Last updated: February 23, 2016
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Claims this is what enterprise customers want
IBM and VMware are partnering to deliver a software-defined data centre architecture on IBM Cloud. The move would enable businesses to migrate existing IT workloads via VMware’s virtualisation software without the need to modify them, which companies have described as a key barrier to cloud migration. The two companies also will collaborate on marketing and selling new offerings for hybrid cloud deployments, including seamless workload migrations, disaster recovery, capacity expansion and data centre consolidation.
IBM Cloud senior VP Robert LeBlanc tells WSJ that ~80% of enterprise clients are looking for this kind of hybrid cloud strategy, saying “We’re moving to the next phase of the cloud. This is going to accelerate that shift.”