VMware brings us their VMware vCloud Hybrid Service

http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmw-vcloud-hybrid-service-052113.html

New IaaS Offering Extends Existing Data Centers to the Public Cloud; Offers Easiest, Fastest Path to Cloud for VMware Customers

PALO ALTO, Calif., May 21, 2013 — At a live event today, VMware (NYSE: VMW) CEO Pat Gelsinger unveiled VMware vCloud® Hybrid Service™, an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud operated by VMware and built on the trusted foundation of VMware vSphere®, giving customers a common platform to seamlessly extend their data center to the cloud.

“VMware’s mission is to radically simplify IT and help customers transform their IT operations,” said Pat Gelsinger, CEO, VMware. “Today, with the introduction of the VMware vCloud® Hybrid Service™, we take a big step forward by coupling all the value of VMware virtualization and software-defined data center technologies with the speed and simplicity of a public cloud service that our customers desire.”

vCloud Hybrid Service will seamlessly extend VMware software used by hundreds of thousands of customers into the public cloud. This means customers will be able to extend the same skills, tools, networking and security models across both on-premise and off-premise environments.

“As a source of competitive advantage for our International business, our Operations & IT department needs the agility and efficiency the public cloud promises,” said Julio Sobral, senior vice president, Business Operations, Fox.  “However, we don’t have the luxury of starting from scratch, we see in the vCloud Hybrid Service a potential solution to enable Fox International to have a more elastic platform that will support future deployments around the world. Working with technology partners like VMware gives us the best of both worlds by extending our existing infrastructure to realize the benefits of public cloud.”

VMware’s infrastructure as a service cloud based on their platform of products and services is an impressive announcement, firstly it highlights the scalability and enterprise grade nature of their management and virtualization products.  Secondly this brings new revenue streams comprised of those enterprise and SMB or public customers that might need long or short term virtualization capacity to meet their business goals.

Does this mean that I could in theory virtualize everything into the cloud and then move the elements that I want to keep in house back in as a vehicle to infrastructure, application and data center transformation? I’ll need to read up more.

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