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VMware Announces General Availability of VMware vSphere 7 to Accelerate Application ModernizationVMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today announced the general availability of VMware vSphere 7, the biggest evolution of vSphere in over a decade. VMware vSphere 7 has been rearchitected into an open platform using Kubernetes APIs to provide a cloud-like experience for developers and operators. Today's enterprise customers' needs are constantly evolving and IT needs to provide infrastructure agility as well as security, efficiency and resiliency. To fully benefit from their application modernization efforts, enterprises also need to simultaneously modernize their infrastructure. A responsive infrastructure that is easily accessible by development teams further enables enterprises to successfully adapt to their customers' changing needs. VMware vSphere 7 delivers essential services for the modern hybrid cloud, powering the compute environments for AI and machine learning, business critical and modern applications. "Increasingly we see our customers encounter a number of roadblocks and silos when it comes to running their modern and traditional applications," said Krish Prasad, senior vice president and general manager, Cloud Platform Business Unit, VMware. "VMware vSphere 7, our most significant vSphere release in a decade, will help enterprises run all their applications on a common platform using a combination of virtual machines, containers, and Kubernetes. This further helps enterprises increase developer and operator productivity, enabling faster time-to-innovation combined with the necessary enhanced security, stability, and governance." Watch the VMware vSphere 7 online launch event on Thursday, April 2, 2020 at 8:00am PDT. VMware vSphere 7: Essential Services for Modern Hybrid Cloud With VMware vSphere 7, IT operations teams can expect to benefit from simplified lifecycle management capabilities, new and enhanced security capabilities, new application-focused management, and a unified platform for consistent operations across clouds, data centers, and edge environments. VMware vSphere 7 was tested extensively with approximately 1,000 customers in the beta program. New capabilities and features include:
Supporting Quotes "BYU Idaho has seen an amazing amount of growth in the past few years," said Stephen Parker, Systems Engineer, Brigham Young University Idaho. "Embracing the online learning community has been one our biggest expansions. It requires more back-end support and greater performance. The continual improvements in VMware vSphere help us deliver the reliability and performance that we need from our platform." "VMware vSphere with Kubernetes can help our IT team to achieve consistent operations of our existing system and rapid scale-up for new applications," said Yang Shen, CIO, Digital China. "And the new architecture offers flexibility between private cloud and multiple public clouds." "VMware vSphere 7 introduces several new enhancements across lifecycle management, security and application acceleration that will make a difference to customers," said Bob Laliberte, Sr. Analyst & Practice Director, Enterprise Strategy Group (News - Alert). "By integrating vSphere 7 with Kubernetes into VMware Cloud Foundation 4, customers get full stack, hybrid cloud infrastructure tightly integrated with the new Tanzu runtime, Hybrid Infrastructure Services and APIs. This integration provides rapid deployment of infrastructure to support modern app development, while also delivering automation and orchestration to reduce the operational overhead of these complex systems." Additional Resources
About VMware VMware software powers the world's complex digital infrastructure. The company's cloud, app modernization, networking, security, and digital workspace offerings help customers deliver any application on any cloud across any device. Headquartered in Palo Alto (News - Alert), California, VMware is committed to being a force for good, from its breakthrough technology innovations to its global impact. For more information, please visit https://www.vmware.com/company.html. VMware, vSphere, Tanzu, vMotion, and VMware Cloud Foundation are registered trademarks or trademarks of VMware, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and other jurisdictions. View source version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200402005247/en/ |