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Newest VMware Cloud on AWS innovations help lower the cost, improve the performance, and better protect enterprise workloads

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Customers such as LOTTE, Quality Bicycle Products, and Schibsted benefit from these powerful solutions

SAN FRANCISCO – VMWARE EXPLORE 2022 (August 30, 2022) – This week at VMware Explore 2022, Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com, Inc. company (NASDAQ: AMZN), and VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) are showcasing the continued innovation and customer value the companies are delivering together. New capabilities in the jointly engineered VMware Cloud on AWS service and broad availability of VMware Cross-Cloud services on AWS Marketplace help customers accelerate moving VMware workloads to a more modern and secure infrastructure in AWS to support enterprise cloud transformation.

Whether it’s by choice or by compelling events like the COVID-19 pandemic, business leaders are looking for ways to speed up their digital transformation and thrive in this era of fast-moving disruption. That’s why VMware and AWS remain fully committed to meeting the needs of customers through the companies’ unique joint work.

“VMware Cloud on AWS continues to deliver compelling new capabilities that help customers move quickly and non-disruptively to the cloud with compatibility and operational consistency across their existing vSphere-based deployments,” said Mark Lohmeyer, senior vice president and general manager, cloud infrastructure business group at VMware. “And once workloads are running in VMware Cloud on AWS, the service can deliver significant ongoing savings by optimizing resource utilization while ensuring better workload availability, protecting against today’s complicated and dangerous lateral threats, and enabling the next-generation of modern applications. Together with AWS, we are accelerating our delivery of new innovations for the broadest range of enterprise workloads.”

“Customers want to accelerate cloud migrations with operational consistency and flexibility, reduce costs while scaling to meet global business demand, and modernize workloads and increase innovation with cloud-native services,” said Matt Garman, senior vice president, AWS sales and marketing at AWS. “Together with VMware, we are giving customers the fastest path to cloud migration and modernization for their enterprise vSphere workloads. We allow them to speed application innovation, simplify cloud operations, and further improve security by running on the AWS global infrastructure.”

New Capabilities Improve Flexibility, Performance and ROI

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Research shows VMware Cloud on AWS customers can achieve 46% faster cloud migration and 57% reduction in TCO(1). VMware Cloud on AWS brings VMware’s enterprise-class Software-Defined Data Center software to AWS bare metal infrastructure to run enterprise workloads more securely at scale, across both virtual machines and containers. The service features built-in Kubernetes and optimized access to 200+ native AWS services including data, analytics, artificial intelligence, and machine learning to deliver a pragmatic approach to app modernization. Built-in VMware NSX security capabilities help stop advanced, persistent threats that can move laterally within and across cloud and data center environments. The latest advancements include:

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) I4i instances for I/O-intensive Workloads: Powered by 3rd generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors (Ice Lake), Amazon EC2 instances help deliver better workload support and delivery, lower TCO, and increased scalability and application performance. Compared to I3, the I4i instances provide nearly twice the number of physical cores, twice the memory, three times the storage capacity, and three times the network bandwidth. The I4i instances help minimize latency and maximize transactions per second (TPS) for certain workloads such as transactional and NoSQL databases that need fast access to datasets on local storage. Workloads such as real-time databases, data warehouses, and data analytics benefit from higher compute performance per TB of storage.

External, Flexible Cloud Storage Options: New external cloud storage options help customers optimize/lower the cost of cloud capacity, and flexibly scale and fine tune compute and storage independently as needs evolve, especially for data-demanding workloads such as databases, big data and analytics, EDA, and media processing.

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Cost-Effective, Flexible Consumption Option: VMware Cloud Flex Compute represents a new cloud computing model that will help customers start faster with smaller units with VMware Cloud on AWS. Customers will be able to start running workloads in minutes using environments that are expected to be 97% smaller than the minimum required to support production workloads today. Customers will also be able to better meet the cost and performance requirements of enterprise applications by using smaller units containing vCPU, memory, storage, and network resources and adjusting as their capacity requirements change versus adding/removing full hosts. VMware Cloud Flex Compute is currently in preview.

Rapid Ransomware Recovery: VMware uniquely makes recovery from a ransomware attack faster, more predictable, and less prone to error with VMware Ransomware Recovery for VMware Cloud DR. This purpose-built ransomware recovery-as-a-service solution enables safe recovery designed to prevent re-infection of IT and line-of-business production workloads through its innovative use an isolated recovery environment on VMware Cloud on AWS. Guided recovery workflows allow customers to quickly identify recovery point candidates, validate restore points using embedded behavioral analysis, and recover data with minimal loss.

Continued Global Expansion: VMware Cloud on AWS is now available in the Asia Pacific (Hong Kong) region, bringing coverage of the service to 21 regions globally. This includes both AWS GovCloud (US West) and AWS GovCloud (US East) regions for which the service is FedRAMP Authorized to allow US government agencies and customers supporting the US government to migrate, manage, and operate sensitive workloads in the cloud.

Empowering Customers to Consume VMware Services in AWS Marketplace

VMware and AWS continue to make it easier for AWS customers to purchase and deploy VMware Cross-Cloud services to support AWS. Organizations can use their existing AWS EDP agreements to consume VMware Cross-Cloud Cloud services to modernize their mission-critical enterprise apps on AWS. Available services include VMware Cloud on AWS, VMware Tanzu, VMware Carbon Black, CloudHealth, and VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer (AVI Networks) with more to come.

