Today VMware announced at VMworld the VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture™ enabling customers to run, manage, connect, and secure their applications across clouds and devices in a common operating environment.
In support of the company's cloud strategy, VMware also announced the following:
- VMware Cloud Foundation™ is a unified
Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) platform that makes it easy for customers to manage and run their SDDC clouds; - Technology Preview of Cross-Cloud Services™ to showcase how customers can manage, govern, and secure applications running in private and public clouds, including AWS, Azure and IBM Cloud;
VMware vCloud® Availability™, a new family of disaster recovery offerings purpose-built for vCloud Air™ Network partners;- A new release of
VMware vCloud Air Hybrid Cloud Manager™ to provideVMware vSphere® users zero downtime application migration toVMware vCloud Air.
For the first time, VMware Cloud Foundation offers a new "as-a-service" option that delivers the full power of the SDDC in a hybrid cloud environment.IBM is the first VMware vCloud Air Network partner delivering new offerings based on VMware Cloud Foundation with its VMware Cloud Foundation™ on IBM Cloud offering. VMware Cloud Foundation will be available on additional public clouds, including vCloud Air, in the future. Read more about VMware Cloud Foundation on IBM Cloud in this announcement.
For private clouds, customers can procure turnkey VxRack Systems integrated solutions from EMC today, or combine Cloud Foundation software with qualified VMware Virtual SAN Ready Nodes from Dell , Hewlett Packard Enterprise and QCT.
