This slideshow presentation highlights the top five reasons that vCloud Air provides a true hybrid cloud platform for businesses to seamlessly extend their data center to the cloud while using the same vSphere technology, security, networking, management tools, processes and support that they already know and trust. Learn more vcloud.vmware.com

1. Reasons to Choose
vCloud Air
The public cloud with
hybrid cloud capabilities
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2. Did you know that public cloud
expenditures are expected to grow to
33% of IT budgets in the next two years?
Source: IDG Research Services: Public Cloud Adoption, 2015
YET, THERE ARE STILL PERSISTENT BARRIERS TO PUBLIC CLOUD ADOPTION:
COMPLIANCE
REQUIREMENTS
35%
SECURITY
CONCERNS
59%
INTEGRATION
ISSUES
33%

3. VMware vCloud® Air™,
A seamless extension of on-premises
infrastructure to the cloud that enables
application and data mobility while retaining
control via existing people, processes, tooling,
and automation.
TO ACCELERATE
YOUR MOVE TO
PUBLIC CLOUD?
What if you
could remove
those barriers
A PUBLIC CLOUD BUILT ON THE
TRUSTED FOUNDATION OF VSPHERE®,
provides:

4. LET’S TAKE A CLOSER LOOK.
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CREATE A COMMON APPLICATION ENVIRONMENT
RUN BOTH NEW AND EXISTING APPLICATIONS
REPLICATE EXISTING NETWORK TOPOLOGIES
USE EXISTING MANAGEMENT TOOLS
MEET SECURITY AND COMPLIANCE REQUIREMENTS
POWERFUL ADVANTAGES
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vCloud Air is a public cloud with hybrid cloud capabilities.
Unlike other so-called hybrid clouds, vCloud Air provides

5. The common vSphere platform
with your onsite environment
provides full compatibility—no
rewrites or recoding required.
Seamless workload portability
and migration allow you to move
applications and workloads from
onsite to the cloud and back
again as needs change.
“With VMware vCloud Air, we're able to migrate
workloads and data sets seamlessly from our VMware
vSphere®-based private cloud environment to the
public cloud with very minimal engineering and
administration interaction from our IT team.”
CREATE A COMMON APPLICATION ENVIRONMENT
ADVANTAGE #1
— Coby Holloway, Vice President,
Cloud and Business Transformation Services, SAIC
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6. vCloud Air supports more than
5,000 applications and 90-plus
operating systems certified to
run on vSphere. So you can run
your existing applications in the
cloud—no changes required.
“We chose vCloud Air over some of the other
public cloud providers because of their ability
to flex with us and provide us consistency and
reliability for traditional applications that don't
always work well in public clouds.”
RUN BOTH NEW AND EXISTING APPLICATIONS
ADVANTAGE #2
— Jarin Dykstra, Sr. Manager, Information Systems,
Seventy Seven Energy
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7. You can stretch your layer 2
and/or layer 3 networks from
your data center to vCloud Air—
without reconfiguration. Simply
configure your firewalls and
network as if they were in your
own data center—and replicate
the network your applications
need to operate.
“With vCloud Air, we were able to extend our
network on demand, which gave us an amazing
level of flexibility and control.”
REPLICATE EXISTING NETWORK TOPOLOGIES
ADVANTAGE #3
— Daniel Lewandowski, IT Manager,
Carisbrooke Shipping Ltd.
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8. Extend the Vmware management
tools you already use to the cloud
—to streamline the administration
and consumption of resources
across your onsite vSphere
environment and vCloud Air.
No new training, new skills, or
new processes required.
“The fact that vCloud Air allows me to use the
same vSphere interface to manage both our internal
servers and our systems in the cloud just makes life
a whole lot easier. I don’t have to learn a new system
and a new interface. Even better, I don’t have
to teach it to anyone else.”
USE EXISTING MANAGEMENT TOOLS
ADVANTAGE #4
— Mark Haney, Senior Systems Engineer,
VIF International Education
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9. Leverage your existing onsite
IT policies to meet your specific
security, compliance, and control
requirements. Protect your on-
premises data and application
components in the cloud with
the same level of confidence
you have with your existing
VMware environment.
“We needed a system that would be above board
when it comes to security. The fact that vCloud Air
has an ISO certification as well as a HIPAA/HITECH
certification and they’ll sign a BAA—that gave
us a high degree of comfort.”
MEET SECURITY AND COMPLIANCE REQUIREMENTS
ADVANTAGE #5
— Shon Barrier, VP Information Technology Services,
Iatric Systems
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10. DEVELOP AND TEST
APPLICATIONS
in a cloud environment
that mirrors your onsite
vSphere environment
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“We started virtualizing with vSphere
onsite. Moving to the cloud with
vCloud Air was an obvious next step.”
—Jeff Wilson, IT Director
Nevro Corporation
Ways to Get Started with vCloud Air
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seamlessly to run in the
cloud and free up onsite
IT resources for more
business-critical projects
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EXTEND
APPLICATIONS
with an affordable,
flexible cloud-based
disaster recovery solution
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PROTECT DATA AND
APPLICATIONS

11. vCloud Air
WRITE, DEPLOY, AND MANAGE
applications in the cloud, relying on the same underlying
vSphere technology and support that you know and trust.
“VMware vCloud Air has been a total game-changer for our company,
and I think it's going to be a total game-changer for the entire industry.”
—Shawn Wiora, Chief Information Officer, Creative Solutions in Healthcare
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