best in everyone. &nbsp; Sumit previously served as VMware’s Chief Customer Experience Officer, managing global teams responsible for professional services, technical support and customer success. Prior to that, he was Chief Executive Officer of Instart, a startup delivering innovations in web application performance and security services. &nbsp; Before leading Instart, Sumit served as the general manager of VMware’s End-User Computing business, establishing the company’s leadership in mobile and unified endpoint management and desktop virtualization. He has also held a number of executive roles at Citrix spanning the engineering, product development, marketing, and general management functions. &nbsp; Sumit holds an MBA from the Warrington College of Business at the University of Florida, an MS in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota, and a BS in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT).

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VMware delivers compelling Kubernetes developer experience and provides comprehensive management with enhancements across VMware Tanzu app modernization portfolio

SAN FRANCISCO – VMware Explore US 2022 – Enterprises are under increasing pressure to digitize their businesses by modernizing app development and IT operations, as traditional approaches simply cannot deliver the competitive advantages or rapid innovation that businesses need today. Developers and IT teams must adapt to the cloud-native app development reality because, in a world where organizations are defined by the digital services they can deliver, modern applications aren’t just the backbone of digital transformation, they’re the currency of this digital economy. Today at VMware Explore 2022, VMware (NYSE: VMW) is introducing advances to its VMware Tanzu portfolio - Tanzu Application Platform and Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations - that unlock developer productivity, deliver end-to-end security from build to production, and enable secure multi-cloud operations at scale, regardless of where they are in their Kubernetes journey.

“Companies face pressure to optimize their application development and delivery efforts for speed, resilience, and security as they move to become a true digital enterprise. Platform teams must focus on delivering a great developer experience and path to production to speed velocity, while also providing a solution for deploying and running apps more securely, reliably, and at scale on any and many clouds,” said Ajay Patel, senior vice president and general manager, Modern Apps & Management Business Group, VMware. “Whether our customers are starting from the data center with existing apps or new apps built in the cloud, VMware Tanzu meets them where they are so they can get their apps to production faster. For those just starting their Kubernetes journey, vSphere with Tanzu Kubernetes Grid helps you get a developer ready platform. For those who have already started with Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) or any Kubernetes distribution, they can use Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations and Tanzu Application Platform for scaling your operator and developer experience.” 

How Customers Are Benefitting from VMware Tanzu  VMware Tanzu is now being adopted by customers across the cloud, edge, and data centers, as they are looking for consistent Kubernetes development, delivery, and management of their highly distributed environments.

“Tanzu Application Platform gives us the flexibility to leverage new tools from a broad ecosystem of native cloud services, while still allowing us to gain value from our existing investments—all within a single, secure, modular platform,” says Ganesh Venkataraman, Chief Technology Officer, Digital Transformation at Fiserv. “It enables us to focus on delivering customer value without worrying about application dependencies or changing code to deliver on our multi-cloud strategy and application portability requirements. This keeps our teams agile and lets us quickly adapt to customer needs. We're just scratching the surface with Tanzu Application Platform and look forward to adopting Application Accelerator and customizing our secure software supply chain as our needs evolve." 

VMware’s State of Kubernetes report 1 found that 65% of organizations already run Kubernetes in production, and 48% expect to dramatically expand their adoption over the next year.  VMware <a href="https://tanzu.vmware.com/kubernetes-operations" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations</a> is the foundation for building and operating a modern container infrastructure at scale across any Kubernetes and any cloud. According to new data commissioned by Enterprise Strategy Group2, Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations delivers 70-80% less administrative cost across all Kubernetes operations, 58% reduction in response time, and three to five times faster time to value for our customers, simplifying and better securing Kubernetes operations for modern applications.

VMware Tanzu® for Kubernetes Operations Adds Capabilities to Help Streamline and Secure Kubernetes Deployments at Scale across Clouds  VMware continues to meet customers wherever they are in their journey of adopting Kubernetes infrastructure - whether a single team, a single cloud, or operating enterprise-wide in multi-cloud - they are relying on VMware Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations to establish the right foundation and set up an environment for the complete development to production lifecycle. At VMware Explore 2022, VMware is <a href="https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/vmware-tanzu-for-kubernetes-operations-updates-vmware-explore" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">announcing updates to key components in Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations</a> - VMware Tanzu® Mission Control™, VMware Aria Operations for Apps (formerly VMware Tanzu® Observability™ by Wavefront), and VMware Tanzu® Kubernetes Grid™ - to simplify Kubernetes delivery, management, and reliability.

