VMware Cloud overview

What is IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions?

IBM Cloud® for VMware Solutions makes it simpler for your organization to capitalize on the tremendous potential of the cloud. Migrate VMware workloads to the IBM Cloud while using existing tools, technologies and skills from your on-premises environment. The integration and automation with Red Hat® OpenShift® helps accelerate innovation with services like AI, analytics and more.

How to deploy new or existing workloads

IBM Cloud for VMware Regulated Workloads

A secure, compliant automated deployment architecture demonstrated for financial institutions

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Why IBM Cloud?

One of the world’s largest operators of VMware workloads, with over 15 years of experience

Right-size infrastructure and performance, with over 100 bare metal configurations

The highest data security certification in the industry, with “keep your own key” (KYOK)

Use cases

Data center transformation

Data center

Extend and migrate your virtual machines to the cloud

Extend and migrate your virtual machines (VMs) to the cloud to consolidate data centers, expand capacity to address resource constraints or replace aging infrastructure with the latest innovations in the cloud.

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Disaster recovery and backup

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Disaster recovery and backup

Stand up a disaster recovery or backup site in the cloud, without the expense and complexity of additional on-premises infrastructure. Take advantage of the geographic resiliency and security profiles built into IBM Cloud and its no-cost data transfer capability between IBM Cloud sites.

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Workload security and compliance

Data center

Workload security and compliance

Offload security maintenance and access compliance measures through IBM Cloud. IBM Cloud offers the highest level of key-management encryption with FIPS 140-2 Level 4 certification and KYOK security, designed so only you can access your data.

Security and privacy of your data in the cloud (2.3 MB) document--pdf

Transformation and modernization

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Transformation and modernization

Modernize your VMware workloads with Red Hat OpenShift. Improve business outcomes with new technologies like AI and blockchain, integrate existing VMware-based applications into a hybrid cloud strategy and innovate freely between containers and VMware VMs.

Modernizing your VMware workloads with containers in the cloud

Case study

Think Research and IBM

In the ever-evolving healthcare field, Think Research’s mission is to keep providers up-to-date on the latest medical findings. Together with IBM Cloud, Think Research developed a suite of applications to assist those on the front lines.

 
Think Research uses IBM Cloud to deliver the best medical information at the point of care
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Vmware Cloud Solutions

Dedicated

This single-tenant bare metal solution includes VMware vSphere and VMware vCenter options. Retain the same hypervisor root level access as on premises.

Shared

This multitenant solution helps provide a better way to exploit VMware vCloud Director. IBM Cloud manages the infrastructure up to the hypervisor so you don’t have to worry about providing updates and patching.

Single-node trials

The single-node trial for migration is available in two tailored versions for modernizing your VMware workloads or to perform disaster recovery operations on IBM Cloud.

VMware Cloud related products

Caveonix

Help protect workloads from cybersecurity and compliance risks.

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HyTrust

Maintain strong levels of data protection, visibility and auditing.

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IBM Spectrum® Protect Plus

Get modern data protection for virtual machines, databases and containers.

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Red Hat OpenShift for VMware

Maintain control of Kubernetes environments on premises and in the public cloud.

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Veeam on IBM Cloud

Have effective backup and recovery for your virtualized or non-virtualized workloads.

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Zerto on IBM Cloud

Employ this disaster recovery solution for your critical virtualized environments.

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Learn the VMware Cloud basics

Intro to VMware

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Get a cheat sheet on VMware and learn why it's a crucial part of many enterprise's IT infrastructures.

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Virtualization explained

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Discover how virtualization allows for more efficient utilization of physical computer hardware.

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VMs and containers

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Learn how traditional VMs differ from containers.

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