New Public Cloud Services and Software-Defined Data Center Solutions Enable Organizations to Securely Build, Run and Deliver Any Application
SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - August 31, 2015) - Today at VMworld® 2015, VMware, Inc. (
"Digital business transformation is creating new opportunities and new risks across every industry," said Raghu Raghuram, executive vice president and general manager, Software-Defined Data Center Division, VMware. "Applications are the fuel of this digital business transformation. With our One Cloud, Any Application, Any Device™ strategy and our unified hybrid cloud platform, VMware is empowering the next wave of industry leaders to deliver applications with the stability, security and reliability of an enterprise, while allowing organizations to innovate with the agility of a startup."
VMware's unified hybrid cloud platform enables customers to create one consistent environment based on VMware vSphere® across the private and public cloud to securely build, run and deliver any traditional or cloud-native application. VMware's unified hybrid cloud platform is built on a software-defined data center architecture, and offers customers openness and choice in how to build and manage applications and cloud environments based on their needs.
VMware's Expanding Portfolio of Public Cloud Services
VMware vCloud® Air™, the public cloud component of VMware's unified platform, allows the data center and cloud to remain connected so that all resources are accessible and shared across the hybrid cloud. VMware vCloud Air streamlines the digital processes required to realize the value of applications while maintaining the security and performance organizations demand. New or expanded vCloud Air services include:
Read this blog to learn more about these new additions to VMware vCloud Air.
Software-Defined Data Center - The Foundation for a Unified Hybrid Cloud Strategy
Research indicates the software-defined data center is going mainstream, as customers move from virtualizing compute resources to implementing storage and network virtualization. A new report by Research and Markets notes that the software-defined data center market will hit $77.18 billion by the year 2020, which is up from the $21.78 billion it's expected to rake in for 2015.
VMware announced new product releases for the software-defined data center that include:
Technology Preview - Project Skyscraper
Today at VMworld 2015, VMware revealed a technology preview of Project Skyscraper, a new set of innovative hybrid cloud capabilities for vSphere. These new capabilities will enable customers to extend their data center to the public cloud and seamlessly operate across boundaries while providing enterprise-level security and business continuity. At VMworld, the company will demonstrate live workload migration through Cross-Cloud vMotion and Content Sync across a private cloud and vCloud Air. Read more about Project Skyscraper in this blog.
Analyst and Customer Commentary
"As a result of the success and comfort level IT organizations are having with software-defined data center strategies and the increasing simplicity of cloud solutions fueled by core virtualization, we are witnessing an IT infrastructure and information security sea-change taking place. VMware is one of the companies that is driving this IT transformation. VMware's strategy to combine a platform for achieving a unified hybrid cloud with business mobility solutions that enable organizations to extend secure access to applications and information to any device or user is resonating with customers, and increasingly making them a more strategic IT partner." - Mark Bowker, senior analyst at ESG
"The growth of virtualization and the mainstream adoption of the software defined data center has really enabled our IT strategy. It's all about delivering agility and flexibility and exploiting software defined technologies to tailor environments to meet our business challenges. Through VMware's unified hybrid cloud approach, we estimate the time it takes to deliver value through IT to the business has improved by close to 75 percent, with better security controls and in full compliance with Sarbanes Oxley and other regulations by which we are governed." - Bryan Thompson, executive vice president and CTO at Heartland Payment Systems
"Our developers need us to move fast. Our business needs us to be secure and compliant. Our management needs us to help drive revenue and capture market opportunities. With VMware we have access to a unified platform that spans both the public and private cloud to support this wide range of business requirements. The vRealize suite really is at the heart of it for us. With vRealize we get a robust set of management tools that can operate across our heterogeneous infrastructure to help us drive down inefficiency and cost. The NSX platform gives us a new model for securing our hybrid cloud environment. And vCloud Air will provide us with a simple and cost effective way to improve our approach to disaster recovery." - Michael Conroy, director, TechOps at Rent-A-Center
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Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements including, among other things, statements regarding future unified hybrid cloud platform product features, the expected availability and features of VMware products and services comprising the platform, benefits to customers, the potential impact on and transformation of the industry and the projected size of the software-defined data center market in 2015 and 2020. These forward-looking statements are subject to the safe harbor provisions created by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results could differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of certain risk factors, including but not limited to (i) changes to priorities and spending allocations; (ii) adverse changes in general economic or market conditions; (iii) delays or reductions in information technology spending; (iv) competitive factors, including but not limited to pricing pressures, industry consolidation, entry of new competitors into the enterprise software and cloud computing markets, and new product and marketing initiatives by our competitors; (v) our customers' ability to develop, and to transition to, new products and computing strategies such as cloud computing and software-defined data centers; (vi) the uncertainty of customer acceptance of emerging technology; (vii) rapid technological and market changes in virtualization software and application platforms for enterprise computing; (viii) changes to product development timelines; (ix) the successful interoperability and integration of the technologies involved; (x) VMware's ability to protect its proprietary technology; and (xi) VMware's ability to attract and retain highly qualified employees. These forward looking statements are based on current expectations and are subject to uncertainties and changes in condition, significance, value and effect as well as other risks detailed in documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our most recent reports on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K that we may file from time to time, which could cause actual results to vary from expectations. VMware assumes no obligation to, and does not currently intend to, update any such forward-looking statements after the date of this release.
1 Based on internal estimates
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