VMware vCloud Air™ is a secure public cloud platform offering compute, storage, networking, disaster recovery, and more. VMware vCloud Cloud Management Platform™ delivers the most complete solution for managing a heterogeneous, hybrid cloud. Delivered as vRealize Suite™, the VMware vCloud Management Platform™ supports companies addressing cloud management requirements related to—day one and day two IT operations for compute, storage, network and application level resources across a hybrid and heterogeneous IT environment. Meeting the time to market requirements of application development teams is a primary concern of IT organizations today. The VMware™ approach to delivering a cloud management platform gives you a single solution that comprehensively addresses both day one and day two operations. Core capabilities address requirements associated with automation, operations and business management. VMware vCloud Air™ provides “black box” services. While VMware™ provides the physical infrastructure, including servers, storage devices, and networking equipment to host workloads and content, the customer is in control of its data.

VMware™ has no visibility of, or access to, customer content except by permission or by legal obligation. This means that you keep control over your content at all times, and can rest assured that the VMware™ infrastructure on which your applications run is protected by best—in—class security measures. Give teams the ability to fully manage changes to the service stack including everything from right sizing to retirement along with the ability to fully address QoS requirements associated with the running service. IT organizations are building or sourcing clouds as a way of providing rapid access to the resources developers need including application, compute, storage and networking. The VMware vRealize Cloud Management Platform™ delivers the capabilities that allows IT to not only rapidly provision services across clouds but also to manage those services through the complete service life—cycle. IT teams can offer their consumers self—service fulfillment while maintaining the policy and process control required to ensure that services are reliable, highly available and compliant with operational and security requirements.

VMware vCloud Air Hybrid Cloud Manager And Block Storage

VMware™  offers the ability to seamlessly extend on premises networks to the cloud and to integrate on and off—premises resources. Hybrid DMZ reference designs enable you to create security and networking architectures in the public cloud consistent with your on premises environments. VMware vCloud Air Data Protection™ is an optional backup and recovery feature for VMware Dedicated Cloud™ or VMware Virtual Private Cloud™ instances. VMware vCloud Air Advanced Networking Services™ deliver enterprise networking and security capabilities, providing zero trust security in the cloud. VMware Direct Connect™ is a dedicated, high throughput networking link that connects remote data centers and those in the same collocation facility into VMware vCloud Air™. Choose all—SSD flash based Standard and Premium Storage, workload specific SSD—Accelerated Storage, or the cost—effective Basic Storage. All options allow for growth of VM disks without downtime. Combining VMware vSphere™ with the agility of the cloud, VMware Virtual Private Cloud™ is an enterprise grade, multi tenant compute service offering high performance and high availability with a full suite of networking capabilities.

Cloud Regulatory Compliance And Security

VMware™ is committed to delivering a cloud service that adopts industry best practices in order to meet a comprehensive set of international and industry specific security and compliance standards. VMware™ adheres to rigorous security standards and is expanding coverage for various industry specific security and compliance measures. VMware™ makes independent third—party examination and audit reports available to customers that will satisfy a wide range of customer specific compliance requirements. The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) as well as the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) of 2009 are US laws applicable to healthcare entities with access to patient information. VMware™ has completed an independent third—party examination of vCloud Air against applicable controls of HIPAA/HITECH. To help VMware vCloud Air™ customers comply with HIPAA and HITECH, VMware™ offers a Business Associate Agreement™ (BAA) to interested customers using our U.S. based data centers. Customers interested in our HIPAA examination or BAA should contact their VMware™ representative for details.

Automated Data Center Network Operations

With the advent of virtualization, IT organizations have gone from managing hundreds of servers to managing tens of thousands across both on premises and off premises environments. Operations teams have struggled to find an effective means to address this increased complexity and scale. VMware vRealize Cloud Management Platform™ delivers intelligent operations that address the need to manage everything from applications to the complete infrastructure stack (compute, storage and network) across a hybrid landscape. VMware™ delivers a unified management experience for performance management, capacity optimization, and real—time log analytics, using predictive analytics leveraging both structured and unstructured data to ensure proactive issue avoidance and faster problem resolution. Based on VMware vSphere™, it delivers high availability and fully private networking. With data center modernization and disaster recovery, you can address business needs without changing processes. Workload portability, seamless networking, and common management make it easy to extend to the cloud from on—premises environments.

Features And Benefits

Dedicated cloud—VMware vCloud Air Dedicated Cloud™ is a single tenant, physically isolated IaaS platform with a dedicated cloud management track. It’s your own private cloud instance in the public cloud. VMware vCloud Air Dedicated Cloud™ is your very own private cloud. Build your own private cloud instance in the public cloud with VMware vCloud Air Dedicated Cloud™, a single tenant, physically isolated Infrastructure—as—a—Service (IaaS) platform with a dedicated cloud management stack. Disaster recovery—VMware vCloud Air Disaster Recovery™ is a Recovery—as—a—Service offering. It provides simple, affordable protection in the cloud for your VMware vSphere™ environment. Bounce back with VMware vCloud Air Disaster Recovery™. VMware vCloud Air Disaster Recovery™ helps ensure operational consistency while saving money and resources. It keeps your data protected, recoverable and accessible. VMware Virtual Private Cloud™—VMware vCloud Air Virtual Private Cloud™ is a multi tenant, logically isolated core compute service that lives on shared infrastructure. Based on VMware vSphere™, it delivers high availability and fully private networking.