VMware Offers Cloud Freedom and Control With Cross-Cloud Architecture on First Day of VMworld

LAS VEGAS, NV--(Marketwired - August 29, 2016) - Today at VMworld® 2016, VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) announced it has made huge strides in helping customers transform into digital businesses. The company's Cross-Cloud Architecture™ will help make private clouds easy and deliver cloud freedom and control for its customers.

On the VMworld stage in Las Vegas, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger highlighted the massive adoption of cloud but also the minimal connection across these clouds and how businesses are grappling with this constraint. Gelsinger cited an August 2016 Economist Intelligence Unit global survey, commissioned by VMware, which found that the majority of its 600 respondents noted IT complexity is harming the operations of the enterprise. It also found that 36 percent of senior IT executives said that IT could not move fast enough to support business users. Cloud is contributing to this complexity and if not done right, can contribute to the inefficiencies as well.

To help VMware's customers conquer these challenges, Gelsinger introduced the VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture that will give customers the ability to manage, govern and secure applications running across public clouds, including AWS, Azure and IBM Cloud. In addition, VMware announced VMware Cloud Foundation™ which offers a new "as a service" option that delivers the full power of the SDDC in a hybrid cloud environment. Robert LeBlanc, SVP of IBM Cloud joined Gelsinger on stage as IBM is the first VMware vCloud® Air™ Network partner to deliver the new offerings.

"We believe that all businesses who want to thrive must embrace being a 'digital business,'" said Gelsinger. "Partners and customers want to engage with a mobile experience, and there is no longer a distinction between digital and traditional. The VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture is the strategy to run, manage, connect and secure apps in this all-digital world."

The keynote concluded with Guido Appenzeller, chief technology strategy officer for networking and security at VMware, providing a tech preview of upcoming Cross-Cloud Services™. These new SaaS offerings are under development but attendees got a first look from Appenzeller who provided a number of demos featuring discovery and analytics, compliance and security, and deployment and migration. The demos showcased how these offerings will allow central IT to protect data and applications and control costs while enabling developers and the businesses to innovate freely in the clouds they choose.

For the keynote playback visit: https://www.vmworld.com/en/us/learning/general-sessions.html.

Additional Resources

• Go to the VMworld 2016 Online Press Kit for livestream replays, real-time photos and more
• Connect with VMware on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Google+

From the Community

• "VMware Cloud Foundation and Cross Cloud connectors are game changing. This will give us the elasticity we've been looking for! #VMworld" - @RaelMussell
• "VMware+IBM a very strong partnership #VMworld" - @molikop
• "Tons of VMware customer talking about their digital transformations. Marriott, Citi Bank and now Columbia. #VMworld" - @JamesAndersonCP
• "Great to see Marriott onstage talking about biz challenges of transformation; these stories are so important to show what IT can do #vmworld" - @SW_Support
• "cloud version of NSX is a game changer #VMware multi-cloud management, security & policy settings" - @TechJournalist
• "Amazon networking onboard via NSX to VMware Cross Cloud Services. Fascinating live demo on stage #VMworld" - @TorstenVolk
• "Pretty cool data path visualizations as VMware expands cloud services @VMware #VMworld" - @BMBeeler
• "So much GUI magic in this Cloud Services demo. Like listening to a symphony thru a pillow. But easy to use? You bet. #VMworld" - @ecbanks

About VMware

VMware, a global leader in cloud infrastructure and business mobility, helps customers accelerate their digital transformation. VMware enables enterprises to master a software-defined approach to business and IT with its Cross-Cloud Architecture™ and solutions for the data center, mobility, and security. With 2015 revenues of $6.6 billion, VMware is headquartered in Palo Alto, CA and has over 500,000 customers and 75,000 partners worldwide.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements including, among other things, statements regarding VMware's Cross-Cloud Architecture, VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware Cross-Cloud Services, VMware's partnership with IBM, as well as the anticipated benefits of each to partners and customers. These forward-looking statements are subject to the safe harbor provisions created by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and are made as of the date of this press release. Actual results could differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of certain risks, uncertainties, changes in condition, significance, value and effect, including but not limited to (i) adverse changes in general economic or market conditions; (ii) competitive factors, including but not limited to pricing pressures, industry consolidation and the entry of new competitors into industries in which we compete; (iii) VMware's customers' acceptance of and ability to transition to new products and computing strategies and emerging technologies; (iv) VMware's ability to enter into and maintain strategically effective partnerships; (v) rapid technological changes in the industries in which we compete; (vi) changes to product and services development timelines; (vii) VMware's ability to protect its proprietary technology; (viii) the ability of VMware to realize synergies following Dell's acquisition of EMC; (viv) VMware's relationship with EMC Corporation and EMC's ability to control matters requiring stockholder approval, and any changes that Dell may implement following the completion of the Dell-EMC merger, as well as other risks detailed in documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including VMware's most recent reports on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K that we may file from time to time. These forward-looking statements are made as of the date of this press release and are based on current expectations. VMware assumes no obligation to, and does not currently intend to, update any such forward-looking statements after the date of this release.

VMware, Cross-Cloud Architecture, Cloud Foundation, vCloud, vCloud Air, Cross-Cloud services, and NSX are registered trademarks or trademarks of VMware, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States and other jurisdictions.

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