Over a 20-year partnership, IBM & VMware have jointly developed solutions to solve customers’ enterprise challenges. Their flagship offering, VMware Cloud Service on IBM Cloud, continues to be one of the most adopted VMware Cloud offerings across Fortune 500 companies from all industries.

IBM Cloud offers unique capabilities:

Security Leadership: Highest industry compliance for data encryption in the industry. Edge-to-Cloud threat management capabilities built into the fabric of the Cloud.
Open Innovation: 180 Cloud API Services including Redhat Openshift for application modernization. High-Performance Computing capabilities for AI, ML, & data driven workloads
Enterprise Performance: +2,000 VMware on IBM Cloud customers. Broadest portfolio of compute configurations (CPU, Memory, RAM) across 35 global data centers to match your specific consumption needs.

Even with all this success, IBM & VMware continue to bring to market new offerings to provide customers the best experience in the Hybrid Cloud era.

IBM Highlights at VMware Explore-Las Vegas

The VMware Explore Conference in Las Vegas will be taking place August 21st – 24th.  As a Diamond Sponsor, IBM is set to showcase their latest & greatest innovation with VMware.

You will not want to miss this:

10 IBM sponsored sessions highlighting the latest VMware innovation in the industry. Such as:  VMware Hybrid Cloud, VMware-as-a-Service, Cyber Recovery, VCF on VPC, & DR-as-a-Service.  Add them to your schedule here.
Financial Services Industry Workshop with special IBM Guest Vijay Vijayasankar (Aug 21st). Learn how your industry peers are delivering customer-centric digital banking experiences to boost competitive advantages & improve customer experiences.  Add to your schedule here.
Over 100 IBM SMEs attending across product & development available for 1:1 discussions.
18 In-Booth IBM sessions covering the breadth and depth of the VMware on IBM Cloud offerings
Hands on Labs to build your VMware on IBM Cloud technical skills
IBM Sponsored Client Reception August 22nd at Smith & Wollensky. Register here.

Visit IBM at their Booth # 308 and learn how IBM can support your VMware Hybrid Cloud needs.

2 specific offerings that will be showcased at Explore are VMware-as-a-Service & Intel Gen 4 Processors on IBM Cloud. Read below to learn more…

VMware-as-a-Service

Released in December 2022, IBM announced a new customer experience for managing your VMware based workloads. VMware-as-a-Service on IBM Cloud is a managed service offering that lowers the complexity and risk of migrating & managing your mission-critical workloads. This Cloud based managed service is based on the VMware Cloud Director Platform, allowing clients to deploy virtual data centers on dedicated IBM bare metal servers.

Key Benefits:

Faster Time-to-Value: The IBM Cloud Service will monitor, patch & maintain your VMware management backplane & underlying hardware allowing you to focus on your applications.
99.99% High Availability with dedicated client infrastructure
Lower TCO: Widest customer choice of HW profile configurations (CPU, Memory, Storage) to match your specific usage
High Performance: Elastic on-demand deployments up to 96 Cores & 1.5 TB of RAM

Simplify the management of your VMware workloads with dedicated instances, compute flexibility, & scale in a cloud manage service offering provided by IBM Cloud.

Learn More: VMware-as-a-Service Tutorial

Next-Gen Intel Infrastructure

Rolling out to an IBM Cloud Data center near you in 2023 is the latest 4th Gen Intel Xeon Processors better known as Sapphire Rapids. IBM will be one of the first to offer the latest Intel chip design for their VMware Cloud Service offerings. Expect to gain significant performance & security benefits for your applications powered by IBM Cloud. Watch HERE.

Key Benefits:

Faster data processing: With the most built-in accelerators of any CPU in the market, Intel Gen 4 processor on IBM Cloud bare metal servers will support your high data volume VMware infrastructure needs. High-Performance Computing (HPC), Generative AI, & Machine Learning applications will benefit from an IBM Cloud as-a-Service consumption model vs build & manage on your own.

Confidential Computing: Intel has added several security enhancements such as Crypto Acceleration, Software Guard Extensions, Trusted Domain extensions, which will provide automated data protection for stronger encryption protection for your data in use.

Even with a successful 20-year partnership, IBM and VMware continue to raise the bar by delivering innovation to clients as they embark on hybrid cloud transformations. With these new offerings, IBM can now support the widest spectrum of VMware use cases: App Modernization, DC Consolidation, DR, Cloud Bursting, High-Performance Computing, etc.

Come learn more about how IBM/VMware can provide you the best cloud experience for your VMware workloads at the VMware Explore Las Vegas Conference Aug 21-24th. IBM will be a Platinum Sponsor with dedicated speaking sessions and a Booth with demos by a team of experts.

Disclaimer: VMware makes no guarantee that services announced in preview will become available at a future date. The information in this blog is for informational purposes only and may not be incorporated into any contract. This article may contain hyperlinks to non-VMware websites that are created and maintained by third parties who are solely responsible for the content on such websites.

