Mark Reynolds, Partner Lead at
VMware Southern Africa
solution stack. It also includes all of your favourite management tools, which are integrated with vCloud Air including
VMware vSphere Client Plug-in, VMware vCloud Automation Center, VMware vCenter Operations Manager, VMware
vCloud Connector and more.
VMware expands vCloud Air in
Central Europe with data centre
in Germany
Build from your own infrastructure
At VMworld 2014 Europe, VMware announced that it plans
to bring VMware vCloud Air (previously VMware vCloud
Hybrid Service), hybrid cloud platform to Germany.
With vCloud Air, customers can extend beyond their own
data centres with ease, making your life a whole lot simpler.
With it you can help clients easily position workloads on
their cloud or the vCloud Air one.
Added features, such as network virtualisation allows you to
configure your firewalls and network like your existing cloud,
and is customisable to your application and security needs.
You can benefit from common identity and access management across your onsite and offsite cloud locations.
Complementing VMware’s UK location and vCloud Air Network of service provider options, the new VMware-operated
data centre will provide customers with a Central European
location that addresses German and EU compliance and
data sovereignty regulations. General availability is planned
in the first quarter of 2015.
Another huge benefit is the fact that VMware works with
leading operating systems and applications to support
‘bring your own license’ to the cloud, and offers software for
purchase on a subscription basis.
In addition, VMware announced its plans for an Early Access Program for VMware vCloud Air Virtual Private Cloud
OnDemand with an expanded footprint in North America
and Europe. VMware vCloud Air Virtual Private Cloud will
provide customers with on-demand access to vCloud Air
with the swipe of a credit card.
Reduce Risk and Cost of Ownership
VMware’s hybrid cloud provides opportunities for partners
vCloud Air offers automated replication, monitoring, and
high availability of your applications without any code
changes. Using the same platform your customers can
already run it internally, you can also extend management
tools into the cloud to leverage existing investments, processes, and expertise to lower the cost of ownership.
With vCloud Air, channel partners play a key role integrating
private data centres and public clouds and delivering hybrid
solutions to customers. VMware vCloud Air was designed
specifically with the channel community in mind. VMware
distributors, solution providers and OEM partners sell
vCloud Air the same way as any other VMware product.
Fast Path to Cloud
In addition, VMware has an existing ecosystem of more
than 2,100 vCloud Air Network Service Provider Partners in
Europe that operate clouds based on VMware’s technology.
Included within this ecosystem are over 160 VMware Hybrid
Cloud Powered Service Providers offering true workload
portability between the customer site and the cloud.
Reynolds says that another excellent aspect of vCloud
Air is that it supports a common platform that spans both
private and public cloud, and it enables your organisation to
dynamically scale its IT infrastructure without changing the
way you run it.
In fact you can write, deploy, and manage applications in
the cloud the same way you do today.
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