Stratoscale, the hybrid cloud infrastructure company, today announced it has been awarded the VMworld 2017 Best of Show Gold Award in the "Virtualization and Cloud Infrastructure" category for its software-only solution, Stratoscale Symphony. The prestigious list from TechTarget's SearchServerVirtualization.com recognizes the year's best enterprise solutions based on innovation, value, performance, reliability and ease of use. The award highlights Stratoscale's mission to provide an effective solution for managing today's data center transition into a true hybrid cloud, unifying the off-prem and on-prem environments.

Stratoscale Symphony sets the company apart by transforming any hardware into directly consumable cloud capacity, coupled with an advanced AWS-compatible cloud services that enables enterprises to run cloud-native applications on-prem and leverage DevOps and other cloud best practices. Symphony enables IT organizations to align with an AWS first strategy via a single pane of glass, decoupled from any hardware vendor constraints. This approach enables enterprises to fulfill demand for self-service, ease-of-use, and significantly shorten time-to-value.

"Today, companies shift their focus towards cloud-native application, to deliver agility and simplicity. They look to augment their data center infrastructure with a solution that can be deployed quickly while delivering the same services and experience they've come to expect from AWS and other public cloud vendors," said Ariel Maislos, CEO at Stratoscale. "By receiving a Best of Show 2017 Gold Award TechTarget has recognized that Stratoscale offers a competitive solution that effectively meets customer demand by enabling companies to develop cloud native applications using AWS APIs on-prem and in the cloud."