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Modernize Your VMware Data Center with the Public Cloud IT Strategies for Success – Exclusively for VMware Customers

Table of Contents Introduction

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Innovate Like a Start-Up and Deliver Like an Enterprise

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Clouds Defined: Private, Public, and Hybrid

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The Rise of Hybrid Cloud

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Public Cloud Strategies for VMware Customers

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Protecting Your IT Infrastructure

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Extending Your IT Infrastructure

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Replacing Your On-Premises IT Infrastructure

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VMware Public Cloud Vision

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Additional Resources

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Introduction Innovate Like a Start-Up and Deliver Like an Enterprise Digital innovation has transformed how organizations operate and has opened up new opportunities to generate revenue. At the same time, though, it has created new obstacles for IT teams. Our customers—and their infrastructures—are under unprecedented pressure, and many are turning to the public cloud to keep the exploding data and associated applications performing and protected to meet the needs of the business. Once the purview of start-up companies or one-off projects led by DevOps teams, the public cloud is now a top-of-mind topic among CIOs. As a result, architecting a cloud adoption strategy is quickly becoming a primary responsibility—and a career-building opportunity—for IT team members including systems administrators, network administrators, and enterprise architects. For most organizations, securely delivering applications to any user, anywhere, on any device— while meeting SLAs, compliance, and budget requirements—demands some level of public cloud adoption. Making the public cloud a part of your IT infrastructure can provide the agility you require to innovate and remain competitive in today’s market. Leveraging the cloud can also unlock some of the investment capital currently tied up in your on-premises data centers.

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IDC Research Services* recently reported that public cloud initiatives represent 16% of current global IT budgets, and they are expected to command 33% of budgets over the next 2 years. Source: IDC, 2014

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Architecting and rolling out your cloud-based solution can feel like a daunting task, and your plans can quickly be derailed or delayed by misconceptions about cloud types and the trade-offs among them. We wrote this guide to help you leverage the opportunities that the public cloud presents in ways that make sense for you, no matter where you are on the cloud adoption spectrum. If you are running a VMware vSphere®-powered data center, then you can modernize your infrastructure with VMware vCloud® Air™, the ready-to-run public cloud for protecting, extending, and replacing on-premises vSphere workloads. Read on for tips and tricks, lessons learned from other organizations, and links to additional resources to help you get started.

* Successful Hybrid Clouds Depend on Collaborative Business and IT Management, IDC, 2014

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Clouds Defined: Private, Public, and Hybrid The potential for new levels of scalability and flexibility in the cloud is exciting. Although, with private, public and hybrid cloud models available, it might not be immediately clear which approach is best for your unique infrastructure. Not all clouds are created equal, nor are the opportunities they provide. This is complicated by the fact that many vendors have pushed and pulled the definitions of private, public, and hybrid clouds to suit their own agendas and product offerings. The result is considerable confusion among the IT community around cloud terminology and the use cases for each model. We’ll use the following definitions when discussing cloud computing as well as the various cloud models and their ideal applications. Cloud Computing According to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which is part of the U.S. Department of Commerce, cloud computing is a model for enabling on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released, and requires minimal management effort or service provider interaction. Cloud Deployment Models Private Cloud Private cloud is infrastructure dedicated to one organization. In many cases it is built by an enterprise, hosted onsite at that enterprise, and run by enterprise staff. In other cases it could be built, operated, and managed by a third-party service provider. Private cloud usually offers stronger security than public cloud, and keeps control tightly in the hands of the enterprise or trusted provider. Public Cloud Public cloud refers to infrastructure and services that are available for use by anyone who has a network connection and can pay for the service. The public cloud can be less expensive and more scalable, but may be less secure than a dedicated private cloud onsite. Many public clouds run on proprietary platforms, offer limited network integration, and are optimized for new applications only. This can require users to re-architect applications and create a need for management tools, processes, and skillsets. Hybrid Cloud Hybrid cloud is not truly a separate cloud “type” but an environment that employs both private cloud and public cloud resources. NIST defines a hybrid cloud infrastructure as a composition of two or more distinct cloud infrastructures (private, community, or public) that remain unique entities, but are bound together by standardized or proprietary technology that enables data and application portability (e.g., cloud bursting for load balancing between clouds).

