Company Announces General Availability of Hybrid Cloud Service in Japan SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA and PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwired - Nov 4, 2014) - VMware (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced that it will extend VMware vCloud Air (previously VMware vCloud Hybrid Service ) to Australia. Complementing the VMware vCloud Air Network of service provider options, the new Australian service location will provide customers with a hybrid cloud option operated by VMware that addresses local compliance and data protection concerns. The service is expected to be available in Australia in the first half of 2015.
Additionally, the company announced vCloud Air will be generally available in Japan in the coming weeks, after completing a successful beta program that began in July of this year.
VMware vCloud Air, combined with the VMware vCloud Air Network of service providers makes VMware the largest hybrid cloud network in the Asia Pacific region with more than 40 service locations in Asia, said Bill Fathers, executive vice president and general manager, Cloud Services Business Unit, VMware. The new vCloud Air location provides the highly virtualized Australian market with a hybrid cloud service that extends existing investment in VMware vSphere to the public cloud.
VMware vCloud Air in Australia and Japan
Unlike other public cloud services, VMware vCloud Air enables organizations to extend their on-premises IT infrastructure seamlessly to the public cloud. The resulting hybrid cloud is compatible with customers existing applications and allows them to build new cloud-native applications, delivering agility and efficiency to the business in a secure, reliable and compliant manner. IT departments can view, manage and operate this best of both worlds cloud environment in a unified way using the VMware vSphere platform they already know and trust. The service is compatible with Hybrid Cloud Powered Services provided by the VMware vCloud Air Network of service providers, which includes providers operating more than 20 data centers in Australia.
Owned and operated by VMware, initial vCloud Air deployments in Australia will be hosted out of Telstras connected data centres. Telstra is focused on simplifying cloud adoption and VMware vCloud Air is a world-class, production-ready environment capable of running our customers mission-critical workloads, said Erez Yarkoni, executive director, Cloud, Telstra Global Enterprise and Services. This is all from a single management interface customers already know, with the control and the agility necessary to deliver high performance and results -- a service offering were excited to give our customers.
VMware also announced VMware vCloud Air generally availability in Japan after a successful beta program that was announced in July 2014, with SoftBank Telecom Corp. and SoftBank Commerce & Service Corp. (SoftBank C&S). More than 50 companies participated in the beta, which will transition to general availability in Japan in the coming weeks and providing a true hybrid cloud for enterprises that can be cooperated transparently with their private cloud environment. Services available at launch include VMware vCloud Air Virtual Private Cloud, vCloud Air Dedicated Cloud and vCloud Air Disaster Recovery.
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About VMware
VMware (NYSE: VMW) is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they build, deliver and consume Information Technology resources in a manner that is evolutionary and based on their specific needs. With 2013 revenues of $5.21 billion, VMware has more than 500,000 customers and 75,000 partners. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.
VMware, vCloud Air, vCloud and vSphere are registered trademarks or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and other jurisdictions.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements including, among other things, statements regarding the expected availability of vCloud Air in Australia and its expected features and benefits to customers. These forward-looking statements are subject to the safe harbor provisions created by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results could differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of certain risk factors, including but not limited to (i) changes to business information technology strategies; (ii) adverse changes in general economic or market conditions; (iii) delays or reductions in information technology spending; (iv) competitive factors, including but not limited to pricing pressures, industry consolidation, entry of new competitors into enterprise, cloud and end user computing markets, and new product and marketing initiatives by our competitors; (v) our customers ability to develop, and to transition to, new products and computing strategies such as software-defined data centers and hybrid cloud computing; (vi) the uncertainty of customer acceptance of emerging technology; (vii) rapid technological and market changes in virtualization software and platforms for cloud and enterprise computing; (viii) changes to product development timelines; (ix) VMwares ability to protect its proprietary technology; (x) changes and new developments to regulatory requirements; and (xi VMwares ability to attract and retain highly qualified employees. These forward looking statements are based on current expectations and are subject to uncertainties and
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Company Announces General Availability of Hybrid Cloud Service in Japan SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA and PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwired - Nov 4, 2014) - VMware (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced that it will extend VMware vCloud Air (previously VMware vCloud Hybrid Service ) to Australia. Complementing the VMware vCloud Air Network of service provider options, the new Australian service location will provide customers with a hybrid cloud option operated by VMware that addresses local compliance and data protection concerns. The service is expected to be available in Australia in the first half of 2015.
