Everything we do starts with an orientation around applications. What business cares about is expedient access to applications. But the application landscape within most businesses is diverse: there are traditional, client-server applications, there are new modern, cloud-native applications. And IT needs to manage ALL of them.
Serving apps efficiently all starts with the architecture of the underlying infrastructure and data center. A few years ago, VMware introduced the concept of a software-defined data center. We believe a software-defined data center is the best architecture for this instant, secure and fluid model of IT.
VMware’s architecture for the SDDC builds upon the core concepts that made compute virtualization so radically impactful, namely abstraction and pooling…and applied those virtualization fundamentals to the other key assets within the data center: storage and networking.
This architecture can be leveraged not just in your on premises data center, or your private cloud, but also by your public clouds. For example, your data center can extend to the VMware vCloud Air public cloud or one of the many managed clouds within the vCloud Air Network of service providers. The result is one unified hybrid cloud. All of these environments are managed from a common cloud management platform.
Built upon the software-defined data center architecture, we call this unified hybrid cloud “One Cloud for Any Application”. It runs on a wide variety of hardware infrastructure…whether you want to leverage your existing infrastructure, or adopt converged or even hyper converged infrastructure…One Cloud offers complete choice.
Now we talked about how applications are ultimately what users care about. Our users are increasingly expecting to consume their apps on the devices of their choice. Our Business Mobility solutions enable the safe consumption of applications and content on any device…all effectively managed by IT.