Customers and Partners Globally Modernize with VMware Cloud on AWS

Lotte is one of the leading confectionery manufacturers in Japan. “With the help of VMware, AWS, and our DXC Technology, the foundations for our digital transformation are in place, and Lotte is ready for new challenges and growth,” said Mr. Hisaaki Ogata, Senior Manager of ICT Strategic Division, Lotte Corporation. “VMware Cloud on AWS proved to be a strategic platform that helped us move more than 4,000 Horizon VDI workloads to AWS and enabled us to manage through the pandemic with a smooth transition to remote work. Beyond enhancing employees’ work experience, the Lotte migration to the cloud has also allowed the company to build an infrastructure that can respond to business growth and new opportunities with flexibility.”

Quality Bicycle Products (QBP) is the largest distributor of bicycle parts and accessories in the bicycle industry. “Faced with 11 months to move our complete production environment out of our existing colocation facility, QBP turned to VMware Cloud on AWS and completed the entire migration in only three months,” said Joe Van Ert, systems architect, Quality Bicycle Products. “In doing so we unlocked the door to AWS and have achieved the best of both worlds. We gave our developers access to AWS tools that help them modernize the apps they are building and delivering while continuing to run our business on a proven VMware enterprise architecture. We are now free from having to manage hardware and do other mundane administrative tasks and can invest in more strategic IT projects that are helping to move our business forward.”

Schibsted is Scandinavia’s largest media group, recently expanding into online classified marketplaces and personal finance holdings. “To grow and achieve synergy across all our brands, VMware, AWS, and Kyndryl have helped us make a strategic shift to become a cloud native company,” said Ken Sivertsen, Cloud Infrastructure Architect, Schibsted Enterprise Technology. “We are now taking full advantage of the highly scalable VMware Cloud on AWS. The service has enabled us to modernize our infrastructure and operations while reducing costs by eliminating substantial portions of our aging on-prem environment. This includes replacing physical security applications with the built-in firewall capabilities VMware offers, which allowed us to move to a Zero Trust architecture.”

About Amazon Web Services

For over 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud offering. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 84 Availability Zones within 26 geographic regions, with announced plans for 24 more Availability Zones and eight more AWS Regions in Australia, Canada, India, Israel, New Zealand, Spain, Switzerland, and the United Arab Emirates. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit .

Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Amazon strives to be Earth’s Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth’s Best Employer, and Earth’s Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit and follow <a href="https://twitter.com/amazonnews?s=20&t=p_L5xFgZwk--Ou6zYwAWcA">@AmazonNews</a>.

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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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SAN FRANCISCO--VMware Explore 2022 (August 30, 2022) – The launch of VMware vSphere 8 (<a href="https://news.vmware.com/releases/vmware-explore-2022-cloud-edge-infrastructure">announcement</a>) ushers in a new era of computing with DPUs and delivers on VMware’s vision for <a href="https://news.vmware.com/releases/vmware-unveils-project-monterey-re-imagining-hybrid-cloud-architecture-to-support-next-generation-applications" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Project Monterey</a>. With the new VMware vSphere Distributed Services Engine capability, vSphere modernizes the cloud infrastructure into a distributed architecture enabled by DPUs. Customers will be able to achieve better infrastructure price-performance by providing more CPU resources to workloads and reducing operational overhead of DPU lifecycle management with integrated vSphere workflows. vSphere Distributed Services Engine helps meet the throughput and latency needs of modern distributed workloads by accelerating networking functions. Customers will also be able to boost infrastructure security by running infrastructure services on the DPU and isolating them from the workload domain. This has been a journey driven by our amazing set of ecosystem partners which have helped fuel this innovation and bring it to reality.

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“Modern enterprise workloads are evolving to become more cloud-like and distributed across multiple systems,” said Forrest Norrod, senior vice president and general manager, Data Center Solutions Group, AMD. “VMware is helping customers deliver infrastructure services that support this evolution. With vSphere 8 integrated into systems running the fully programmable AMD Pensando DPUs and AMD EPYC™ CPUs, our mutual customers will have a highly performant, next-generation data center that is efficient and secure.”

<a href="https://www.amd.com/en/press-releases/2022-08-30-industry-leading-amd-pensando-dpus-enable-accelerated-data-centers-vmware" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Read AMD's announcement</a>

“Dell Technologies and VMware are collaborating to deliver cloud infrastructure advancements that support modern applications,” said Travis Vigil, senior vice president, portfolio and product management, Dell Technologies. Dell PowerEdge servers and Dell VxRail systems – the industry’s only jointly engineered HCI solution with VMware – running vSphere 8 with vSphere Distributed Services Engine are perfect examples of this innovation in action, offering customers greater application and networking performance.”

<a href="https://www.dell.com/en-us/dt/corporate/newsroom/announcements/detailpage.press-releases~usa~2022~08~08302022-dell-technologies-delivers-industry-first-innovations-with-vmware-to-power-multicloud-and-edge-solutions.htm#/filter-on/Country:en-us" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Read Dell Technologies’ announcement</a>

“Together with VMware and AMD Pensando, HPE continues to define the enterprise architecture of the next decade. The HPE ProLiant with vSphere Distributed Services Engine optimizes resources for data-intensive applications by relieving the CPU of networking services, all with zero-trust security and high-performance. The new integrated solution offers customers a simplified operational experience combining networking, security, storage, management, and lifecycle services to boost application performance and improve TCO.”

