Amplify your datacenter’s efficiency and agility while enhancing security and control with a private cloud from VMware. Consolidate datacenters and deploy workloads on shared infrastructure with built-in security and role-based access control. Migrate workloads between pools of infrastructure and integrate existing management systems using customer extensions, APIs, and open cross-cloud standards. Deliver cloud infrastructure on-demand so end users can consume virtual resources with maximum agility.

• Download the  VMware vCloud Reference Toolkit
• IT Process Institute:  Cloud Strategy Brief #1 - IT Value Transformation
• IT Process Institute:  Cloud Strategy Brief #2 - Measuring Value
• IT Process Institute:  Cloud Strategy Brief #3 - Situational Awareness
• IT Process Institute: Cloud Strategy Brief #4 - Executive Communication Best Practices.

• VMware Business Agility and Cloud Computing Whitepaper
• VMware Cloud Computing Brochure
• IDC: Accelerating Hybrid Cloud Success - Adjusting the IT Mindset Whitepaper
• Measure and Benchmark Your ROI and Cost Structure

The Private Cloud Reference Architecture white papers help existing vSphere users understand what it takes to build a Private Cloud, both public and private clouds.

• Service Definition for Public Cloud
• Service Definition for Private Cloud
• Architecting a Private Cloud Whitepaper
• VMware Private Cloud Implementation Example: Public Private Cloud Service Provider
• VMware Private Cloud Implementation Example: Private Enterprise Private Cloud