VMware unveils Cloud capability along with NSX networking and security portfolio

VMware, Inc. has outlined its vision for the future of networking, and unveiled the Virtual Cloud Network. The Virtual Cloud Network will enable organizations to create a digital business fabric for connecting and securing applications, data, and users across the entire network in a hyper-distributed world.
 
To deliver on this vision, VMware announced the VMware NSX networking and security portfolio to enable consistent, pervasive connectivity and security for apps and data across software-defined data center, branch, cloud, and telco environments. Global leaders in digital transformation and technology innovation demonstrated support for VMware’s vision and NSX portfolio launch (see below).
 
The NSX portfolio includes investments of resources to deliver new capabilities that include:

•    VMware NSX SD-WAN integration with VMware NSX Data Center and VMware NSX Cloud
•    NSX Cloud support for applications running in Microsoft Azure
•    NSX Data Center support for containerized cloud-native and bare metal applications
•    Telco/NFV and networking performance optimizations for distributed workloads in NSX Data Center
 
“The future of networking is software, and the network of the future is the Virtual Cloud Network,” said Rajiv Ramaswami, Chief Operating Officer, Products and Cloud Services, VMware. “VMware is helping customers today to build tomorrow’s software-defined Virtual Cloud Networks to connect and secure apps and users. And with the new NSX networking and security portfolio, we are helping customers build a Virtual Cloud Network today through a software-based digital business fabric that is flexible, programmable and inherently more secure.”
 
“As enterprises choose to run more applications in public clouds, the parameters of the data center are being redrawn. In practical terms, the data center – where applications and data reside – is no longer exclusively an on-premises entity,” said Brad Casemore, IDC's Research Vice-President, Data Center Networks, IDC. “It’s now inherently distributed, and that means the networks that support and deliver increasingly critical applications must be similarly transformed. With its vision for the Virtual Cloud Network, VMware is responding to the growing enterprise need for consistent network and security policy that supports applications regardless of where they reside and irrespective of the infrastructure on which they run and the transports that they use.”
 
Virtual Cloud Network: A New Network Approach for the Next 20 Years

Organizations are embarking on digital transformation to create better experiences for customers, clients, and employees, and drive better business outcomes. These efforts introduce a new level of networking and security complexity as organizations move from centralized data centers, to hyper distributed applications and centers of data at the edge.
 
The Virtual Cloud Network will enable businesses to connect, better secure, and optimize the delivery of applications and data in an era when a majority of workloads exist outside the data center. With a Virtual Cloud Network, customers will be able to create an end-to-end software-based network architecture that can deliver services to applications and data, wherever they are located. The Virtual Cloud Network will operate at global scale from edge to edge, and deliver consistent, pervasive connectivity and security for apps and data independent of underlying physical infrastructure or location. The Virtual Cloud Network will enable organizations to streamline the journey to digital business, and take full advantage of digital transformation, by unlocking value from today’s current networking technologies and significantly reducing network complexity.
 
VMware Advances Business Transformation with Networking and Security in Software

The VMware NSX networking and security portfolio provides a common operating environment to connect, secure and operate a Virtual Cloud Network. The portfolio will include new and enhanced capabilities for data center, branch, cloud and telco environments, and will advance support for traditional and modern application frameworks. With the VMware NSX portfolio, customers will be able to manage consistent networking and security across private data centers, AWS, Azure, and IBM Cloud.