ClearSky Data,
provider of on-demand backup and DR as a service, today announced its
support for VMware Cloud on AWS, which delivers a highly scalable,
secure and resilient service that allows organizations to seamlessly
migrate and extend their on-premises VMware vSphere-based environments
to the AWS Cloud running on next-generation Amazon Elastic
Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) bare metal infrastructure. As one of the
first partners to provide backup with native VMware Cloud on AWS
integration, ClearSky Data lets VMware Cloud on AWS customers protect
all their data in the cloud exactly as they do on-premises - without
replication or egress fees, and with on-demand access from anywhere.
VMware
Cloud on AWS provides connectivity to the ClearSky Data fully managed
service for cost-effective, enterprise-grade backup and disaster
recovery (DR) in the cloud. Customers achieve better backup with
predictable costs, limitless capacity and access anywhere, while
reducing their total cost of ownership (TCO) by more than 50 percent.
Laz
Vekiarides, chief technology officer and co-founder of ClearSky Data,
said, "ClearSky Data gives VMware Cloud on AWS customers the complete
reliability and redundancy they know and trust from their on-premises
environments with all of the benefits of cloud-based backup. ClearSky's
fully managed service simplifies backup storage, improves recovery times
and natively extends to the cloud, delivering seamless onsite and
offsite copies of data, accessible anywhere it's needed."
"VMware
Cloud on AWS technology partners such as ClearSky enhance native VMware
Cloud on AWS services and enable customers to realize new
capabilities," said Kristen Edwards, director, Technology Alliance
Partner Program, VMware. "Solutions
such as ClearSky Data enable IT teams to reduce cost, increase
efficiency and create operational consistency across cloud environments.
We're excited to work with partners such as ClearSky to enhance native
VMware Cloud on AWS capabilities and empower customers with flexibility
and choice in solutions that can drive business value."
ClearSky's
on-demand backup and DR service is enabled through its Cloud Edge
appliance, which can be co-located in AWS to provide on-demand primary
storage services with built-in offsite backup and disaster recovery.
With a single, durable copy of data that can be accessed anywhere, no
egress fees and unlimited capacity, customers can now quickly and
confidently move their enterprise workloads to VMware Cloud on AWS.
Delivered,
sold and supported by VMware and its channel partners as an on-demand
service, VMware Cloud on AWS is powered by VMware Cloud Foundation, the
unified SDDC platform that integrates vSphere, VMware vSAN and VMware
NSX virtualization technologies. With the same architecture and
operational experience on-premises and in the cloud, IT teams can
quickly derive business value from use of the AWS and VMware hybrid
cloud experience. For more information on the VMware Cloud on AWS
partner ecosystem, visit: http://cloud.vmware.com/vmc-aws.