VMware Explore 2023: Keynote Highlights

Explore enterprise applications and infrastructure, AI, tools for the remote workforce, machine learning, and more from VMware Explore 2023.

VMware made several announcements related to new cloud, edge and machine learning services on August 22 at VMware Explore held in Las Vegas. These announcements include services for accelerated ransomware recovery, a new format for their networking and security developer services product as a cloud-managed subscription and additions to their cloud infrastructure-as-a-service offerings.

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VMware Tanzu, a modular platform for developing apps across clouds, will receive upgrades on August 22, including:

Punima Padmanabhan, senior vice president of modern apps and the management business group at VMware, said CIOs want to increase the speed at which their teams can bring applications to market. At the same time, “Business priorities, business objectives can change within days,” Padmanabhan said during a press pre-brief. Therefore, there is demand for helping vendors integrate apps across the cloud and gain speed and agility. Services like those in the VMware Tanzu updates were made to do that.

SEE: How to streamline the IT mobile app development pipeline and get your apps into production faster (TechRepublic)

The VMware Cloud portfolio is expanding with improved performance for VMware Cloud Foundation, new multicloud networking, security and developer services and expanded utility for its Ransomware Recovery-as-a-Service offerings.

The Ransomware Recovery-as-a-Service platform has been enhanced with the following:

“Our latest VMware Cloud advancements further modernize cloud infrastructure and deliver a single cloud operating model that improves developer productivity and advances security,” said Krish Prasad, senior vice president and general manager, cloud infrastructure business group, VMware, in a press release.

In the second half of 2023, VMware Cloud customers can expect to see improved performance (10x tasks at the same time, 4x storage performance boost), faster upgrades (reduced upgrade time by 33%, accelerated AI workloads with 2X GPU capacity) and greater scale and security (increased workload domain by 60% and multi-cloud policy enforcement) in VMware Cloud.

VMware is expanding its NSX product with NSX+, a cloud-managed version of the same service, which will include Virtual Private Clouds.

NSX+ will be available in the third quarter of 2024.

The VMware SASE Orchestrator service will now be known as VMware Edge Cloud Orchestrator and have expanded capabilities for bringing together IT and OT. It optimizes edge cloud deployment through right-sizing infrastructure using pull-based orchestration for security and administrative updates, and using network programmability defined by APIs and code.

It was developed because IT and OT are increasingly converging in many industries, said Sanjay Uppal, senior vice president and general manager of the service provider and edge business unit, VMware, in a press pre-brief.

“You get all the security compliance, and you reduce risk. Of course, the other benefits are you can reduce your operational expenses and expenditure going forward as well,” said Uppal.

New edge capabilities announced at VMware Explore include:

VMware’s edge stack, which incorporates the Edge Cloud Orchestrator, is used in manufacturing, retail, energy and healthcare.

VMware is adding generative AI to integrations for the Anywhere Workspace platform, a work platform for creating secure remote workplaces across different devices and locations. VMware has tasked generative AI and machine learning with running the platform’s Insights feature, available in Q3 2024, which detects anomalies on frontline devices or virtual desktop environments and reports those issues to the IT team.

More Playbook instructions have been added to the Anywhere Workspace platform so IT teams can create workflows within the platform for solving DEX problems. The new Playbook instructions will be available in beta in Q3 2024, followed by general availability in Q4 2024. Both the Insights and Playbooks features can be used for digital employee experience remediation.

Customers using virtual apps from VMware will be able to use enhanced features going forward. App Volumes support has been expanded to customers with persistent VMware Horizon environments; they will be able to use App Volumes to deliver apps to numerous persistent virtual desktops at once. As part of VMware’s plan to streamline as much of the process as possible, App Volumes is compatible with Citrix, Microsoft and Amazon virtual desktop and app deployments as well as VMware Horizon.

App Volumes persistent virtual desktop infrastructure will be available in beta in Q3 2024 and generally in Q4 2024.

“We are thrilled to unveil new advancements for their customers that expand data sources and insights, integrate with technology partners for improved security and unify app delivery strategy across all virtual desktops and apps,” said Shankar Iyer, senior vice president and general manager of end-user computing at VMware, in a press release.

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