VMware Delivers New Public Cloud Enhancements for Its Unified Hybrid Cloud

BARCELONA, SPAIN--(Marketwired - October 13, 2015) -

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Today at VMworld® 2015 Europe, VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), announced enhancements to the company's unified hybrid cloud platform that will accelerate application development, delivery and deployment, while also providing deeper insights into customers' hybrid cloud deployments.

"Enterprises are looking to move their applications to the cloud, and increasingly see a hybrid strategy to cloud adoption as the right answer," said Bill Fathers, executive vice president and general manager, Cloud Services Business Unit, VMware. "VMware's approach is about empowering organizations to securely build, run and deliver any application across any environment. Our public cloud, vCloud Air, and global service provider ecosystem, vCloud Air Network, form the core components of our Unified Hybrid Cloud and remove that compromise from consideration."

VMware's unified hybrid cloud platform enables customers to create one consistent environment based on VMware vSphere across the private and public cloud to securely build, run and deliver any traditional or cloud-native application. VMware's unified hybrid cloud platform is built on a software-defined data center architecture, and offers customers openness and choice in how to build and manage applications and cloud environments based on their needs.

New Updates for VMware vCloud Air and VMware vCloud Air Network

As part of today's announcements, VMware introduced new updates to VMware vCloud Air and VMware vCloud Air Network. New or expanded offerings include:

• Google Cloud DNS: With the upcoming general availability of Google Cloud DNS, organizations will continue to benefit from the combination of VMware vCloud Air and Google Cloud Platform in a single hybrid cloud service. Google Cloud DNS will offer organizations access to a globally distributed, low-latency DNS service with high availability and scalability as well as ease of manageability. The service will provide reliable, resilient, low-latency DNS serving from Google's global network of Anycast DNS servers.