28daysVCloudAir

Oh wow I didn't know that. That might be worth it just to move my stuff over there.

free is a great business model - go VMware

breaking news: vmware has free bandwidth for vCloud

If there is no network charge, the next thing your going to tell me is there is not storage fee.

Now that i didn't know

DR can be free for 1 month

Test failovers are unlimited, test away people...test one VM every day if you like...

. @ericni25 this is a huge deal for no bandwidth charge..this is a scoop in the making cc @siliconangle team

Do we think this is intentional business model, or will this change as the service matures.

Business challenges are largely around awareness...still a lot of folks that don't know we have a public cloud!

the biggest thing i've heard so far is just maturity. People don't like trusting Prod to new things, hence Dev/Test & DR

Technical challenges are really more toward building out our portfolio and expanding our locations

Getting through the misconceptions and insecurities that organizations have around running workloads outside of the safety of their own data center

But, keep in mind, we've built a competitive portfolio that now has global locations and did it in just over a year!

#1 fear is around data security

Keeping up with the pace of demand around various requests from our platform, as Todd tweeted, we've come up to speed within the past year alone and we're aggressively continuing to expand not only location wise but the breadth of offerings

Would have been nice to have 8 years to figure it out like some other providers! ;)

@rogerlundGranular network security enables portable network security policies that are attached to the application rather than the network segment.

For the customers and people i've talked to, BCDR or AWS replacement.

AWS replacement is my favorite use case!

definitely for BCDR. Considering almost all companies use VMware solutions on-premise. Its just the way to go.

had a good CrowdChat earlier this week sharing the results of IaaS end-user survey https://www.crowdcha...

that is exactly why i've seen people talk about it. Kind of a "well why not" situation

VMware was the 4th most used public cloud (although that was significantly behind the big 3: Azure, AWS, Google) - users are overall happy with all of the choice they make (most use multiple clouds)

@stu to be fair, there really aren't many big ones beside the top 3. Either way congrats to VMW

Big question..every individual workload can have its own security policy, workloads on the SAME network can be isolated from each other

Perimeter less security is the new trend how does that relate to the overall vCloud {air}

john are you referring to "Micro-Segmentation"?

@ck_nic yes and with mobile apps and notifications/apis etc

yes, the policies and controls that you would normally apply to a network segment can be applied to each VM and travel with the VM wherever it goes

We are also about to announce an additional partnership for encryption (HyTrust?) that will allow for encryption to follow the VM as well

@tzambrovitz is crypto the answer or are there other new things happening

For one, we offer a consumption-based service that meters by the minutes and aggregates billing in arrears on a monthly basis

@tzambrovitz is there a way to cap spend? VMs shut off or whatever. Not saying i'd recommend it, but i know people will ask

We also do certain things like charge for the size of the pipe instead of data throughput for more predictable and consistent cost

Not at this time Chris. But between our Subscription and OnDemand options, customers can rightsize their commitments and centrally monitor usage from within the MyVMware portal

vCloud Air Disaster Recovery has new features coming in March! Includes replication based failback, multiple point in time snapshots, and vRealize Orchestrator plug-in to help create runbooks

@nicolejkim I like the native failback announcement the best. Being able to get your stuff back easily is key.

We announced increased capabilities around our DR service, really cool new networking capabilities across hybrid environments and an easy pay as you go service called Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand

@furriervCloud Air announced location-aware routing to reach workloads no matter where they reside.

@tzambrovitz Can i place the workloads in a DC of my choice?

You can choose from any location in which we offer the service

*thumbs up* this is backup of the workloads running IN vCloud Air, this is NOT backup from on premises to our cloud

agree with @nicolejkim

Rats! =). But this is just a nice to have and expected in a cloud service environment. Nice to have it a separate charge though, so if there is data I don't need to backup, I'm not paying for it.

of course backup To our cloud would be nice too....stay tuned

@nicolejkim couldn't i take a snap or clone of a VM and send to the cloud. Not a true backup per say, but still a basic point in time.

I'm non-technical Roger...sorry. My response may make your head explode!

Depends on the user's set up on premises, what kind of networking requirements they have and what kind of workloads they are running....simple web server, heavy database?

But, I will say that network design should be consistent with your onsite data center and bandwidth will depend on distance and latency

vCloud Air is designed to leverage your existing network designs and constructs

@tzambrovitz is that based on the new NSX integration?

@tzambrovitz So I don't have to redesign my network to run VMware's vCloudAir product.

That's the goal. vCloud Air should be a fairly seamless operation between your onsite data center and the resources you deploy in the cloud