VMware, Inc.,
a global leader in cloud infrastructure and business mobility, today
announced that Swisscom AG, a leading IT & telecom provider, has
built its Enterprise Service Cloud on VMware cloud infrastructure and
management solutions. By working with VMware, Swisscom said it has
significantly accelerated the time-to-market of the new service. It now
has a platform from which it can differentiate its cloud offering,
pursue growth opportunities and provide its customers with a secure,
high-performance hybrid cloud solution to facilitate digitisation.
Built
for international enterprises with a presence in Switzerland, users of
the Enterprise Service Cloud benefit from Swisscom's tier IV-certified
data centres (the highest classification among data centers for
security, reliability and redundancy) as well as Switzerland's
reputation as a safe haven for data storage. The Enterprise Service
Cloud leverages VMware vRealize® Suite for management of infrastructure
and application services, VMware NSX® for network and security services
and VMware vSphere® for compute, running on Dell EMC VxBlock Systems.
Enterprise Service Cloud customers can use familiar VMware tools for
consistent management and operations between private, public and hybrid
clouds.
Swisscom initially assembled the cloud architecture
technology itself, then later turned to VMware and Dell EMC as strategic
technology partners to help build the best possible cloud platform. The
use of vRealize Suite to automate and simplify the performance,
troubleshooting and capacity management of the cloud infrastructure
helped accelerate the build out and launch of the service. This approach
also enabled Swisscom to refocus on the development of distinguishing
features and services for its customers rather than on building the
cloud infrastructure.
Recognizing the trend toward adoption of
multi-cloud environments, Swisscom has expanded its cloud portfolio with
global cloud offerings from Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft
Azure. Enterprise customers benefit from retaining Swisscom as their
service provider of choice to deliver the broadest choice in public
cloud services (VMware-based, AWS, Azure).
"Our partnership with
VMware and the launch of the Enterprise Service Cloud enables us to
offer a multi-cloud approach to our customers, enabling Swisscom to
remain the trusted strategic cloud advisor to help our customers
navigate the digital world," said Marcel Walker, Head of Network and
Cloud, Swisscom. "We now have a cloud offering from which Swisscom can
introduce new services, for banking or health industries for instance,
helping to meet compliance guidelines."