VMware is all set to acquire SlatStack and strengthen its positioning in the intelligent automation space.
Applications drive digital transformation, and application needs drive multi-cloud strategies. VMware’s cloud strategy has been defined by the notion that all roads lead to the app.
VMware Cloud supports the broadest multi-cloud environment, spanning all clouds and application types to deliver consistent infrastructure and operations, and enable a consistent developer model.
So, why is SaltStack important to VMware’s customers? Because time is money and speed is the new currency for digital transformation, VMware works hard to give customers a fast and simple path to cloud for their VMware-based workloads.
VMware started by giving customers a home for these workloads in the cloud with VMware Cloud on AWS, which it build, run and sell alongside its strategic public cloud partner AWS. Over the past several years, this has expanded, and customers can now tun VMware-based workloads on every major hyperscaler and more than 200 Cloud Verified partners globally.
To get its customers to the cloud, the company offers VMware HCX, which allows customers to literally mass migrate 1,000s of vSphere workloads in a short amount of time. Customers can automate infrastructure across clouds with VMware vRealize, and the next logical step was to enable more seamless onboarding and better cross-cloud orchestration with configuration management. This is what VMware is getting with SaltStack.
Once closed, SaltStack will allow VMware to deliver full-stack automation from infrastructure to applications with the ability to do software configuration inside VMs and containers.
SaltStack has built a phenomenal open source community, which it will continue to grow and foster consistent with its open source strategy. And while this strategy has been one of supporting best-in-class choice of supporting configuration management, VMware believes many customers will want something simple and integrated.
Successful companies in this new era will not be the biggest or the fastest, but the ones that are agile, can adapt their business models to the needs of the current times and, simply put, are fast. And cloud is a key ingredient to deliver on that business agility, and VMware expect SaltStack will help its customers on their multi-cloud journey.
