5 Opportunities to Deliver Business Value with VMware vCloud ® Air ™

Companies of all sizes and industries are finding value with vCloud Air healthcare software financial retail + more HARLEY-DAVIDSON DEALER SYSTEMS

These companies use vCloud Air to: Quickly spin up development and testing environments Migrate packaged applications and free up onsite IT resources Implement a flexible, affordable disaster recovery plan Modernize enterprise applications to leverage cloud-based technology Deliver new experiences with cloud and mobile- based applications

1 Developing and testing new apps consumes both time and resources. vCloud Air helps accelerate the dev/test lifecycle without sacrificing standards, control or investing in additional infrastructure. Accelerate Development and Testing

Stand Up Infrastructure On Demand Replicate onsite environments and reduce capital expenditures by minimizing the need to procure additional data center capacity or invest in data center build outs.

2 In today’s IT departments, resources are in short supply. Moving standard packaged applications to the cloud helps to eliminate the need for IP or specialized resources. Extend Existing Applications

Focus On Innovation free up onsite IT resources for more business-critical projects.

3 The complexity and expense of traditional DR solutions are leaving many companies vulnerable to downtime or loss of data forcing them to make tradeoffs, and operate with only a limited DR plan in place — or none at all. Implement a Disaster Recovery Plan

Augment or Implement DR with vCloud Air Disaster Recovery, a recovery-as-a-service, for simple and secure asynchronous replication and failover for vSphere environments.

4 Expand Enterprise Applications to the Cloud It can be quite challenging to modernize enterprise applications that were not built to cloud-based standards or handle new levels of demand when it exceeds the capacity of on-premises infrastructure.

vCloud Air Enables Elastic Capacity to run existing enterprise apps and tiers or create new apps that seamlessly integrate with on-premises applications, processes or data. Choose to keep sensitive data onsite and move other application tiers to the cloud.

Design Next Generation Applications 5 Companies need to deliver high-quality, next generation Web and mobile apps to remain competitive. To meet demand and handle unpredictable spikes in traffic, IT needs the elasticity to scale and support these data- intensive apps.

With vCloud Air, develop new cloud-native and mobile applications that leverage data or processes running on-premises. Freely move workloads on or offsite at any time, to best meet demand, performance and cost requirements.

For companies that are running VMware to support their on-premises infrastructure, the opportunity to has never been easier for: improving developer productivity creating new cloud native and mobile applications reducing the cost of managing enterprise applications

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