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We are officially in our third chapter as a company, but VMware’s mission remains the same: to deliver the trusted foundation to accelerate our customers’ innovation. We do this by providing the multi-cloud platform for all apps, enabling digital innovation and enterprise control. 

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Our path to becoming the “cloud Switzerland” of the industry is resonating with customers and partners, and the journey began with our AWS partnership. It’s through this partnership that the power of “AND” first emerged as a North Star for our strategy. Could customers gain the agility, flexibility, and cost benefits of public cloud AND have the control required of enterprise apps? Turns out they can.

Four years into the partnership and things continue to accelerate. VMware Cloud on AWS is available in 19 global regions. There are now more and different options for consuming VMware Cloud on AWS. And, we’ve delivered new services specifically targeting Local Cloud, Government Cloud, and Telco Cloud environments. Best of all, customers have the choice to buy these services direct from VMware, or AWS, or one of our resellers. And this is just for the customers looking for the fastest path to migrate and modernize Tier 1 vSphere-based enterprise apps. In this same time, VMware Cross-Cloud services have grown into a portfolio of services that enable customers to modernize, optimize, connect and protect their native AWS environments.

The power of "AND" will be on display this week at AWS re:Invent, where we’re continuing to advance key initiatives that support AWS customers. Take a listen to VMware President Sumit Dhawan outline our strategy and the AWS partnership, and catch up on what's new at VMware for AWS customers at the show.

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When organizations talk about digital services, often the conversation turns to “born in the cloud” apps. However, Tier 1 enterprise applications residing on premises are often the life blood of an enterprise. Regardless of where an app was created, all apps benefit from modern infrastructure. This is what VMware Cloud on AWS delivers enterprise-class infrastructure combined with public cloud scale and economics, delivered as a service almost anywhere in the world. At re:Invent, we will showcase new innovations and consumption options, as well as continued expansion of the VMware Cloud on AWS GovCloud service.

<a href="https://blogs.vmware.com/cloud/2021/12/01/vmware-cloud-on-aws-going-big-reinvent2021/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow">You can read about these advancements in this blog</a>.

VMware Tanzu Powers Developers on AWS

With a vast ecosystem of cloud native technologies to choose from, developers and operators alike can be overwhelmed and overburdened as they grapple with every step from iterative coding to applications running in production. VMware Tanzu simplifies the cloud native journey, enabling customers to accelerate their cloud adoption and consumption by efficiently evolving apps and infrastructure from on-premises to AWS, to deliver value faster with a streamlined developer experience for Amazon EKS more efficiently and securely. At re:Invent, VMware Tanzu will release several key new product updates to help customers make the most of the public cloud.

<a href="https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/streamlined-devx-amazon-eks-aws-apps-vmware" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Check out what’s new in this VMware Tanzu in this blog</a>.

Cloud transformation has become a business imperative for Communication Service Providers eager to increase agility, build digital resilience, foster innovation, and deliver new 5G services. Operators are increasingly looking to multi-cloud environments, recognizing the benefit of having their public clouds integrate and work seamlessly with their on-premises infrastructure and taking advantage of their existing skillsets, tools and processes. VMware has simplified this process for our customers with VMware Cloud on AWS and our Telco Cloud Platform.

<a href="https://telco.vmware.com/content/dam/digitalmarketing/vmware/en/pdf/products/vmw-telco-cloud-platform-tcp-datasheet.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Read more about the VMware Telco Cloud Platform.</a>

VMware Cross-Cloud Services in AWS Marketplace

VMware Cross-Cloud services offer distinct advantages to both IT operators and developers working in AWS. These advantages include accelerating application modernization, migrating workloads faster to the cloud, adopting a cloud operating model for their entire organization, and more securely and efficiently connecting a distributed workforce to cloud-based resources. VMware recently announced the company is making it easier for AWS customers to purchase and deploy VMware Cross-Cloud services to support their AWS environments. Our expanded presence in AWS Marketplace is another proof point of our focus on meeting customers where they are at by delivering value for the strategic cloud environment of their choice.

