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Enterprise infrastructure is not a one-size-fits-all solution. For data center environments, Broadcom's VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) offers an exceptional fit. However, many of our customers are generating, analyzing and acting upon a dramatically increasing amount of data at the Edge – which has its own unique challenges. They require a solution tailored for running applications effectively and achieving their business outcomes in their edge locations (think factory floors, retail stores, electric substations - just to name a few). For these environments, Broadcom's VMware Edge Compute Stack (ECS) is the ideal solution. It’s Zero-touch pull-based Orchestration, Edge Fleet Management, Automatic updates, and a Decoupled management and control plane, addresses the core problems hindering effective edge operations. Our latest release, ECS 3.5, makes automation and orchestration across hundreds or thousands of sites and edge devices seamless. The edge is fundamentally different from the data center, and with Broadcom, our customers are truly spoiled for choice! VCF and ECS come together to give our customers an unbeatable, end to end, advantage competing in the marketplace. Embrace the edge with VMware Edge Compute Stack (ECS) and discover a new level of performance and efficiency for your applications! https://lnkd.in/g_fjGgwW #edgecomputing #EdgeAI #softwaredefined #ECS #SDE #Broadcom

VMware Edge Compute Stack brings you: -VMware Edge Cloud Orchestrator (VECO) for simplified orchestration of large-scale edge infrastructure -Pull-based architecture for ECS hosts to ease scaling -Single-node deployments for resource constrained environments -De-coupled management and control plane and automated updates

Many data center providers are struggling to keep up with the demand of customer growth. Adequate power is a key constraint in this challenge. VMware has discussed how customers can optimise their footprint using #ariaoperations for many years, and while this has been beneficial, customers have struggled to realise the full value of reclamation due to pushback from application owners. Now more than ever, there is a real need to maximise the consumption of compute and storage to achieve the sustainability and growth goals of the business. Having visibility where systems are overutilising infrastructure is the first step. Next is laying on cost implications for reclaiming infrastructure, and lastly using power consumption metrics to find more optimal ways to run the workloads. Once IT changes the language from reclaiming resources to saving money and power consumption, senior management and the line of business can make more decisive decisions as IT are now speaking the language of the business. I appreciate this is not rocket science, but we see vastly improved results when IT does this. #cost #sustainability #optimise #vmware Here are some great blogs that cover how you can use different cost and sustainability metrics to help lower the running costs and power of your infrastructure: https://lnkd.in/enAFHUGm https://lnkd.in/edqk3_SU

Future-Proofing IT Infrastructure: Strategic Insights into the Hypervisor Market and Emerging Technologies https://lnkd.in/dyeuFc58 Introduction The Hypervisor Market focuses on technologies and solutions that provide virtualization by allowing multiple operating systems to run concurrently on a single physical machine. Hypervisors, also known as virtual machine monitors (VMMs), enable efficient resource utilization, improved scalability, and isolation of virtual machines (VMs). This market includes both Type 1 (bare-metal) and Type 2 (hosted) hypervisors, catering to various needs in enterprise IT, cloud computing, and data centers. Market Trends Cloud Computing Growth: The increasing adoption of cloud computing is driving demand for hypervisors that can efficiently manage virtualized environments. Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Environments: Organizations are increasingly using hybrid and multi-cloud strategies, requiring versatile hypervisor solutions for seamless integration. Containerization: The rise of container technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes, is influencing hypervisor development to support containerized applications alongside traditional VMs. Security Enhancements: Growing focus on security features within hypervisors to address vulnerabilities and ensure robust protection of virtualized environments. Market Dynamics Technological Advancements: Innovations in hypervisor technology, including support for advanced hardware features and enhanced performance optimization, are shaping market dynamics. Increased Demand for Virtualization: The need for efficient resource management, scalability, and cost reduction is driving the adoption of hypervisors across various industries. Competitive Landscape: The market is characterized by competition among key players offering a range of hypervisor solutions with different features and capabilities. Integration Challenges: Integrating hypervisors with existing IT infrastructure and applications can present challenges, affecting market adoption. Market Drivers Cloud Adoption: The rapid growth of cloud services and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) is a major driver for the adoption of hypervisors to manage virtualized resources. Cost Efficiency: Hypervisors enable better resource utilization and reduced hardware costs by consolidating multiple virtual machines on a single physical server. Scalability and Flexibility: The ability to scale resources and deploy virtual machines quickly drives demand for hypervisor solutions. Disaster Recovery and Backup: Hypervisors facilitate improved disaster recovery and backup solutions by allowing easy migration and management of virtualized environments. Benefits Resource Optimization: Maximizes the use of physical hardware resources by running multiple virtual machines on a single server. Improved Flexibility: Enables rapid deployment and management of virtual machin

