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In addition to serving as a
secure foundation, VMware core
virtualization solutions ensure
portability between internal
datacenters and external hosting and
service provider clouds from VMware
vCloud™ partners, enabling your
applications to run with little or no
modification internally or externally.
Beyond infrastructure, the VMware
cloud application platform allows
your developers to create portable
cloud applications that further
enhance your ability to respond to
change. You can extend this agility
to end users by leveraging VMware
solutions to dynamically provision
and manage cloud-ready IT services
securely across any device. The
benefit: on-demand access for an
on-demand workforce.
With VMware solutions, you maintain
full control over the availability,
reliability, scalability, security and
service level agreements (SLAs) for all
workloads, from enterprise to desktop
applications, from the most mission-
critical applications to the most basic.
Freedom of Choice
VMware solutions provide you with
the flexibility to retain your existing
operating system and application
stack, yet deploy it internally or
externally with any vCloud service
provider. Using VMware solutions,
you can continue to support
traditional systems, while removing
many of the headaches associated
with them—system porting, security
patches and more. You also gain
more predictable performance.
You have the freedom to select
how much you virtualize, and how
FICO
“With capabilities like
VMware virtualization and
cloud computing in our
toolbox, we’re improving
performance for both client
and staff and building a
stronger IT infrastructure
for the future.”
Tom Grahek, Sr. Director of
Technology Delivery, FICO
and when you move to a cloud
deployment model. VMware solutions
ensure application mobility and
portability between clouds within a
common management and security
model. They are based on open
standards, including the Open
Virtualization Format (OVF), which
has been adopted as an American
National Standards Institute (ANSI)
standard. They also extend to a
large ecosystem of more than 2,600
service providers.
VMware continues to invest in
a broad, global ecosystem of
hardware and software providers
to maintain compatibility with your
existing investments. This ensures
that thousands of x86 applications
and workloads, as well as dozens
of different operating systems, run
on VMware solutions. Moreover,
because of this investment, most if
not all of your existing applications
are cloud-ready today.
You can also deliver more freedom
to users without sacrificing yours.
VMware solutions enable end
users to consume IT services from
traditional applications, onsite cloud
applications and vCloud offerings
from external service providers,
and provide rapid access to their
data anytime, anywhere. Meanwhile,
there is freedom for you to manage
by service level and policies across
platforms and devices.
With cloud computing’s promise
of making IT services available on
demand, you may no longer wonder
why you should move to the cloud but
rather how you can achieve its benefits.
With VMware, the way is clear.