<a href="https://news.vmware.com/releases/vmware-cross-cloud-services-aws-marketplace" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Read about VMware Cross-Cloud services in AWS Marketplace.</a>

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PALO ALTO, Calif. -- VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today announced that the company is positioned as a Leader in the Gartner® Inc. November 2021 Magic QuadrantTM for Hyperconverged Infrastructure Software for the fifth consecutive report. In addition, VMware is also positioned furthest to the right on the Completeness of Vision axis.

“Organizations in the multi-cloud world are adopting solutions that will help them move fast, gain competitive advantage and stay secure. As part of this transformation, organizations need infrastructure that is simple to manage, supports any application and is intrinsically secure with many looking to HCI as an answer to start this journey,” said John Gilmartin, senior vice president and general manager, Cloud Storage and Data, Cloud Infrastructure Business Group, VMware. “VMware vSAN helps IT prepare for the hybrid cloud through seamless evolution, broadest deployment flexibility and VMware Tanzu integration. This latest Leader recognition from Gartner reflects our continued drive to innovate and provide best-in-class HCI solutions to our customers.”

More than 30,000 customers and over 80% of the Global 2000, have adopted VMware vSAN for flexible, resilient and future-ready infrastructure. VMware vSAN is a critical component of VMware’s infrastructure control plane from edge to core to cloud and VMware Cloud Foundation. Built on fullstack hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) technology, VMware Cloud Foundation supports both traditional enterprises and modern apps and provides a complete set of highly secure software-defined services for compute, storage, network, security, Kubernetes, and cloud management to increase enterprise agility and flexibility with consistent infrastructure and operations across private and public clouds.

VMware has the broadest HCI ecosystem that includes 15 jointly certified OEM server vendors, or vSAN ReadyNodes, with more than 500 validated configurations, a jointly engineered solution, Dell EMC VxRail, and 500+ cloud verified partners that offer VMware HCI, including all global hyperscalers.

To read a complimentary copy of the November 2021 Magic Quadrant for Hyperconverged Infrastructure Software, please visit <a href="https://www.vmware.com/learn/1181102_REG.html?cid=7012H000001OtJXQA0&src=wb_618db45866969" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">here</a>.

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Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) and VMware (NYSE: VM) today announced an expansion of the companies’ strategic partnership focused on app modernization and multi-cloud services. This collaboration will enable customers to enhance their digital innovation and business transformation with enterprise control.

The primary goal of the expanded partnership is to accelerate IT and business reinvention for customers through the combination of VMware solutions and Kyndryl’s design, build and managed services. The companies also aim to help customers speed their digital transformations by rapidly building and deploying new, more secure applications designed and built for a world of distributed work.

As Kyndryl and VMware begin their respective journeys as stand-alone companies, they share a productive relationship built on more than 20 years of collaboration between VMware and IBM that has consistently provided customers with a powerful combination of strategic guidance and world-class technologies. Today’s agreement adds a focus on providing differentiated solutions for multicloud infrastructure and management, digital workspace services, managed applications, resiliency and security, and network and edge computing.

“We’re excited to embark on this journey with VMware and intend to leverage a rich and productive history of joint solution architectures, common designs, and deep relationships to provide customers the solutions, services and support they need to achieve their business transformation goals,” said Stephen Leonard, global alliances and partnerships leader, Kyndryl. “Through this important partnership, Kyndryl and VMware will help companies design and deploy mission-critical workloads that can modernize their applications and operations to reap the benefits of cloud and multi-cloud computing.”

Kyndryl also plans to work with VMware to expand its existing multicloud advisory, implementation, and management services to support the VMware Tanzu platform and deploy vSphere workloads to VMware multi-cloud infrastructure running in all public clouds.

“Multi-cloud is the digital business model for the next 20 years. With the average organization running hundreds of apps across many different clouds, customers need solutions and strategic partners that enable their organizations to be as agile and resilient as possible. This is the power of the VMware and Kyndryl partnership,” said Susan Nash, senior vice president, strategic corporate alliances, VMware. “Kyndryl is a strategic partner that brings world-class solutions, skills, expertise, and experience to the companies’ mutual customers. Together, we will empower customers to achieve smarter paths to cloud, edge, and app modernization, provide autonomy for developers, and enable a more secure, frictionless distributed workforce.”

