VMware Advances Cross-Cloud Architecture with New Releases of vSphere, Virtual SAN and vRealize Solutions to Drive IT and Developer Productivity

BARCELONA, SPAIN --(Marketwired - October 18, 2016) - Today at VMworld® 2016 Europe, VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) unveiled new releases of its industry-leading compute, storage and cloud management solutions to help IT operations teams more efficiently run, manage and secure their traditional and modern applications on- or off-premises. The new releases of VMware vSphere®, VMware Virtual SAN™ and VMware vRealize® Automation™ all introduce support for containers, enabling developers to become more productive and IT to easily run containerized applications in production.

These new releases advance VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture™, which enables customers to run, manage, connect, and secure their applications across clouds and devices in a common operating environment. As the world's most complete hybrid cloud architecture, the Cross-Cloud Architecture delivers consistent deployment models, security policies, visibility and governance for all applications, running on- and off-premises, regardless of the underlying cloud, hardware platform or hypervisor. VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture builds on its leading private and hybrid cloud capabilities by offering customers the freedom to innovate in multiple clouds, and is delivered through VMware Cloud Foundation™ as well as a new set of Cross-Cloud Services™. VMware Cloud Foundation delivers the next-generation hyper-converged infrastructure for building hybrid clouds. VMware Cloud Foundation integrates VMware's highly scalable hyper-converged software (VMware vSphere and VMware Virtual SAN) with the world's leading network virtualization platform, VMware NSX®, into a unified SDDC platform that is simple to deploy and operate thanks to the built-in lifecycle automation capabilities of VMware SDDC Manager.

"Enterprises count on their hybrid cloud environments to boost business agility and accelerate application deployment on the path to digital transformation," said Raghu Raghuram, executive vice president and general manager, Software-Defined Data Center Division, VMware. "These new releases will deliver significant new customer benefits including support for containerized applications in production and simplifying operations at scale with these new releases. They represent important building blocks of our Cross-Cloud Architecture to help customers scale out their hybrid clouds."