VMware’s Integrated Architecture for IT

VMware enables a software-defined approach to business and IT with our One Cloud, Any Application, Any Device™ architecture that empowers organizations to compete and succeed in the digital economy.

VMware’s architecture for IT is built on the Software-Defined Data Center, which fully automates virtualized compute, storage, networking, and security infrastructure, and seamlessly extends these resources to the cloud. Only VMware provides one integrated architecture to help organizations deliver all on their business priorities and IT imperatives.

VMware One Cloud, Any Application, Any Device Video

VMware One Cloud, Any Application, Any Device Video

VMware Technology Architecture and Value Proposition (02:01 min)

How VMware Solutions Empower Your Digital Business

The challenge of digital transformation is where to start. VMware solutions drive four key business priorities and the IT imperatives that support them for enterprises transitioning to digital.

To Create Exceptional Customer Experiences, Mobilize Everything

For companies to create exceptional experiences that delight customers and employees and create new ways to collaborate, IT must transform core business processes by mobilizing everything.

VMware delivers an integrated—anytime, anywhere—experience for any app, on mobile and desktop, through a single platform with VMware Workspace ONE. IT can manage any device on any OS with VMware AirWatch while enabling secure and highly available experiences with VMware NSX network virtualization and VMware AirWatch.

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To Differentiate With Data and Apps, Deliver Faster

To create true differentiation in the digital economy, businesses must use data and apps to gain insights about market opportunities and anticipate customer needs. This requires IT to accelerate the delivery of new cloud-native apps while modernizing the existing application portfolio—all without putting the business at risk.

VMware automates application and infrastructure delivery, enabling enterprises to easily and securely deliver agile, API-driven infrastructure with VMware Integrated OpenStack as well as manage containerized apps. VMware also ensures enterprises can extend current processes, people, and tools to support apps. With VMware solutions, IT can support development methods and deploy traditional and cloud-native apps on a wide range of public and managed clouds.

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To Respond Instantly to New Opportunities, Future-Proof Your Cloud

To help the business embrace new ways to move quickly and scale rapidly, IT must take a unified hybrid cloud approach, avoiding silos so the business can response instantly to fast-breaking market opportunities.

VMware helps enterprises run private, public, and managed clouds as one by virtualizing the data center and extending to hybrid cloud. IT can unify and automate processes with VMware vRealize Suite, the most complete IT operations and management system for hybrid cloud environments. Enterprises can deploy Software-Defined Data Center solutions to Web-scale the flexibility and economics of private clouds, scaling easily with VMware software for hyper-converged infrastructure, while preserving on-premises network rules and deploying secure network architectures to the cloud with VMware NSX.

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To Safeguard Your Brand and Customers’ Trust, Rethink Cybersecurity

With cyber threats increasing daily, businesses need to protect the brand and the trust of customers. This requires IT to rethink cybersecurity, moving to a new security architecture that’s intrinsic, highly granular, and policy-driven.

VMware delivers intrinsic security by enabling enterprises to deploy "zero trust" security with microsegmentation through VMware NSX, which individually secures apps and virtual machines. IT can set profile-based access to apps and data. IT can also manage end-user and device security which includes all devices and user access with VMware AirWatch and VMware Identity Manager as well as centralize security controls with VMware Horizon virtual desktop infrastructure. IT can secure container-based apps in the VMware Photon OS secure runtime environment, and also dynamically add advanced security from an established ecosystem of antivirus, malware, intrusion-prevention, and next-generation firewall vendors.

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