To further the global reach and impact of their collaboration, Kyndryl and VMware have established local, regional, and worldwide alignment of their respective capabilities, expertise and resources that will facilitate solutions planning, investment, and execution. 

Kyndryl and VMware also are jointly developing innovations through a Joint Innovation Lab (JIL), which spearheads and drives delivery model innovations to better reach and serve customers. The JIL programs will further focus on developing solutions for app modernization, containers, observability and security with VMware Tanzu, as well as multicloud management solutions. Kyndryl and VMware will closely align and optimize their collaboration in support of VMware Cross-Cloud™ services to provide infrastructure and applications services and support to customers, independent of the underlying cloud provider environments.

Kyndryl (NYSE: KD) is the world’s largest IT infrastructure services provider. The company designs, builds, manages, and modernizes the complex, mission-critical information systems that the world depends on every day. Kyndryl’s nearly 90,000 employees serve over 4,000 customers in more than 60 countries around the world, including 75 percent of the Fortune 100. For more information, visit <a href="http://www.kyndryl.com">www.kyndryl.com</a>.

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VMware Carbon Black Cloud and VMware Tanzu now available in AWS Marketplace

VMware Inc. (NYSE:VMW) is making it easier for Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers to purchase and deploy VMware Cross-Cloud services to support their AWS environments. VMware Cross-Cloud services help AWS customers drive digital innovation with enterprise control.

VMware Carbon Black Cloud and VMware Tanzu are the latest services now available in the AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that make it easy for customers to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on AWS.

VMware Cross-Cloud services offer distinct advantages to both IT operators and developers working in AWS. These advantages include accelerating application modernization, migrating workloads faster to the cloud, adopting a cloud operating model for their entire organization, and more securely and efficiently connecting a distributed workforce to cloud-based resources.

“Whether a customer has transitioned their business to run entirely in AWS or has a mixed environment of AWS and VMware vSphere, VMware Cross-Cloud services gives them the freedom and enterprise control they need to innovate and win,” said Vittorio Viarengo, vice president, cross-cloud solutions, VMware. “Our expanded presence in AWS Marketplace is another proof point of our focus on meeting customers where they are at by delivering value for the strategic cloud environment of their choice.”

“The addition of VMware Cross-Cloud services in AWS Marketplace brings VMware’s portfolio of solutions to both developers and infrastructure and operations professionals who are building apps and operating their businesses in AWS,” said Mona Chadha, director, AWS Marketplace Category Management, AWS. “Our mutual customers can streamline procurement and accelerate adoption of VMware Cross-Cloud services, leading to faster time-to-value and better business outcomes.”

Advancing App Modernization and DevSecOps with VMware Tanzu

VMware Tanzu (<a href="https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-iz2amhvqlrhwe?sr=0-2&ref_=beagle&applicationId=AWSMPContessa" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">marketplace listing</a>) is a modular application platform for building, running, and managing modern apps on AWS and hybrid-cloud infrastructure. Tanzu provides a consistent experience for developers and for operators, enabling them to navigate the complexities of modern apps and Kubernetes—gaining efficiencies and scale. Core to Tanzu is an upstream-aligned Kubernetes distribution that’s easy to operate and maintain using Cluster API for deploying and updating clusters. As an AWS Partner Network (APN) Advanced Technology Partner, customers can leverage the expert services of VMware Tanzu Labs to work side by side with teams to build capabilities and instill processes that show immediate and lasting impact. With Tanzu, AWS customers benefit from:

Consistent and Unified Enterprise Security with VMware Carbon Black Cloud

VMware Carbon Black Cloud (<a href="https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/search/results?searchTerms=VMware+Carbon+Black" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">marketplace listing</a>) is a cloud-native endpoint, workload, and container protection platform that enables customers to operationalize consistent, modern security in AWS and hybrid cloud environments. By analyzing more than one trillion security events per day(1) VMware Carbon Black Cloud proactively uncovers attackers’ behavior patterns and empowers defenders to respond and remediate in real-time from anywhere in the world. Endpoint, workload, and container security capabilities are unified into one console and one agent so that infrastructure and infosec teams have a single, shared source of truth to improve security together. With VMware Carbon Black Cloud, AWS customers benefit from:

