VMware boosts the cloud journey of global organizations

VMware in conjunction with the 2019 VMware Cloud Briefing has highlighted customers Bossa Studios, Rosendin Electric, Stagecoach, Trend Micro, and Zipwhip, and how they are addressing their hybrid cloud, multi-cloud and modern apps strategies with VMware Cloud on AWS, CloudHealth by VMware, VMware Secure State and Wavefront by VMware.

The industry has seen massive adoption of cloud to power applications during the last decade. Companies are defined by both speed and strategy as the rapid decisions made by businesses will be part of a lasting strategic blueprint deployed and leveraged by the business.

Customers are building an architectural approach for technology investments built around cloud, factoring in major new developments, including:

Hybrid Cloud – a proven model for unifying private cloud, public cloud and edge with consistent infrastructure and operations to gain the flexibility to work across a seamless pool of resources for all applications.

Multi-Cloud – a new reality that will enable organizations to freely operate across multiple public cloud providers, selecting services and innovation to power their business while managing cost, complexity and risk.

Modern Apps – The rise of Kubernetes as the emerging platform of choice for next-generation mission critical applications that will foster a new era of innovation and business change.

Kit Colbert, CTO of VMware Cloud, VMware, says, “Our customers are bringing together the worlds of hybrid and native public cloud into a single, comprehensive strategy. Today, VMware has one of the most proven, most widely deployed portfolios and playing a leading role in driving the next generation of the cloud. We have the unique opportunity to accelerate customers’ cloud journeys by delivering the hybrid cloud, unifying the multi-cloud and building a foundation for modern apps.”

Rosendin Electric Lights Up Cloud Strategy with VMware Cloud on AWS

Rosendin Electric, Inc. is one of the largest electrical contractors in the United States employing more than 6,000 people. As the company has accelerated its growth, IT identified moving to the cloud as a strategic IT priority for supporting the business. Rosendin has a large and successful VMware on-premises environment, so the company said it adopted VMware Cloud on AWS to create a hybrid cloud environment that offers better scalability, performance and overall economics. The environment also plays a critical role in the company’s disaster recovery strategy.

Stagecoach Improves Agility and Resiliency with VMware Cloud on AWS

Stagecoach is a leading public transport company in the UK that runs over 8,500 trains and buses, transporting over 2.5 million passengers a day and employs around 26,000 people, according to the company. VMware Cloud on AWS supports Stagecoach’s cloud-first strategy by providing a VMware environment in the cloud to supports business-critical applications. With VMware Cloud on AWS, Stagecoach said it has gained new levels of agility, scale, and resiliency through a multi-Availability Zone deployed platform. VMware Cloud on AWS mitigated the company’s risk of moving business-critical apps to the cloud because through a consistent infrastructure and operational model.

Trend Micro Accelerates Cloud Migration with VMware Cloud on AWS

Trend Micro is a global leader in cybersecurity solutions that helps to make the world safe for exchanging digital information. Trend Micro provides layered security for data centers, cloud environments, networks and endpoints while seamlessly sharing threat intelligence and providing a connected threat defense. Like many companies, Trend Micro has a significant footprint in both AWS and on-premises in a VMware-based private cloud. Trend Micro said its IT team is leveraging VMware Cloud on AWS to migrate VMware-based workloads to the public cloud with on-demand expansion capabilities and little impact to application uptime.

Bossa Studios Eliminates False Alerts with Multi-Cloud Monitoring from Wavefront by VMware

Bossa Studios Ltd. is an independent games developer and publisher. The company said its latest move from single player gaming to online multiplayer gaming brought them further into the cloud. The Bossa DevOps team includes both game developers and site reliability engineers who are responsible for ensuring complex back-end services enable games to function properly. This includes dealing with inventory systems, log ins, connections, and voice communications, and monitor the availability of their games. Bossa operates in a multi-cloud environment, partially running on premises, and partly in AWS, and developers are running CI/CD pipelines pushing non-production code hourly with daily production code pushes. Bossa noted that its previous commercial metrics monitoring solution plagued the team with excessive false positives and lacked visibility into pricing. The company adopted Wavefront by VMware to address these issues.

Zipwhip Manages Multi-Cloud Costs, Compliance and Risk with CloudHealth and VMware Secure State

Zipwhip is a fast-growing SaaS company and a leader in business text messaging that has embraced the public cloud to sustain a high velocity of expansion. The company said it was processing millions of messages per month and needed a way to quickly provision infrastructure that would more easily scale alongside the business. To unleash the cloud’s full potential for fueling innovation, the company said they could not let visibility challenges or security risks get in the way. The company is using VMware Secure State to identify public cloud misconfigurations, visualize at-risk infrastructure, correlate cross-cloud threat activity, and automate security and compliance reporting across teams. Zipwhip also uses CloudHealth by VMware to optimize a multi-cloud environment through visibility, automation, and tighter control over cloud spend. Together, these two products form a powerful pairing that enables the company to effectively scale its growing business, according to the company.