I’m writing to you in the present day from VMware Explore in Barcelona, the place my group and I are presenting to and assembly with clients and companions in individual! When we launched Azure VMware Solution two years in the past amid a pandemic, IT agility grew to become a prime precedence as organizations scrambled to allow distant work and guarantee enterprise resilience by way of cloud options. In in the present day’s financial local weather most organizations wish to do extra with much less. They acknowledge that by working workloads within the cloud, they’ll reply extra quickly and cut back IT infrastructure prices.
“I can positively say that Azure—and particularly Azure VMware Solution—is the best answer for us. It permits us to seamlessly transfer from on-premises to the cloud, thereby releasing up sources and capital investments that can be utilized the place they’re wanted extra.”—Giorgio Veronesi, Sr. Vice President of ICT Infrastructure, Snam.
Given that TCO is prime precedence for many corporations within the present financial local weather, migrating your VMware workloads to Azure is a good way to scale back the price of sustaining an on-premises VMware atmosphere. Because each buyer begins their cloud journey at a unique place, we assist allow clients emigrate to the cloud on their phrases and preserve assist for the enterprise platforms and investments they’ve in the present day. Azure VMware Solution is a straightforward approach to prolong and migrate current VMware Private Clouds to run them natively on Azure. Azure VMware Solution affords symmetry with on-premises environments, which helps to speed up datacenter migrations, so clients acknowledge the advantages of the cloud sooner.
“With assist from Microsoft and Mobiz, we had been in a position to ship a totally certified touchdown zone in Azure in one-third the time and at one-third the funds in comparison with earlier cloud efforts.”—Sam Chenaur: Vice President and Global Head of Infrastructure, Sanofi.
In holding with the purpose of doing extra with much less, Microsoft’s distinctive Azure Hybrid Benefit and Extended Security Updates for Windows Server and SQL Server, Azure VMware Solution is likely one of the quickest and most cost-effective methods to seamlessly migrate and run VMware within the cloud. If you wish to be taught extra about TCO in your group learn this Forrester paper.
Check out what’s new in Azure VMware Solution
I’m excited to share among the current updates we’ve made to Azure VMware Solution.
- Stretched Clusters for Azure VMware Solution, now in preview, supplies 99.99 % uptime for mission important functions that require the best availability. In instances of availability zone failure, your digital machines (VMs) and functions robotically failover to an unaffected availability zone with no utility affect. Learn extra.
- Azure NetApp Files Datastores is now typically accessible to run your storage intensive workloads on Azure VMware Solution. This integration between Azure VMware Solution and Azure NetApp Files allows you to create datastores by way of the Azure VMware Solution useful resource supplier with Azure NetApp Files NFS volumes and fix the datastores to your non-public cloud clusters of selection. Learn extra.
- Customer-managed keys for Azure VMware Solution is now in preview, each supporting increased safety for purchasers’ mission-critical workloads and offering you with management over your encrypted vSAN knowledge on Azure VMware Solution. With this characteristic, you may use Azure Key Vault to generate customer-managed keys in addition to centralize and streamline the important thing administration course of. Learn extra.
- New node sizing for Azure VMware Solution. Start leveraging Azure VMware Solution throughout two new node sizes with the overall availability of AV36P and AV52 in AVS. With these new node sizes organizations can optimize their workloads for reminiscence and storage with AV36P and AV52. Learn extra.
- Microsoft Azure native companies allow you to monitor, handle, and defend your digital machines (VMs) in a hybrid atmosphere (Azure, Azure VMware Solution, and on-premises). Here are among the current Azure companies: Azure Arc, Azure Monitor, Microsoft Defender for Cloud, Azure Update Management, and Log Analytics Workspace. Learn extra.
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This week we’re providing a particular alternative to take the Azure VMware Solution Cloud Skills Challenge. Compete on this free, self-paced, Microsoft studying path and advance your technical expertise on the similar time! Register for the Challenge.
And if you’re right here at VMware Explore Barcelona, cease by the Microsoft sales space, and say whats up. We are excited to see you in individual!
Check out all our Azure Breakout Sessions throughout the occasion.
Visit Booth #401 for our hourly in-booth theater classes.
You may attend our subsequent Azure Webinar on December fifteenth: How to Modernize Your VMware Environment with Microsoft Azure.
As all the time, you may go to the Azure VMware Solution web site or documentation for extra info.