<a href="https://community.hpe.com/t5/Servers-Systems-The-Right/Next-generation-virtual-infrastructure-boosts-workloads/ba-p/7172767" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Read HPE’s announcement</a>

“Intel’s collaboration on VMware vSphere 8, the enterprise workload platform, brings the additional performance and security benefits of network accelerated cloud infrastructure to an extended community of enterprise customers,” said Patty Kummrow, Corporate Vice President and General Manager of Intel’s Ethernet Products Group. “As a participating vendor in the original launch of Project Monterey, Intel looks forward to announcing GA support for vSphere 8 with the Intel® Infrastructure Processing Unit (Intel® IPU) product line at a future time.”

“AI and zero-trust security are pushing the boundaries of computing and networking for enterprise data centers,” said Manuvir Das, head of Enterprise Computing at NVIDIA. “VMware vSphere 8 on NVIDIA BlueField DPUs will boost infrastructure security, offload infrastructure services and free computing resources — all to enable enterprises’ intelligence factories.”

<a href="https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-and-dell-technologies-deliver-new-data-center-solution-for-zero-trust-security-and-the-era-of-ai" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Read NVIDIA’s announcement</a>

“The volume and complexity of today’s workloads has resulted in higher demand for software-defined infrastructure services,” said Brian Connors, VP & GM Software and Business Development, Lenovo. “With vSphere 8, Lenovo TruScale customers will be able to modernize their cloud infrastructure into a distributed architecture that offloads infrastructure services to DPUs. This will help better meet the throughput, latency, and intrinsic security requirements of modern distributed workloads. And, it provides the foundation for our customers multi-cloud environments.”

<a href="https://news.lenovo.com/pressroom/press-releases/edge-to-cloud-capabilities-expanded-range-multi-cloud-infrastructure-solutions/." target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Read Lenovo's announcement</a>

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VMware vSphere 8 ushers in a new era of computing, modernizing the cloud infrastructure into a distributed architecture enabled by DPUs.

The launch of VMware vSphere 8 ushers in a new era of computing with DPUs and delivers on VMware’s vision for Project Monterey. With the new VMware vSphere Distributed Services Engine capability, vSphere modernizes the cloud infrastructure into a distributed architecture enabled by DPUs.

VMware partners deliver on the project of Project Monterey with vSphere 8 support

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IBM will be first VMware partner to combine consulting expertise and new jointly engineered cloud solutions for clients running mission-critical workloads in VMware-based environments

SAN FRANCISCO – VMware Explore US 2022 (Aug. 30, 2022) – VMware Inc. (NYSE: VMW) and IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced at VMware Explore 2022 an expanded partnership to help global clients and partners modernize mission-critical workloads and expedite time-to-value in hybrid cloud environments. The expanded relationship includes IBM Consulting as a VMware GSI partner, the companies’ intent to deliver new jointly engineered IBM and VMware Cloud solutions, and joint development and go to market. Together, IBM and VMware are planning to help clients in regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare and public sector address the cost, complexity, and risk of migrating and modernizing mission-critical workloads in the cloud.

Companies, including those in regulated industries, are looking to modernize core business workloads to create better experiences for their clients and comply with industry regulations. Further, the current economic climate makes refactoring applications for cloud unrealistic for many organizations, driving increased emphasis on a more agile modernization strategy. The planned IBM and VMware offerings are intended to increase choice and flexibility for companies to execute their digital transformation strategies.

“In today’s market, organizations want to modernize and transform operations quickly. But modernization and innovation cannot come at the cost of security and trust built with clients,” said Howard Boville, Head of IBM Cloud Platform. “Together, IBM and VMware are supporting our mutual clients in regulated industries by offering something no two other companies are delivering– to more easily leverage hybrid cloud services securely -- wherever and however they wish to run them.”

“With IBM and VMware, our customers get a combination of innovation and consulting experience based on decades of close collaboration and experience in meeting the business challenges of thousands of customers around the world,” said Mark Lohmeyer, Senior Vice President and General Manager, cloud infrastructure business group, VMware. “This ongoing collaboration will enable us to better streamline the user experience for our mutual enterprise customers looking to run VMware mission critical workloads that require higher levels of security, resiliency and compliance support in financial services and regulated industries.”

Ecosystem partnerships such as the one between IBM and VMware are critical to helping some of the world’s most influential companies modernize their workloads with a focus on security and efficiency, while providing choice in how to deploy and manage them. Today's news builds on the companies’ longstanding relationship, having collaborated over the past 20 years to help clients realize their technology goals.

The companies’ expanded partnership includes:

To learn more about how IBM and VMware are enabling clients to modernize within hybrid environments, please visit: <a href="https://www.ibm.com/cloud/vmware">https://www.ibm.com/cloud/vmware</a>.

