Extend Your Data Center into the Cloud
VMware vCloud Hybrid Service quickly and seamlessly extends your data center into the cloud using the tools and processes you already have. Operated by VMware and built on the trusted vSphere foundation, vCloud Hybrid Service delivers the reliability and security you need, plus full compatibility with your existing environment. With these unique advantages, vCloud Hybrid Service is the best and fastest route to hybrid cloud, backed by VMware support and our global ecosystem of partners.
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vCloud Hybrid Service Use Cases
With high performance,integrated security, fast deployment, and inherent data center compatibility, vCloud Hybrid Service stands in a class by itself compared with other public cloud offerings. These and other advantages make vCloud Hybrid Service ideal for five key use cases:
Packaged Application Hosting
Challenges and requirements:
- Offload the hosting of standard packaged applications such as Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint to a cloud service, to refocus IT resources on applications with higher value and more complex needs
- Shift CapEx spend to OpEx and free up existing on-premises resources and staff for more value-added projects
- Migrate packaged applications to a hosted environment compatible with data center infrastructure, without having to re-architect and reconfigure the applications
Web Hosting / e-Commerce
Challenges and requirements:
- Support new web and e-commerce applications that have variable resource requirements
- Deploy applications in a cost-effective and scalable environment
- Distribute web and e-commerce applications geographically across datacenters to decrease latency and improve the end-user experience
Backup / Archiving / Storage
Challenges and requirements:
- Preclude service disruption in a single-site IT deployment
- Avoid the prohibitive expense of replicating a full production environment to a second site run by core IT
- Utilize a low-cost remote storage facility over a fully synchronized active/active site, to be leveraged in the event of service disruption
Enterprise IT / Outsourced Data Center
Challenges and requirements:
- Outsource data center functionality to a public cloud provider
- Transition from a model of CapEx spend to OpEx spend for IT services
- Recognize hybrid cloud as a critical stepping stone to a fully outsourced data center. Gain ease of migration, breadth of support for existing applications and operating systems, and the ability to manage across cloud environments during a period of transition
- Support mission-critical applications in a public cloud environment with high levels of security, compliance, performanceand availability
Test / QA / Development
Challenges and requirements:
- Satisfy developers' need for an agile, dynamic environment to test and develop software applications
- Provide self-service provisioning by IT consumers, plus visibility, look-back, and chargeback capabilities for accountable resource allocation
- Reduce test/QA environment cost to reflect its lower performance and availability requirements, while streamlining application portability between test and production environments
- Document best practices and configuration resources to streamline public cloud adoption in test/development use cases, and to ensure that developer requirements are met
