VMware helps Asian businesses to enhance agility, flexibility and choice
VMware has outlined its strategy for empowering organisations across Southeast Asia and Korea to build the best digital foundation in Asia’s rapidly-digitalising economy at the 2019 VMware CIO Forum in Singapore.
According to Gartner’s 2019 CIO Survey, digital business has reached a tipping point. Forty-seven percent of Asia Pacific CIOs report their enterprises have already changed their business models or are in the process of changing them*. Thirty-one percent of Asia Pacific CIOs are also scaling up their digital transformation efforts to capitalise on the region’s growth. ASEAN’s digital economy is projected to hit US$5.1 trillion by 2025 alone, up from US$200 billion in 2018**.
“There is no question that businesses need to transform themselves to stay relevant in Asia’s new economic paradigm. The question is how can they support innovation and business growth in the coming decades,” said Sanjay K. Deshmukh, VP and MD, Southeast Asia and Korea, VMware. “With VMware’s end to end portfolio of innovative solutions, we are laying out a blueprint for digital transformation success, so our customers can grow alongside the region’s burgeoning digital economy.”
According to VMware, many organisations are challenged by increased complexities of multicloud, such as diverse infrastructures, management tools, and processes. To address this, VMware has introduced advancements to VMware Cloud, including recent enhancements to VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware vCloud Director, CloudHealth by VMware, increased access to Cloud Foundation-based services via new VMware Cloud on AWS in Singapore and more VMware Cloud Verified partners globally.
United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) is the first organisation in Southeast Asia to deploy VMware Cloud on AWS to support the Bank’s digital innovation journey. Adhunik Chug, Head of Group Shared Infrastructure Services, Group Technology and Operations, UOB said, “VMware Cloud on AWS enables us to build our innovation platform on the cloud while maintaining our robust security standards. We are pleased to be the first company in Southeast Asia to use this integrated solution to power our innovation drive.”
VMware’s expanded partnership with Dell Technologies and Microsoft gives businesses even more value and flexibility in their multicloud journey. VMware recently announced VMware Cloud on Dell EMC and Microsoft Azure VMware solutions that further extend VMware’s technology to more customers for digital transformation. VMware Cloud on Dell EMC brings together public cloud simplicity, agility and economics with the security, control and performance of on-premises infrastructure. Azure VMware Solutions, on the other hand, enables customers to migrate, extend and run existing VMware workloads from on-premise environments to Azure.
To support the new reality of work, VMware Workspace ONE customers will now have the ability to manage and secure the powerful productivity features of Office 365 across devices via cloud-based integration with Microsoft Intune and Azure Active Directory.
In addition, VMware plans to extend the capabilities of Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop to enable customers to further accelerate their cloud initiatives, leveraging VMware Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure. The expanded partnership represents a significant step forward for businesses through the provision of end user simplicity and enterprise security across their multi-device digital transformation journeys.
VMware has also outlined a new security approach that switches the main focus on applications instead of infrastructure to shrink the attack surface and making security intrinsic to organisations. Through the introduction of a service-defined firewall and new Workspace ONE security capabilities, VMware is leveraging the properties of virtual and mobile infrastructure to deliver visibility into applications that ultimately safeguards organisations.
“Organisations in Asia are in a unique point in time where they are at the forefront of the global shift towards the innovation economy. To this end, VMware’s focus on delivering innovations around cloud, mobility and security will support our customers, as they embrace digital transformation to leapfrog into the next chapter of their growth journeys,” added Deshmukh.
*Gartner CIO Survey Reveals Digital Maturity in Asia/Pacific Has Reached a Tipping Point, Gartner press release, October 2018
**Advancing Towards ASEAN Digital Integration, Bain & Company, September 2018
According to Gartner’s 2019 CIO Survey, digital business has reached a tipping point. Forty-seven percent of Asia Pacific CIOs report their enterprises have already changed their business models or are in the process of changing them*. Thirty-one percent of Asia Pacific CIOs are also scaling up their digital transformation efforts to capitalise on the region’s growth. ASEAN’s digital economy is projected to hit US$5.1 trillion by 2025 alone, up from US$200 billion in 2018**.
