What’s New with VMware on IBM Cloud: August 2023 Edition

Over a 20-year partnership, IBM & VMware have jointly developed solutions to solve customers’ enterprise challenges. Their flagship offering, VMware Cloud Service on IBM Cloud, continues to be one of the most adopted VMware Cloud offerings across Fortune 500 companies from all industries.

IBM Cloud offers unique capabilities:

• Security Leadership: Highest industry compliance for data encryption in the industry. Edge-to-Cloud threat management capabilities built into the fabric of the Cloud.
• Open Innovation: 180 Cloud API Services including Redhat Openshift for application modernization. High-Performance Computing capabilities for AI, ML, & data driven workloads
• Enterprise Performance: +2,000 VMware on IBM Cloud customers. Broadest portfolio of compute configurations (CPU, Memory, RAM) across 35 global data centers to match your specific consumption needs.

Even with all this success, IBM & VMware continue to bring to market new offerings to provide customers the best experience in the Hybrid Cloud era.

Today, we will highlight these new announcements…

VMware Cloud Bundles on IBM Cloud

A new, exclusive VMware offering will be announced at VMware Explore Las Vegas (Aug 21-24^th) where IBM Cloud will be the first public cloud provider to host VMware Cloud Bundles.

This new offering accelerates client cloud transformations while providing hybrid cloud flexibility for VMware based applications.

Key Benefits:

• Modernize faster with prescriptive fit-for-purpose VMware bundles deployed on IBM Cloud with a click of a button.
• Optimized bundles to support high performance workloads such as generative AI, ML, & large data volume applications.
• Bi-Directional application portability from on-premise to the cloud.

Combining the performance benefits of this offering with IBM’s Security leadership will provide clients a trusted cloud platform for their hybrid cloud needs.

VMware-as-a-Service

Released in December 2022, IBM announced a new customer experience for managing your VMware based workloads. VMware-as-a-Service on IBM Cloud is a managed service offering that lowers the complexity and risk of migrating & managing your mission-critical workloads. This Cloud based managed service is based on the VMware Cloud Director Platform, allowing clients to deploy virtual data centers on dedicated IBM bare metal servers.

Key Benefits:

• Faster Time-to-Value: The IBM Cloud Service will monitor, patch & maintain your VMware management backplane & underlying hardware allowing you to focus on your applications.
• 99.99% High Availability with dedicated client infrastructure
• Lower TCO: Widest customer choice of HW profile configurations (CPU, Memory, Storage) to match your specific usage
• High Performance: Elastic on-demand deployments up to 96 Cores & 1.5 TB of RAM

Simplify the management of your VMware workloads with dedicated instances, compute flexibility, & scale in a cloud manage service offering provided by IBM Cloud.

Learn More: VMware-as-a-Service Tutorial

Next-Gen Intel Infrastructure

Rolling out to an IBM Cloud Data center near you in 2023 is the latest 4^th Gen Intel Xeon Processors better known as Sapphire Rapids. IBM will be one of the first to offer the latest Intel chip design for their VMware Cloud Service offerings. Expect to gain significant performance & security benefits for your applications powered by IBM Cloud. Watch HERE.

Key Benefits:

• Faster data processing: With the most built-in accelerators of any CPU in the market, Intel Gen 4 processor on IBM Cloud bare metal servers will support your high data volume VMware infrastructure needs. High-Performance Computing (HPC), Generative AI, & Machine Learning applications will benefit from an IBM Cloud as-a-Service consumption model vs build & manage on your own.

• Confidential Computing: Intel has added several security enhancements such as Crypto Acceleration, Software Guard Extensions, Trusted Domain extensions, which will provide automated data protection for stronger encryption protection for your data in use.

Even with a successful 20-year partnership, IBM and VMware continue to raise the bar by delivering innovation to clients as they embark on hybrid cloud transformations. With these new offerings, IBM can now support the widest spectrum of VMware use cases: App Modernization, DC Consolidation, DR, Cloud Bursting, High-Performance Computing, etc.

Come learn more about how IBM/VMware can provide you the best cloud experience for your VMware workloads at the VMware Explore Las Vegas Conference Aug 21-24^th. IBM will be a Platinum Sponsor with dedicated speaking sessions and a Booth with demos by a team of experts.

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