Introduction
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 customers’ chosen cloud platform is a key factor for most enterprise customers in helping them maintain their existing investments with their on-premises applications, and to avoid lock-in to any one vendor or provider.
Disaster recovery and risk management is a key priority on all CIOs’ agendas for 2016, and being able to offer a disaster recovery service between their own data center and a VMware Cloud Provider offers economies of scale, lower capital cost, and a lower operational cost model for protecting business critical applications and investments.
This document explores a potential solution where the end customer and the VMware Cloud Provider have common components running in their data centers to achieve a unified hybrid cloud experience offering seamless workload mobility and disaster recovery services to the end customers.