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Five Ways Your Business Can Use Hybrid Cloud
IT has long debated the merits of public and private cloud.
Public cloud allows organisations to gain capacity and scale
services on-demand, while private cloud allows companies
to maintain control and visibility of business critical applications. But there is one cloud model that stands apart:
hybrid cloud.
Hybrid cloud provides the best of both worlds: secure,
on-demand access to IT resources with the flexibility to
move workloads onsite or offsite to meet specific needs. It’s
the security you need in your private cloud with the scalability required of your public cloud.
VMware vCloud Air is a dedicated hybrid cloud solution that
is versatile, easy to use, and interoperable with your onsite
vSphere environment.
There are five key use cases you can evaluate for using hybrid cloud. In our upcoming blog series, we’ll dive deep into
each of the following use cases to uncover how you can get
started with the hybrid cloud.
Development and Testing
Hybrid cloud provides businesses with the flexibility to gain
needed capacity for limited time periods without making
capital investments for additional infrastructure.

Disaster Recovery
Every organisation fears an outage or outright loss of
business critical information. While onsite disaster recovery
solutions can be expensive, preventing businesses from
adopting the protection plans they need, hybrid cloud can
offer an affordable disaster recovery solution with flexible
commitments, capacity and cost.
Modernise Enterprise Applications
Hybrid cloud offers organisations an easy, scalable and secure platform for enterprise applications built for traditional
architectures. Companies can move applications or application tiers offsite, choose to keep sensitive data onsite, and
apply existing IT policies to meet the application’s security
and compliance requirements.
Create Next-Generation Applications
Hybrid cloud is ideal for cloud-native and mobile applications that are data-intensive and tend to need the elasticity
to scale with sudden or unpredictable traffic spikes.
Source: http://blogs.vmware.com/VMware vCloud Blog

Extend Existing Applications
With hybrid cloud, businesses can extend current standard
packaged applications to the cloud, thereby freeing up
onsite resources for more business critical projects.

SNAPSHOT: Why vCloud Air?
Compatibility
• Enjoy support for more than 5000 applications and more than 90 operating systems, and still growing
• Get the security, availability and performance you expect from VMware while leveraging existing investments, processes,
and expertise
• VMware brings together the tools, services and applications you need to move to the cloud safely and easily
Agility
• Set up, tear down, test, and deploy without building new infrastructure, and go live without learning new skills
or processes
• Expand or decommission virtual machines of any size
Easy, Secure and Compliant
• Use existing IT policies in the cloud and rely on the same source of support as your onsite data centre
• Understand and plan your budget with a capacity-based subscription

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