Future-Proofing IT Infrastructure: Strategic Insights into the Hypervisor Market and Emerging Technologies https://lnkd.in/dyeuFc58 Introduction The Hypervisor Market focuses on technologies and solutions that provide virtualization by allowing multiple operating systems to run concurrently on a single physical machine. Hypervisors, also known as virtual machine monitors (VMMs), enable efficient resource utilization, improved scalability, and isolation of virtual machines (VMs). This market includes both Type 1 (bare-metal) and Type 2 (hosted) hypervisors, catering to various needs in enterprise IT, cloud computing, and data centers. Market Trends Cloud Computing Growth: The increasing adoption of cloud computing is driving demand for hypervisors that can efficiently manage virtualized environments. Hybrid and Multi-Cloud Environments: Organizations are increasingly using hybrid and multi-cloud strategies, requiring versatile hypervisor solutions for seamless integration. Containerization: The rise of container technologies, such as Docker and Kubernetes, is influencing hypervisor development to support containerized applications alongside traditional VMs. Security Enhancements: Growing focus on security features within hypervisors to address vulnerabilities and ensure robust protection of virtualized environments. Market Dynamics Technological Advancements: Innovations in hypervisor technology, including support for advanced hardware features and enhanced performance optimization, are shaping market dynamics. Increased Demand for Virtualization: The need for efficient resource management, scalability, and cost reduction is driving the adoption of hypervisors across various industries. Competitive Landscape: The market is characterized by competition among key players offering a range of hypervisor solutions with different features and capabilities. Integration Challenges: Integrating hypervisors with existing IT infrastructure and applications can present challenges, affecting market adoption. Market Drivers Cloud Adoption: The rapid growth of cloud services and infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) is a major driver for the adoption of hypervisors to manage virtualized resources. Cost Efficiency: Hypervisors enable better resource utilization and reduced hardware costs by consolidating multiple virtual machines on a single physical server. Scalability and Flexibility: The ability to scale resources and deploy virtual machines quickly drives demand for hypervisor solutions. Disaster Recovery and Backup: Hypervisors facilitate improved disaster recovery and backup solutions by allowing easy migration and management of virtualized environments. Benefits Resource Optimization: Maximizes the use of physical hardware resources by running multiple virtual machines on a single server. Improved Flexibility: Enables rapid deployment and management of virtual machin

🎉 According to the #IDC report of China's SDS and HCI market in 23Q4, #SmartX continues to lead the China #HCI software market with a market share of 23.5%, marking our leadership throughout the 2023 full year! 🌟 Build cloud infrastructure for 1000+ customers 🌟 Facilitate VMware replacement with 65% of SmartX customers adopting SmartX’s native virtualization ELF 🌟 Provide IT infrastructure for hybrid management of VM and containers 🌟 Enhance HCI capabilities for edge and AI scenarios Learn more about the report and explore how SmartX HCI can benefit your business in this blog! 👇 https://bit.ly/3xHxCwd

