EMC announces availability of its enterprise hybrid cloud solution

EMC Corporation today announced the 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 few as 28 days. Organisations 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 organisations 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 standardised. 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.

In 2015, EMC plans to offer the EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Solution built with Microsoft and 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 Software-Defined Data Centre Edition with VMware.

EMC is introducing new professional and educational services designed to help customers quickly implement the EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Solution within their IT environment.

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 Clouddelivers 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 Serviceoffers a distinctive scalable and automated approach to help analyse 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 Workshopprovides a fee-waived strategic planning engagement with an EMC Consulting expert to help organisations prioritise 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.