{"id":21694,"date":"2016-02-23T11:01:26","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T03:01:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=21694"},"modified":"2016-02-23T11:01:26","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T03:01:26","slug":"ibm-vmware-partner-to-help-accelerate-enterprise-hybrid-cloud-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2016\/02\/23\/ibm-vmware-partner-to-help-accelerate-enterprise-hybrid-cloud-adoption\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM, VMware partner to help accelerate enterprise hybrid cloud adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>IBM and VMware jointly designed an architecture and cloud offering that will enable customers to automatically provision pre-configured VMware SDDC environments, consisting of VMware vSphere, NSX and Virtual SAN on the IBM Cloud.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_21695\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IBM-vmware.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-21695\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-21695\" class=\"size-full wp-image-21695\" src=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IBM-vmware.jpg\" alt=\"IBM Cloud senior vice president Robert LeBlanc (left) and VMware president and chief operating officer Carl Eschenbach announced a strategic partnership to help companies easily extend their applications running on VMware's software to the IBM Cloud.\" width=\"620\" height=\"445\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IBM-vmware.jpg 620w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/IBM-vmware-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-21695\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>IBM Cloud senior vice president Robert LeBlanc (left) and VMware president and chief operating officer Carl Eschenbach announced a strategic partnership to help companies easily extend their applications running on VMware&#8217;s software to the IBM Cloud.<\/em><\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>With this SDDC environment in place, customers can now\u00a0deploy workloads in this hybrid cloud environment without modification, due to common security and networking models based on VMware.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are reaching a tipping point for cloud as the platform on which the vast majority of business will happen,&#8221; said Robert LeBlanc, senior vice president, IBM Cloud. &#8220;The partnership between IBM and VMware will enable clients to easily embrace the cloud while preserving their existing investments and creating new business opportunities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>IBM will utilize its CloudBuilder tools and workload automation capabilities to automatically provision pre-configured or custom workloads to the cloud, validated by VMware&#8217;s design patterns for Software Defined Data Center architectures.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, VMware extended vRealize Automation and vCenter management tools to deploy and manage environments on the IBM Cloud, as if they are part of a customer&#8217;s local data center.<\/p>\n<p>The two companies will jointly market and sell new offerings for hybrid cloud deployments, including workload migrations, disaster recovery, capacity expansion and data center consolidation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM and VMware jointly designed an architecture and cloud offering that will enable customers to automatically provision pre-configured VMware SDDC environments, consisting of VMware vSphere, NSX and Virtual SAN on the IBM Cloud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":21695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[107,1130,1655,214,670],"class_list":["post-21694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-cloud","tag-cloud-technology","tag-hybrid-cloud","tag-ibm","tag-vmware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21694\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}