“There is no question that businesses need to transform themselves to stay relevant in Asia’s new economic paradigm. The question is how can they support innovation and business growth in the coming decades,” said Sanjay K. Deshmukh, VP and MD, Southeast Asia and Korea, VMware. “With VMware’s end to end portfolio of innovative solutions, we are laying out a blueprint for digital transformation success, so our customers can grow alongside the region’s burgeoning digital economy.”
According to VMware, many organisations are challenged by increased complexities of multicloud, such as diverse infrastructures, management tools, and processes. To address this, VMware has introduced advancements to VMware Cloud, including recent enhancements to VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware vCloud Director, CloudHealth by VMware, increased access to Cloud Foundation-based services via new VMware Cloud on AWS in Singapore and more VMware Cloud Verified partners globally.
United Overseas Bank Limited (UOB) is the first organisation in Southeast Asia to deploy VMware Cloud on AWS to support the Bank’s digital innovation journey. Adhunik Chug, Head of Group Shared Infrastructure Services, Group Technology and Operations, UOB said, “VMware Cloud on AWS enables us to build our innovation platform on the cloud while maintaining our robust security standards. We are pleased to be the first company in Southeast Asia to use this integrated solution to power our innovation drive.”
VMware’s expanded partnership with Dell Technologies and Microsoft gives businesses even more value and flexibility in their multicloud journey. VMware recently announced VMware Cloud on Dell EMC and Microsoft Azure VMware solutions that further extend VMware’s technology to more customers for digital transformation. VMware Cloud on Dell EMC brings together public cloud simplicity, agility and economics with the security, control and performance of on-premises infrastructure. Azure VMware Solutions, on the other hand, enables customers to migrate, extend and run existing VMware workloads from on-premise environments to Azure.
To support the new reality of work, VMware Workspace ONE customers will now have the ability to manage and secure the powerful productivity features of Office 365 across devices via cloud-based integration with Microsoft Intune and Azure Active Directory.
In addition, VMware plans to extend the capabilities of Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop to enable customers to further accelerate their cloud initiatives, leveraging VMware Horizon Cloud on Microsoft Azure. The expanded partnership represents a significant step forward for businesses through the provision of end user simplicity and enterprise security across their multi-device digital transformation journeys.
VMware has also outlined a new security approach that switches the main focus on applications instead of infrastructure to shrink the attack surface and making security intrinsic to organisations. Through the introduction of a service-defined firewall and new Workspace ONE security capabilities, VMware is leveraging the properties of virtual and mobile infrastructure to deliver visibility into applications that ultimately safeguards organisations.
“Organisations in Asia are in a unique point in time where they are at the forefront of the global shift towards the innovation economy. To this end, VMware’s focus on delivering innovations around cloud, mobility and security will support our customers, as they embrace digital transformation to leapfrog into the next chapter of their growth journeys,” added Deshmukh.
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| Source: VMware. Andy Rowsell-Jones,VP and Distinguished Analyst, Gartner shared
that 31% of Asia Pacific CIOs are scaling up their digital
transformation efforts to capitalise on the region’s growth.
Part of this is driven by the increase in digitally savvy end-users,
which is driving a ‘digital arms race’ amongst enterprises as they
strive to improve customer centricity. He
also said that the next wave of virtualisation is led by
containerisation. |
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| Source: VMware. At the VMware
CIO Forum 2019 opening keynote, Gelsinger discussed the four superpowers of tech driving
tdigital ransformation. These are cloud, mobile, AI/ML
and edge/IoT technologies. He also welcomed Rima Olinger, Global Alliance Lead, AWS to the stage as they shared about how VMware Cloud on AWS continues to attract great traction from businesses and will continue to work
closely together, jointly innovating on behalf of their customers. |
**Advancing Towards ASEAN Digital Integration, Bain & Company, September 2018
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