VMware announced the extension of the company's hybrid cloud strategy with the new VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture at VMworld 2016. The hybrid cloud architecture enables customers to run, manage, connect, and secure their applications across clouds and devices in a common operating environment.
The Cross-Cloud Architecture enables consistent deployment models, security policies, visibility, and governance for all applications, running on-premises and off-premises, regardless of the underlying cloud, hardware platform or hypervisor. VMware's Cross-Cloud Architecture builds on its private and hybrid cloud capabilities by offering customers the freedom to innovate in multiple clouds, and is delivered through VMware Cloud Foundation, a new set of Cross-Cloud Services which VMware is developing and the VMware vRealize cloud management platform.
In support of the company's cloud strategy, VMware also announced VMware Cloud Foundation, a unified Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) platform that makes it easy for customers to manage and run their SDDC clouds; Technology Preview of Cross-Cloud Services to showcase how customers can manage, govern, and secure applications running in private and public clouds, including AWS, Azure and IBM Cloud; VMware vCloud Availability, a new family of disaster recovery offerings purpose-built for vCloud Air Network partners, as well as a new release of VMware vCloud Air Hybrid Cloud Manager to provide VMware vSphere users
