Cross Cloud Services

A Platform Agnostic journey

We have heard about Private Cloud, Hosted Cloud, Public Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, Multi Cloud and now its time to revive ourself to see the future, Cross Cloud.

Cross Cloud is not a product whereas a solution to meet the future requirement much favor to the consumers. It simply means consumption of application/data which moves easily between multiple clouds whether they are on-premises, edge location or public cloud. As data is distributed so as the application, security and end user devices. Cross Cloud Framework has to be plug and play to accommodate any platform of any type to provide a common operating environment spread across the globe. This unified platform would be automated enough for Architects, Consultants, Administrator, Developers and ultimately end user to consume the service across the wide range of features available from different platform and cloud.

Use Cases

• No Vendor Lock-In or Freedom of choice

• Highly Available or Improved resiliency

• Best of Breed Solution

• Highly Adaptable & Secure multi cloud architecture

• Accelerate Innovation & App Modernization

Benefits

• Cloud Transformation & Adoption

• Unified Platform

• Secured workload and services ( apps, devices, users)

• Faster Delivery by breaking down silos

• More Economical Benefit

• Easy Integration

• Productive Workforce

• Flexibility

• Agility

When Cross Cloud provides ability to build, deploy, run, manage and connect across hybrid multi cloud platform

Cross cloud service denotes the group of services which is part and parcel of your cross cloud management. The Main USP for this is to have a integrated platform which work as single pane of glass for below functionalities.

• Deployment ( Private , Edge , Public)

• Configuration

• Discovery

• Automation

• Manage Capacity & Performance

• Manage Scalability & Availability

• Manage Security & Compliance

• Distributed Workforce Access

• Manage Costing

• Monitoring & Reporting

• Migration and Backup

• Disaster Recovery

Its a basic right of an every Enterprise to have unique but flexible and scalable platform to manage the cross cloud requirements. Hence VMware offers Cross Cloud services which leads you to a perfect solution. VMware’s cross cloud centric product portfolio will allow customers to pick and choose the services needed on a desired cloud to meet evolving business demands. VMware Cross-Cloud services is comprised of five core building blocks:

• A state-of-the-art platform for building and deploying cloud-native apps;

• Cloud infrastructure for operating and running enterprise apps;

• Cloud management for monitoring and managing the performance and cost of apps across different clouds;

• Security and networking that spans across entire multi-cloud operations to connect and better secure all apps; and,

• A digital workspace to empower the distributed workforce along with edge solutions to deploy and manage edge-native apps.
  

Are you ready to sneak in to these services. Stay in touch for my next post to understand these building blocks in detail.