https://lnkd.in/gTK2MUHV De-virtualization and Re-virtualization - possible solutions to Broadcom pricing model changes⁉️ Broadcom's VMware acquisition and subsequent licensing changes demonstrates the repercussions of near monopoly power and its impact on pricing (2-3 X more) for captive clients, in the absence of alternatives Gartner’s 2024 Hype Cycle for Data Center Infrastructure Technologies report makes a sensational prediction. The landscape of data center infrastructure is shifting dramatically, influenced by recent licensing changes from Broadcom which is capitalising on its VMware acquisition, to drive up costs. This is prompting enterprises to reevaluate their virtualization strategies. Result - a new trend — devirtualization, a process of migrating workloads from virtual to physical environments — is taking shape in response to these changes. Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware will not only have implications for costs but also for resilience, availability and portability of the workload. This is because the transition from enterprise license agreements to more complex consumption models, can force businesses to pay 2-3 times more. This is especially sub-optimal for large workloads that do not benefit from the density increases and cost savings ensuing from consolidating smaller workloads. To increase revenues and profits Broadcom merged many VMware products into two main offerings: VMware Cloud Foundation and VMware vSphere Foundation. As a result, VMware customers can no longer purchase perpetual licenses or just the ESXi hypervisor on its own. In response some companies are ditching virtual machines and switching back to physical computers for specific workloads. This “devirtualization,” can offer cost savings but comes with the added complexity of managing physical hardware. This implies that you can't access cloud computing and the associated benefits. However this option is at an embryonic stage. Another potential option is revirtualization” or virtual-to-virtual migrations, which is about moving from VMWare to another hypervisor vendor, who can offer a subscription licence. 5-20% of firms have already adopted it. However the challenges are high TCO and operational challenges encountered in migrating to the new platform. Also there are no immediate solutions available for both. We are years away before it will come to fruition and deliver results.

NOTE: There is a clear paradigm shift - In addition to the de-virtualization and re-virtualization, I am discussing here, I also discussed WebAssembly as an alternative to virtualization, which manages thousands of functions. Here a binary can be built on Windows and deployed to UNIX, Linux or macOS. Further , cloud computing by itself is undergoing a paradigm shift due to emergence of trends such as co-location and cloud repatriation (as an alternative to cloud computing), and rise of alternatives to serverless technology - edge computing and multi clouds. I had written about them in my earlier posts.

What is Clos Architecture or Clos Network? - SynchroNet: They handle fast, big data flows now, not just voice calls. Adaptation in Modern Cloud Infrastructure. Data centers are getting bigger to meet more ... #bigdata #cdo #cto

𝐕𝐌𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐞𝐭 𝐒𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐊𝐞𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬: 1. 𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗲: ➤ VMware holds a 41.5% share in the Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) market, leading with its vSAN solution. ➤ VMware also has a significant share in the Data Center Virtualization market, driven by its optimization and implementation services. 2. 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝘁𝘀 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀: ➤ 𝘃𝗦𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: A leading virtualization platform with ESXi hypervisor, helping with server consolidation and efficiency. ➤ 𝘃𝗦𝗔𝗡: Hyperconverged storage platform that simplifies management of storage and compute. ➤ 𝗧𝗮𝗻𝘇𝘂: Facilitates modern app development, containerization (Kubernetes), and multi-cloud management. ➤ 𝗡𝗦𝗫: Network virtualization and security platform. ➤ 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗢𝗡𝗘: A digital workspace platform for app management and endpoint security. 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗩𝗠𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗯𝘂𝘁𝗲𝘀: ➤ 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗱: VMware enables companies to manage hybrid cloud environments across multiple platforms (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) with solutions like VMware Cloud Foundation. ➤ 𝗦𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹𝗼𝗽𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁: With Tanzu, VMware helps developers build, run, and manage cloud-native applications, improving agility, scalability, and deployment across public and private clouds. ➤ 𝗖𝗼𝘀𝘁 𝗘𝗳𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝘆: VMware’s virtualization reduces the need for physical hardware, cutting operational costs while improving resource allocation and productivity. #VMware #CloudComputing #Virtualization #DevOps #Kubernetes #DigitalTransformation #AppModernization