VMworld 2015 San Fran Day 1 General Session

Energy, excitement, buzz throughout the streets, starting off with apps on stage surrounding Carl Eschenbach, interesting intro.

over 23,000 attending the event this year, record attendance.
50,000 people watching online.
88 countries represented across the globe.
6,000 VMUG customers and 7,000 partners.
20 people recognized as attending every VMworld including Carl at all 12 events.
VMware Foundation allows individuals opportunities to give back to the communities they support. #vGiveBack #[Your Cause]

This year’s theme – Ready for Any
What If – Run, Build, Deliver, Secure – ready for any application on any device covering all challenges with the freedom and stability necessary.  OneCloud – AnyApplication – AnyDevice
Seamless integration between private/managed/public cloud into unified hybrid cloud (one logical cloud)
Seamless federation of applications within unified hybrid cloud.

Customer and Partner – DirectTV (Mike Benson)

Company growth and merger with ATT, explosion of mobile devices help layout their vision and long term strategy
Using a hybrid cloud approach for years
Unified cloud is their strategy
Example: planned for capacity add month ahead of Pacquiao-Mayweather fight to eliminate bottleneck of user experience

Every year they have challenges for demands for services and capabilities, took lessons learned from fight and applying them towards the upcoming NFL season.

 

Bill Fathers – Disaster Recovery, Application Scaling and Mobile Applications
App Scaling – latency kills revenues, milliseconds matter

 

Mobile Applications
Hybird Applications

They are seeing the rise of Hybrid Applications, with the need for a unified hybrid cloud between private and public cloud.
There’s a need for a hybrid network layer to allow network packet traffic to be extended seamlessly between the private and public cloud environments.
How is this being accomplished?  Between the software defined datacenter and VMware products defined here.  EVO SDDC extends physical management extending into top of rack switching.

VMware Helps to Simplify the RUN

process by the tools provided in the SDDC and scales out nicely in their example.

With the concept of the Virtual Rack,

you get the benefits of non-disrutptive Lifecycle Automation for patching, etc….

Building on the Ready for Any Run theme

Extending the network with the Unified Hybrid Cloud Networking Services is the method to bridge the gap between your cross cloud environments.

Diving into Mobile Back End as Service – Identity Management Example
Complete end to end solution for MBEAS boosting mobile development services.  See in the HOLs.  Cross cloud vMotions in the demo, pretty awesome!!!
Summary of the systems we previewed in the demos.
EMC2 – Virtustream
The Virtustream Enterprise Class Cloud provides a secure, highly available, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) to enterprises and government customers.  BIG SAP, etc…
 
 
Cloud Native applications – mostly developed in house, focused on very specific business and competitive outcome
Containers comes up in conversations all the time in these conversations.  Docker example given in demo.
Challenges involve visibility into containers and managability.
From a management point of view, VI Admin can create a VI Container host.
All the power of vSphere Integrated containers allows you to integrate scripts, containers, and security with hardware level isolation.
Now we’re talking about Photon OS, Instant clone, and just enough virtualization.
The new VMware Platform – Photon.  API first DEVOPS designed.  On top of the hypervisor, we’re adding a microvisor based on ESX.
Enabling Multiple DEVOPS teams to rapidly scale out and deploy secure container based applications.  Available by VMware subscription.  Unifying the needs of IT and DEVOPS!