Transforming Cloud Management with CloudHealth

CloudHealth (<a href="https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-rpfawu4mhw64m?sr=0-1&ref_=beagle&applicationId=AWSMPContessa" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">marketplace listing</a>) is a robust cloud management platform that helps AWS customers simplify cloud financial management, streamline cloud operations, and improve cross-organizational collaboration. AWS customers can leverage VMware’s deep insight and experience in public cloud management to grow their own cloud expertise using a proven framework to progress through their cloud management maturity journey. With CloudHealth, AWS customers benefit from:

“We really love the visibility CloudHealth provides for being able to have a single pane of glass into our AWS spend and sharing reporting across teams,” said James Fogerson, senior manager of the Cloud Center of Excellence for Robert Half. “Senior management really appreciates our focus on cost management with AWS and keeping people on track for managing spend. The reports we can generate are a good way to make sure the team is aware of where the costs are going and agree that those should be the main drivers.”

Improving Cloud & Kubernetes Security Posture with CloudHealth Secure State

CloudHealth Secure State (<a href="https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-an32q6yihvkjg?sr=0-2&ref_=beagle&applicationId=AWSMPContessa" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">marketplace listing</a>) is an intelligent cloud native security and compliance platform that helps organizations protect millions of cloud resources at scale. Using a resource relationship-based cloud data model, CloudHealth Secure State improves security visibility with real-time inventory search, advanced risk correlation, and more than 950 best practices rules to report security and compliance violations. With CloudHealth Secure State, AWS customers can:

“CloudHealth Secure State provides us with a global view of Discovery’s cloud estate and enables us to operate more securely in AWS,” said Johan Marais, senior platform services manager, Discovery Group. “We can visualize real-time risks due to infrastructure deployments or configuration changes in our AWS environment, and based on various metrics and guard rails, delivers a mechanism to auto-remediate policy violations and improve our AWS security posture. Additionally, the CloudHealth Secure State platform makes it easy to measure compliance against predefined governance frameworks as well as custom frameworks critical to our organization.”

Cloud-Native Load Balancing and Web Security with VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer

VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer (<a href="https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/search/results?searchTerms=Avi+Networks&CREATOR=e39c3856-136d-4d5d-8389-16f315505376&filters=CREATOR" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">marketplace listing</a>) is a modern, standalone application services platform for public cloud or on-premises deployments. The software-defined platform includes local and global load balancing, Web Application Firewall (WAF), and container ingress services. NSX Advanced Load Balancer natively integrates with AWS to provide central orchestration of a distributed load balancing and application security fabric, powerful analytics and visibility that helps administrators troubleshoot in seconds, and elastic on-demand scaling of services across data centers and clouds. With NSX Advanced Load Balancer, AWS customers can:

Delivering More Secure and Consistent Access to Apps with VMware SASE

VMware SASE (<a href="https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/search/results?searchTerms=VeloCloud" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">marketplace listing</a>) combines SD-WAN capabilities with cloud-delivered security functions, including cloud web security, zero trust network access, and firewalling. These capabilities are delivered as-a-service across both the near and far edge locations from a global network of points of presence (PoPs). By leveraging VMware SASE, AWS customers can simplify, manage, and automate WAN infrastructure across thousands of locations and better support distributed workforces. With VMware SASE, AWS customers benefit from:

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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 www.vmware.com/company.

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VMware is making it easier for AWS customers to purchase and deploy VMware Cross-Cloud services. VMware Carbon Black Cloud and VMware Tanzu are the latest services now available in the AWS Marketplace, a digital catalog with thousands of software listings from independent software vendors that make it easy for customers to find, test, buy, and deploy software

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Choose a trend from recent years and there is a good chance that the pandemic has accelerated it. From online shopping and video streaming, to remote working and learning, COVID-19 triggered what many call <a href="https://www.mckinsey.com/business-functions/strategy-and-corporate-finance/our-insights/the-great-acceleration">the great acceleration</a>.

