VMware, Monday announced the launch of a new public cloud software package, Cloud Foundation which combines software for storage, networking and virtualization solution into an integrated platform. The virtulization company also announced partnership with IBM for hosting the public cloud solution. The solution can also be hosted in Amazon Web Service(AWS) and Microsoft's Azure cloud platform.
The package which includes VMware vSphere, VMware Virtual SAN, VMware NSX, and VMware SDDC Manager will become generally available later this quarter, said VMware. VMware claims that organizations can now automatically provision pre-configured VMware Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) environments on IBM Cloud in hours versus weeks or months.
Last year, VMware announced a partnership with Google’s Cloud Platform to provide scale-out IaaS capacity for VMware customers.
Robert LeBlanc, senior vice president, IBM Cloud
Our collaboration with VMware is becoming the glue for many organizations to scale and create new business opportunities while making the most of their existing IT investments in a hybrid cloud environment.
Pat Gelsinger, chief executive officer, VMware
This collaboration has been so successful that we’re investing more deeply so our customers can quickly deploy software-defined solutions in just hours to IBM Cloud with all the sophisticated workload automation they have within their own data centers.
