5 OPPORTUNITIES TO DELIVER BUSINESS VALUE WITH THE CLOUD

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1 5 OPPORTUNITIES TO DELIVER BUSINESS VALUE WITH THE CLOUD

2 Thinking about moving your workloads and applications to the cloud? You re not alone. According to an IDG survey, global IT budgets dedicated to public cloud are expected to grow from 16% to 33% over the next 2 years. Top 3 Benefits Expected: Cost Efficiencies 64% Reduced IT Overhead 62% Speed of deployment/ faster time to market 50% Source: IDG Research Services: Public Cloud Adoption, 2015

3 PLANNED ADOPTION RATE WITHIN THE NEXT MONTHS 60% 69% 63% 64% 53% 63% INFRASTRUCTURE 57% DATABASE DESKTOP Develop and test applications Deploy existing applications Disaster recovery Develop web and mobile applications Deliver virtual desktop and applications Source: IDG Research Services: Public Cloud Adoption, 2015 But where do you start?

4 CONSIDER THESE TOP 5 MOST COMMON USE CASES: Quickly spin up DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING environments Run EXISTING APPLICATIONS and free up onsite IT resources Implement flexible, affordable DISASTER RECOVERY Deliver new customer experiences with WEB AND MOBILE APPLICATIONS Improve end-user productivity with CLOUD-HOSTED DESKTOPS Let s break it down.

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5 1 QUICKLY SPIN UP DEVELOPMENT AND TESTING ENVIRONMENTS Get instant compute resources that are production-ready Eliminate inconsistencies across development, testing, and production Develop, test and run applications in the cloud with complete interoperability with your vsphere data center We started the testing phase immediately, creating an image in the cloud and moving it back to our on-premises VMware environment. Kevin Turnbull Head of IT, Bluefin Solutions Watch the video

6 2 RUN EXISTING APPLICATIONS AND FREE UP ONSITE IT RESOURCES Run your existing applications and operating systems certified to run on vsphere, no changes required Use the same tools, templates, catalogs, and skills Get the same level of security, availability, and performance you get with your applications running onsite # 1 CAPABILITY: Seamless application portability from your data center to the cloud (50%) Source: IDG Research Services: Public Cloud Adoption, 2015

3 IMPLEMENT FLEXIBLE, AFFORDABLE DISASTER RECOVERY Get simple, secure asynchronous replication, failover, and failback Determine what to protect and when with a high level of self-service

7 3 IMPLEMENT FLEXIBLE, AFFORDABLE DISASTER RECOVERY Get simple, secure asynchronous replication, failover, and failback Determine what to protect and when with a high level of self-service capabilities Eliminate the need for underlying infrastructure hardware or data center mirroring By utilizing vcloud Air Disaster Recovery technologies, we have reduced our existing Recovery Point Objective (RPO) by 74 percent and our Recovery Time Objective (RTO) by 90 percent. Bryan Graven CEO, National Physician Watch the video

8 4 DELIVER NEW CUSTOMER EXPERIENCES WITH WEB AND MOBILE APPLICATIONS Integrate your Web and mobile apps with data and services running on premises Get the elastic, on-demand scalability of the cloud to expand during peak demand and scale back as demand lessens Develop on a compliant platform with familiar tools of choice #1 REQUIREMENT: Seamless integration with on-premises data and application services (55%) Source: IDG Research Services: Public Cloud Adoption, 2015

9 5 IMPROVE END-USER PRODUCTIVITY WITH CLOUD-HOSTED DESKTOPS Simplify the delivery of desktops and hosted apps to end users on any device, anywhere Deliver virtual workspaces to your end users as a monthly subscription service Deliver a premium end-user experience on any device, with a look and feel that users are familiar with TOP RATED CAPABILITY: Meeting security and compliance standards, policies, and processes (56%) Source: IDG Research Services: Public Cloud Adoption, 2015

10 VMware vcloud Air The public cloud with hybrid capabilities that enable a seamless extension of your on-premises vsphere data center to the cloud. COMPATIBLE Get the security, availability, and performance you expect from VMware while using the same tools, processes, and support AGILE Set up, tear down, test, and deploy productionready IT environments without building new infrastructure SECURE AND COMPLIANT Extend your on premises IT security, control and compliance settings, and networking topologies to the cloud

11 For companies running VMware on-premises, the opportunity to deliver value with the cloud has NEVER BEEN EASIER. Watch the video We started virtualizing with vsphere onsite. Moving to the cloud with vcloud Air was an obvious next step. Jeff Wilson, IT Director, Nevro Corporation

12 LEARN MORE about the top use cases for getting started with the cloud with vcloud Air. VISIT

Cloud Based DR. Americas Online Forum Webcast November Nicole Kim Product Line Marketing Manager VMware Inc. All rights reserved.

Cloud Based DR. Americas Online Forum Webcast November Nicole Kim Product Line Marketing Manager VMware Inc. All rights reserved. Cloud Based DR Americas Online Forum Webcast November 2014 Nicole Kim Product Line Marketing Manager 2014 VMware Inc. All rights reserved. Agenda 1 Overview on Cloud-Based DR 2 Introduction to the Customer