IBM Helps Clients Modernize VMware Workloads, Launches Managed Service

As thousands of clients look to modernize VMware workloads, they need to be able to derive value from the speed and scale of the cloud, while maintaining the highest level of resiliency, and security needed for mission-critical workloads, begins a blog from IBM Cloud VP, Product Management and Strategy Rohit Badlaney and VMware VP, VCPP Rajeev Bhardwaj.

They explain it is the reason they have rolled out IBM Cloud for VMware as a Service. The combination of IBM’s hybrid cloud strategy and VMware capabilities helps global clients and partners modernize their workloads and expedite time to value in hybrid cloud environments.

The collaboration between IBM and VMware builds on their 20-year partnership, expanding on one of the broadest portfolios of VMware solutions with the general availability of an IBM-managed, an offering designed to help enterprises accelerate their adoption of hybrid cloud.

The two executives write this is a crucial stepping stone for their companies as they work toward a shared goal of helping global clients and partners modernize.

The collaboration of IBM and VMware helps some of the world’s most influential companies, especially those in regulated industries, modernize their workloads. The partnership brings value to their joint clients with:

  • Security – The offering is built upon IBM’s secure-to-the-core architecture with confidential computing capabilities embedded in IBM Cloud along with VMware’s software stack, helping to ensure clients’ data are secured across environments, no matter where the data reside.
  • Performance – IBM provides choices to clients in how they build, deploy and manage their business processes. The service is engineered to lower the complexity and risk of migrating and modernizing mission-critical workloads. It will help manage the performance needs of applications and data that serves client business processes, especially for those in regulated industries such as financial services, health care and the public sector.
  • Compliance – With IBM Cloud for VMware as a Service, clients can leverage industry specific controls built-in to IBM Cloud to help manage their compliance and regulatory requirements. This is designed to help ensure clients can mitigate third- and fourth-party risk as they move to the cloud with confidence, adhering to regulations and compliance with controls embedded in IBM Cloud.

To learn more about how IBM and VMware are helping clients to modernize within hybrid environments, please visit:  https://www.ibm.com/cloud/vmware