New VMware vCloud(R) Offerings Accelerate Journey to the Enterprise Hybrid Cloud

New VMware vCloud® Offerings Accelerate Journey to the Enterprise
Hybrid Cloud

VMware and Partners Deliver Global Cloud; vCloud Portal and vCloud
Connector™ 1.5 Simplify Access and Management

VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager™ 5 to Power Disaster Recovery to
the Cloud Services

LAS VEGAS, Aug. 29, 2011 - Today at VMworld® 2011, VMware, Inc. (NYSE:
VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure,
announced several new vCloud offerings that will make it easy for
enterprises to find, connect and manage cloud services from the
world’s largest network of service providers. With more than 5,600
members in 62 countries, the VMware service provider program (VSPP)
offers customers a wide choice of cloud services built on VMware cloud
infrastructure that can function as an extension of any
VMware-virtualized datacentre.

“There’s tremendous interest from VMware customers for reliable,
high-performance, secure clouds that are compatible with their existing
applications and datacenter operations. VMware and our partners are
uniquely positioned to deliver this, and we’ve seen VSPP bookings grow
174 per cent this year,” said Dan Chu, vice president, cloud services,
VMware. “The new products and capabilities we announced today will
continue to refine and advance vCloud-based offerings from service
providers to help organizations more quickly gain the agility benefits
of cloud in a way that is evolutionary and preserves their existing
investments in operations and infrastructure.”

“We have standardized on a hybrid cloud model because it is the only
approach that provides the flexibility we need and meets strict data
location requirements,” said Dr. Stuart Lee, Head of IT for the
University of Oxford, UK. “Proven VMware vCloud technology at the
University and at VMware vCloud service providers enables us to not only
meet changing demands, but also reduce costs and improve data
governance.”

VMware and its partners will accelerate the journey to the enterprise
hybrid cloud with:

- Global Connect - Multiple service providers, multiple geographies; a
single global cloud
First introduced in August 2010, VMware vCloud Datacenter Services are
enterprise-class public clouds built on VMware cloud infrastructure
(www.vmware.com/cloud-infrastructure ), including VMware vSphere®
(http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/overview.html

), VMware
vShield™ (http://www.vmware.com/products/vshield/overview.html) and
VMware vCloud Director™
(http://www.vmware.com/products/vcloud-director/overview.html).
Certified by VMware and offering globally consistent management and
security, this network of service providers is expected to span 25
datacentres in 1
3 countries by the end of 2011. Today VMware and its
partners are introducing Global Connect, an optional feature of the
vCloud Datacenter service that will allow customers to use cloud
services from multiple providers across geographies as if they are a
single, virtual cloud. Bluelock, SingTel and Softbank Telecom
(http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmw-vmworld-partners-082911)
are expected to be the first providers to offer Global Connect
services.

For multinational customers that require high performance
(low-latency), highly available cloud computing local to the countries
where they operate, Global Connect will give them an easier way to
address compliance with international regulations for data privacy,
locality and confidentiality. Customers will work directly with their
local vCloud Datacenter service provider, who orchestrates service
delivery internationally with Global Connect, allowing customers to
seamlessly leverage services from connected providers with a single
contract and “single pane of glass” management across clouds using
vCloud Connector.

- VMware vCloud Connector™ 1.5 - Fast, reliable transfer between
private and public clouds
Since its introduction in February 2011, more than 1,300 VMware
customers have adopted VMware vCloud Connector
(http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vcloudconnector/overview.html)
to view, transfer and manage workloads between vSphere clusters, private
and public clouds. Today, VMware is announcing vCloud Connector 1.5 with
a new faster, highly reliable data transfer architecture that will
reduce the time it takes to transfer workloads, while automatically
retrying and resuming transfers interrupted by network problems. vCloud
Connector 1.5 will also be accessible from any compatible Web browser,
or as a plug-in for vCenter Console.

- vcloud.vmware.com - The gateway to the enterprise hybrid cloud
To help customers more easily begin extending their virtualized
datacentres to the hybrid cloud, VMware today launched an online
destination where enterprises can find vCloud service providers, learn
about their capabilities and coverage, and quickly test drive new cloud
services. Customers can then easily and quickly transfer workloads and
data into those cloud services using the integrated vCloud Connector 1.5
Web client.

