We’re excited to announce that as of right this moment, August 28, 2023, VMware Cloud Flex Storage is mostly out there for VMware Cloud Services Provider – SaaS companions (previously Managed Service Providers). The Cloud Services Provider – SaaS (CSP-SaaS) path to market permits companions to make use of VMware Software-as-a-Service choices with out funding in their very own knowledge middle infrastructure, delivering managed providers on high. CSP-SaaS companions can entry VMware Cloud Flex Storage by VMware Cloud Partner Navigator, which is our unified SaaS portal that allows suppliers to deploy SaaS choices and handle the end-to-end buyer lifecycle.
Digital transformation has accelerated the expansion and variety of information varieties and storage necessities. To match the fast tempo of information growth and heterogeneity, companies right this moment require extra versatile, scalable, and cost-effective options to retailer and handle their knowledge. In addition, as enterprises proceed to distribute their workloads throughout a number of cloud environments, there’s a rising want for uniform, easy and cost-effective methods to handle the information throughout the whole knowledge lifecycle. To enhance operational effectivity, acquire agility and deal with exponential knowledge progress, enterprises are leveraging cloud storage options wanted to speed up innovation.
VMware Cloud Flex Storage is for IT infrastructure and operations groups who want elevated flexibility and scalability, simplified operations, and diminished price for his or her rising storage necessities. VMware Cloud Flex Storage gives a scalable, elastic, and natively built-in storage service for VMware Cloud on AWS that’s absolutely managed by VMware and delivered with predictable cloud economics. It permits cloud providers suppliers to assist higher align cloud sources for his or her VMware Cloud on AWS prospects according to their functions and knowledge necessities. Partners can flexibly scale storage and compute independently of one another, simplify operations with an answer that’s simple to purchase, use and handle, and profit from a simple pay-as-you-go consumption mannequin. Partners who’ve prospects with storage-bound workloads can now provision storage on-demand to run their digital machines with out including hosts.
VMware Cloud Flex Storage is constructed on a mature, enterprise-class filesystem that has been developed and production-hardened over a few years. It is similar filesystem that has been backing VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery. It allows unbiased scaling of storage efficiency and capability and elastic adjustment of storage capability up or down as wanted, making this a multi-purpose file system that unlocks many use circumstances. Learn extra right here and right here.
Cloud providers suppliers can use VMware Cloud Flex Storage to energy their VMware Cloud Director service and VMware Cloud on AWS multi-tenant resolution. Using Cloud Director service, not solely can they effectively share their VMware Cloud on AWS setting throughout a number of prospects or strains of companies, however they will additionally share Cloud Flex Storage to decrease their prices whereas enabling their prospects with a cloud like expertise. Click right here to study extra about Cloud Director service.
New Region Support
VMware Cloud Flex Storage is now out there in AWS Asia Pacific areas (Mumbai, Singapore, Tokyo and Sydney). With this launch, VMware Cloud Flex Storage shall be out there in 17 AWS Regions. Partners can discover the present checklist of supported areas right here.
VMware Cloud Partner Navigator
Before onboarding to VMware Cloud Partner Navigator, Cloud Services Provider – SaaS companions should have at the very least one lively commit contract within the VMware Commerce Portal for VMware Cloud Flex Storage or one other SaaS service, a legitimate VMware ID related to an lively commit contract, and the receipt of the supplier group invitation electronic mail. They will work with an aggregator to get began. Access the end-to-end getting began information for Cloud Services Provider – SaaS companions right here.
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