VMware Tanzu Mission Control Expands Multi-cluster and Multi-cloud Kubernetes Management Capabilities  As part of VMware’s continued commitment to supporting customers at every stage of their Kubernetes infrastructure maturity, VMware <a href="https://tanzu.vmware.com/mission-control" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Tanzu Mission Control</a> is announcing several new features that extend and optimize multi-cloud, multi-cluster Kubernetes management capabilities:

Introducing Unified Observability by VMware Aria Operations for Applications  As enterprises modernize their existing application portfolio and build new cloud-native applications, the need for application and Kubernetes log management at scale will continue to grow. VMware’s new Unified Observability Platform by VMware Aria Operations for Applications, formerly VMware Tanzu Observability, provides simplified full-stack visibility with great user-experience, and predictable pricing for multi-cloud environments. The new Unified Observability platform amplifies existing capabilities with the addition of log management to deliver contextual data across traces, metrics, and logs enabling more actionable insights and reducing MTTR (mean-time-to-resolution) at a massive scale. The platform unifies data, insights, and actions across IT, and offers customized and out-of-the-box dashboards for applications, with more than 250 vendor integrations to start capturing real-time data from any stack in minutes, eliminating data silos, war rooms, and alert fatigue.

VMware Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 2.0 Streamlines Kubernetes and Application lifecycle management  With containers being deployed increasingly on-premises, in public cloud, and at the edge, it is essential for standardization of Kubernetes across these environments. VMware<a href="https://tanzu.vmware.com/kubernetes-grid" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"> Tanzu Kubernetes Grid</a> is engineered to simplify installation and Day 2 operations by packaging together key open-source technologies and automation tooling to help teams get up and running quickly. VMware is introducing Tanzu Kubernetes Grid 2.0, designed to help IT teams and developers with a streamlined experience for managing and provisioning the lifecycle of Kubernetes clusters<a href="https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/vmware-tanzu-kubernetes-grid-2-0" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">. New capabilities</a> add flexibility and control for cluster creation with Cluster Class, open-source API alignment, application lifecycle management capabilities, and Carvel-based tooling. It is tightly integrated with and embedded in vSphere 8, allowing customers to transform their existing compute infrastructure into an enterprise-ready Kubernetes environment across clouds. Tanzu Kubernetes Grid now also supports smaller cluster sizes of a single control node and a single worker node, available in VMware Edge Compute Stack 2.0, bringing simplicity and scale to the Enterprise Edge.

VMware Tanzu® Application Platform™ Adds Capabilities to Improve Developer Productivity and Simplify DevSecOps  VMware customers with a cloud-native applications strategy are looking to VMware Tanzu Application Platform as a value stream platform to manage complexity in building, configuring, connecting, and deploying new apps with a secure path to production. VMware <a href="https://tanzu.vmware.com/application-platform" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Tanzu Application Platform</a> is designed to unlock developer productivity by providing Application Accelerators and a pre-paved path to production with all the needed components preconfigured for developer teams to build and deploy software quickly and securely. At VMware Explore 2022, VMware is pre-announcing new capabilities in the Tanzu Application Platform that further enhance developer and application operator experiences for any Kubernetes environment, increase supply chain security, and offer additional ecosystem integrations.

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 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" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">VMware Explore 2022 media kit</a>.

About VMware Explore  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" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.vmware.com/explore.html</a>.

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Today at VMware Explore 2022, VMware is introducing advances to its VMware Tanzu portfolio - Tanzu Application Platform and Tanzu for Kubernetes Operations - that unlock developer productivity, deliver end-to-end security from build to production, and enable secure multi-cloud operations at scale, regardless of where they are in their Kubernetes journey.

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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

SAN FRANCISCO – 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 digitize 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 organizations the strategic advantages of a cloud-smart approach. As organizations 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:

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 organizations, 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.