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The Rise of Hybrid Cloud A hybrid cloud provides a way to reap the benefits of public cloud without giving up the advantages of private cloud. For example, an organization could host its e-commerce Web site in a public cloud, and do the related transaction processing and other financial activities in a private cloud. Part of the appeal of the hybrid cloud model is the ability to optimize the balance between public and private cloud resources. While many cloud providers consider hybridity to be nothing more than virtual machine migration and a VPN connection between on and offsite locations, VMware is aligned with the NIST and defines it as the deployment of a common set of applications, tools, and services across a multicloud environment.

40% of U.S. organizations have already implemented a hybrid cloud IT infrastructure.

Common Cloud Providers and Their Uses It’s a multi-cloud world, but not all workloads are suited to all cloud deployment models. In fact, some organizations leverage one cloud platform (such as Amazon Web Services) for application development, and use vCloud Air for all existing enterprise applications. Since vCloud Air is built on vSphere, any application that runs on-premises will also run on vCloud Air, which supports over 90 operating systems and over 5,000 applications.

Source: IDC 2014 CloudView Survey

Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Microsoft Azure

VMware vCloud Air

IDEAL FOR Cloud-native apps and app development

IDEAL FOR App development for Microsoft shops

IDEAL FOR vSphere-based workloads

Proprietary platform

Built on the Microsoft stack

Built on the foundation of vSphere

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LIMITED HYBRIDITY via Microsoft Azure + Hyper-V + Windows + System Center

FULL HYBRIDITY with complete portability on-premises to off-premises and back

VMware believes that a successful cloud strategy includes a hybrid cloud platform, delivering all the benefits of the public cloud without sacrificing investments made in the data center. That’s why we designed vCloud Air, the ready-to-run public cloud solution. vCloud Air is built on the solid foundation of vSphere, delivering a true hybrid cloud platform for VMware customers.

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Public Cloud Strategies for VMware Customers VMware vCloud Air provides you with the opportunity to modernize your data center by creating a hybrid environment. Our ready-to-run public cloud solution solves many of the problems that our customers can’t solve with their current on-premises infrastructures. vCloud Air is a proven approach to adopting the cloud for purposes of disaster recovery and infrastructure protection, migrating workloads to free up on-premises capacity, and moving entire data centers to the public cloud. Modernize Your Data Center with VMware vCloud Air Here are some IT projects to get you started:

Protect Your Investment with Public Cloud Solutions Cloud-based disaster recovery is the top strategy for companies with no plan in place. More than 80% of survey respondents in a 451 Research survey indicated that the ability to protect all their data and applications, not just some of them, is the primary benefit of cloudbased disaster recovery. Source: Drivers for the Growing Adoption of Cloud-Based Disaster Recovery, 451 Research, January 2015

Disaster Recovery

Data Center Extension

Data Center Replacement

Simple, low-cost failover and recovery to and from the cloud

Seamless portability and networking with unified management and support

Fast, secure infrastructure shift from on-premises to the cloud

Protecting Your IT Infrastructure Picture it. The disaster you thought would strike someone else’s data center has somehow set its sights on yours. Instead of the compassion you normally feel for the other organization that was hit, you’re wrestling with your own acute feelings of pain and suffering. It is likely that the always-on applications your organization relies on are not running as they should, and as a result, your phone will not stop ringing. Perhaps the technologies that process transactions like order entry, payment acceptance—and maybe even your paycheck—have gone offline, and now you are going out of your mind with panic and grief. You don’t want this story to be about you, so it’s important to have an infrastructure protection solution in place that replicates your complete production environment. Many IT architects assume they cannot safeguard their complete IT infrastructure because it will be too expensive or too complicated to implement and manage. Or, they may find it too hard to convince decision makers that the need is just as important as revenue-generating investments. As a result, some smaller organizations rely on the hope that disaster won’t strike, while others implement a cheap public cloud backup solution rather than a comprehensive disaster recovery strategy, and never test that solution’s ability to deliver. Less risk-tolerant enterprises, who need to meet industry compliance requirements, resort to wrestling with a hodgepodge of traditional disaster recovery solutions that they source from a variety of vendors. These solutions are so complex and costly to implement, manage, and test that they are only made available to the tier 1 applications deemed to be most critical.

