VMware announces new offerings to empower Cloud Provider Partners

At VMworld 2017 Europe, VMware has unveiled new innovations to help VMware Cloud Provider partners migrate VMware workloads, expand service offerings to drive revenue and growth, lower cost through automation and more efficient operations, and create unique differentiation through VMware’s Cloud Provider program. The new innovations include:

· Initial availability of VMware HCX technologies to enable multi-cloud and multi-site application migration and portability;

· Debut of VMware Cloud Provider Platform to address the strategic business imperatives of Cloud Providers globally;

· New VMware Cloud Verified Trust Mark and initial VMware Cloud Verified partners; and

· Continued innovation and success of VMware Cloud Providers globally.

VMware Cloud Providers represent more than 4,000 partners building services using VMware Cloud Infrastructure technologies, operating in more than 110 countries. VMware Cloud Providers give customers the flexibility to choose the ideal cloud provider based on the needs of the business and the needs of IT. Customers can select from a variety of offerings with the optimal set of services and expertise while also managing costs and selecting services that operate in required geographic locations. Through the use of VMware Cloud Infrastructure technologies, VMware Cloud Providers preserve a common operating environment, promoting more seamless portability of apps and interoperability between multiple clouds without compromising visibility, operations, automation, security and governance.

“VMware helps Cloud Providers quickly and easily stand up and monetize VMware-based clouds,” said Ajay Patel, Senior Vice-President & General Manager, cloud provider software business unit, VMware. “We provide customers choice of compatible VMware clouds, built on common but extensible platform that allow Cloud Providers to innovate and differentiate their offerings. With VMware HCX technologies, partners can unlock VMware vSphere-based workloads from on-premises environments to accelerate the customers’ adoption of cloud.”

VMware HCX technologies deliver any cloud to any cloud secure, seamless interoperability and mobility, enabling large scale application migration and ongoing portability with zero application downtime or refactoring. Offered through VMware Cloud Providers and initially available from IBM, a key design partner, and OVH, HCX technologies enable customers to modernize data centers with the most current VMware SDDC offerings while maintaining business continuity, application uptime, network architectures and performance.

HCX technologies provide operational support to enable efficient cloud migration and protect the integrity of applications at the origination and destination cloud. Data synchronization, network extension, traffic engineering, automated VPN and WAN optimizations and built-in security all provide critical operational capabilities to ensure efficient and effective cloud migration.

While the, VMware Cloud Provider Platform enables VMware Cloud Providers to meet their critical business imperatives: drive operational efficiency, quickly monetize new services, and compete more effectively. Delivering flexible tenancy and self-service options at scale across multi-tenant and single-tenant cloud-hosted environments, the Cloud Provider Platform enables partners to rapidly deploy and scale up an environment upon which they can build their own value-added differentiated cloud services.

The Cloud Provider Platform serves as a seamless onramp for partners to adopt the newest innovations from VMware for cloud providers, including VMware vSphere, VMware NSX and VMware vCloud Director. The new Certified Reference Designs will establish performance benchmarks and tenant SLAs and provides hardware and software sizing guidelines for defined scale profiles. This accelerates time to value for cloud providers while improving service assurance and enabling better end customer satisfaction. VMware Cloud Providers can currently purchase platform components to deploy against the Certified Reference Design through the existing Cloud Provider bundles.

Also, to help customers identify a provider that can deliver services with VMware Cloud Infrastructure technology, VMware is announcing a new class of VMware Cloud Verified partners, signified by a VMware Cloud Verified trust mark. Providers carrying the VMware Cloud Verified trust mark have made deep investments in VMware Cloud Infrastructure technologies and are committed to offering key services and support on top of a common infrastructure. This new trust mark identifies VMware Cloud Providers that fuel business growth by driving innovation, improving efficiency and lowering costs for customers as they transform application portfolios for a multi-cloud, multi-device world.

The initial VMware Cloud Verified partners are CenturyLink, Fujitsu, IBM Cloud, OVH and Rackspace. The VMware Cloud Verified designation gives customers confidence that these providers are adopting the most complete, most advanced VMware technologies from their cloud service providers, assuring the greatest degree of interoperability across clouds and the greatest advantage for their business. VMware will continue to introduce new Cloud Verified partners over time to drive greater flexibility for customers in their selection of global cloud providers with consistent infrastructure and consistent operations.