VMware Helps Customers Navigate Multi-Cloud with Innovative New Offerings

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Over the past decade, challenger brands have shaken up the status quo in the business world by pioneering a digital-smart strategy, centered on accelerating innovation via software in the cloud. There are unique qualities that distinguish a digital-smart business: an ability to harness machine learning to turbocharge business insights; a focus on taking automation to the next level; and an obsession with driving the next leap forward in employee engagement and productivity. 

While challenger brands pioneered this digital-smart approach, established incumbents are investing heavily in every industry sector, from education and banking to healthcare, retail, and public sector. That explains the 400-percent growth in cloud-native apps over the past three years: from a total of 72 million in 2019 to an estimated 310 million cloud-native apps in the world today, according to IDC.1

The Great Re-Platforming

But while we’ve made progress on the path to digital, almost every business leader I talk to says the same thing: “We’re not moving fast enough.” Many CIOs describe this current era as ‘The Great Re-Platforming’ of the enterprise – an opportunity to rethink and reshape the core operations that propel every business. In their view, this re-platforming has slowed, and they call out three roadblocks that are holding us back. First, we’re confronting a global-scale gap in critical skills, from software-development to cloud operations. Second, there’s the sheer ‘weight’ of existing enterprise apps, which have proven difficult to modernize and migrate to the cloud. The third roadblock is the fragmented nature of running and securing apps across multiple clouds.

Against that backdrop, organizations have discovered that successfully re-platforming the enterprise requires you to build a “cloud-smart” architecture – one that allows your teams to navigate the inherent complexity of today’s multi-cloud world. At the core of a cloud-smart approach is the ability to drive a consistent, secure, and cost-efficient operating model across the various clouds you rely on.

A survey we conducted this Summer with more than 5,000 organizations across the globe revealed that only 20 percent have reached the tipping point where the strategic benefits of multi-cloud outweigh the challenges, including spiraling costs and cyber-security vulnerabilities.2 In other words, only one in five businesses identify themselves as cloud smart today. What is the right path forward for the remaining 80 percent of organizations that want to implement a cloud-smart approach?

A Typical Journey to Cloud

In my conversations with customers, they consistently describe a journey to the cloud that breaks down into three distinct phases:

Phase 1: Cloud First – This was the initial embrace of public cloud that began a dozen or so years ago, with a big focus on building customer-facing mobile apps in a single cloud. This first wave of cloud innovation drove huge advances in how businesses operate and how they engage their end customers.

Over time, we saw a broad shift from a single-cloud mindset to a multi-cloud model, with 75% of organizations now relying on 2 or more public clouds.3 This makes a lot of sense for a variety of reasons. First, CIOs want to tap into the tremendous amount of innovation being driven by the leading public-cloud players. Developers want access to best-of-breed services in different clouds to differentiate the apps they’re building. And every organization wants greater choice and flexibility, which helps them avoid lock-in with a single service provider.

Phase 2: Cloud Chaos – This describes the current state that 80 percent of organizations are living and breathing each day, a world where greater cloud choice has led to a massive spike in complexity. Most report that building new apps is slow and cumbersome, and managing their entire app portfolio across disparate clouds is difficult and expensive. No wonder: each cloud requires their teams to use proprietary tools that are siloed and incompatible with one another. Meanwhile, for the average employee, getting fast, secure access to critical apps from anywhere is imperative, yet it’s often a challenge. All this complexity has broad repercussions on the business, from managing costs to attracting and retaining top talent.

Phase 3: Cloud Smart – This is the desired destination of every multi-cloud journey: a more sophisticated, mature approach where you have the freedom to select the right cloud for the right app, based on the needs of the individual app. Customers I talk to who have successfully achieved a cloud-smart approach tend to describe three big shifts they drove as part of their move from Cloud Chaos to Cloud Smart:

Cloud Smart in Action: S&P Global

One of my favorite examples of a company accelerating innovation via a cloud-smart approach is S&P Global, a well-respected brand and a leader in business-intelligence services. Like many organizations, they were struggling with complexity, cost and the “need for speed” along their multi-cloud journey. 

They embraced multi-cloud — and partnered with our team at VMware to get the most out of their multi-cloud investments. Today, they’re focused on improving the developer experience to both build solutions quicker for their customers, and move at the speed of business.

