The VMware Cloud Provider™ Program is an ecosystem of over 4,000 service providers located in more than 100 countries offering VMware based cloud services. Local providers secure data sovereignty while providing a wide range of cloud services and vertical market expertise through specialized compliance and certifications.

VMware Cloud Providers are uniquely positioned to offer their services to the market and become a seamless extension of existing VMware enterprise customers’ on-premises data centers. Having the capability to move workloads in and out of the customer’s chosen cloud platform is a key factor for most enterprise customers to help them maintain their existing investments within their on-premises applications, and avoid lock-in to any one vendor or provider.

One of the initial concerns about moving to a hybrid cloud solution is determining the methods that will be used for onboarding into a service provider infrastructure. In many cases, customers have the requirement to migrate systems with changing IP addresses or to be able to deploy new workloads to a service provider’s infrastructure while maintaining Layer 2 connectivity with existing on-premises workloads.