Hundreds of billions of dollars private cloud market will be, to rebuild a new VMware

By 2027, the global real private cloud (true private CLOUD,TPC) market will reach $262.4 billion, with an annual CAGR of 29.2%, while the TPC market will grow faster than the public cloud IaaS market, while the locally deployed TPC market will be 32.5% Growth of $176 billion. This is the latest forecast by Wikibon, a U.S. market research firm, released in August 2018. In 2017, the global TPC market grew by 55% to $20.3 billion, while the TPC market was 40% of public cloud IaaS and grew at a rate of 50% faster than the IaaS market.

What is TPC real private cloud? Wikibon's explanation is to provide a private cloud that truly resembles a public cloud experience in enterprise it, at least two ways, one based on hyper-converged systems such as Dell EMC Vxrail, Nutanix, HPE simplivity, VMware High-level automation in the form of Vsan and local computing resources, and managed private cloud management services (such as IBM Softlayer Private Cloud, Rackspace private cloud, etc.).

In the TPC market, VMware is the largest private cloud solution provider, with VMware-based private cloud products and solutions accounting for 24% of the total market share, up to $2.594 billion in 2017, far exceeding the 14% market share of Nutanix, the second largest private cloud solution provider. 2018 is the 20 anniversary of the founding of VMware, at the end of August 2018 VMworld 2018, VMware showcased a series of solutions to connect private cloud, public cloud, traditional it, and comprehensively strengthen the position of the first large private cloud solution provider, laying a new tone for the next 20 years.

What is a true private cloud

To better understand what a real private cloud is, see Wikibon for examples of what is not a true private cloud: One is a converged system, but only a limited level of orchestration and automation, and a more common, private cloud or converged system that is self-integrating multiple vendor technologies, like VMware Vsphere or Microsoft Hyper-V is installed into a new Dell EMC or HP server and storage device, with Cisco's Network solutions and packaged orchestration and automation management, a combination of technologies called "virtualization" rather than a true private cloud.

The real private cloud, first of all, is the infrastructure of all technologies as a single management object, rather than separately managing technologies or products from different technology vendors. Second, a true private cloud integrates all the products and technologies together, including price, flexibility, and breadth of service. Users can treat the entire private cloud as a single vendor, as with a single public cloud vendor, through a single point of contact to complete lifecycle processes such as sourcing, support, maintenance, and upgrades. Thirdly, the use and consumption of a real private cloud can be as self-service as the public cloud, or it can support long-term contracts.

Wikibon that TPC's true private cloud will be the center of growth and innovation across the cloud. A true private cloud that provides almost the same experience as a public cloud, with a hybrid cloud of real private and public clouds to support any "drift" of enterprise workloads. In the future, almost all enterprise it will be monopolized by a hybrid cloud consisting of SaaS and TPC, while public cloud IaaS will play an important role in interacting with applications and big data services. As enterprise applications are increasingly based on cloudy and cross-cloud networks, how to better cross cloud boundaries will become a new trend in the cloud industry.

Wikibon emphasizes that, despite the way cloud gateways can be used, the pressure to provide end-to-end support for applications across different clouds will be greatly minimized. In the 2018-2019, the migration of database-centric operational applications would be very difficult. In particular, Wikibon emphasizes that if you want to modernize high-value, operational applications, you must be consistent or compatible with the public cloud in the architecture so that it is easier to redeploy to the public cloud, which is what is required for a truly private cloud.

The first big private cloud provider

Based on Wikibon's definition of a true private cloud, VMware is the world's largest supplier in the field, stating that VMware has successfully transformed from an enterprise virtualization software vendor to a private cloud software and solution provider. In the VMware 2017 Annual report (FY 2018), it was noted that today's VMware is continuously expanding its products and solutions beyond computing virtualization, computing synergies across three product lines through software-defined data, hybrid cloud, and end-users to address enterprise cross-private clouds, complex multi-public clouds, It resource management challenges in multi-device environments.

