What Can Partners, and Customers, Expect?

Written by Craig Galbraith
June 27, 2022

Again, VMware customers adopting vSphere+ and vSAN+ will keep using their existing platforms. That includes tool sets and domain expertise.

However, they will be able to add cloud services that integrate directly into the VMware Cloud Console and VMware Cloud Disaster Recovery (an on-demand offering. And here, VMware made a bold statement during its media briefing: that relying on VMware’s as-a-service disaster recovery reduces total cost of ownership by up to 60% because users are not maintaining a second data center. Whether partners’ customers experience that outcome, or a similarly significant one, remains an unknown.)

VMware has not yet said what the add-on services for vSphere+ and vSAN+ will constitute. Those remain “under development,” the company said. VMware did say those add-ons will provide “a streamlined path to the cloud,” should customers want to go all-in on cloud later.

Want to know about pricing and procurement for vSphere+ and vSAN+? Go to the next slide.

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Craig Galbraith

Craig Galbraith is the editorial director for Channel Futures and Channel Partners, joining the team in 2008. Before that, he spent more than 11 years as an anchor, reporter and managing editor in television newsrooms in North Dakota and Washington state. Craig is a proud Husky, having graduated from the University of Washington. He makes his home in the Phoenix area.