Distributors and Solution Providers
Joe Burke, vice president of the North American storage, security, virtualization and networking businesses for Arrow Electronics Inc.’s enterprise computing solutions segment
“Arrow’s mission is to help our solution providers identify the best products and services in the marketplace. VMware vCloud® Hybrid Service™ is a game-changer because it is a true hybrid cloud solution and our channel community recognizes the value that it provides. We look forward to offering VMware Hybrid Cloud Service to our solution providers as part of Arrow’s growing cloud portfolio.”
Scott Look, vice president and general manager, Connected and Secured Solutions, Avnet Technology Solutions, Americas
“This new hybrid cloud service from VMware provides a common platform to migrate data center applications seamlessly to the cloud. Reseller partners can help solve their customers’ business needs by leveraging VMware enterprise-level support and Avnet’s cloud expertise. With Avnet’s robust portfolio of related supplier products and services, resellers can either initiate or extend their customers’ solutions.”
Sam Gross, chief technology officer, CompuCom
"As businesses seek to respond more quickly to their customers and partners, they are seeking the agility and cost-effectiveness of a public cloud environment without the risk, cost and time of starting over. Hybrid cloud lets them leverage their existing investment in applications and infrastructure, avoiding the complexity of re-architecting for a radically different public cloud infrastructure. Organizations can extend their cloud with confidence, leveraging VMware enterprise-level support and a robust ecosystem of trusted partners."
Renee Bergeron, vice president of managed services and cloud, Ingram Micro North America
“We are pleased to offer VMware vCloud® Hybrid Service™ as part of the Ingram Micro Cloud Marketplace. As part of VMware’s robust ecosystem of trusted partners, Ingram Micro shares VMware’s vision of simplifying IT for our channel partners and enabling them to deliver the business value of hybrid IT solutions and services.”
Chris Ward, chief technology officer, LogicsOne
“GreenPages-LogicsOne is excited to offer a VMware-backed, public infrastructure-as-a-service option to our customers. vCloud® Hybrid Service™ enables us to provide a solution built on proven VMware cloud infrastructure. For clients already using VMware cloud technologies such as vCloud Director®, the strong integration between private and public clouds provides a smart, seamless hybrid experience.”
Thai Lee, President and CEO of SHI International Corp
“SHI is excited to offer our customers VMware vCloud Hybrid Service as a continuation of the strong partnership that exists between VMware and SHI. vCloud Hybrid Service allows our mutual customers to accomplish more while using fewer resources by incorporating work already done by their IT departments. Since this offering leverages VMware’s pre-existing cloud infrastructure, customers don’t have to purchase additional hardware to experience increased agility, improved cost and time efficiencies, and all the benefits of a hybrid cloud environment.”
Stacy Nethercoat, vice president of Product Marketing, Cloud and Software Services, Tech Data
“Through our partnership with VMware, Tech Data will now offer VMware vCloud® Hybrid Service, which is built on the trusted foundation of VMware vSphere®. By offering this true hybrid cloud solution, solution providers can now offer their customers the capabilities to run their applications in the cloud with no changes required. Tech Data is continually focused on enabling our solution providers to systematically grow their business through TDCloud, Tech Data’s in-house Cloud ecosystem. Through TDCloud, Tech Data offers simple and efficient enablement tools, and the addition of vCloud Hybrid Service adds the agility and cost-effectiveness of a public cloud environment without the risk, cost and time of starting over.”
ISVs
Chris Kenyon, senior vice president of Sales and Business Development, Canonical
“Enterprises using Ubuntu as the base for their scale-out computing workloads have a new and truly excellent option in VMware vCloud® Hybrid Service™. Canonical looks forward to supporting customers and service providers using the service.”
Dr. Spincer Koh, CEO, Gorilla Technology Group
“Whether it’s for professional broadcast content, or enterprise video in all its varied forms, Gorilla sees the hybrid cloud as playing an increasingly important role in the secure management, delivery, and monetization of high-value content globally. What the hybrid cloud offers today’s enterprises – and what VMware vCloud® Hybrid Service™ intends to deliver -- is an efficient and cost-effective way to manage and measure scalable demand for IT resources. This represents a highly flexible model for cooperation between multiple business entities and across multiple physical sites.”
Josh Klahr, vice president, Data Platform Product Management, Pivotal
“Pivotal is building a new platform for a new generation of data-driven applications, bringing unprecedented agility and scalability to enterprise customers. VMware vCloud® Hybrid Service™ will allow our customers to leverage their investments in Pivotal's application and infrastructure technologies, avoiding the complexity of re-architecting for a radically different public cloud infrastructure, while providing a proven platform for next generation products.”
Luke Kanies, founder and CEO, Puppet Labs
“Together with VMware, we’re transforming customers’ IT capabilities and enabling them to get the speed and scale benefits promised by cloud computing. When combined with our solutions for on-premise infrastructure and applications, Puppet Labs gives customers the IT automation tools they need to succeed in hybrid cloud environments.”
Bill McDermott, Co-CEO, SAP
"The SAP ecosystem plays a vital role in helping our customers be best-run businesses. Today's announcement with VMware is yet another example of how our collaboration with partners provides additional options for customers to deploy SAP solutions."
Michael Miller, vice president of global alliances and marketing, SUSE
"Since 2010, SUSE and VMware have been making it easy and affordable for customers to deploy Linux services in virtual environments, by automatically entitling vSphere® customers to SUSE Linux Enterprise Server subscriptions. With vCloud Hybrid® Cloud Service™, SUSE and VMware customers will be able to get enhanced flexibility and greater convenience running and managing their Linux workloads on the same trusted VMware infrastructure both on-premise or in the cloud."
Matt Quinn - Chief Technology Officer, TIBCO Software
"The industry is moving fast toward hybrid cloud models and companies like VMware can help manage these environments seamlessly. This is why TIBCO is looks forward to supporting VMware vCloud® Hybrid Service™ with TIBCO Cloud Bus. Together, TIBCO and VMware can offer customers deployment flexibility of the cloud with enterprise-class integration features in a single-subscription service.”
