IBM and VMware Advance the Existing Partnership

IBM and VMware announced new offerings to help accelerate enterprise hybrid cloud adoption. This includes a new IBM Services offering to help migrate and extend mission-critical VMware workloads to the IBM Cloud, and new integrations to help enterprises to modernize applications with Kubernetes and containers. To date, the partnership between those two companies has helped more than 1,700 enterprises including Banca Carige and CNH Industrial adopt IBM Cloud for VMware solutions.

IBM is enabling a fully automated, highly available managed global cloud architecture for mission-critical VMware workloads designed to help enterprises prevent downtime for cloud applications and automate failovers within an IBM Cloud region. This architecture will be managed by IBM Services and can be deployed across 18 availability zones in the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific. Mission-critical workloads are defined as essential to the survival of the business and so critical that outages affect brand integrity. The IBM solution is designed to support these workloads at a targeted aggregate availability higher than many clients can currently achieve with on-premises environments.

The solution includes IBM Cloud infrastructure, VMware software-defined data center technologies, Intel Optane DC SSD and IBM Services that cover a variety of enterprise needs including networks, storage, resiliency and other tools built for monitoring and troubleshooting cloud applications. Additionally, IBM and VMware announced new technology collaborations to help enterprises to modernize applications with containers regardless of whether they are deploying on-premises, in the private cloud or in the public cloud.