This is of course true of digital transformation, which underpins many of the trends above. And it’s also true of the long cyclical move away from organizations outsourcing their IT functions.

The speed at which organizations now need to iterate their digital offerings to stay at the top of their game has accelerated well beyond what the traditional outsourced IT model can offer.

When there are opportunities or needs that demand being served in days, or even hours, engaging a vendor at arm’s length to do the work just doesn’t cut it. And as more and more functions are delivered “as-a-Service,” the expectation that services are improved and updated in real time continues to grow rapidly.

We’ve known for a long time that technology is just one part of a successful digital transformation. Having a team with the right skills and capabilities is also instrumental. Increasingly, we’re seeing organizations wanting to build those skills internally to use that tech to its potential.

This means that as organizations continue to digitally transform, they must be looking for partners who do more than implement technological solutions—they are looking for partners who can also deliver the training and knowledge they need.

The pandemic has supplied countless examples of the power of this approach.

For instance, the need to respond quickly to changing needs has driven the development and continued evolution of the Service NSW app, the main government portal for Australia’s most populous state.

The app is used by more than three-quarters of the state’s population. It powers the government’s world-class contact-tracing efforts and gives users a quick and simple way to check in to locations that they visit.

The plaudits the Service NSW team has earned for the frictionless functionality of the app demonstrate the value of having the right skills in house.

In pre-pandemic times, VMware’s Tanzu Labs team worked with the NSW Department of Customer Service to develop the Service NSW app, not for checking in to premises but to operate as digital drivers’ license. By partnering with their product managers, engineers and designers, we developed a system that their team was confident in using.

This meant that when the need for a digital solution for checking in to premises arose, Service NSW were able to quickly and effectively extend the functionality of the existing app.

This capability allows the Service NSW team to rapidly incorporate feedback from users to improve the app experience. Features such as saving the details of dependents, reminding users to check out of a venue, and even offering the latest COVID advice could all be rolled out just days after the need is identified.    

This type of responsiveness and rapid iteration simply isn’t possible with the traditional outsourced IT model.

While having the right development capabilities in-house can enable organizations to move faster, it can also help them move in entirely new directions.

For automotive giant Hyundai Motor Group, the future of cars lies in their connectivity. Already, 4 million Hyundai vehicles are connected to the cloud. By next year, it will be 10 million. Hyundai’s designated ICT company, Hyundai AutoEver, is driving this transformation and investing heavily in internalized capabilities like DevSecOps and microservices as well as the capabilities of its software engineers.

By pairing Hyundai’s engineers with our Tanzu Labs engineers, the team was able to learn about cloud-native technology in a short time and utilize test-driven development practice to deliver high-quality code to market without sacrificing any lead time—all while enhancing the developers’ experience and skillset.

This combination of new platform and application architecture, along with the skills to use them fully, has had transformative effects on Hyundai AutoEver’s application modernization.

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Speaking at SpringOne, Hyundai AutoEver CEO Jung Sik Suh explained: “We reduced delivery time, which previously took more than 14 days, to less than three days by building up the automated process that enable low-risk development deployment.” Overall, he said, Hyundai AutoEver has made its speed to market eight times faster.

As the speed of innovation ramps up, so does the complexity of the processes needed to bring about that innovation. As a result, ensuring that new skills are embedded in your organization along with new technology is often no small feat.

Hiring suitably experienced developers and engineers is one approach, but with an existing skills shortage being amplified in many nations by restrictions on skilled migration, this path is only getting harder.

Another approach is ensuring your technology partners transfer their relevant knowledge to your internal IT teams. The most powerful way for this to happen is time, proximity, and a commitment to making the knowledge transfer happen.

Until the pandemic, VMware’s approach to making this happen had been to have our developers sit side by side with our client’s IT teams for weeks or months, creating and reviewing code side-by-side.

Pair programming allows the client teams to have deep experience with the implementation of the technology we supply. The depth of knowledge this creates can’t be replicated with training courses or seminars. Neither can the confidence it creates to try new things and create the innovation that so many organizations strive for.