Business Outcomes from a Cloud-Smart Approach

When we asked cloud-smart organizations to describe the benefits they’ve gained from their multi-cloud operation, they spoke of advantages that shape both their competitiveness and their top-line results. For example, 97 percent of cloud-smart organizations say their approach to multi-cloud has improved their revenue growth4, and 96 percent say it has improved their profitability.5 At the same time, 96 percent of cloud-smart organizations say they are better able to recruit and retain top talent6, and 92 percent report that it’s easier to manage their data wherever they reside.7

The Ultimate Destination

Moving from a state of cloud chaos to a position of strength as a cloud-smart organization is neither simple nor easy. There’s a lot we can learn from the small subset of businesses that have successfully navigated this transition. Whether you’re a challenger born in the cloud or an established player, the ultimate destination is a multi-cloud environment that empowers your teams to move faster and spend less – powered by a consistent operating model that extends across any cloud. This is the foundation of a digital-smart business.

Watch Raghu Raghuram’s keynote from VMware Explore where he outlines the vision for cloud smart as the destination of every multi-cloud journey.

12019: IDC, 500 Million New Logical Applications: More Background, IDC #lcUS45622019, November 2019; 2022: IDC, 750 Million New Logical Applications: More Background,  Doc # US48441921, December 2021

2-7VMware survey of 5,000 organizations globally, July 2022

The ultimate destination is a multi-cloud environment that empowers your teams to move faster and spend less.

From Cloud Chaos to Cloud Smart - VMware News and Stories

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Raghu Raghuram joined VMware in 2003 and currently serves as the company’s CEO. He is an industry thought leader and has successfully steered the company’s strategy and technology evolution across VMware’s rich history. &nbsp; During his tenure at VMware, Raghuram has held multiple leadership roles, most recently Chief Operating Officer, Products and Cloud Services, where he had responsibility for all of VMware’s product and service offerings and centralized services, support and operational functions. Prior, he led the company’s software-defined data center business as the executive vice president and general manager, where he was responsible for the division’s strategy, business and product planning and engineering execution. Before, he led the company’s cloud infrastructure and management business as the general manager, and led worldwide product marketing, product management and business planning for the company, and served as part of the leadership team that took the company through its initial IPO. Raghuram began his career at VMware running product management for ESX and vSphere. &nbsp; Prior to VMware, Raghuram held product management and marketing roles at AOL, Bang Networks and Netscape. Raghuram holds an MBA from the Wharton School of Business and a Master's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai.

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Raghu Raghuram

Mutual customers will have the choice to purchase Azure VMware Solution through the VMware Cloud Universal program

SAN FRANCISCO / VMware Explore 2022 (August 30, 2022) – VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today extended its ongoing collaboration with Microsoft to help customers with an Azure-first strategy to modernize enterprise VMware vSphere workloads quickly and cost-effectively in Microsoft Azure. Customers will be able to purchase <a href="https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/azure-vmware/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Azure VMware Solution</a> as part of <a href="https://www.vmware.com/products/cloud-universal.html" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">VMware Cloud Universal</a>, a flexible purchasing and consumption program for executing multi-cloud and digital transformation strategies.

“The availability of Azure VMware Solution through VMware Cloud Universal makes it easier for customers to adopt Azure VMware Solution as part of a multi-cloud strategy,” said Zia Yusuf, senior vice president, strategic ecosystem and industry solutions, VMware. “VMware Cloud Universal customers will gain greater flexibility to adopt Azure VMware Solution at their own pace to speed cloud migration, simplify ongoing operations, modernize applications faster and achieve better economics while benefitting from a single operating model across clouds.”

VMware Cloud Universal is ideal for customers committed to a hybrid cloud architecture; that have extended or variable cloud migration timelines; that have cloud bursting requirements; or desire an OPEX model for on-premises infrastructure. With VMware Cloud Universal, customers purchase credits for VMware’s multi-cloud infrastructure and management and apply these credits to deployments of Azure VMware Solution and other VMware Cross-Cloud services.

