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Streamline Your Transition
to the Cloud with
vCloud Air
VMware continues the rapid expansion
of its hybrid cloud platform, now
available across 75 percent of the
world’s cloud market.

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Mworld 2014 saw VMware continuing the rapid
expansion of its VMware vCloud Air hybrid
cloud platform with the unveiling of new hybrid
cloud service capabilities and a new line-up of
third-party mobile application services designed
to enable enterprise and application developers
to better support the dynamic needs of modern businesses.
VMware vCloud Air (previously, VMware vCloud Hybrid Service) has extended its global footprint to provide businesses
of all sizes with the fastest path to cloud.
“Business today looks to modern, mobile applications to
drive revenue, differentiation and loyalty,” said Bill Fathers,
executive vice president and general manager, Hybrid
Cloud Services Business Unit, VMware. “We are continuing
to push the pace of our cloud expansion, intent to make
VMware vCloud Air the industry’s leading hybrid cloud
platform for building, deploying, scaling and operating
next-generation, mobile-cloud applications.”
vCloud Air also has new capabilities to support new and
existing mobile-cloud applications. VMware vCloud Air
Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand will provide customers
with instant on-demand access to vCloud Air with the swipe
of a credit card. Billing is provided in arrears for services
consumed. Initially offered as a qualified beta, customers
can apply for a vCloud Air Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand
account online.
VMware vCloud Air Object Storage is designed to offer scalable, cost effective, and durable storage for unstructured
data and will enable customers to easily scale to petabytes
and only pay for what they use. VMware vCloud Air Object
Storage will include lifecycle management, versioning and
large object features that will simplify and reduce management overhead for highly available hybrid application
deployments.
Hybrid mobile cloud solutions and new pre-validated
mobility capabilities
A wide array of pre-validated solutions offered by indepen-

dent software vendors (ISVs) will be available on vCloud
Air. These mobility experts provide customers with a choice
of proven capabilities to meet a spectrum of customer
needs to help them keep pace with the rapidly changing
mobile landscape.
• Enterprise mobility management – Offering an
industry-leading platform for mobile device, application,
email, browser and content management, AirWatch
by VMware solutions will be available this year on
vCloud Air. AirWatch provides a simplified, efficient way
to manage an organisation’s mobile footprint across
employee-owned, corporate-owned and shared devices
from a centralised console.
• Mobile Backend as a Service (mBaaS) – Organisations will be able to scale their ability to build mobile
applications and integrate them with corporate backend
systems and third-party cloud services through mBaaS
solutions on vCloud Air, offered by leading enterprise
BaaS Kinvey, enterprise mobile platform, built.io, and
Node.js community leader StrongLoop.
• Mobile application development platform (MADP)
– Developers will be able to create mobile applications
on vCloud Air using mobile web application development tools from Sencha’s high-performance, HTML5
mobile application platform Sencha Touch Bundle and
cross-platform application development capabilities,
including Appcelerator Titanium or the extensible, integrated Appcelerator Platform.
• Pivotal CF mobile services – Enterprise Platform
as a Service leader, Pivotal, is extending Pivotal CF on
vCloud Air with mobile backend capabilities such as
Push Notifications, API Gateway and Data Sync, all at
enterprise standards of compliance and security.
• Rapid application delivery – Customers can create, deploy, manage and change both mobile and web
applications on vCloud Air with the high productivity
application platform from OutSystems.

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