IBM is a leading global hybrid cloud and AI, and business services provider, helping clients in more than 175 countries capitalize on insights from their data, streamline business processes, reduce costs and gain the competitive edge in their industries. Nearly 3,800 government and corporate entities in critical infrastructure areas such as financial services, telecommunications and healthcare rely on IBM's hybrid cloud platform and Red Hat OpenShift to affect their digital transformations quickly, efficiently, and securely. IBM's breakthrough innovations in AI, quantum computing, industry-specific cloud solutions and business services deliver open and flexible options to our clients. All of this is backed by IBM's legendary commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility, inclusivity, and service. For more information, visit <a href="https://c212.net/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=3492407-1&h=881995832&u=https%3A%2F%2Fc212.net%2Fc%2Flink%2F%3Ft%3D0%26l%3Den%26o%3D3382707-1%26h%3D188029054%26u%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fc212.net%252Fc%252Flink%252F%253Ft%253D0%2526l%253Den%2526o%253D3154235-1%2526h%253D3195901305%2526u%253Dhttp%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.ibm.com%25252F%2526a%253Dwww.ibm.com%26a%3Dwww.ibm.com&a=www.ibm.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.ibm.com</a>.

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IBM and VMware to help clients in regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare and public sector address the cost, complexity, and risk of migrating and modernizing mission-critical workloads in the cloud.

VMware and IBM announced an expanded partnership that includes IBM Consulting as a VMware GSI partner, the companies’ intent to deliver new jointly engineered IBM and VMware Cloud solutions, and joint development and go to market. Together, IBM and VMware are planning to help clients in regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare and public sector address the cost, complexity, and risk of migrating and modernizing mission-critical workloads in the cloud.

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VMware and IBM announced an expanded partnership to help clients in regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare and public sector address the cost, complexity, and risk of migrating and modernizing mission-critical workloads in the cloud.

New and innovative solutions help organizations to cost-effectively and seamlessly migrate and modernize enterprise workloads while optimizing and accelerating traditional and modern applications on-premises

SAN FRANCISCO -- VMware Explore 2022 (August 29, 2022)— NetApp® (NASDAQ: NTAP), a global, cloud-led, data-centric software company and VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today announced the expansion of the companies’ longstanding global alliance. Through innovative solutions and go-to-market initiatives, NetApp and VMware are helping customers reduce the cost, complexity and risk of migrating and modernizing enterprise-class workloads in multi-cloud environments. In addition, organizations can accelerate the performance and delivery of both traditional and new modern applications, and simplify daily operations through new integrations between VMware and NetApp data management infrastructure.

The NetApp and VMware partnership is built on the foundation of shared experience supporting twenty thousand mutual customers over more than 20 years. NetApp is a consistent VMware strategic design partner for current and future VMware Cloud offerings including VMware vSphere, VMware Cloud Foundation and several VMware Cross-Cloud services. NetApp and VMware are helping customers to effectively manage, share and protect their hybrid and multi-cloud environments by collaborating on customer-driven co-engineering to offer innovative solutions across an ever-changing technology landscape.

“Customers today are faced with complex challenges to optimize their current IT investments while laying a path forward to modernize and accelerate their business,” said George Kurian, Chief Executive Officer, NetApp. “Together, NetApp and VMware have helped thousands of customers solve their multi-cloud challenges by effectively managing their enterprise workloads in any environment. By delivering powerful new solutions that help companies optimize their virtual data centers, modernize their applications, and provide cost-efficient, enterprise-class data management services to VMware Cloud, we can meet customers anywhere they are on their cloud journey.”

“At this stage it’s clear: Multi-cloud is the model we’re going to rely on for many years to come. It is the de facto operating model for the digital era, giving customers the freedom required to build, deploy, and manage applications in the way that best suits their business requirements,” said Raghu Raghuram, Chief Executive Officer, VMware. “Together, VMware and NetApp offer businesses the multi-cloud flexibility and choice they need to leverage the best innovations in any cloud environment.”

NetApp and VMware: Powering the Multi-Cloud Era

The new wave of modern applications powering this digital age requires an innovative approach to enterprise workload and data management infrastructure. Organizations today are turning to the public cloud to simplify and accelerate their business initiatives and require flexibility and choice across leading public cloud providers. These organizations also need new, and integrated platforms that can manage both enterprise and modern applications while efficiently utilizing existing resources. The renewed partnership between NetApp and VMware addresses these challenges through focusing on three major customer-driven initiatives:

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“According to IDC's 2021 Multicloud Survey, eight in 10 organizations are operating in multicloud environments, but most of them cite challenges such as lack of integration, management complexities, lack of end-to-end visibility, limited skills, and spiraling costs of operations,” said Archana Venkatraman, Research Director, Cloud Data Management and CloudOps at IDC. “Together, VMware and NetApp are addressing these challenges head on to help customers make the most of their existing investment while providing a simplified path to move workloads to the cloud as their business requires.”

“SAP solutions power many of the world’s leading businesses today, including over 90% of the Global Fortune 2000, says Ozren Kopajtic, Vice President, Global Cloud Services at SAP. “NetApp and VMware deliver the scalable, high-performance foundation of SAP’s global public cloud platform, supporting nearly 30 petabytes of information across tens of thousands of virtual volumes and virtual machines, and running one of the largest global deployments of VMware and NetApp technologies.”

“Be The Match helps thousands of people fighting blood cancers or blood diseases receive a potentially life-saving transplant each year by matching patients to donors through our national registry," said Rob Hanson, Vice President, Technology Officer at Be The Match. "Our partnerships with NetApp and VMware allow us to efficiently manage twenty million records, benefiting from their commitments to continuous security and product innovation – key principles important to our mission. By reducing the risks of data loss while improving the productivity of our database and storage administration teams, they're helping us bring together data from physicians, providers, donors, and researchers to have an invaluable impact on our patients.”