VMware is today not just a technology provider for server virtualization, or computational virtualization. In FY 2018, VMware's primary software licensing revenue has come from a wide range of software and solutions beyond server virtualization, although VMware's vsphere server virtualization software license revenue is strong. In particular, hybrid cloud software and solutions allow enterprises to implement a cross-cloud, consistent deployment model, security policy, visibility, and governance for all applications, whether on-premise or external, whether the underlying cloud, hardware platform, or virtual machine is free to innovate and deliver applications in cloudy environments. And VMware's software includes Cloud Foundation, Vrealize Cloud Platform, and a range of clouds services.

VMware's hybrid cloud strategy in the cloudy era is to continually expand software and services beyond computing virtualization in private cloud environments, extend private clouds to public clouds, and secure end-to-end connectivity between different public clouds. VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger has repeatedly stressed in recent years that VMware's vision in the cloud era is to achieve a digital infrastructure that connects all cloud and all devices, enabling businesses to serve their customers globally. With this vision, VMware is not spared the transition to new enterprise IT infrastructure software and solution providers in cloudy environments.

First of all, VMware's Cloud Foundation provides a unified, virtualized infrastructure that includes vsphere server virtualization, Vsan storage virtualization, NSX network virtualization, and software solutions for the Vrealize Cloud management platform. The ability to implement a software-defined data center based on VMware Technology. Second, Cloud Foundation enables VMware Partners to build managed cloud services based on VMware Technology, which is Vcpp (VMware Cloud Provider Program, formerly known as the VMware VCloud Air project). In this project, the most prominent is the VMware Cloud on AWS, which works with AWS.

On the vmworld of August 2017, VMware launched VMware Cloud on AWS, which then quickly expanded to multiple countries and regions. VMware Cloud on AWS, a VMware software-defined data center hosted by AWS, allows organizations to easily and seamlessly migrate from the on-premises data center to the cloud without having to refactor the entire solution, while also enjoying a variety of AWS cloud services. VMware Cloud on AWS also gives organizations a cost-effective disaster recovery solution that provides dynamic, AWS-based resource expansion to meet recovery time objectives.

Stagecoach's feedback is more typical. Stagecoach is the UK's leading public transport company with more than 11,000 trains and buses, delivering passengers up to 300多万名 per day. "With VMware Cloud on AWS, we get a higher level of agility, scalability, and resiliency with a multi-AZ deployment platform," said Lesley Ashman, chief information officer, Stagecoach Group. With consistent infrastructure and operational models, VMware Cloud on AWS lowers our risk of migrating business-critical applications to the cloud. ”

On the basis of VMware Cloud on AWS, VMware announces the VMware Cloud on AWS Reverse engineering Project Dimension on VMworld 2018, which enables VMware Cloud on in the enterprise's private cloud environment The AWS Experience. Project Dimension brings VMware cloud on AWS into the enterprise's private cloud environment, adding a layer of cloud control to the previously existing HCI hyper-converged infrastructure and vrealize Cloud management platform Plane Cloud Control Panel and the data center on top of the overall operation, especially the operation and maintenance is also the responsibility of VMware, so that the basic implementation of the Wikibon definition of the true private cloud.

In addition to Project Dimension, AWS RDS on VMware was announced on VMworld 2018, which takes AWS's relational data-managed services RDS to the VMware-based private cloud environment. Amazon RDS on VMware automates database configuration, system operations and database patching, backup, point-in-time recovery, storage and compute scaling, instance health monitoring and failover, and enables enterprises to achieve low-cost, high-availability hybrid deployments through Amazon RDS for VMware, AWS Database Disaster Recovery, Amazon RDS read replicas in the AWS Cloud, and long-term database archiving in Amazon simple Storage Service (Amazon S3).

More importantly, AWS RDS on VMware addresses the migration challenges of database-centric, operational applications, as both VMware Private cloud and VMware Cloud on AWS Public Cloud are AWS RDS managed databases. Enables seamless database application migration and connectivity between private and public clouds.

One cloud pipe multiple IT resources

2016 was the year of VMware's transformation, when VMware's core computing virtual business already accounted for 80% of the global market. On the basis of such a market share, and then the development of a certain difficulty, so that 2016 is a transition year. When Pat Gelsinger visited China in 2016, he said: "Cloud computing is new hardware."

Cloud computing is a new hardware, this sentence in 2016 to understand there are some difficulties, now by the year 2018 VMware launched Project Dimension can clearly understand the meaning of this sentence. In the past, VMware's virtualized objects were X86 servers; today, VMware's new virtualization object is the datacenter. If you think of a data center as a virtual hardware, then VMware's task is to take it to the entire enterprise IT resources. This is VMware Cloud Services.

