IBM and VMware have entered a strategic cloud partnership targeting enterprise organisations.
The companies say the partnership - announced at the IBM InterConnect 2016 conference taking place in Las Vegas - is designed to help enterprises take better advantage of the cloud's speed and economics.
According to Robert LeBlanc, senior VP for IBM Cloud, the new agreement will enable enterprises to easily extend workloads from their on-premise software-defined data centre to the cloud.
IBM and VMware have jointly designed an architecture and cloud offering that will enable organisations to preconfigure VMware software-defined data centre (SDDC) environments consisting of VMware vSphere, NSX and Virtual SAN on the IBM Cloud.
With this SDDC environment in place, the companies say enterprises can deploy workloads in this hybrid cloud environment without modification due to common security and networking models based on VMware.
IBM will utilise its CloudBuilder tools and workload automation capabilities to automatically preconfigure workloads to the cloud.
The companies will also jointly market and sell new offerings for hybrid cloud deployments, including workload migrations, disaster recovery, capacity extension and data centre consolidation.
"This partnership, an extension of our 14-year-plus relationship with IBM, demonstrates a shared vision that will help enterprises more quickly and easily embrace hybrid cloud," says Pat Gelsinger, CEO of VMware.
"We are reaching a tipping point for the cloud as the platform on which the majority of business will happen," LeBlanc says.
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