At #VMworld 2016 Europe, VMware announced event that its #PhotonPlatform now offers built-in support for #Kubernetes. The company also announced that Photon will also add networking and storage services powered by #NSX (its software-defined networking product #SDN ) and Virtual SAN ( #VSAN, its software-defined storage solution) respectively. #VMware is targeting enterprise IT operations to develop and deploy cloud-based, "end-to-end enterprise cloud-native infrastructure platform for running modern, containerized applications in production with support provided by VMware." The updated service offering includes the following, according to VMware: Kubernetes as a Service provides a commercially supported distribution of the Kubernetes container orchestration system. Kubernetes clusters can expand from a single node to hundreds of nodes. VMware says that these clusters can be provisioned in minutes and allows developers to easily scale up or down as required. Virtual Networks, using NSX, has also been added to Photon. NSX provides routing and switching functions to enhance network operations. VSAN "provides flexible, programmable persistent storage for containerized and cloud-native applications."
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