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Public cloud-based disaster recovery solutions came on the market to right the wrongs of backuponly solutions. With a ‘pay-as-you-grow’ consumption model and an ability to provide near realtime data center replication, they can provide a flexible yet comprehensive protection solution that can scale up or down based on needs and budget.

Are all your business-critical applications and data protected? VMware vCloud Air Disaster Recovery provides simple, affordable protection for your vSphere environment.

Whether you have no disaster recovery plan in place at all, or you are relying on a co-location facility that will not let you quickly spin up a clone of your production environment, the public cloud can provide a great solution for cost-effective infrastructure protection. Not All Public Cloud Disaster Recovery Solutions Are Created Equal Disaster recovery solutions are similar to insurance: If you are using them, then something has gone wrong. When you do have to use them, you expect them to fully right that wrong. For example, say you have a car with an automatic transmission. If it is stolen and your insurance company’s replacement has a manual transmission that you do not know how to drive, you still can not get where you need to go. Sure you could learn, but it would take time and effort that you likely do not have. So your problem really has not been fixed. Similarly, while most public cloud-based disaster recovery solutions address the need for complete failover, their proprietary architectures are not the same as the one you started with, which can make for a far longer and more laborious recovery. As a VMware customer, you have much invested in your disaster recovery data center. What you need is a cost-effective and seamless solution for disaster recovery that replicates your environment in the way it was designed—and one that can be brought online and managed using the tools you use every day. Most customers want a solution that will not only protect the investments they’ve made, but also the investments they will make. Like you, they don’t have the time, money, or desire to change their architecture in order to keep it safe. Fortunately, they don’t have to. And neither do you.

With VMware vCloud Air availability solutions, you can significantly reduce the cost of overall disaster recovery planning by using the cloud.

VMware Public Cloud Infrastructure Protection Solutions: Simple, Low-Cost Failover and Recovery to and from the Cloud The reason you invest in disaster recovery solutions is to ensure you can recover all of your applications and data when needed, and do it fast. Unfortunately, incompatible architectures between your replicated workloads and your standby site can compromise recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs). The worst time to discover an incompatibility or an inconsistency between your production and failover environment, and realize you need to re-factor or redesign an application, is during an outage. This is why you need a disaster recovery solution that is 100% compatible with your on-premises vSphere environment and uses the same management tools and skillset as your production data center. If your vSphere disaster recovery solution is cost-prohibitive, complex, or even non-existent, then VMware can help. VMware vCloud Air Disaster Recovery provides a warm, standby disaster recovery site where vSphere workloads and data are replicated on a continual basis to avoid sustained application downtime in the event of a disaster. You also can combine vCloud Air multi-tenant or dedicated Infrastructure-as-a-Service offerings for additional cloud backup and disaster recovery. Built on the trusted technology of vSphere, vCloud Air Disaster Recovery allows you to protect your existing investment with a portfolio of options to cover backup and disaster recovery in virtualized or non-virtualized infrastructure.

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Protect Your vSphere Environment with a Solution Based on Insight, Not Hindsight

Do This: Protect your investment in vSphere and other workloads with one solution that covers data center replication and cloud-to-cloud disaster recovery.

Not That: Choose a disaster recovery solution that requires new tools and still doesn’t safeguard all of your infrastructure investments.