On VMworld 2018, VMware introduces new and enhanced VMware Cloud Services to help cloud operations, devops, security, and compliance teams better manage cloud costs, operations, security, and compliance across the cloud. VMware Cloud Services is a complete set of SaaS services implemented and delivered on the basis of the VMware Vrealize Cloud management platform, using a unified approach to operational challenges across native public and private clouds. With this comprehensive cloud operating platform, organizations can more effectively manage, secure and run workloads in the cloud, creating value, improving business performance and reducing risk.

New VMware Cloud services include: new Cloud Automation Services VMware Cloud Assembly, VMware Service Broker and VMware Code Stream, new cloud configuration security and compliance services VMware Secure state, and enhanced wavefront by VMware. With cloud assembly delivering a unified computing resource configuration across all clouds, it and cloud operations teams can orchestrate and accelerate infrastructure and application delivery based on DevOps principles, and get a similar experience of configuring resources through a native public cloud. Code stream automates coding and application publishing processes, integrates popular development tools, enables organizations to publish code and applications faster and reduce time to remediation issues between VMware Private Cloud, VMware Cloud on AWS, and native public cloud.

Wavefront by VMware is a cloud-native monitoring and analysis platform that enables DEVOPS teams, developers, and site reliability engineering teams to instantly understand the performance of highly distributed web applications. The wavefront update adds new enhancements including: extracting, analyzing, and visualizing metrics data from an environment running 100,000 containers, full support for kubernetes performance monitoring, and no server application monitoring.

In short, the new VMware Cloud services enhances the automated operational level of the enterprise digital infrastructure represented by cloud data centers and on-premises data centers. On VMworld 2018, VMware has also announced Project Magna, an autonomous data center. With Oracle proposing an autonomous database, VMware's autonomous data center is also an artificial intelligence and machine learning approach that makes the entire data center highly automated, autonomous, and even one day likely to reach an unattended level.

VMware Cloud Services manages all of the enterprise's on-premises computing resources, cloud computing resources, plus edge computing resources, which is VMware's new enterprise IT Infrastructure vision. At the beginning of 2018, VMware launched the IoT product VMware Pulse IoT Center 1.0 and launched its new 2.0 release in April, with Pulse IoT Center 2.0 Managing 500 million IoT devices in a new architecture, and the Pulse IoT Center is a new "virtualization" management approach to computing resources based on project dimension. In other words, Project dimension provides complete, end-to-end, automated operations management of digital infrastructure from enterprise on-premises data centers to cloud computing datacenters to edge compute nodes.

To enhance the management capabilities across multiple public clouds, VMware announced the acquisition of Cloudhealth Technologies on VMworld 2018, Cloudhealth Technologies has more than 3,000 global customers, available at AWS, Cloud operations platforms between Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud help customers analyze and manage the cloud cost, usage, security, and performance of on-premises public clouds. Cloudhealth Technologie's cloud operations platform is already a public cloud management platform for multiple managed Service Providers (MSPs) cloud management services.

Together with the software-defined WAN Company acquired in November 2017, Velocloud Networks,vmware has developed a complete "virtualization" management software solution on a complete enterprise digital infrastructure comprised of enterprise on-premises data centers, cloud data centers, and edge compute nodes. Allow enterprises to unify these complex IT resources into a single control panel and support the enterprise's digital applications upwards.

For the next 20 years, VMware has completed a complete product layout today, delivering a new IT infrastructure that unifies multiple computing resources for the enterprise from a true private cloud perspective. More importantly, the real private cloud market for the next decade will reach $176 billion trillion, combined with a managed private cloud market, with a total level of $262.4 billion. Given that today's VMware is just $60 billion trillion, the $262.4 billion trillion market for the next ten years will be enough to recreate a new VMware.

No wonder that VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger is tattooed on his arm for the 20 anniversary of VMware: VMware. In the next 20 years, there is still enough room for Pat Gelsinger to continue working at VMware. (Wen/Ningchuang)

Hundreds of billions of dollars private cloud market will be, to rebuild a new VMware