Only VMware gives customers the choices they need to move ahead with cloud computing. VMware's pragmatic approach to cloud computing provides customers with the ability to choose the model that is best suited to the requirements of their business – whether it is a private cloud, a public cloud, or a hybrid cloud model. With VMware vCloud, customers have the choice and flexibility to turn their existing datacenters into secure private clouds, move to compatible public clouds, or employ a hybrid approach.
Competitors' solutions are missing key cloud requirements that enable customers to deploy complete clouds that combine pooled virtual infrastructure, security, management and provisioning that span private and public resources. Only VMware delivers the complete stack of cloud infrastructure components that provides:
- The most pragmatic approach to cloud computing
- Greater choice and compatibility for public clouds
VMware vCloud is the Most Pragmatic Approach to Cloud Computing
VMware customers have a head start on the cloud - Cloud Computing is an approach to computing that leverages the efficient pooling of an on-demand, self-managed virtual infrastructure, consumed as a service. This approach separates applications and information from the complexity of underlying infrastructure, so IT can focus on the support and enablement of business value.
" VMware is the first vendor that enterprises think of in regard to private cloud computing"
— Gartner, Inc.“VMware and Private Cloud Computing,” Thomas J. Bittman, 30 November 2010.
Virtualization is the foundation upon which cloud computing architectures are and will be built. As the customer-proven leader in virtualization, VMware is charting the course to cloud computing. Working in concert with industry leaders, VMware is helping businesses of all sizes migrate to secure cloud computing, to the new era in IT that finally addresses the compounding problems of IT cost and complexity.
VMware's intelligent cloud infrastructure solution suite provides all the components needed to transform an internal datacenter into a secure private cloud, with extensibility to public clouds, delivering all the benefits of cloud computing:
- Increased business agility through rapid self service of on-demand resources
- Reduced costs through efficient delivery of resources and consolidation of infrastructure
- Improved security and compliance
- Application portability and interoperability between private and public clouds
Competitor solutions fall short in terms of being able to deliver on all aspects of setting up a secure cloud environment.
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Microsoft
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Citrix XenServer
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| Cloud Consumption |
No multi-tenancy, 3rd party tools required for monitoring consumption |
No multi-tenancy, 3rd party tools required for monitoring consumption |
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| Operations and Management |
VMware vCenter Operations Manager – Simplify and automate operations management; patented analytics |
Requires multiple System Center Components, complicated setup |
Nothing comparable |
| Security and Compliance |
VMware vShield - Virtualization-aware security and compiance for cloud infrastructures to proactively ensure protection |
Nothing comparable |
Nothing comparable |
| Virtualization |
VMware vSphere - Consolidates physical infrastructure into tiered logical resource pools |
Hyper – V – No logical resource pools |
XenServer – No logical resource pools |
VMware is also the only vendor today that provides cross-cloud management capabilities with vCloud Connector, delivering the ability to view and manage private and public cloud resources through a single pane of glass (with the vSphere Client) and making the hybrid cloud model a reality. vCloud Connector allows customers to:
- Visualize resources across hybrid clouds inside the vSphere Client
- See VMs, vApps and templates across vSphere and private and public vClouds
- Delivered as a vSphere Client Plugin
- Copy and operate on resources across clouds
- Copy resources between vSphere and vClouds
- Perform power operations on workloads
- Access console of vApps running in vClouds
- Deliver enterprise level security
- Data managed by onsite server
- Security scope set by vSphere Client
No other vendor has a comparable solution, linking private and public clouds through a single pane of glass.
