Today at VMworld 2014, VCE and VMware announced an expansion of their
strategic partnership to include new collaborative development
initiatives for delivering integrated management solutions for the
hybrid cloud. VCE will integrate its industry-leading converged
infrastructure, Vblock Systems, with VMware vCloud Automation Center and VMware vCenter Operations Suite, and provide technology onramps to
VMware vCloud Air, enabling customers with seamless management,
workload migration and disaster recovery between their private and
public cloud environments.
vCloud Air is an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) public
cloud offering that enables an organization to extend its private
on-premises IT infrastructure seamlessly to the public cloud. The
resulting hybrid cloud is compatible with a customer's existing IT
assets and allows them to build new cloud-native applications,
delivering agility and efficiency to the business in a secure, and
reliable manner. IT departments can view, manage and operate this "best
of both worlds" cloud environment in a totally unified way using the
VMware vSphere® platform they already know and trust.
Vblock Systems are pre-integrated, pre-tested and
pre-validated converged infrastructures for cloud environments, enabling
transformative data center agility, simplicity and economics to
enterprises and service providers worldwide. As part of the VCE
Experience, Vblock Systems are delivered and supported by VCE as a
single product, with seamless component-level updates, lifecycle
management and end-to-end vendor accountability.
The expanded partnership will extend the VCE Experience to
new integrated solutions for cloud management that combine VCE converged
infrastructure with VMware vRealize® cloud management software into a
single system, providing customers with the option to order Vblock
Systems pre-installed with VMware vCloud Automation and vCenter
Operations Suite, and ready for vCloud Air. The solutions will provide
customers with a foundational private cloud that is hybrid cloud-ready,
with the technology to migrate workloads to VMware vCloud Air out of the
box. The solutions address customer demand for hybrid cloud
capabilities with a simplified data center infrastructure that can be
expanded over time as application requirements change.
"As more organizations capitalize on the advantages of the
hybrid cloud, we are pleased that VCE intends to offer customers a
solution to take advantage of vCloud Air's hybrid services portfolio
that includes disaster recovery capabilities," said Bill Fathers,
executive vice president and general manager, Hybrid Cloud Services
Business Unit, VMware.
"VCE and VMware are pioneers in delivering exceptional value
to customers looking to get the most from their data center
investments," said Todd Pavone, executive vice president, product
strategy and development, VCE. "As the industry continues to shift
toward hybrid cloud computing models, we have a significant opportunity
to help customers bridge their Vblock-based private cloud environments
to VMware vCloud Air with simplified, built-in VMware cloud management
and onramps that enable seamless workload migration between clouds.
We're excited to further expand our relationship with VMware, and we
believe this new collaboration can unify the tremendous benefits of
converged infrastructure and the public cloud, streamlining data center
operations and disaster recovery for our mutual customers."
AVAILABILITY
VCE integrated cloud management solutions with VMware vCloud
Automation Center, vCenter Operations Suite and vCloud Air are expected
to be orderable in the first half of 2015.