Top 5 Reasons to Choose vCloud Air

Reasons to Choose vCloud Air The public cloud with hybrid cloud capabilities  

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Did you know that public cloud expenditures are expected to grow to 33% of IT budgets in the next two years?

 Source: IDG Research Services: Public Cloud Adoption, 2015

YET, THERE ARE STILL PERSISTENT BARRIERS TO PUBLIC CLOUD ADOPTION:  

COMPLIANCE REQUIREMENTS

35%

SECURITY CONCERNS 59%

INTEGRATION ISSUES

33%

VMware vCloud® Air™,  

A seamless extension of on-premises infrastructure to the cloud that enables application and data mobility while retaining control via existing people, processes, tooling, and automation.

TO ACCELERATE YOUR MOVE TO PUBLIC CLOUD?

What if you could remove those barriers

A PUBLIC CLOUD BUILT ON THE TRUSTED FOUNDATION OF VSPHERE®,   provides:  

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CREATE A COMMON APPLICATION ENVIRONMENT

RUN BOTH NEW AND EXISTING APPLICATIONS

REPLICATE EXISTING NETWORK TOPOLOGIES

USE EXISTING MANAGEMENT TOOLS

MEET SECURITY AND COMPLIANCE REQUIREMENTS

POWERFUL ADVANTAGES 5 vCloud Air is a public cloud with hybrid cloud capabilities. Unlike other so-called hybrid clouds, vCloud Air provides

The common vSphere platform with your onsite environment provides full compatibility—no rewrites or recoding required. Seamless workload portability and migration allow you to move applications and workloads from onsite to the cloud and back again as needs change.

“With VMware vCloud Air, we're able to migrate workloads and data sets seamlessly from our VMware

vSphere®-based private cloud environment to the public cloud with very minimal engineering and

administration interaction from our IT team.”

CREATE A COMMON APPLICATION ENVIRONMENT  

ADVANTAGE #1

— Coby Holloway, Vice President, Cloud and Business Transformation Services, SAIC

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vCloud Air supports more than 5,000 applications and 90-plus operating systems certified to run on vSphere. So you can run your existing applications in the cloud—no changes required.

“We chose vCloud Air over some of the other public cloud providers because of their ability to flex with us and provide us consistency and reliability for traditional applications that don't

always work well in public clouds.”

RUN BOTH NEW AND EXISTING APPLICATIONS

ADVANTAGE #2

— Jarin Dykstra, Sr. Manager, Information Systems, Seventy Seven Energy

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You can stretch your layer 2 and/or layer 3 networks from your data center to vCloud Air—without reconfiguration. Simply configure your firewalls and network as if they were in your own data center—and replicate the network your applications need to operate.

“With vCloud Air, we were able to extend our network on demand, which gave us an amazing

level of flexibility and control.”

REPLICATE EXISTING NETWORK TOPOLOGIES  

ADVANTAGE #3

— Daniel Lewandowski, IT Manager, Carisbrooke Shipping Ltd.

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Extend the Vmware management tools you already use to the cloud —to streamline the administration and consumption of resources across your onsite vSphere environment and vCloud Air. No new training, new skills, or new processes required.

“The fact that vCloud Air allows me to use the same vSphere interface to manage both our internal servers and our systems in the cloud just makes life

a whole lot easier. I don’t have to learn a new system and a new interface. Even better, I don’t have

to teach it to anyone else.”

USE EXISTING MANAGEMENT TOOLS

ADVANTAGE #4

— Mark Haney, Senior Systems Engineer, VIF International Education

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Leverage your existing onsite IT policies to meet your specific security, compliance, and control requirements. Protect your on-premises data and application components in the cloud with the same level of confidence you have with your existing VMware environment.

“We needed a system that would be above board when it comes to security. The fact that vCloud Air has an ISO certification as well as a HIPAA/HITECH

certification and they’ll sign a BAA—that gave us a high degree of comfort.”

MEET SECURITY AND COMPLIANCE REQUIREMENTS    

ADVANTAGE #5

— Shon Barrier, VP Information Technology Services, Iatric Systems

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DEVELOP AND TEST APPLICATIONS in a cloud environment that mirrors your onsite vSphere environment

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“We started virtualizing with vSphere onsite. Moving to the cloud with vCloud Air was an obvious next step.”

—Jeff Wilson, IT Director Nevro Corporation

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seamlessly to run in the cloud and free up onsite

IT resources for more business-critical projects

2 EXTEND

APPLICATIONS

with an affordable, flexible cloud-based

disaster recovery solution

3 PROTECT DATA AND

APPLICATIONS

vCloud Air WRITE, DEPLOY, AND MANAGE applications in the cloud, relying on the same underlying vSphere technology and support that you know and trust.  

“VMware vCloud Air has been a total game-changer for our company, and I think it's going to be a total game-changer for the entire industry.”

—Shawn Wiora, Chief Information Officer, Creative Solutions in Healthcare

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