New offering will make it easier for customers
to run applications in a consistent hybrid environment using a
common set of familiar software and tools
VMware Cloud on AWS will be the primary public
cloud solution delivered, sold, and supported by VMware
AWS will be VMware’s primary public cloud
infrastructure partner and VMware will be AWS’s primary private
cloud partner in new strategic alliance
VMware (NYSE:VMW) and Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS),
an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN), today announced a
strategic alliance to build and deliver a seamlessly integrated
hybrid offering that will give customers the full software-defined
data center (SDDC) experience from the leader in the private cloud,
running on the world’s most popular, trusted, and robust public
cloud. VMware Cloud™ on AWS will enable customers to run
applications across VMware vSphere®-based private, public, and
hybrid cloud environments. Delivered, sold, and supported by VMware
as an on-demand, elastically scalable service, VMware Cloud on AWS
will allow VMware customers to use their existing VMware software
and tools to leverage AWS’s global footprint and breadth of
services, including storage, databases, analytics, and more. For
more information on VMware Cloud on AWS, visit VMware Cloud on
AWS.
Most enterprises rely on VMware to run applications in their
vSphere-based private clouds, and often these same customers are
also running applications on AWS. Increasingly, these customers
have asked both companies to make it easier to run their existing
on-premises environments alongside AWS using the VMware software
and tools they’ve come to rely on.
VMware Cloud on AWS is a jointly architected solution that will
integrate the world’s leading private cloud and the world’s leading
public cloud. VMware Cloud on AWS is powered by VMware Cloud
Foundation™, a unified SDDC platform that integrates VMware
vSphere, VMware Virtual SAN™ and NSX™ virtualization technologies,
and will provide access to the full range of AWS services, together
with the functionality, elasticity, and security customers have
come to expect from the AWS Cloud. This new service represents a
significant investment in engineering, operations, support, and
sales resources from both companies. It will run on
next-generation, elastic, bare metal AWS infrastructure. Customers
will have the ability to purchase services through their existing
VMware commercial agreement and use their existing VMware software
investments to secure additional loyalty discounts for their VMware
Cloud on AWS hybrid environment.
“VMware Cloud on AWS offers our customers the best of both
worlds,” said Pat Gelsinger, CEO, VMware. “This new service will
make it easier for customers to preserve their investment in
existing applications and processes while taking advantage of the
global footprint, advanced capabilities, and scale of the AWS
public cloud.”
“Our customers continue to ask us to make it easier for them to
run their existing data center investments alongside AWS,” said
Andy Jassy, CEO, AWS. “Most enterprises are already virtualized
using VMware, and now with VMware Cloud on AWS, for the first time,
it will be easy for customers to operate a consistent and seamless
hybrid IT environment using their existing VMware tools on AWS, and
without having to purchase custom hardware, rewrite their
applications, or modify their operating model.”
Availability
Available in mid-2017, VMware Cloud on AWS will be delivered,
sold, and supported by VMware as an on-demand, elastically scalable
service. Pricing will be made available closer to the general
availability date.
About Amazon Web Services
For 10 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most
comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over
70 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases,
analytics, mobile, Internet of Things (IoT) and
enterprise applications from 35 Availability Zones (AZs) across 13
geographic regions in the
U.S., Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Korea, Singapore,
and India. AWS services are trusted by more than a million
active customers around the world -- including the fastest growing
startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies --
to power their infrastructure, make them more agile, and lower
costs. To learn more about AWS, visit http://aws.amazon.com.
About Amazon
Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather
than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to
operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Customer reviews,
1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment
by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets,
Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are some of the products and
services pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit
www.amazon.com/about.
About VMware
VMware, a global leader in cloud infrastructure and business
mobility helps customers accelerate their digital transformation.
VMware enables enterprises to master a software-defined approach to
business and IT with VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture™ and solutions
for the data center, mobility, and security. With 2015 revenues of
$6.6 billion, VMware is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA and has over
500,000 customers and 75,000 partners worldwide.
VMware, VMware Cloud, vSphere, Virtual SAN, VMware Cloud
Foundation, and NSX are registered trademarks or trademarks of
VMware, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and other
jurisdictions. All other marks and names mentioned herein may be
trademarks of their respective companies.
Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements
including, among other things, statements regarding expectations
for VMware’s and AWS’s strategic alliance, including plans for,
functionality and features of and availability of VMware Cloud on
AWS, the offering’s prospective benefits for customers, significant
investment in engineering, operations, support and sales resources
by both companies, and the primary positioning of each company in
their future cloud computing alliances. 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) adverse changes in general economic or market
conditions; (ii) delays or reductions in consumer, government
and information technology spending; (iii) competitive
factors, including but not limited to pricing pressures, industry
consolidation, entry of new competitors into the virtualization
software and cloud, end user and mobile computing industries, and
new product and marketing initiatives by competitors; (iv)
customers’ ability to transition to new products and computing
strategies such as cloud computing, desktop virtualization and the
software defined data center; (v) the uncertainty of customer
acceptance of emerging technology; (vi) changes in the
willingness of customers to enter into longer term licensing and
support arrangements; (vii) rapid technological changes in the
virtualization software and cloud, data center and end user
computing industries; (viii) changes to product and service
development timelines; (ix) VMware’s relationship with Dell
Technologies and Dell’s ability to control matters requiring
stockholder approval, including the election of VMware’s board
members and matters relating to Dell’s investment in VMware; (x)
the companies’ ability to protect their proprietary technology;
(xi) the companies’ ability to attract and retain highly
qualified employees; and (xii) the companies’ ability to
successfully integrate product features. These forward-looking
statements are made as of the date of this press release, are based
on current expectations and are subject to uncertainties and
changes in condition, significance, value and effect as well as
other risks detailed in documents filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission, including VMware’s and Amazon’s most recent
reports on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K
that they may file from time to time, which could cause actual
results to vary from expectations. VMware and Amazon assume no
obligation to, and does not currently intend to, update any such
forward-looking statements after the date of this release.
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