BARCELONA, Spain, Sept.
12, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- IBM (NYSE: IBM) and Dell EMC
today announced an agreement to help accelerate cloud adoption by
providing Dell EMC's commercial customers access to VMware
solutions on the IBM Cloud. As part of the relationship, IBM has
added Dell EMC infrastructure products into the IBM Cloud, and
expands VMware solutions. Customers can now move workloads to the
cloud while continuing to leverage the benefits of Dell EMC
infrastructure and the VMware platform.
Today's news builds on IBM's long-term partnership with VMware,
which helps organizations extend existing workloads to the cloud in
hours, versus weeks or months. The partnership is seeing rapid
adoption with more than 1,400 clients such as Telstra already
leveraging IBM Cloud for VMware solutions which are available
across IBM's global network of nearly 60 Cloud data centers in 19
countries.
As part of the agreement, Dell EMC will begin by offering VMware
vCenter Server® on the IBM Cloud to its customers later this year,
which will make it possible for them to rapidly extend on-premises
data center capacity into the public cloud, while taking advantage
of their existing investments in VMware tooling and scripts, and
training. This will give VMware users a familiar, predictable and
valuable experience so they can move their on-premises and public
cloud workloads to the IBM Cloud with ease.
"Dell EMC is laser-focused on helping customers quickly and
successfully embrace their digital transformations. Dell EMC and
IBM realize many customers will approach the challenge differently,
but all are interested in realizing the benefits of cloud-like
efficiencies. Our relationship with IBM allows Dell's commercial
customers the ability to quickly and easily extend their VMware
workloads to the IBM Cloud," said Armughan Ahmad, senior vice
president & general manager, Hybrid Cloud and Ready Solutions,
Dell EMC. "Customers will now be able to easily migrate
enterprise applications to the single-tenant, IBM-hosted
environment, and maintain the same level of control and visibility
as if it were part of their own data center."
"Through the resale of IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions, Dell EMC
can offer their commercial customers a hybrid cloud choice with
VMware offerings 'as-a-Service' as they make the cloud transition,"
said Ajay Patel, senior vice
president and general manager, cloud provider software business
unit, VMware. "VMware Cloud Infrastructure enables customers to
run, manage, connect and secure their applications across common
operating environment, empowering them with a new level of IT
agility and better economics."
"Companies in every industry need fast and easy ways to deploy
and move workloads to the cloud while not compromising security,"
said Faiyaz Shahpurwala, general
manager, IBM Cloud. "This agreement makes it easier than ever for
Dell's thriving channel of commercial customers to access VMware's
capabilities on IBM Cloud. Now, these organizations can rapidly
deploy and scale pre-configured solutions that optimize their
existing IT investments, while using the public cloud to extract
new insights and value."
IBM Cloud for VMware solutions targets commercial customers
looking for enhanced security. Customers will be able to choose to
run VMware solutions on dedicated bare metal servers, encrypt data
at rest on attached storage and connect on-premises environments to
IBM's global network of cloud data centers across 19 countries.
Dell EMC will offer its customers choice for their VMware
environments – on-premises or in the IBM Cloud -- to help central
IT more quickly meet the increasing demands from their businesses
and access IBM's cloud-native services including cognitive and
analytics.
The speed of deployment and capacity expansion in the IBM Cloud
helps IT deliver new services to lines of business more quickly and
drive their company's growth. Customers will be positioned to
easily manage workloads in the cloud using the same familiar
VMware-compatible tools while maintaining control with full
administration access to the VMware ESXi™ hosts. In addition to the
expanded relationship with Dell EMC, IBM and VMware today announced
momentum for their strategic partnership, which began in 2016,
aimed at accelerating enterprise cloud adoption.
Dell EMC will begin reselling VMware solutions on IBM Cloud to
commercial customers beginning in Q4 2017.
About IBM Cloud for VMware solutions
For more information on IBM Cloud visit:
www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/solutions/ibm-vmware.
Contact
Information:
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Gabrielle
Gugliocciello
IBM Cloud
Communications
gguglio@us.ibm.com
314-494-8715
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Julie
Quattro
Dell PR
Julie.Quattro@Dell.com
408-489-1363
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About Dell EMC
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data center using industry-leading converged infrastructure,
servers, storage and data protection technologies. This provides a
trusted foundation for businesses to transform IT, through the
creation of a hybrid cloud, and transform their business through
the creation of cloud-native applications and big data solutions.
Dell EMC services customers across 180 countries – including 98
percent of the Fortune 500 – with the industry's most comprehensive
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About IBM Cloud
With $15.1B in cloud revenue over
the last 12 months, IBM is the global leader in enterprise cloud
with a platform designed to meet the evolving needs of business and
society. Moving past productivity and cost improvements, the IBM
Cloud is tuned for the cognitive and data demands that are driving
true differentiation in today's enterprise. IBM's private, public
and hybrid offerings provide the global scale businesses need to
support innovation across industries, while its nearly 60 Cloud
Data Centers across 19 countries help clients meet their expanding
data locality requirements.
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