VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) positions private clouds to prioritize developer productivity through self-service infrastructure that encodes security and compliance policies. VCF supplants vSphere as the baseline for enterprise infrastructure, reflecting developers’ expectation for containers and infrastructure-as-code rather than only VMs. VCF 9.0 adds unified management of compute and storage and improved tools to manage containers and VMs from the same interface. These capabilities aim to break down ops silos between compute, networking, and storage teams and enable IT departments to build platforms that let developers spawn compliant infrastructure rapidly, maintaining competitive software delivery velocity.
His rationale was that unless organizations provide developers with self-service tools to spawn infrastructure in a form that expresses all necessary security and compliance policies, organizations just won't be able to build and deploy software fast enough to remain competitive. VMware used to say similar things about application teams. In the boom years for server virtualization, the company touted the ability to quickly provision more virtual servers to scale key enterprise software.
Databases, of course, remain critical, but containers are now the abstraction that developers expect, along with infrastructure as code tools. Which is not to say that VMware has forgotten VMs or operations teams. Prasad said the recently released VCF 9.0 includes tools IT departments need to build a platform that can satisfy developers. He pointed to newly unified management of compute and storage, an improvement on past VMware efforts that forced members of ops teams to work in silos.
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