Announces Partner Programs, Customer Solutions Across Hybrid Cloud Portfolio
The EMC Federation, including the newly acquired Virtustream, has announced new innovations, partner programs and customers across its Hybrid Cloud portfolio.
Virtustream helps enterprises around the world migrate, run and manage their I/O-intensive, mission-critical applications in the cloud. Virtustream has also been selected as one of the few premier strategic providers of cloud infrastructure services for SAP business-critical applications in SAP HANA Enterprise Cloud.
Virtustream forms the foundation of the EMC Federation’s new managed cloud services business, led by chief executive officer Rodney Rogers. Virtustream will announce its plans, which will include leveraging other EMC Federation capabilities, in Q4.
The EMC Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud solution delivers a private cloud with on ramps to public cloud services; Virtustream excels as a managed cloud service for mission-critical applications; and VMware vCloud Air specializes as a public cloud offering. While quite distinct today, looking forward, many of the underlying technologies from these offerings will be integrated. For example, VMware hybrid networking capabilities will be integrated into future versions of the Virtustream xStream Cloud Management Platform.
Today’s announcements detail new capabilities across the Federation:
- VMware has enhanced its vCloud Air Disaster Recovery Services. Disaster Recovery OnDemand will add a pay-for-what-you-consume pricing option, and Site Recovery Manager Air is a new software-as-a-service offering that will provide a comprehensive management solution for designing, testing, executing and orchestrating centralized business continuity and disaster recovery plans.
- VMware vCloud Air Object Storage, powered by EMC, is a portfolio of highly scalable, reliable and cost effective storage services for unstructured data, and will be integrated into VMware vCloud Air OnDemand Platform.
- A preview of updates to the Federation Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Solution, featuring best-in-class technologies from EMC Federation companies including the ability to get started with modern application development through Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Also announced today are a new “Federation Ready” partner credential program and a new Federation End-User Computing Solution aimed at driving the complexity out of deploying and maintaining Virtual Desktop Infrastructures (VDI).
- VCE has expanded VxRack, its innovative hyper-converged rackscale System, with a new offering based on VMware software. This new persona of VxRack enables IT organizations to quickly and cost effectively deploy Hybrid Cloud infrastructure based on a VMware software-defined architecture.
