VMware Cloud Computing

VMware vCloud delivers a single way to run, manage, and secure your applications where you want them, when you want them.  Through VMware’s broad ecosystem of leading cloud service providers, you can get VMware Virtualized™ services ranging from on-demand, pay-as-you go infrastructure, to enterprise-class, production ready offerings.

Overview:

Cloud computing is changing the way IT resources are utilized. Users want the ability to access infrastructure resources how and when they choose.  IT teams are asked to accommodate this shift in the consumption model, but still deal with the security, compatibility, and compliance issues associated with delivering that convenience to application business owners and developers.

Enterprise-Ready Private Clouds

In coordination with large technology partners, standards bodies and cloud services providers, VMware’s leading technology platform, VMware vSphere, enables you to transform your datacenter into an internal cloud – a pool of virtualized resources within a datacenter – and seamlessly leverage external cloud providers within the private cloud.

VMware vCloud™ Express

Now you can access VMware Virtualized™ infrastructure when you need it, on-demand, paying only for what you use.  VMware has partnered with leadingservice providers to deliver reliable, easily accessible, pay-as-you-go cloud services ideal for test and development in the cloud, as well as other short-term capacity requirements.

VMware Virtualized

Service Providers worldwide are delivering value-added services based on VMware’s virtualization solutions.  When choosing a service provider for cloud services – from development to cloud capacity, or disaster recovery -- look for the VMware Virtualized™ logo to ensure you’re getting the reliability you need for your applications.

Through the vCloud initiative you can be assured that these cloud providers are working closely with VMware to deliver a reliable, interoperable, enterprise-ready experience. You retain flexibility of choice—independent of hardware, OS, applications or providers—so you can feel confident about developing and deploying current and future applications in the internal or external cloud.

vCloud:

Introducing the VMware vCloud initiative, the only cloud solution that brings together leading technology from VMware, a huge ecosystem of technology and cloud service providers, and compatibility for all your applications living in the cloud, on or off premise.

VMware vCloud brings three unique characteristics to cloud computing, designed to serve the needs of businesses that want production-level performance and reliability, on and off premise.

• Choice: VMware has partnered with hundreds of hosting and cloud computing vendors to enable delivery on a common VMware platform.  This gives users choice in deploying applications, allowing easy transitions between providers, as well as on and off premise use.
• Reliable Technology: Leveraging key technology advancements found in VMware vSphere, users get the assurance that applications can be managed, moved and operated in the cloud as they do onsite.
• Application Support: With almost 1000 applications created, validated and marketed within our Virtual Appliance Marketplace users can easily deploy applications to a cloud or on-premise environment.  More importantly, the applications that run in your business today will work the same in the cloud, without recoding or building them on a cloud-only platform, saving time and valuable development resources.

vCloud API:

The vCloud API enables enterprises to build internal clouds based on VMware’s technology stack. As part of their external cloud offerings, service providers can build “Infrastructure as a Service” portals with a standard, consistent interface. ISVs can simply package existing or new applications, which can then be deployed in internal or external clouds or be federated between clouds.

The vCloud API is an interface for providing and consuming virtual resources in the cloud. It enables deploying and managing virtualized workloads in internal or external clouds as well as interoperability between clouds. Such workloads, packaged as vApps are pre-built software solutions optimized for the cloud, consisting of multiple virtual machines that are bundled and maintained as a single entity. The vCloud API enables the upload, download, instantiation, deployment and operation of vApps.

The vCloud API is an open RESTful, pure virtual, API that supports multi-tenancy.  It uses Open Virtualization Format (OVF) as a unit of distribution and storage for vApps. Because these vApps are uploaded, downloaded, and stored in OVF package form, the vCloud API supports compatibility and deployment across a wide variety of applications. The vCloud API spans multiple vCenter Servers to provide available virtual resources. This offers immense scalability needed for peak loads or disaster recovery in cloud environments.