NetApp is a global, cloud-led, data-centric software company that empowers organizations to lead with data in the age of accelerated digital transformation. The company provides systems, software and cloud services that enable them to run their applications optimally from data center to cloud, whether they are developing in the cloud, moving to the cloud, or creating their own cloudlike experiences on premises. With solutions that perform across diverse environments, NetApp helps organizations build their own data fabric and securely deliver the right data, services, and applications to the right people—anytime, anywhere. Learn more at <a href="http://www.netapp.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">www.netapp.com</a> or follow us on <a href="https://twitter.com/NetApp?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Twitter</a>, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/netapp" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">LinkedIn</a>, <a href="https://www.facebook.com/NetApp/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Facebook</a>, and <a href="https://www.instagram.com/netapp" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Instagram</a>.

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NetApp and VMware are helping customers reduce the cost, complexity and risk of migrating and modernizing enterprise-class workloads in multicloud environments.

NetApp and VMware expand longstanding global alliance to help customers reduce the cost, complexity and risk of migrating and modernizing enterprise-class workloads in multi-cloud environments.

NetApp and VMware Strengthen Global Partnership to Help Customers Modernize with Multi‑Cloud

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AsiaPac will be the first in the region to leverage VMware vRealize Operations Cloud and VMware Cloud Director service to support companies with their multi-cloud needs
Singapore – 1 November 2021 – VMware Inc. is expanding its partnership with AsiaPac, the region’s premier ICT solutions provider. AsiaPac will be the first partner in the Southeast Asia and Korea region to adopt VMware vRealize Operations Cloud and VMware Cloud Director to support highly regulated industries such as the financial services, government and healthcare sectors in their multi-cloud needs. The partnership will also build upon VMware’s ‘cloud-smart’ approach and commitment to helping businesses navigate the multi-cloud era, recently unveiled during VMworld 2021.
Today, the average organization runs approximately 500 workloads to drive their business[1], and those apps are distributed across clouds. Thus, it is increasingly crucial for companies to have a unified management platform to optimize, plan and scale hybrid cloud deployments from applications to infrastructure.
As a proven solution in the Cloud System and Service Management software space, vRealize Operations Cloud will help AsiaPac unify their multi-cloud operating practice by consolidating all metrics from their VMware, AWS and Azure cloud environments into a single, unified platform. Furthermore, it will allow AsiaPac to provide a consistent monitoring and reporting service for their customers, no matter how distributed their apps are across multiple clouds. The launch of vRealize Operations Cloud and VMware vRealize Log Insight Cloud in Singapore in July 2021 has opened doors for partners like AsiaPac to support highly regulated industries in their multi-cloud journey.
“As more companies look to accelerate their digital transformation during this period of recovery, cloud adoption in Asia Pacific will only continue to increase,” said David Bate, VMware’s Vice President, Cloud, Asia Pacific and Japan. “Helping companies implement a cloud-smart strategy is a key focus for us at VMware. We would like to congratulate AsiaPac for their forward thinking and their partnership. We are confident that this will help offer businesses in Singapore with the flexibility and control needed to operate and innovate in a multi-cloud world.”
To deliver these new services to customers, AsiaPac will also be tapping VMware Cloud Director service, a unique and differentiated SaaS solution available to all VMware Cloud providers. VMware Cloud Director service enables AsiaPac to offer a pay-as-you-grow model, thus reducing the overhead costs to pursue small- and medium-sized businesses. The service enables AsiaPac to provide flexibility in pricing and environment size by dividing their VMware Cloud on AWS software-defined data center (SDDC) environments into multi-tenanted resource pools, with fine-grained control of resource allocation and support for differing consumption models. AsiaPac’s customers will also be able to enjoy easy, self-service consumption through a single access point for all of their virtual data centers via an intuitive user interface or API.
[1] K2 Cybersecurity, “Average Enterprise Runs 464 Custom Applications,” March 2021.
&#8220;As a subsidiary of M1, Singapore’s first digital network operator, AsiaPac prides ourselves on staying at the forefront of delivering innovative next-generation infrastructure and multi-cloud services that are adaptable to today’s digital-first economy,” Andrew Cheng, Managing Director of AsiaPac explained. “Organizations are increasingly relying on cloud technologies to compete. We are confident that VMware’s world-class solutions will help us take full advantage of multiple clouds to improve resiliency and delivery of better services for our customers.”
“With many businesses in the region supercharging their digital transformation journeys to move faster to a digital future, we believe that this partnership will bolster AsiaPac’s efforts in helping their customers respond and adapt to the ever-evolving business landscape,” added Fan Qu, Director, Partner Business, Southeast Asia and Korea at VMware. “AsiaPac is a valued partner at VMware, who was recently awarded the 2021 Partner Value Award for its exceptional growth and track record in helping customers drive technology modernization. We look forward to the greater synergies and value that this partnership expansion will bring in the new era of multi-cloud.”
About AsiaPac
AsiaPac (from M1) is a multi-award winner in the hybrid multi-cloud segment and leading enterprise solutions provider, delivering intelligent digital transformation solutions in Mobility, Cloud, Enterprise Systems and End User Computing. Together with M1, AsiaPac can help to accelerate business digital transformation with a comprehensive portfolio of ICT solutions and providing Cloud Best Practices in Consultation, Design &#038; Deploy, Proactive Monitoring, Technical Support &#038; Managed Services.  AsiaPac focuses on end-to-end customer centric solutions, delivering edge-driven systems to the core data center to the cloud with secured connectivity.  With the domain expertise and experience from large enterprises to government agencies, AsiaPac has successfully implemented many nationwide projects and garnered numerous client references. <a href="https://www1.asiapac.com.sg/">https://www.asiapac.com.sg</a>
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Harnesses VMware Cloud on AWS and VMware’s comprehensive cloud portfolio to modernize its IT infrastructure, improving agility, time-to-market and flexibility to empower the new digital banking paradigm in Philippines
 
