![]() The FSP can orchestrate data across the datacenter, across any number of vCenters and storage backends. We're introducing a new concept: the Federated Storage Platform (FSP). Storage is foundational because every business is a data business, so we'll focus on that first. Now, VMware is rethinking its software platform for multi-cloud. VMware HCI Mesh is a big step in the right direction to disaggregate compute and storage, but it doesn't span across clusters or create a multi-cloud surface. However, its easy packaging becomes limiting at scale, and it doesn't solve multi-cloud services well. It provides x86 server economics, and software-defined infrastructure simplicity and flexibility. Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) has successfully stretched system boundaries, and created a whole new industry. ![]() The industry's continued march towards the multi-cloud/zettabyte era is only exacerbating these limitations. In short, traditional storage array architectures cannot deliver a cloud-like experience. They require upfront obsolescence planning with significant investments to placate technology risk, conflated by disruptive and expensive end-of-life tech forklifts with data migration sprees. As a result, they are hampered by trapped data, stranded capacity, limited scalability and elasticity, complex placement decisions, limited data and compute mobility across (physical or logical) system boundaries, and high sunrise and sunset cost. Traditional storage arrays are defined by fixed hardware boundaries, which confine their resources. In this blog, we describe what this means for VMware's strategy for data, data management and storage. Andreesen Horowitz eloquently articulated this opportunity in their thought piece "The Cost of Cloud, a Trillion Dollar Paradox." VMware's unique value is the ability to span across both private and public clouds. There is an incredible opportunity for private datacenters to deliver similar value, and re-capture hundreds of billions of market share from public clouds. The public cloud wins with simplicity, elasticity, a quick time to value and perhaps most importantly, a low barrier to entry, so it makes it cheap to try new projects. This pointedly illustrates the immense potential of this opportunity for a new Federated Storage Platform. The combined market cap of Amazon, Microsoft and Google, the top three public cloud providers, is approaching six trillion dollars - almost one-third of the entire Nasdaq capitalization. ![]() The drive of the IT industry towards cloud is making headlines almost daily, with most analysts focusing on public cloud providers.
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