With Azure VMware Solution, customers benefit from the scale, performance, and innovation of Azure and the enterprise capabilities of VMware Cloud to run VMware vSphere workloads in the cloud. Azure VMware Solution enables customers to achieve higher availability and better security with a VMware Cloud environment built on industry-leading vSphere, vSAN, and NSX capabilities running natively on dedicated Azure infrastructure. Consistent VMware Cloud infrastructure and operations and the ability to use existing skillsets, tools, and training help reduce costs and simplify operations in the cloud. Built-in advanced networking and security help safeguard against modern, laterally moving threats. Customers can also accelerate app innovation and modernization by leveraging the rich set of developer solutions available in Azure, including VMware Tanzu.

“Digital transformation holds the promise of enabling new business models, improving customer experiences, and delivering better outcomes for organizations,” said Kathleen Mitford, corporate vice president, Azure Marketing, Microsoft Corp. “This promise is often held back by business and technical realities, talent shortages, or financial constraints. Azure VMware Solution offers a unique path to help enterprise customers overcome these challenges and sets itself apart to help these organizations modernize and better secure their vSphere workloads with a combined set of unique features and compelling economic benefits only Microsoft can deliver.”

Sentara Healthcare is an integrated, not-for-profit healthcare delivery system which serves over 900,000 members. “With Azure VMware Solution, we were able to meet an aggressive data center evacuation deadline,” said Matthew Douglas, Chief Enterprise Architect at Sentara Healthcare. “We now run in a more modern and secure environment, with the ability to use NSX micro-segmentation to apply consistent security policies across our environments. Sentara is also better positioned to simplify IT operations as we continue to experience further M&A. Being able to apply Azure credits helped us lower our overall TCO.”

Moving to Azure VMware Solution has the potential to yield significant financial benefits to customers. A Total Economic Impact(1) study commissioned by Microsoft and conducted by Forrester Consulting shows a composite organization found a projected ROI between 125% and 274% and projected TCO savings ranged from $3 million to more than $7 million over three years. Specifically, customers can lower overall costs for Microsoft applications running on vSphere. Customers benefit from free extended security updates for Windows Server and SQL Server 2008 and 2012, the ability to bring and use existing on-premises Windows Server and SQL Server licenses to the cloud with Azure Hybrid Benefit, and support for Microsoft 365 and Azure with Horizon® virtual desktop environments.

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>.

1-Source: a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting on behalf of Microsoft, “New Technology: The Projected Total Economic Impact™ Of Microsoft Azure VMware Solution”, October 2021 <a href="https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/docs/vmw-new-techtei-of-microsoft-avs.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/docs/vmw-new-techtei-of-microsoft-avs.pdf</a>

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Customers will be able to purchase Azure VMware Solution as part of VMware Cloud Universal

VMware and Microsoft are making it easier for customers to run enterprise workloads in Microsoft Azure. VMware Cloud Universal customers gain greater flexibility to adopt Azure VMware Solution to speed cloud migration, simplify ongoing operations, modernize applications faster and achieve better economics while benefitting from a single operating model across clouds.

VMware delivers greater multi-cloud flexibility, adds Azure VMware Solution to VMware Cloud Universal

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VMware Extends Collaboration with Microsoft to Make it Easier for Customers to Run Enterprise Workloads in Microsoft Azure

Multi-cloud Flexibility! Azure VMware Solution comes to VMware Cloud Universal

VMware Aria is powered by VMware Aria Graph, a new graph-based data store technology that reduces multi-cloud complexity across any cloud, any app, and for every persona

SAN FRANCISCO – VMware Explore US 2022 – More organizations are delivering applications across public clouds and at the edge, and they’re increasingly using Kubernetes to manage and scale their modernized and cloud-native apps. However, managing apps and infrastructure in a multi-cloud, especially public cloud, and multi-technology environment is complex. Teams have to control costs, ensure performance, and manage consistent security policies across these diverse and distributed environments. Today at VMware Explore 2022, VMware (NYSE: VMW) is unveiling a multi-cloud management portfolio called VMware Aria, which provides a set of end-to-end solutions for managing the cost, performance, configuration, and delivery of infrastructure and cloud native applications. Powering VMware Aria is VMware Aria Graph, a graph-based data store technology that captures the complexity of customers’ multi-cloud environments.

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