PHILIPPINES – August 24, 2021 – VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), a leading innovator in enterprise software, today announced Union Bank of the Philippines (UnionBank), a leading Universal bank in the Philippines and a digital trailblazer in Asia Pacific, has deployed VMware Cloud on AWS as part of its cloud-only IT transformation vision to become a leading digitally-enabled bank in the country. As cloud technologies continue to disrupt traditional banks and power the digital future of banking as an innovation catalyst, a more trusted digital foundation will support the Philippines’ financial ecosystem in accelerating innovations. The VMware Cloud on AWS deployment will provide UnionBank with the flexibility and agility for exponential growth and faster response time to consumer needs, enabling the Bank to drive greater financial inclusion in the Philippines.
According to VMware’s recent Digital Frontiers 3.0 study exploring consumers’ behaviors, preferences and attitudes towards digital services and experiences in 2020(1), 77% of Filipino consumers surveyed have defined themselves as “digitally curious” or “digital explorers”. As such, forward-looking organizations in the Philippines need to transform their business models by integrating next-generation technologies such as Cloud, app modernization and more to deliver customer-led innovations and experiences that are seamless, personalized and secure. As a leading bank for innovation in the Philippines, this is even more urgent for UnionBank as it aims to improve access to financial services for its unbanked and underbanked consumers across the nation amidst a pandemic.
“Despite the reduced physical interactions last year, we managed to attract 24 million new accounts with a large portion coming from digital account opening. This signals the pivotal shift that Philippines is making towards digital banking, and as the leading bank in the country, we are on a constant pursuit of innovative banking services to deliver digital experiences that will best serve our customers’ needs,” said Senior Executive Vice President Henry R. Aguda, Chief Technology &#038; Operations Officer and Chief Transformation Officer at Union Bank of the Philippines. “As such, we are pleased to work with VMware to supercharge our innovations and build a stronger, resilient ecosystem and empower Filipino businesses with the right tools and platforms to accelerate business growth as we continue to shape the digital future of banking in Philippines.”
Leveraging VMware Cloud on AWS can provide UnionBank with the power of flexibility in its multi-cloud strategy, while enabling the Bank to improve agility, scalability, time-to-market and gain faster recovery from deployment failures. In addition, the bank reports that it expects to generate savings of more than 30% over five years and achieve return on investment in less than 18 months(2). Additionally, the VMware Cloud Universal subscription will allow UnionBank to gain greater flexibility, simplicity and portability from a single cloud operation. These improvements will pave the way for the Bank to respond much faster to consumer needs by expanding accessibility for consumers in underserved areas where ATMs and bank branches are scarce or unavailable, and in turn, accelerate its transformation journey to become a leading digitally enabled bank for its Filipino customers.
For many successful digital transformations, organizations need not only the right tools and platforms, but also the right culture that embraces innovations. In addition to designing a platform that is optimized to UnionBank’s unique business needs, VMware consultants have worked closely with the teams, providing the expertise to help them unleash the full potential of their multi-cloud strategy while protecting their IT investments.
“UnionBank has always been committed to deliver superior digital experiences to its customers. With Filipino consumers becoming increasingly digitally savvy, it is crucial for our local banks to harness next-generation technologies such as Cloud and modern apps to boost consumer experience, trust and build a financially inclusive Philippines,” said Walter So, Country Manager, VMware Philippines. “As UnionBank continues to focus on pushing the envelope on digital transformation, VMware is excited to be part of their transformation journey. Through VMware Cloud on AWS, we are committed to building a strong digital foundation for UnionBank to accelerate modern applications and empower the bank with an end-to-end holistic approach from designing applications and integrating our solutions with their operations to respond, adapt and accelerate growth, agility and business innovations in today’s new digital paradigm.”
 
1-    VMware Digital Frontiers 3.0 Study, March 2021, n=1000 2-    <a title="AWS Press Release reprinted on The Asian Banker, “Union Bank to become first major Philippine bank fully hosted in the cloud” May 19, 2021" href="https://www.theasianbanker.com/press-releases/mufg-announces-commitment-to-net-zero-emissions">AWS Press Release reprinted on The Asian Banker, “Union Bank to become first major Philippine bank fully hosted in the cloud” May 19, 2021</a>
 
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By Sanjay K. Deshmukh, Vice President and Managing Director, Southeast Asia and Korea, VMware

In the world that we live in today, physical visits for government services seem like a distant memory with many of us accessing government services online through websites or mobile applications to get real-time support when needed. This is a remarkable development driven by the growing demands from increasingly digital-first citizens.

In Southeast Asia, a youthful population and a fast-growing middle class has given rise to a new generation of citizens who expect and crave superior digital experiences. However, government organizations in the region have not transformed quickly enough to meet the expectations of Southeast Asia’s digital-first citizens. To bridge this gap, we must adopt a holistic and comprehensive public-private partnership (PPP) model that will modernize Southeast Asia’s digital infrastructure to accelerate growth for the region as the global economy starts its post-pandemic recovery in earnest.

