GEC NEWS WIREVMware unveiled the extension of the company’s hybrid cloud strategy with the new 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 revealed that 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 provide VMware vSphere users zero downtime application migration to VMware vCloud Air.
“Customers are increasingly relying on multiple public and private clouds to run their applications, but are daunted by the challenge of managing and securing applications across diverse cloud platforms,” said Raghu Raghuram, Executive VP and GM, Software-Defined Data Center Division, VMware.
“IBM continues to help drive and lead the industry in hybrid cloud adoption. We’re the first to offer VMware Cloud Foundation as a fully automated service today, while supporting it with more than 4,000 service professional trained and ready to help clients extend their VMware environments to the cloud.” —said Mercer Rowe, VP of Business Development, IBM Cloud.