- Disaster recovery to the cloud with vCenter Site Recovery Manager™ 5
Today, four VMware service provider partners are announcing plans to
introduce new cloud-based disaster recovery services
(http://www.vmware.com/solutions/datacenter/disaster-recovery-to-cloud)
built on vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5
(http://www.vmware.com/products/site-recovery-manager/overview.html),
which was announced on July 12, 2011. FusionStorm, Hosting.com, iland
and VeriStor are expected to be the first providers to offer these
services, which will make it simple and cost-effective for businesses of
all sizes to protect their applications by allowing them to failover to
a service provider’s site in the event of a disaster. (Please see
http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmw-vmworld-partners-082911.)
These cloud-based services will be sold on a pay-per-use model,
eliminating the significant cost associated with building dedicated
failover sites.

When a disaster happens, or a customer wants to perform recovery
testing, vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5 will automate and manage the
entire failover process, and can also automatically “failback” to
the customer’s site once the customer is ready to resume operations.
This is made possible by the new VMware vSphere Replication capabilities
in vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5. VMware vSphere Replication is the
industry’s first hypervisor-based replication, which enables data
replication across sites independently of the underlying storage arrays.
This eliminates the need for identical storage environments across
primary and recovery sites and simplifies data replication between
customer datacentres and public clouds.


- VMware Cloud Infrastructure Suite - The Foundation for the Enterprise
Hybrid Cloud
Announced on July 12, 2011, VMware vSphere 5 and the cloud
infrastructure suite, including VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5,
VMware vCloud Director 1.5 and VMware vShield 5, are the foundation for
the enterprise hybrid cloud. Together, these products will help
customers transform IT to drive greater efficiency of existing
investments and improve operational agility. (Please see
http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmw-cloud-infrastructure-071211html.)

To help customers and service providers accelerate the development of
VMware-based cloud infrastructure, VMware’s vCloud Consulting Services
include a complete portfolio of professional services offerings to
provide a common blueprint for next-generation infrastructure. (Please
see
http://www.vmware.com/services/by-solution/vmware-vcloud-consulting-services.html.)
Today, VMware is introducing an updated version of the VMware vCloud
Architecture Tookit, which includes design guidelines and examples to
help customers build hybrid cloud environments. (Please see
http://www.vmware.com/cloud-computing/cloud-architecture/vcat-tookit.html.)

Pricing and Availability
VMware vCloud Connector 1.5 is currently available as a free beta
download (http://www.vmware.com/account/login.do). It is expected to be
generally available in Q4 2011.

Additional Resources
- VMworld media resources (graphics, blogs, videos):
http://www.vmware.com/company/mediaresource/vmworld2011-media-kit.html

- Read what service providers are saying about today’s vCloud news:
http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmw-vmworld-partners-082911

- Read “VMworld vCloud IaaS News: The Enterprise Hybrid Cloud
Advances” blog post by VMware senior director of cloud services,
Mathew Lodge:
http://blogs.vmware.com/rethinkit/2011/08/vmworld-vcloud-infrastructure-as-a-service-news-enterprise-cloud-advances.html

- Read “VMware vCloud Service Provider Ecosystem Growth Continues”
blog post by VMware director of cloud services, Joe Andrews:
http://blogs.vmware.com/rethinkit/2011/08/vmware-vcloud-service-provider-ecosystem-growth-continues.html

- Read VMware’s “Cloud Diaries” to learn how customers are using
the enterprise hybrid cloud to transform IT:
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vmware-public-cloud-diaries.pdf
- Learn more about disaster recovery to the cloud with vCenter Site
Recovery Manager 5 See what’s happening at VMworld 2010:
http://www.vmware.com/solutions/datacenter/disaster-recovery-to-cloud


About VMware
VMware delivers virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that
enable IT organizations to energize businesses of all sizes. With the
industry leading virtualization platform -- VMware vSphere® -- customers
rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, improve
agility, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green.
With 2010 revenues of US$2.9 billion, more than 250,000 customers and
25,000 partners, VMware is the leader in virtualization which
consistently ranks as a top priority among CIOs. VMware is headquartered
in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found
online at www.vmware.com. VMware Canada is headquartered in Burlington,
Ontario, and can be found online at www.vmware.ca.

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