In VMware’s recent Digital Frontiers 3.0 study, we found that 78% of Southeast Asians consider themselves to be digitally curious or digital explorers who are ready for digital experiences. But at the same time, 68% of them as also worried their older relatives won’t be able to keep up in this new digital world and have access to services they require.

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As the stewards of economies, the important task of building a digitally inclusive society has fallen on the shoulders of the governments. With 41% of respondents in the region saying that they trust the government in raising the personal levels of their digital literacy, Southeast Asia’s governments have responded accordingly with digital literacy campaigns such as Singapore’s <a href="https://www.imda.gov.sg/digitalforlife" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Digital for Life</a> movement Thailand’s Digital Literacy for Education Equality which aim at enhancing digital access to all citizens.

However, to truly move the needle on bridging digital gaps and fostering trust amongst citizens, government organizations will need to work hand in hand with leading private organizations to achieve these ambitious targets. As responsible members of the community, private sector organizations need to play a part in building a digitally inclusive society in Southeast Asia. For instance, VMware introduced its Getting Future Ready program to help Singaporeans deepen their expertise and specialization in next-generation technologies, and in turn, building a future-ready workforce in Singapore.

Enablers of a future-forward digital society

Trust and citizen-led innovations will become the bedrock of digitally enabled societies. In Southeast Asia, we have the advantage, with 42% of citizens indicating that they are happy to engage with the Government through digital means. However, more must be done to deliver better digital experiences that will move the needle for deeper and more impactful digital citizen interactions.

One way forward is the integration of technologies of the future where consumers have expressed trust in 5G (78%), connected devices (77%) and facial recognition (75%). Government agencies have also started on this venture with new digital offerings and services such as Singapore’s SingPass application, the Philippines’ biometric national ID and more.

While Southeast Asian citizens are digitally-savvy, at least one in two (57%) still feel paranoid that organizations are tracking and recording what they do on their devices. This issue of privacy is a very valid one and government organizations in the region must work hard to assure citizens how their data is being used and stored. The VMware Digital Frontiers 3.0 study also revealed that less than half (41%) of Southeast Asian citizens say that the government has given assurance that their personal information is secure. It is thus critical for government organizations in the region to provide citizens with the assurance that their personal information is safe and secure.

A close partnership with the private organizations will help spearhead conversations around these critical societal issues. While the public agencies can ensure that the necessary digital regulations are in place to safeguard citizens’ interests and encourage businesses to participate in these industry conversations, private organizations can also tap on the robust digital infrastructure and policies to harness data, accelerate innovations and agility for the regional economy.

Sustaining a resilient and digitally inclusive Southeast Asia

A digital-first Southeast Asia will ensure the development of a resilient and inclusive, innovation-led economy that lay the foundations for the long-term prosperity of the region. And this is only possible when governments adopt a holistic and comprehensive approach to deliver superior digital experiences across any cloud, any application and any device, in a seamless and secure manner to their citizens.

While organizations were focused on responding and adapting to the pandemic to ensure business continuity in 2020, 2021 marks a turning point with innovation becoming a priority for future-ready organizations looking to accelerate their growth. Now is the time for public and private sectors to join hands in harnessing technology to build a digitally inclusive and enabled society, and help Southeast Asia move collectively towards a digital-first future.

By Sanjay K. Deshmukh, Vice President and Managing Director, Southeast Asia and Korea, VMware In the world that we live in today, physical visits for government services seem like a distant memory with many of us accessing government services online through websites or mobile applications to get real-time support when needed. This is a remarkable […]

Harnessing government-citizen partnerships to build a digitally inclusive Southeast Asia

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First to offer multi-tenancy on VMware for Public Cloud, Macrologic is set to boost post-pandemic recovery by enabling a flexible business environment for SMBs to further business innovation and resilience

PHILIPPINES – April 15, 2021 – VMware, Inc., a leading innovator in enterprise software, today announced its partnership with Macrologic, a cloud provider in the Philippines, to offer a cloud-first data center facility for small and medium businesses (SMBs) in the country. Macrologic is the first VMware Cloud Provider in the Philippines to offer multi-tenancy on the VMware for Public Cloud offering and VMware Cloud Provider Program (VCPP) on Cloud. As such, it will empower Filipino organizations to transform legacy on-premises data centers into modern, multi-cloud environments for quicker app delivery and accelerated go-to-market.

Powered by VMware, Macrologic will enable the country’s SMB ecosystem across key industry verticals with greater resilience, scalability and security, accelerating their growth in a digital-first business environment.

SMBs serve as the driving force of the Philippines’ economic growth, accounting for 99.5% of all businesses<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1">[1]</a>. However, uncertainties brought forth by the Covid-19 pandemic, mean Filipino SMBs have to transform their business models to meet dynamic customer demands. Forward-thinking Filipino enterprises are now adopting a digital-first approach as they transition to a cloud-first environment for greater agility and scalability, while maintaining robust security measures to better safeguard business and customer information. Leveraging cloud technologies, SMBs are better able to save cost, improve business continuity and reduce business limitations – critical factors in fueling continued growth in an uncertain macroeconomic environment.