With VMware as your public cloud-based infrastructure protection solution you can:

Get a clone of your production environment up and running when you need it Because vCloud Air mirrors your on-premises workload architecture in the public cloud, you can confidently spin up a replicated environment on demand, and know that your vSphere architecture and your financial investment are protected. You do not have to worry about changes to your architecture or network, security, or access control policy configurations, and you get flexible options to support varying recovery point objective (RPO) requirements from 15 minutes to 24 hours. Safeguard your investments and streamline your spending VMware provides you with a one-stop solution for virtualized data center workloads and cloud-to-cloud protection. There is no need for you to invest in a secondary data center that can’t easily scale up or down with your needs, or costly professional services. Since using vCloud Air is an operational expense rather than a capital expense, you can move from up-front investments to a more flexible pay-as-you-go model that scales with your needs and budget.

vCloud Air Success Stories

City of Avondale – Thanks to vCloud Air Disaster Recovery, the City of Avondale is positioned to restore city services as quickly and securely as possible in the event of a disaster.

“VMware continuously advances its technology and provides options that allow us to build onto its solutions. As a CIO, that is critical when looking at strategic investments.” – ROB LLOYD, CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER OF AVONDALE

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The Hut Group – Modernizing disaster recovery operations at The Hut Group was a swift, painless process thanks to vCloud Air Disaster Recovery.

“vCloud Air has been fantastic in terms of deployment times and functionality. Using a solution which my team was already familiar with saved us at least a month in terms of trialing and learning a new tool set.” – SCHALK VAN DER MERWE, IT DIRECTOR AT THE HUT GROUP

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San Francisco Ballet – Using vCloud Air Disaster Recovery allowed the San Francisco Ballet to eliminate the additional costs and overhead of a co-location data center and reduce its recovery time.

“We needed a strategic disaster recovery plan consistent with our on-premises infrastructure. VMware vCloud Air Disaster Recovery provides that seamless connection along with dependable recovery, increasing our business resiliency with minimal investment.” – MURRAY BOGNOVITZ, DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES, SAN FRANCISCO BALLET

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Keep Going Ready to learn more about how vCloud Air can help you modernize and protect your infrastructure? Implementing Simple, Affordable Data Protection with Disaster Recovery in the Cloud Learn more about how vCloud Air provides an easy way to get started with an effective disaster recovery in the cloud plan— without having to purchase hardware, hire and train new specialists, or invest in a secondary physical site.

Extending Your IT Infrastructure Picture it. The data center that you’ve so meticulously designed is no longer meeting the needs of your organization. The reasons why can be as varied as the needs they create. If your organization is in e-commerce and bracing for the holiday season, your woes could be caused by the expected rush of online shoppers who hopefully will generate the kind of sales that could translate into a much-deserved holiday bonus for IT leaders like you. If you work for a higher education organization on the heels of open enrollment season, it could be caused by the upcoming influx of students who will all be scrambling to access the registration portal to get the classes that will give them the credits they need to graduate. And for just about any organization in just about any industry, it could be about the need to build and provision IT resources faster to make sure applications meet SLAs anywhere in the world, or a mandate to find new ways to meet growing needs with stagnant (or even shrinking) budgets. While the reasons differ from industry to industry, the pressure that IT leaders like you feel is universal. All eyes are on you to find the answer to the problem, and to find it fast. Building additional on-premises data center capacity that cannot scale down once it has scaled up is expensive, time consuming and impractical—especially if you are wrestling with a limited budget and an already overworked team. The public cloud, with its ability to provide the scale needed for seasonal workload bursts and enable the provisioning of applications at the edge of the network and therefore close to remote users, can seem like an obvious solution. However, it comes with its own set of challenges. Not all applications and workloads can (or should) migrate to the public cloud. Compliance mandates or security concerns might mean that you want to keep certain applications on-premises. Or you might rely on esoteric applications, or run on older versions of operating systems that are not commonly supported by third-party cloud providers. Also, consider that re-architecting applications to run in a third-party public cloud provider’s platform is a costly and time-consuming process. Common Challenges with Integrating Public Cloud into an Enterprise Architecture Need for additional staff and training required to manage public cloud tools that work differently than on-premises tools. Proprietary Platform Data Center Private Cloud

- Optimized for New Apps Only - Limited Network Integration - Separate Management Tools - Separate Processes and Skillsets

Incompatible Private Clouds

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Will my existing vSphere workloads be able to run in the public cloud without changes or configurations?

