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The evolution towards cloud solutions is one of the biggest revolutions in the IT sphere and it is completely changing the way of planning and evaluating infrastructures in a business setting.

It’s not a piece of news that the Infrastructure as a Service (Iaas) architectures allow system administrators to leverage the service model to consolidate servers, increase the availability of business applications and, in most cases, even to lower costs.

In the transition from virtualization to cloud, VMware has been one of the reference players for sure thanks to its advantage gained in those years when it really was the only company that invested in the development of virtual solutions. Nowadays -whatever the vendor of my hypervisor might be- virtual machines, as a matter of fact, are the fundamental computing unit of an IT system.

However, something is deeply changing in IaaS architectures: we’re talking about two important innovations such as the development of applications built natively for a cloud architecture and containers, which radically simplify the implementation and the development of the more traditional applications. VMware is naturally working as quick as possible to maintain its advantage in this sector too.
Let’s see how by analyzing the solutions introduced during the last VMworld (Europe and USA).

Anatomy of a cloud-native application

According to  Kit Colbert -VMware’s VP & CTO and Team Leader of the Cloud Native Application project- the term cloud-native is used for these last-generation applications built on top of dynamic and elastic infrastructures. Software defined datacenter, coupled with the infrastructural elements of the vSphere and NSX packages, is the ideal setting where to run traditional and cloud-native applications.