VMware Enterprise Cloud

Total system control:
A private cloud offers total system control and increased security through dedicated hardware and physical infrastructure that’s used exclusively by the contracted customer.

Greater performance:
Because the hardware is dedicated and not used by any other organisation, workload performance for cloud services is never affected by another company running resource-intensive workloads on a shared server or by a public cloud service outage.

Long-term cost savings:
While it can be expensive to set up the infrastructure to support a private cloud, it can pay off in the long term. A private cloud can be much more cost-effective compared to paying monthly fees to use someone else’s servers on the public cloud.

Scalability:
If an organisation outgrows its existing hardware resources, it can easily add more. If the growth is temporary or seasonal, an organisation can move to a hybrid cloud solution, incurring minimal usage fees by using the public cloud only when necessary.

Predictable costs:
In addition, the costs of using a public cloud can be very unpredictable. With a private cloud, costs are the same each month, regardless of the workloads an organisation is running.

Better customisation:
Because companies have complete control over a private cloud, it is much easier to reallocate resources and tailor the cloud to perform specifically according to requirements that the company defines. IT managers have access to every level of settings in their private cloud environment, they are not limited by policies set by public cloud service providers.

Security and regulatory compliance:
Reserve behind-the firewall private cloud resources for sensitive data and highly regulated workloads and use more economical public cloud resources for less-sensitive workloads and data.

Rapid adoption of new technology:
Adopt or switch to the latest software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution, and even integrate those solutions into existing applications, without provisioning new on-premises infrastructure.

Enhancing legacy applications:
Use public cloud services to improve the user experience of existing apps or to extend them to new devices.

VMware migration:
‘Lift and shift’ existing on-premises workloads to virtualized public cloud infrastructure, to reduce the on-premises data centre footprint and scales as needed without additional capital equipment investment.

Resource optimisation and cost savings:
Run workloads with predictable capacity on private cloud and migrate more variable workloads to public cloud; use public cloud infrastructure to quickly ‘spin up’ development and test resources as needed.