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Over a 20-year partnership, IBM & VMware have jointly developed solutions to solve customers’ enterprise challenges. Their flagship offering, VMware Cloud Service on IBM Cloud, continues to be one of the most adopted VMware Cloud offerings across Fortune 500 companies from all industries.

IBM Cloud offers unique capabilities:

Security Leadership: Highest industry compliance for data encryption in the industry. Edge-to-Cloud threat management capabilities built into the fabric of the Cloud.
Open Innovation: 180 Cloud API Services including Redhat Openshift for application modernization. High-Performance Computing capabilities for AI, ML, & data driven workloads
Enterprise Performance: +2,000 VMware on IBM Cloud customers. Broadest portfolio of compute configurations (CPU, Memory, RAM) across 35 global data centers to match your specific consumption needs.

Even with all this success, IBM & VMware continue to bring to market new offerings to provide customers the best experience in the Hybrid Cloud era.

IBM Highlights at VMware Explore-Las Vegas

The VMware Explore Conference in Las Vegas will be taking place August 21st – 24th.  As a Diamond Sponsor, IBM is set to showcase their latest & greatest innovation with VMware.

You will not want to miss this:

10 IBM sponsored sessions highlighting the latest VMware innovation in the industry. Such as:  VMware Hybrid Cloud, VMware-as-a-Service, Cyber Recovery, VCF on VPC, & DR-as-a-Service.  Add them to your schedule here.
Financial Services Industry Workshop with special IBM Guest Vijay Vijayasankar (Aug 21st). Learn how your industry peers are delivering customer-centric digital banking experiences to boost competitive advantages & improve customer experiences.  Add to your schedule here.
Over 100 IBM SMEs attending across product & development available for 1:1 discussions.
18 In-Booth IBM sessions covering the breadth and depth of the VMware on IBM Cloud offerings
Hands on Labs to build your VMware on IBM Cloud technical skills
IBM Sponsored Client Reception August 22nd at Smith & Wollensky. Register here.

Visit IBM at their Booth # 308 and learn how IBM can support your VMware Hybrid Cloud needs.

2 specific offerings that will be showcased at Explore are VMware-as-a-Service & Intel Gen 4 Processors on IBM Cloud. Read below to learn more…

VMware-as-a-Service

Released in December 2022, IBM announced a new customer experience for managing your VMware based workloads. VMware-as-a-Service on IBM Cloud is a managed service offering that lowers the complexity and risk of migrating & managing your mission-critical workloads. This Cloud based managed service is based on the VMware Cloud Director Platform, allowing clients to deploy virtual data centers on dedicated IBM bare metal servers.

Key Benefits:

Faster Time-to-Value: The IBM Cloud Service will monitor, patch & maintain your VMware management backplane & underlying hardware allowing you to focus on your applications.
99.99% High Availability with dedicated client infrastructure
Lower TCO: Widest customer choice of HW profile configurations (CPU, Memory, Storage) to match your specific usage
High Performance: Elastic on-demand deployments up to 96 Cores & 1.5 TB of RAM

Simplify the management of your VMware workloads with dedicated instances, compute flexibility, & scale in a cloud manage service offering provided by IBM Cloud.

Learn More: VMware-as-a-Service Tutorial

Next-Gen Intel Infrastructure

Rolling out to an IBM Cloud Data center near you in 2023 is the latest 4th Gen Intel Xeon Processors better known as Sapphire Rapids. IBM will be one of the first to offer the latest Intel chip design for their VMware Cloud Service offerings. Expect to gain significant performance & security benefits for your applications powered by IBM Cloud. Watch HERE.

Key Benefits:

Faster data processing: With the most built-in accelerators of any CPU in the market, Intel Gen 4 processor on IBM Cloud bare metal servers will support your high data volume VMware infrastructure needs. High-Performance Computing (HPC), Generative AI, & Machine Learning applications will benefit from an IBM Cloud as-a-Service consumption model vs build & manage on your own.

Confidential Computing: Intel has added several security enhancements such as Crypto Acceleration, Software Guard Extensions, Trusted Domain extensions, which will provide automated data protection for stronger encryption protection for your data in use.

Even with a successful 20-year partnership, IBM and VMware continue to raise the bar by delivering innovation to clients as they embark on hybrid cloud transformations. With these new offerings, IBM can now support the widest spectrum of VMware use cases: App Modernization, DC Consolidation, DR, Cloud Bursting, High-Performance Computing, etc.

Come learn more about how IBM/VMware can provide you the best cloud experience for your VMware workloads at the VMware Explore Las Vegas Conference Aug 21-24th. IBM will be a Platinum Sponsor with dedicated speaking sessions and a Booth with demos by a team of experts.

Disclaimer: VMware makes no guarantee that services announced in preview will become available at a future date. The information in this blog is for informational purposes only and may not be incorporated into any contract. This article may contain hyperlinks to non-VMware websites that are created and maintained by third parties who are solely responsible for the content on such websites.