A ‘need-to-know’ guide vCloud® Air™ Hybrid Cloud - Ready for public sector IT challenges
Aug 12, 2015
A ‘need-to-know’ guide
vCloud® Air™
Hybrid Cloud - Ready for public sector IT challenges
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Demands on public sector IT are
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What’s driving this? Demands on public sector IT are
5 factors.
Digital by Default
1.
Digital by DefaultBetter services for UK’s millions of citizens
1.
Flexible provisioning
2.
Flexible provisioningEnormous scaling of infrastructure
for peaks in demand e.g. Self Assessment, Passport Service.
2.
Reducing spend
3.
Reducing spendThe government’s stated aim is to reduce public sector IT spending by £1.7 billion p.a. both on capital projects and
expensive long-term contracts.
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‘Cloud First’
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‘Cloud First’ The government’s ‘Cloud First’ strategy
requires departments to consider cloud-based IT solutions before alternatives.
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Security & compliance
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5.Security & compliance
There is heightened concern about how and where data is stored, and the vast majority of UK citizen
data cannot leave these shores.
So, 5 Drivers Serving 5 Government Goals
...the Government needs to be...
Connected
...the Government needs to be...
ConnectedInteractive
...the Government needs to be...
ConnectedInteractiveImmediate
ConnectedInteractiveImmediate
Mobile
...the Government needs to be...
...the Government needs to be...
ConnectedInteractiveImmediate
MobileFluid
Yet, the ‘Digital by Default’ targets have left many IT departments...
....struggling to keep up.
The keyto success?
Provisioning
Provisioningbut with
2 key provisos
On-demand access to additional IT resources
On-demand access to additional IT resources
The flexibility to move workloads onsite or o�site
as required
It’s all possible thanks to...
The Hybrid Cloud
Here are 4 ways it will help your workload
Dev/test in the cloud - then move your applications onsite if required.
It’s an easy, fast, and cost-e�ective way to gain on-demand capacity.
vCloud Air uses the same platform you already run - you get the same results as per your internal data center.
1. Developing and testing
Reduce costs and free up resources – migrate your standard packaged apps to the public cloud.
Non-customised / non-strategic apps like email and collaboration software are good candidates.
vCloud Air supports 000s of apps and dozens of OS meaning you can test and run existing apps without any changes.
2. Extend existing applications
Not every organisation has the budget, expertise or time to develop a disaster recovery plan.
But cloud-based DR is emerging as a compelling alternative due to the flexibility in commitment, capacity and cost.
vCloud Air Disaster Recovery o�ers a simple, secure process - no new hardware, training or site required.
3. Disaster recovery
The cloud is ideal for Desktop-as-a-Service and enterprise applications built on traditional or three-tier architectures.
Upgrading an enterprise application presents an opportunity to evaluate where to host it.
vCloud Air delivers a secure, scalable platform - replicate the network your apps require without starting from scratch.
4. Modernise enterprise applications
And the best way to harness the public cloud?
vCloud® Air™ The world’s first true hybrid cloud solution.
The safest and fastest
way to harness the public cloud.
vCloud® Air™
All the agility and cost-e�ectiveness of a
public cloud...
vCloud® Air™
...but without the
RISK,
vCloud® Air™
...but without the
RISK, COST,
vCloud® Air™
...but without the
RISK, COST, & TIME
of starting afresh.
vCloud® Air™
o�ersvCloud® Air™
Complete flexibilityYou can extend workloads and mission critical applications
in and out of the public cloud whenever additional capacity is needed – and only pay for the resources you need.
Superb integrationSupports over 5,000 applications
and 90+ operating systems.
Workloads can be moved seamlessly without any code adaptations, meaning the same performance and
uptimeas you already achieve internally.
SecurityThe UK-based data centre means all citizen data is stored under
UK and EU compliance and data sovereignty standards.
An industry winner
An easy way to get startedvCloud Air Dedicated Cloud
vCloud Air Virtual Private CloudvCloud Air Disaster Recovery as a Service...
...are all available on the G-Cloud 6 Framework
Next Steps?Learn how to get started with vCloud Air at
vmwareforyou.co.uk/hybridcloud