IBM and VMware Partnership Speeds Cloud Adoption in the Enterprise

SINGAPORE – 13
September 2017: Today at VMworld® Europe 2017, IBM (NYSE: IBM) and VMware, Inc.
(NYSE: VMW) announced that more than 1,400 enterprises in nearly every industry
around the world are extending their VMware environments to the IBM Cloud.
Through the partnership, clients such as Honeywell International and Vodafone
are using IBM Cloud’s global reach and cloud-native services, and the
infrastructure and operational consistency of VMware CloudÔ Infrastructure, to create new business
opportunities.

As part of today’s
news, IBM and VMware are announcing new solutions to further the partnership
and IBM is launching network control and visibility solutions from F5 Networks
and Fortinet so that enterprises can continue to extend their VMware
environments, as they are, to the public cloud.

In 2016, IBM and VMware set
out to tackle a pressing industry challenge: extending existing VMware
workloads from on-premises environments to the cloud without having to retool
operations, re-architect applications and re-design security policies.
Enterprises are able to run their VMware workloads in the cloud and leverage
IBM’s AI and analytics services as an extension of their VMware deployment. IBM
Cloud for VMware solutions are available across IBM’s global network of nearly
60 cloud data centers in 19 countries.

Client adoption
continues to grow as enterprises such as the Performance Materials and
Technology (PMT) Division of Honeywell International adopt these solutions.
Honeywell, a global leader in designing and creating software-based systems to
safely and efficiently operate complex industrial facilities, selected IBM
Cloud as the foundation for its Open Virtual Engineering Platform (VEP), which enables users to build and
test engineering processes in a highly reliable and security-rich cloud-based
environment.

By moving to the IBM
Cloud, Honeywell seamlessly transitioned its VMware-based environment and is
able to take advantage of existing tools, technologies and operational
processes in the cloud. Honeywell is also able to leverage advanced data
protection and security capabilities from HyTrust and Intel, both critical
factors in the company’s decision to use IBM Cloud.

“Honeywell is
developing the technologies of tomorrow so that manufacturing and
plant operators can better address challenges such as efficiency, productivity,
reliability, safety, and security,” said Vimal Kapur, president, Honeywell
Process Solutions. “The partnership between IBM and VMware is enabling
Honeywell to deliver new industrial automation technologies like the Open
Virtual Engineering Platform for our customers around the world. The global
reach of the IBM Cloud, the operational consistency of VMware across
on-premises and cloud environments and the ability to leverage HyTrust and
Intel technology for additional security were important to us.”

Additionally, through a
new agreement with IBM, Vodafone announced today that it is offering an
international service that enables enterprises to support the movement of
VMware-based workloads on a Vodafone Hosted Private Cloud to and from the IBM
Cloud. Read the news release here.

To extend the reach of
IBM Cloud for VMware solutions, IBM and Dell EMC today announced an agreement
to help accelerate cloud adoption by providing Dell EMC’s commercial customers
access to VMware solutions on the IBM Cloud. Read the news release here.

Today, IBM and VMware
each made announcements that further this strategic partnership and support
continued adoption of IBM Cloud for VMware solutions:

·  Adoption of VMware HCX Technologies: IBM is one of the first partners to adopt
VMware HCX technologies. HCX technologies deliver seamless interoperability and
application mobility between IBM Cloud and any VMware-based cloud, enabling
large scale application migration and ongoing portability with zero application
downtime or refactoring. HCX technologies will allow IBM Cloud customers to
modernize data centers with the most current VMware SDDC offerings while
maintaining business continuity, application uptime, network architectures and
performance. Read the news release here.

·  VMware Horizon Cloud Service: VMware Horizon Cloud is the next generation of
virtual desktop and application cloud services from VMware. The VMware Horizon
Cloud service offered by IBM Cloud will be made available in Q4 2017 to
customers on the IBM Cloud. Horizon Cloud will be delivered as a fully
cloud-hosted service managed end-to-end by IBM or a seamless hybrid solution
using on-premises hyperconverged infrastructure to enable new use cases for
desktops-as-a-service (DaaS).

·  Certified Public Cloud Infrastructure for SAP
HANA® on VMware on IBM Cloud: IBM today
announced the availability of new SAP-certified bare metal servers for SAP HANA® platform deployments in the IBM
Cloud and new configurations for VMware environments. Read the news release here.

·  IBM Cloud is Now VMware Cloud Verified: IBM Cloud is one of the first of a new class of
partners carrying the VMware Cloud Verified trust mark. VMware Cloud Verified
identifies providers that fuel business growth by driving innovation, improving
efficiency and lowering costs for customers as they transform application
portfolios for a multi-cloud, multi-device world. Read more in this blog.

To help clients have a
consistent experience spanning on-premises environments and the public cloud,
IBM is broadening its ecosystem of technology partners and introducing
solutions from F5 Networks and Fortinet for full network traffic control and
workload security capabilities.

·  F5 Networks: In Q4 2017, IBM will make F5 Networks’ BIG-IP virtual
suite of products available in the IBM Cloud for VMware solutions portal.
Enterprises will have the ability to order, deploy and configure the F5 BIG-IP
virtual edition products for automated integration with VMware Cloud Foundation
and vCenter Server on the IBM Cloud. This will offer enterprises the
security-rich, intelligent network traffic management and application
performance optimization for their most critical workloads. Read more in this blog.

·  Fortinet: In Q4 2017, IBM will make Fortinet’s FortiGate-NGFW virtual
appliance and bundled services available in the IBM Cloud for VMware solutions
portal. Enterprises cannot afford to choose between security and maintaining a
high-performance business infrastructure. FortiGate on the IBM Cloud will help
maintain secure application availability by extending robust enterprise network
firewall functionality into their hybrid cloud environments. Read more in this blog.

“Enterprises in nearly
every industry want to use the cloud to modernize and create new business
opportunities,” said Faiyaz Shahpurwala, general manager, IBM Cloud.
“IBM’s partnership with VMware has enabled more than 1,400 enterprises to
quickly and easily transition to the cloud to securely scale and enhance their
workloads with full access to a rich catalog of IBM Cloud services, including
AI, data and analytics, IoT, serverless and more.”

“VMware and IBM are seeing increasing customer momentum as we continue to be
strategically aligned in supporting customers’ journey to the cloud,” said Ajay
Patel, senior vice president and general manager, cloud provider software
business unit, VMware. “From our early partnership to deliver complete
software-defined data centers as a service through VMware Cloud Foundation, and
now our pioneering efforts with VMware HCX technologies to reduce the cost and
complexity of large-scale on-premises workload migration, together we are
delivering a powerful enterprise cloud platform with operational consistency
and global scale.”

With $15.1B in ‪cloud revenue over the last 12 months, ‪IBM is the global leader in enterprise cloud with a platform
designed to meet the evolving needs of business and society. Moving past
productivity and cost improvements, the IBM Cloud is tuned for the cognitive
and data demands that are driving true differentiation in today’s enterprise.
IBM’s private, public and hybrid offerings provide the global scale businesses
need to support innovation across industries, while its nearly 60 Cloud Data
Centers across 19 countries help clients meet their expanding data locality
requirements.

VMware, a global
leader in cloud infrastructure and business mobility, helps customers realize
possibilities by accelerating their digital transformation journeys. With
VMware solutions, organizations are improving business agility by modernizing
data centers and integrating public clouds, driving innovation with modern
apps, creating exceptional experiences by empowering the digital workspace, and
safeguarding customer trust by transforming security. With 2016 revenue of
$7.09 billion, VMware is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA and has over 500,000
customers and 75,000 partners worldwide.