1.1 VMware Powered Public Cloud Overview
VMware Powered Public Cloud platforms are built on the same core technology that drives the VMware public cloud—VMware vCloud Air™. This enables the provider to offer their customers complete, secure multi-tenancy with unparalleled efficiency, security, performance, and scalability expected by cloud consumers.
A VMware Powered Public Cloud Is typically built with the following core principles:
• The cloud service must be built with VMware vSphere® and VMware vCloud Director® at its core.
• The vCloud APIs must be exposed to the cloud tenants.
• Cloud tenants must be able to upload and download virtual workloads packaged with the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) version 1.0.
Cloud providers can also obtain a certification badge which validates their implementation against a number of standards. For more information, go to
http://vcloudproviders.vmware.com.