The pandemic, as it has with many things, meant we had to shift from a face-to-face model to a remote style of interaction. But this change also opened up new possibilities for us to share knowledge by removing distance as a barrier to getting developers together.

But for best results, this shouldn’t be a purely IT-based pursuit. Where we have seen the biggest success is where organizations have had the wisdom to bring subject matter experts from the business side into the process.

By now, many businesses are comfortable with their software engineers operating on an Agile methodology. But getting the rest of the business operating that way is a more confronting process. Enabling business processes and operating models to respond as quickly as technology allows is where true transformation is sparked. After all, the best tools in the world aren’t worth much if they’re not being used.

Successful digital transformation is not just about technology. It's about the skills it takes to develop the technology as well.

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Technology is just one part of a successful digital transformation. Having a team with the right skills and capabilities is also instrumental.

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- As service providers continue to virtualize and containerize network functions, they require a consistent, cloud-native platform for onboarding and managing these workloads across any network and any cloud. Vodafone has selected VMware (NYSE: VMW) as its strategic technology partner to deliver a single platform to automate and orchestrate all workloads running on its core networks across Europe, starting with 5G standalone (5G SA).

Vodafone <a href="https://ir.vmware.com/websites/vmware/English/2120/us-press-release.html?airportNewsID=5f43b77f-ceb8-40e8-a2c5-8f3397e18bda" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">previously announced</a> its selection of VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure as its Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) platform. Last year, Vodafone completed the rollout of Telco Cloud Infrastructure across all its European business and 21 markets in total. The company saw gains in productivity as it brought network functions online around 40% more quickly, and cost savings of up to 55%*.

Vodafone is now expanding its partnership with VMware to deploy the full VMware Telco Cloud Platform in all European markets. This means that in addition to utilizing Telco Cloud Infrastructure for NFV, Vodafone will leverage VMware Tanzu for Telco and VMware Telco Cloud Automation to orchestrate all network functions and services, regardless of vendor, to run its core networks.

Vodafone’s continued partnership with VMware supports the company’s technology strategy, <a href="https://www.vodafone.com/business/news-and-insights/analyst-view/vodafone-2020-analyst-summit-evolution-from-telco-to-tech-communications-platform" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Tech 2025</a>. As part of this five-year plan, Vodafone will focus on developing a network platform starting with the rollout of 5G SA that will be then followed by many other digital network features utilizing cloud-native architecture powered by VMware. These include voice over internet and next generation of videoconferencing and virtual/augmented reality, all orchestrated into the correct network slices according to different customer requirements.

Johan Wibergh, Chief Technology Officer, Vodafone, said, “We’ve made great strides in modernizing and virtualizing our core network. Now we must turn our attention to layering in automation, software engineering and cloud-native principles to simplify operations and accelerate how quickly we can deploy new applications. VMware Telco Cloud Platform will help us achieve these goals and reach our Tech 2025 targets faster.”

Vodafone has already begun the rollout of VMware Telco Cloud Platform in eight markets – Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Portugal, Romania, and U.K. – and will expand to all 11 of its European markets over time. 

“As service providers modernize their networks to transition to 5G, they require a single platform to automate and streamline delivery of multi-vendor network functions across network core, RAN and edge. VMware Telco Cloud Platform provides this unifying platform to simplify operations, accelerate automation and increase feature velocity across all parts of the network,” said Sanjay Uppal, senior vice president and general manager, Service Provider and Edge, VMware. “Through its partnership with VMware, Vodafone is modernizing its network infrastructure with automation built in, setting them up for long-term success as they roll out 5G services to even more markets in the coming years.”

VMware Telco Cloud Platform is a cloud-native platform that enables service providers to rapidly deploy and efficiently operate multi-vendor CNFs and VNFs with agility and scalability across 5G and other networks that span from the core and the edge to the radio access network (RAN). The two fundamental elements of this architecture are VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure and VMware Telco Cloud Automation – both of which Vodafone will deploy across its European markets.

Learn more about how VMware is helping service providers modernize their networks at <a href="http://telco.vmware.com/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">telco.vmware.com</a>.

*Source: Vodafone internal analysis and reporting, March 2021

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