EMC 'redefines' Hybrid Cloud for the enterprise

EMC Corporation has announced immediate availability of its EMC® Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Solution that integrates hardware, software and services from EMC and VMware to unite the strengths of private and public cloud. The EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Solution enables IT-as-a-service (ITaaS) in as little as 28 days.

Organizations no longer will have to make tradeoffs between the speed and agility of public cloud services and the control and security of private cloud infrastructure.
As IT organizations race to keep pace with the demands of the modern and rapidly changing business, they need to leverage both private cloud because it is trusted, controlled and reliable, and public cloud because it’s simple, low cost and flexible. The EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Solution enables customers to deploy a hybrid cloud that incorporates the best of both public and private clouds.

The EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Solution empowers IT to be a broker of trusted cloud services while maintaining the freedom to choose the Management and Orchestration technology upon which the hybrid cloud is standardized. The result is a hybrid cloud solution capable of supporting traditional and next-gen applications, financial transparency so IT can prove its value to the business, and a seamless and secure management experience.

Enabling IT-as-a-Service
The EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Solution is designed to be simple, automated and on-demand and features a number of valuable benefits including:
· Solution designed to be implemented in 28 days or less with EMC Professional Services
· Access to a full service catalog of automated data services
· Integration with public cloud services built on VMware vCloud Air, Microsoft Azure, AWS and other EMC-powered cloud service providers
· EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Solution can be built on VCE Vblock Systems and VSPEX for accelerated deployment
· EMC’s gold standard level of Customer Service to provide world-class support

EMC has invested thousands of engineering hours to build an Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Solution that accelerates the customer’s time to value. Key engineering aspects include:
· End-to-end testing and validation to ensure all components work together
· Best practices /reference architecture that accelerates deployment
· Hundreds of workflows based on common customer use cases to further enable self-service delivery and consumption
· Custom-engineered design templates that offer pre-determined service levels of infrastructure for different applications

Support for Leading Cloud Platform Software
In 2015, EMC plans to offer the EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Solution built with either Microsoft or OpenStack technology. EMC’s solution for the Microsoft Cloud Platform will be designed to enable customers to easily integrate their on-premises EMC storage solutions and Windows Server Hyper-V infrastructure with Microsoft Azure, in order to flexibly deploy and manage applications and workloads across hybrid environments. EMC supports customer choice and is committed to helping customers be successful with their hybrid cloud deployments, regardless of the cloud platform they choose. By offering the EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Solution with Microsoft and OpenStack, EMC will extend the same value and benefits to those solutions that are being delivered in the EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Federation SDDC Edition with VMware.

EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Services
EMC is introducing new professional and educational services designed to help customers quickly implement the EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Solution within their IT environment.
A leader in the cloud marketplace, EMC has helped accelerate more than 15,000 cloud deployments for customers, providing industry-leading expertise to guide customers’ infrastructure, operational, and application transformations across every stage of development. Along with new Architecture, Design and Implementation Services to enable the hybrid cloud solutions, EMC also unveiled new Professional Services to remove cloud complexity including:
• EMC Managed Services for Enterprise Hybrid Cloud delivers end-to-end turnkey operational management of a customer’s EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud complete with SLAs. The service provides either onsite or offsite resources for one year or more.
• EMC Cloud Advisory Service offers a distinctive scalable and automated approach to help analyze application requirements to determine workload suitability for cloud, then recommend placement in appropriate public or private clouds based on economics and functional requirements.
• EMC IT Transformation Workshop provides a fee-waived strategic planning engagement with an EMC consulting expert to help organizations prioritize concrete steps for IT Transformation across service strategy, applications, operating model and infrastructure, providing a benchmark against industry peers and the competition.
• Education Services: For customers who will manage or operate their EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud, EMC provides training to help IT staff gain the requisite skills.