vCloud Initiative to Federate Resources Between Internal IT and External Clouds and Enable Broad Application Compatibility for Cloud Computing
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Dubai, United Arab Emirates, October 22, 2008: VMware demonstrated continued commitment to visionary technology advancements when it recently announced its vCloud Initiative, to deliver enterprise-class cloud computing, by federating compute capacity on demand between virtual datacenters and cloud service providers to support existing and new application loads. As the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, VMware has enlisted broad support from partners across the industry aiming to help Middle Eastern companies - both large and small safely tap compute capacity inside and outside their firewalls - how they want, when they want, and as much as they want - to ensure quality of service for any application they want to run, internally or as a service.
"The VMware vCloud Initiative will bring together both regional and global industry innovators to deliver enterprise-class cloud computing for any customer and any application. Whether regional businesses want to expand their internal IT infrastructure or leverage off-premise compute capacity, the VMware platform would give them the flexibility and assurance to scale the IT resources they need, when they need them, to run their businesses with high efficiency and agility", explained Reza Malekzadeh, Sr. Dir. of Product and Marketing, VMware, Inc. "The result will be massive cost savings to regional enterprises who will be able to purchase extra compute capacity for specific periods of time without having to overhaul internal IT infrastructures."
The core technology underpinning the VMware vCloud Initiative is a set of Cloud vServices that provide the APIs and technologies to enable enterprise-class cloud computing as well as federate between on-premise and off-premise clouds, scaling the infrastructure needed for peak load, service level management or disaster recovery. The VMware vCloud Initiative will give enterprises choice and flexibility by enabling any application from legacy Windows NT to modern day Ruby-on-Rails to be deployed on-premise or off-premise--without disruption. Unlike other compute clouds that require applications to be built specifically to a single cloud computing platform and require complete rewrites of existing applications, millions of existing applications currently running on VMware Infrastructure can run in a VMware-based cloud without modification. For any size of organization, this application compatibility will provide the flexibility to run applications where it makes the most sense, on premise or in the cloud.
For a list partners in the VMware vCloud Initiative, please visit www.vmware.com/go/vcloud.
To read about vendor support of these new VMware vCloud Initiatives, please visit: http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vcloud_vmworld_partner.html.
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VMware Inc.
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