“The great reset in the Philippines’ business environment is elevating the need for SMBs to harness cloud to respond, adapt, and accelerate to a digital-first environment,” said Walter So, country manager, VMware Philippines. “We’re always excited to work with forward-thinking organizations such as Macrologic as we look toward building an agile economy in today’s digital-first landscape. To enable SMBs in their transformation journeys, Macrologic has boosted their cloud capabilities and service delivery to provide the speed, agility, and scalability that they require. Through this partnership, I am confident that we are now a step closer to helping the SMB ecosystem and the Philippines stay resilient and move faster toward economic recovery.”

Strong customer traction across key industry verticals such as education, pharmaceutical, food & beverage, as well as architecture reflect the growing importance Filipino enterprises attach to cloud technologies, as they future proof their businesses for growth and recovery. These include SYSU International, Getz Bros. Philippines and International Pharmaceutical Inc.

As the first VMware partner in the Philippines to offer multi-tenancy on VMware for Public Cloud offering and VMware Cloud Provider Program (VCPP) on Cloud, Macrologic provides SMBs with the services needed to run VMware workloads on SAP s4 HANA. This helps empower their business transformation from harnessing huge volumes of real-time data to perform real-time analytics, transaction execution and data processing. Addressing costs as a barrier to the move to cloud, the SAP model as Software-as-a-service (SaaS) provides SMBs with the option to customize their capacity in the cloud and tap on the dynamic scalability of the cloud to meet their organizational needs.  

In addition, Macrologic has achieved the Master Services Competency Data Center Virtualization.

“With the Philippines on the trajectory to becoming one of the biggest digital economies in the region, businesses will need the speed, agility, and economics to handle the growing volume and velocity of data, and build their resilience in the new digital era. Already, we are seeing positive customer adoption across key industry verticals in the Philippines. With VMware’s world-class solutions and our certified engineers, we can better support SMBs in strengthening their digital foundation and accelerating their cloud journeys,” said Arman Menta, president, Macrologic.

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<a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1">[1]</a> <a href="https://philippines.un.org/index.php/en/93680-msme-sector-key-covid-19-inclusive-recovery-ph" target="_blank" rel="noopener">MSME Sector is key to COVID-19 inclusive recovery for PH</a>, United Nations Philippines, Oct 2020

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SINGAPORE, November 16, 2020 – VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today announced it has collaborated with Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. to further extend its leadership in 5G. Through this alliance, the companies seek to help Communication Service Providers (CSPs) meet the requirements of 5G networks and accelerate the roll-out of 5G by optimizing Samsung’s portfolio of telco offerings from Core to Edge to RAN for both containerized network functions (CNFs) and virtualized network functions (VNFs) with VMware Telco Cloud Platform.

According to new global research by VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), clear alignment between the business, IT and app development teams delivers innovation and helps high growth companies meet their business objectives. As 5G continues to gain traction, CSPs will require a cloud native network that will improve the flexibility and efficiency of deploying services into new verticals faster. At the same time, CSPs can only achieve this with a cloud-first automated network designed to simplify management and operations while lowering operational costs. The Samsung and VMware collaboration aims to accelerate the innovation cycle through better network design end-to-end, and support the agility required for 5G networks. With VMware Telco Cloud Platform, CSPs can deploy a cloud native, software-defined 5G network that will accelerate the delivery of services and applications across distributed telco clouds with operational consistency, integrated lifecycle management and multi-layer automation while maintaining carrier-grade performance, scalability and reliability.

As part of this collaboration, the companies have been working together at Samsung’s lab to optimize and accelerate the readiness of Samsung’s various VNFs and CNFs, such as vRAN, 5G Core, MEC, Management, and Analytics, with the VMware Telco Cloud Platform. Samsung’s VNFs and CNFs have been and continue to be integrated with VMware’s Ready for Telco Cloud program. The VMware Ready for Telco Cloud program will support Samsung to accelerate the onboarding and deployment of their 5G-ready services on the VMware Telco Cloud Platform, thereby enabling CSPs to accelerate their time to deploy and time to revenue.

“With innovative and open 5G networks beginning to transform the landscape, Samsung sees the value in delivering carrier-grade solutions with VMware that help CSPs easily embrace cloud native technology and efficiently deliver our network functions and services across their 5G networks with automation,” said Wonil Roh, Senior Vice President and Head of Product Strategy, Networks Business at Samsung Electronics.

“The infrastructure supporting 5G will depend on virtualized and containerized network functions delivered from software-defined telco and edge cloud platforms,” said Shekar Ayyar, executive vice president and general manager, Telco and Edge Cloud Business Unit, VMware. “We are thrilled to be working with Samsung to deliver carrier-grade solutions that leverage the VMware Telco Cloud portfolio to help CSPs seize this 5G moment and transform themselves into leading technology innovators.”

“5G investments will continue to accelerate globally, and over time, CSPs will expand their focus on delivering Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) to include Ultra-Reliable Low-latency Communications (URLLC) and Massive Machine-type Communications (mMTC), leveraging new core, edge and RAN infrastructure,” said Patrick Filkins, IDC senior research analyst. “To efficiently and simultaneously support these new services, CSPs are best-served adopting cloud-native architectures that can provide the service agility, accelerated innovation and end-to-end optimization to meet today and tomorrow’s customer requirements. VMware and Samsung have demonstrated their leadership in 5G, and we see this partnership beneficial for CSPs as they modernize their network infrastructure.”

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