VMware expanded its work with a pair of system integrators targeted at helping enterprise customers better manage their migration and oversight of increasingly popular multicloud environments.

The first expansion is with Wipro and will combine VMware’s Cross-Cloud services with Wipro’s FullStride Cloud Services. This will allow enterprises to scale cloud-native application development and deployment.

Wipro’s FullStride service runs on top of VMware’s Kubernetes-based Tanzu platform that manages broad container development, deployment, and monitoring.

Wipro is also using VMware’s various cloud integrations for its Global Cloud Studios to allow enterprise customers to migrate and manage their workloads into different public cloud environments. VMware has specific cloud platforms tied into Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud.

VMware unveiled its Cross-Cloud platform last fall as part of a multicloud push. It acts as a set of integrated services that allow customers to build, run, and secure applications across any cloud.

The services include a platform for building and deploying cloud-native apps; cloud infrastructure for operating and running enterprise apps; cloud management for monitoring the performance and cost of apps across multiple clouds; security and networking that spans customers’ multicloud environment to connect and secure apps; and a digital workspace to accommodate the distributed workforce and manage edge-native apps.

Analysts at that time hinted that VMware would need to find partners to crack the multicloud management space.

“Management of heritage and cloud-native applications, as well as microservices, are a large part of success for IT organizations,” ESG Senior Analyst Paul Nashawaty wrote in a blog post. “Like most vendors, VMware is taking on multicloud and application management services as their next area of evolution. … Their partnerships will not only accelerate their go-to-market strategy and drive adoption but will also create less competition for them.”

VMware is also working with Atos to further develop “data spaces” that allow for the easier exchange of data between organizations without needing to reconfigure underlying infrastructure, and also maintaining data sovereignty and security.

The development will tap into the Gaia-X initiative that was announced in mid-2020. It was launched as a way to tackle cloud and data sovereignty challenges of Europe’s geo-political structure that has tried to free reliance on U.S.-based cloud giants AWS, Microsoft, and Google. It’s targeted at linking current, decentralized country-specific cloud operations under a centralized management system.

VMware will offer its Tanzu Data Services that can help develop, deploy, and manage applications running on Kubernetes; its Cloud Foundation to connect the data spaces with cloud infrastructure; and a data software development kit (SDK) that provides a template for running the service.

Atos will bring its cloud services business, its edge and bare metal-as-a-service platforms, its cybersecurity products and services, and its Digital Hub that acts as a management layer for enterprise customers.

“With data hosted on a common peer-to-peer framework to ensure the compatibility of architecture between cloud providers, organizations can place their data with any of the participating cloud providers to take full advantage of the services they offer, while retaining the ability to move apps or federate data on other cloud provider platforms as required,” the firms noted in a statement.