FD Insights Issue 8 | Page 30

vCloud Air Helps Customers Embrace Hybrid Cloud VMware’s Hybrid Cloud Service enables customers to extend their data centres to the public cloud while addressing regional data privacy, security and sovereignty issues he VMware vCloud Air, previously VMware vCloud Hybrid Service, is its hybrid cloud platform and is an ideal solution for service providers and partners looking to take steps to a hybrid cloud. T What’s more is that the entire solution stack is now available to partners of First Distribution through its First for Cloud business. cost cloud service will mean nothing if it doesn’t have the capacity to support or run your applications, at the desired performance you need. It is against this backdrop that VMware recently commissioned benchmarking tests performed by Principled Technologies, who determined that vCloud Air delivers twice the compute power of Microsoft Azure and three times the storage performance of Amazon AWS. Will it support your business? As with any new technology, and particularly with a technology that is firstly entrenched in the cloud, there are some questions all businesses ask. Will it work for me? Will it integrate with my existing infrastructure? Should I look at alternativ