With vCloud Air they will. Otherwise, organizations face problems when moving workloads to a public cloud provider that is not designed to run both existing and new applications on a common platform.

Successfully using a public platform to extend your infrastructure lies in figuring out how to make your on-premises data center investments do double duty in the public cloud. Extending your on-premises infrastructure to the public cloud can get you over the delivery deficiency hump, and help you meet the growing demands of your organization. When done properly, public cloud integration allows you to augment your internal data center resources, and provides you with a flexible and cost-effective solution to meet a variety of business issues, including: đƫ*ġ,.!)%/!/ƫ,%05ƫ(%)%00%+*/ đƫ %)%0! ƫ ƫ/0ûƫ* ƫ1 #!0 đƫ 'ƫ+"ƫ%*ġ$+1/!ƫ ƫ(+1 ƫ!4,!.%!*! đƫ!/+*(ƫ+.ƫ1*,.! %0(!ƫ1/#!ƫ,00!.*/ đƫ
%0%+*(ƫ#!+#.,$%(ƫ(+0%+*/ This type of infrastructure can bridge the on-premises data center you have today with the agility you want from the public cloud moving forward. You can choose which applications are deployed in your data center, which are deployed in the cloud, and which are distributed across both. It also provides you with a transitional stage on the road to broader public cloud adoption, delivering a modernized infrastructure that improves efficiencies, geographical coverage, and economies of scale. VMware Public Cloud Data Center Extension Solutions: Seamless Extension from the Data Center to the Cloud and Back You have made significant—and savvy—investments in your virtualized environment that you shouldn’t have to relinquish in order to realize the benefits of a public platform. Built on the trusted technology of vSphere, vCloud Air provides a true hybrid experience by seamlessly extending vSphere workloads from your data center to the public cloud and back. With VMware as your data center extension solution you can:

With VMware vCloud Air two-way application portability to support dev/ test environments, seasonality needs, and remote office support.

Quickly move applications to the cloud that are ready to run on arrival Most public cloud providers use a proprietary platform. That means it will take time to extend your apps to the cloud and ensure they will perform as expected. With vCloud Air, you can move faster and make life easier with a cloud platform that is 100% compatible with your vSphere workloads. You can migrate virtualized workloads to vCloud Air with almost no downtime on an immediate or scheduled basis. Plus, you can stretch existing network segments from your data center to the cloud and maintain the same network, IP, and MAC address. Because vCloud Air is built on vSphere, it supports over 90 different operating systems and over 5,000 applications. That means if it runs on vSphere, it will run on vCloud Air. Scale up and down based on needs Building additional on-premises data center capacity is not only expensive, it is also time consuming and ties up long-term capital. If you are considering the public cloud to accommodate seasonal bursts, then you want to have the ability to migrate applications back to the data center and reduce short-term cloud capacity needs—and expenses. Because formats, network configurations, and designs for high availability vary greatly amongst cloud providers and on-premises data centers, applications modified to run on a particular cloud platform can be anchored to that platform, meaning that a short-term solution has morphed into a long-term problem.

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Follow the Proven Path for Extending Your Infrastructure to the Public Cloud

Do This: Build on your investments in vSphere workloads with a unified hybrid platform that supports your workloads in the data center and the cloud.

Not That: Continue building out your on-premises data center with additional servers and other hardware that needs to be managed and can consume precious data center floor space.

With vCloud Air, you can run one or many copies of vSphere workloads in the cloud, for as long or as short a time as needed. Elastic consumption models shift up-front capital expenditures into flexible operating expenditures. If capacity demands diminish, simply migrate the applications back to the on-premises data center again and reduce the size of the public cloud instance. Increase capacity without long waiting time Extending your data center capacity with a third-party public cloud provider means additional vendors and additional time will be required for planning, installation, and network configurations. With a new architecture also comes the need for administrators and operators to learn new management and monitoring tools. VMware, however, delivers a unified hybrid-cloud experience that uses one compute platform, one networking and security engine, and requires one set of tools to manage, which vSphere administrators and operators already know.

vCloud Air Success Stories

VIF International – Because VIF was already familiar with VMware tools and processes, vCloud Air offered the greatest interoperability and made the most sense when they decided it was time to extend their Learning Center platform to the cloud.

