In the ever-evolving landscape of Asia’s business world, organizations are deeply committed to driving innovation, seizing new opportunities, and navigating challenges effectively in today’s fast-paced, interconnected environment. To succeed on this dynamic stage, businesses must balance numerous responsibilities, including driving top-line growth, enabling a flexible workforce, optimizing cloud spending, and enhancing resilience. VMware, at Explore 2023 Singapore, reaffirms its dedication to helping customers align their operations with the right applications, the right cloud, and invest in technologies that facilitate consistent and secure multi-cloud management.
A recent study by IDC underscores the global trend, with enterprises around the world expected to allocate more than half of their technology budgets to innovation until 2024. As organizations focus on digital innovation, technology providers capable of supporting and empowering these initiatives will become increasingly valuable to enterprises.
Sylvain Cazard, Senior Vice President and General Manager for Asia Pacific and Japan (APJ) at VMware, commented, “Asia-Pacific has been at the forefront of growth fueled by multi-cloud innovation. We’re committed to helping clients at every point in their transformation journey, whether starting out managing the complexity of multi-cloud or harnessing the power of a digital foundation to leverage the generative AI opportunity.”
Key Announcements at VMware Explore 2023:
1. Unlocking the Power of Generative AI:
VMware introduced new Private AI offerings in collaboration with NVIDIA. This strategic partnership aims to prepare enterprises running VMware’s cloud infrastructure for the next era of generative AI. VMware Private AI Foundation, in association with NVIDIA, extends this partnership and strengthens VMware’s commitment to opening up new possibilities for its customers, enabling them to harness the full potential of Generative AI.
2. VMware Cloud Evolution:
VMware unveiled the next phase of VMware Cloud, offering customers new editions and capabilities to modernize, optimize, and enhance their organizational security. With five distinct VMware Cloud editions catering to various transformation stages, customers can flexibly modernize their infrastructure and management. Additionally, VMware Cloud is designed to be deployable and manageable in three ways: Customer Managed, VMware Managed, and Provider Managed.
3. Enhancing Application Delivery with Tanzu:
VMware introduced a suite of powerful offerings within VMware Tanzu, providing customers with a comprehensive solution to develop, deliver, and optimize applications across cloud environments. The platform’s innovations focus on application-centric visibility, proactive optimization, and multi-cloud management. Highlights include the new VMware Tanzu Application Engine, enhanced multi-cloud Kubernetes operations, and a developer portal offering curated app templates, among others.
4. Edge Computing Advancements:
VMware unveiled new capabilities, solutions, and services to accelerate digital transformation at the edge through a software-defined edge approach. This includes VMware Edge Cloud Orchestrator, VMware Retail Edge for the retail industry, and VMware Private Mobile Network, designed to simplify private mobile network management for enterprises.
5. AI-Powered Integrations:
VMware announced modern AI integrations to the VMware Anywhere Workspace platform, enabling automatic optimization of employee experiences, new vulnerability management use cases, and simplified application lifecycle management.
As VMware reinforces its commitment to empowering organizations across Asia, its comprehensive range of solutions and innovations is set to play a pivotal role in enabling businesses to thrive in an era defined by innovation, multi-cloud management, and generative AI opportunities. These initiatives are poised to help organizations excel in the fast-changing, technology-driven landscape of the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.
