VCE and VMware Expand Strategic Partnership to Collaborate on Hybrid Cloud Solutions

New Co-Development Initiatives to Deliver Integrated Cloud Management Solutions; Vblock Systems to Integrate With VMware vCloud Automation Center and vCenter Operations Suite, and Provide Technology Onramps to VMware vCloud Air, Enabling Seamless Management, Workload Migration and Disaster Recovery Between Private and Public Clouds SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - Aug 25, 2014) - Today at VMworld 2014, VCE and VMware announced an expansion of their strategic partnership to include new collaborative development initiatives for delivering integrated management solutions for the hybrid cloud. VCE will integrate its industry-leading converged infrastructure, Vblock Systems, with VMware vCloud Automation Center and VMware vCenter Operations Suite , and provide technology onramps to VMware vCloud Air , enabling customers with seamless management, workload migration and disaster recovery between their private and public cloud environments.

vCloud Air is an infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) public cloud offering that enables an organization to extend its private on-premises IT infrastructure seamlessly to the public cloud. The resulting hybrid cloud is compatible with a customers existing IT assets and allows them to build new cloud-native applications, delivering agility and efficiency to the business in a secure, and reliable manner. IT departments can view, manage and operate this best of both worlds cloud environment in a totally unified way using the VMware vSphere platform they already know and trust.

Vblock Systems are pre-integrated, pre-tested and pre-validated converged infrastructures for cloud environments, enabling transformative data center agility, simplicity and economics to enterprises and service providers worldwide. As part of the VCE Experience, Vblock Systems are delivered and supported by VCE as a single product, with seamless component-level updates, lifecycle management and end-to-end vendor accountability.

The expanded partnership will extend the VCE Experience to new integrated solutions for cloud management that combine VCE converged infrastructure with VMware vRealize cloud management software into a single system, providing customers with the option to order Vblock Systems pre-installed with VMware vCloud Automation and vCenter Operations Suite, and ready for vCloud Air. The solutions will provide customers with a foundational private cloud that is hybrid cloud-ready, with the technology to migrate workloads to VMware vCloud Air out of the box. The solutions address customer demand for hybrid cloud capabilities with a simplified data center infrastructure that can be expanded over time as application requirements change.

As more organizations capitalize on the advantages of the hybrid cloud, we are pleased that VCE intends to offer customers a solution to take advantage of vCloud Airs hybrid services portfolio that includes disaster recovery capabilities, said Bill Fathers, executive vice president and general manager, Hybrid Cloud Services Business Unit, VMware.

VCE and VMware are pioneers in delivering exceptional value to customers looking to get the most from their data center investments, said Todd Pavone, executive vice president, product strategy and development, VCE. As the industry continues to shift toward hybrid cloud computing models, we have a significant opportunity to help customers bridge their Vblock-based private cloud environments to VMware vCloud Air with simplified, built-in VMware cloud management and onramps that enable seamless workload migration between clouds. Were excited to further expand our relationship with VMware, and we believe this new collaboration can unify the tremendous benefits of converged infrastructure and the public cloud, streamlining data center operations and disaster recovery for our mutual customers.

AVAILABILITY

VCE integrated cloud management solutions with VMware vCloud Automation Center, vCenter Operations Suite and vCloud Air are expected to be orderable in the first half of 2015.

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ABOUT VMWARE

VMware (NYSE: VMW) is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they build, deliver and consume Information Technology resources in a manner that is evolutionary and based on their specific needs. With 2013 revenues of $5.21 billion, VMware has more than 500,000 customers and 75,000 partners. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.

ABOUT VCE

VCE, formed by Cisco and EMC with investments from VMware and Intel, accelerates the adoption of converged infrastructure and cloud-based computing models that dramatically reduce the cost of IT while improving time to market for our customers. VCE, through the Vblock systems, delivers the industrys only true converged infrastructure systems, leveraging Cisco compute and network technology, EMC storage and data protection, and VMware virtualization and virtualization management. VCE solutions are available through an extensive partner network, and cover horizontal applications, vertical industry offerings, and application development environments, allowing customers to focus on business innovation instead of integrating, validating, and managing IT infrastructure.

VCE and Vblock are registered trademarks or trademarks of VCE Company LLC in the United States and/or other countries. All other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective organizations. The use of the word partner or partnership does not imply a legal partnership relationship between VCE and any other organization.

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