“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.” – MARK HANEY, SR., SYSTEMS ENGINEER, VIF INTERNATIONAL

Pacific Disaster Center – By running vCloud Air, Pacific Disaster Center can keep their public users and emergency managers around the world connected in real time.

“VMware provided us with compatibility between our data center on-premises, off-premises, and in the cloud. It is very simple compared to other services such as Amazon.” – RANDOL STANCIL, NETWORK ENGINEERING, PACIFIC DISASTER CENTER

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Keep Going Ready to learn more about how vCloud Air can help you modernize and extend your infrastructure? Check out these additional resources. Got App Portability? Learn about the unique features of vCloud Air that enable you to seamlessly move applications between your on-premises data center and vCloud Air, with no changes required. Modernize Your Data Center by Extending to vCloud Air VMware customers that connect to vCloud Air can realize true hybrid cloud capabilities faster, and with less operational cost. Learn how VMware virtualized networking, security principles, and infrastructure management technologies ease the integration to vCloud Air.

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Replacing Your On-Premises IT Infrastructure Picture it. You need to migrate your data center to the public cloud, and you need to do it fast. Perhaps your reasons for replacing your data center include cost cutting or other data center consolidation projects. Well done. When you replace your data center compute, storage, and networking needs with the public cloud, you can swap unmanageable upfront hardware expenses for a more flexible operating expense cost model that lets you pay as you go, based on your need and your budget. If your organization is planning an acquisition or a merger, or your data center hardware is reaching its end of life, you’ve also been presented with a real opportunity to make this type of change. Speaking of change, it is the only thing that is constant for IT leaders like you. This is yet another reason why a cloud-based infrastructure makes sense. It gives you the flexibility you need to quickly respond to mergers, acquisitions, or any of the other organizational changes that need IT support. While updating or consolidating on-premises data centers using the public cloud can be a smart move for many organizations, it is an opportunity that comes with its own set of obstacles. Many organizations wrestle with long, complicated setup processes (especially for multi-tiered applications) every time they move workloads to the public cloud. Other organizations who are running multiple disparate cloud platforms find that they must maintain separate tools (and staff with the skills) to manage each of them, which can reverse the cost savings and resource consolidation promises of a public cloud platform. Even more concerning are some of the frighteningly ineffective, antiquated perimeter security policies that do not stop attacks from spreading inside the data center and the cloud.

Replace Your On-Premises Infrastructure in the Public Cloud with a Vendor You Know and Trust

vCloud Air: The Fast, Secure Way to Replace Your vSphere Data Center in the Public Cloud You can modernize your infrastructure by quickly and easily moving from your on-premises vSphere data center to a secure public cloud architecture. Built on the trusted technology of vSphere, vCloud Air provides a true hybrid experience by seamlessly shifting vSphere workloads from their data centers to the public cloud. You can look to VMware for a secure, savvy public cloud solution that is consistent with your on-premises environment. With VMware you can count on:

Do This: Update your infrastructure and build up your reputation with a public cloud solution that provides consistency and control.

Advanced security and control Implement a secure cloud architecture by maintaining hybrid network, security, and access control policies that are consistent with your on-premises data center. With vCloud Air, new workloads automatically adopt parent group policies for simple workload scaling that minimizes vulnerabilities. Fast, flexible workload migration

Not That: Consolidate your data center in the public cloud and lose control once it gets there.

Migrate your on-premises workloads and architectural best practices to the public cloud and meet tight deadlines, cost-cutting mandates, or resource utilization goals. You can replicate vSphere workloads to vCloud Air while remaining online in the on-premises environment, and improve security and performance through WAN optimization. A platform with proven results vCloud Air is built on the solid foundation of vSphere, meaning your public cloud architecture will be consistent with your on-premises data center, and deliver the security and control you need.

