The two new technology previews are VMware vSphere Integrated Containers and VMware Photon Platform
At the VMworld 2015, VMware introduced two new technology previews – VMware vSphere Integrated Containers and VMware Photon Platform – to empower enterprise IT operations teams to deliver containers in production on-premises and on VMware’s public cloud, VMware vCloud Air.
VMware is expanding its cloud-native technology portfolio with two new projects that promise to improve the developer experience for building applications using container technology while addressing enterprise IT requirements. VMware’s cloud-native technology portfolio is being designed to meet IT requirements across security and isolation, service-level agreements, data persistence, networking services and management.
“Today, VMware is announcing foundational infrastructure that will enable customers to deploy cloud-native applications in production with confidence,” said Ray O’Farrell, chief technology officer and chief development officer, VMware. “It’s all about choice. Customers will be able to jumpstart their container initiatives on top of their existing VMware vSphere environments or consume new infrastructure designed specifically for cloud-native applications.”
Unveiled as a technology preview, VMware vSphere Integrated Containers will enable IT teams to support any application, including containerized applications, on a common infrastructure.
The technology can accelerate container initiatives by enabling IT teams to take advantage of their existing investments in VMware infrastructure, people, processes and management tools. The solution will also empower developers with the flexibility, portability and speed containers deliver. VMware vSphere Integrated Containers will easily integrate with other container ecosystem solutions including CoreOS Tectonic, Docker, Kubernetes, Mesosphere’s Data Center Operating System and Cloud Foundry.
VMware vSphere Integrated Containers represents a complementary set of cloud-native technologies featuring Project Bonneville, Project Photon OS (formerly Project Photon), and VMware’s Instant Clone technology (a feature of VMware vSphere 6) that will bring together the best of VMware vSphere with containers.