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vCloud Air Success Stories

Creative Solutions in Healthcare – Switching to VMware vCloud Air resulted in cutting costs by a third and accelerating compliant application deployment.

“VMware vCloud Air has been a total game changer for our company, and I think it is going to be a total game changer for the entire industry as it helps organizations drastically cut costs and open the door for IT resources to dedicate their focus to important areas, such as patient care and product innovation.” – SHAWN WIORA, CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER, CREATIVE SOLUTIONS IN HEALTHCARE

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Keep Going Ready to learn more about how vCloud Air can help you update or replace your infrastructure? Check out these additional resources. Re-Invent Cloud Security

Implementing Hybrid Cloud Networking with vCloud Air and NSX Learn how you can deliver enterprise-grade networking and security capabilities powered by VMware NSX technology, providing zero trust security in the cloud.

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VMware Public Cloud Vision The explosion of data, mobile devices, and consumerization of IT have placed unprecedented pressure on IT resources. The cloud is no longer optional, it is a necessary component in delivering the agility and enabling the innovation required to remain competitive in today’s market. Digital innovation is in large part driven by applications and their associated digital processes. These applications can take and fulfill orders, provide support to customers, manage sales, and analyze and deliver data insights by extracting and linking data and intellectual property from multiple applications and locations into a streamlined process and experience. Connected applications depend on organizations being able to extend existing infrastructure and application services beyond their data centers, while delivering against the rigorous requirements of security, compliance, reliability, and performance. VMware vCloud Air is the ready-to-run public cloud built on vSphere that enables our customers to modernize their infrastructures and protect, extend, and replace on-premises vSphere workloads. Because vCloud Air is built on the solid foundation of vSphere, customers can quickly and securely take advantage of the core benefits of a true hybrid cloud platform, while extending and maximizing existing IT investments into the public cloud—any application, no changes.

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Additional Resources See for yourself what VMware vCloud Air, the ready-to-run public cloud built on vSphere, can do for you and your organization. Test Drive vCloud Air with a Hands-On Lab With these self-paced labs you can get a lab up and running in minutes with full technical capabilities and without installing anything new on your existing hardware. No installation or credit card required.

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VMware vCloud Air – Jump Start for vSphere Admins What Is VMware vCloud Air? vCloud Air is a public cloud platform built on the trusted foundation of vSphere, compatible with your on-premises data center, that includes infrastructure, disaster recovery, and various applications as service offerings. vCloud Air allows you to extend your workloads into the cloud with ease. You can migrate existing onsite virtual machines (VMs) to the public cloud or start up new application VMs directly in the cloud. You can easily port VMs and other business-critical workloads back and forth to the location of your choice, all with the secure and capable foundation of vSphere.

VMware vCloud Air – Hybridity & Networking Explore VMware vCloud Air Advanced Networking Services and Hybrid Cloud Manager for a seamless cloud experience. Advanced Network Services, powered by the VMware NSX™ network virtualization platform, will enable cloud administrators to achieve unprecedented security and isolation in the hybrid cloud. In this lab, you will explore the latest Advanced Network Services such as isolation with micro-segmentation, dynamic routing protocols, SSL-VPN, and Layer-7 load balancing. The Hybrid Cloud Manager enables secured, lowdowntime migrations, WAN optimization, and Layer-2 extension to vCloud Air for a seamless hybrid cloud experience.

VMware vCloud Air: Manage Your Hybrid Cloud Automate your way to cloud self-service. In this lab you will integrate VMware vCloud Air with VMware vRealize® Automation™ and manage blueprints from a service catalog, add governance to vCloud Air deployments, and reserve capacity for authorized users. The combination of both vRealize Automation and vCloud Air allows you to become more agile and enable various use cases that are not found in the traditional data center.

VMware vCloud Air Disaster Recovery What is your plan for Disaster Recovery? In this lab, you will leverage VMware vCloud Air as a Disaster Recovery target. Failover, reverse failback, point-in-time recovery, automate with vRealize Orchestrator, all using your vSphere Web Client. See how powerful this solution can be.

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