VMware Cloud Foundation

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VMware Cloud Foundation is a comprehensive private-cloud IaaS software solution that combines the scale and agility of public cloud with the security and performance of private cloud, and offers an industry-leading TCO. Modernize and future-proof your infrastructure with integrated, enterprise-class compute, networking, storage, management, and security across all endpoints. Product Description VMware Cloud Foundation is the industry’s first private-cloud platform that offers the combined power of public and private clouds with unmatched operational simplicity. Purpose built to modernize infrastructure and accelerate innovation, it delivers an integrated, enterprise-class compute, networking, storage, management, and security, spanning across on-premises, private cloud, public cloud, partner clouds, sovereign clouds, edge, and colocation. Here are the core platform components: • VMware Cloud Foundation Infrastructure Stack: Incorporates VMware's industry-leading solutions – virtualization and compute through vSphere for compute, storage through vSAN, and networking by NSX. • SDDC Manager: Automate the installation, operations, and lifecycle management of the SDDC stack, streamlining deployment, configuration, and updating processes. • Management and Orchestration: Deliver comprehensive operations, automation, and analysis, across the full stack infrastructure platform. • Hybrid Cloud Extension: Enable seamless migration, workload rebalancing, and disaster recovery across private and public clouds. VMware Cloud Foundation helps you solve your toughest challenges by providing: Modern Infrastructure An elastic, scalable infrastructure that delivers an agile cloud operating model at scale, enabling faster time to market, increased innovation, lower TCO, and re-educated operational FTEs due to automated deployment and lifecycle management. Cloud Experience for Developers Increased developer productivity, consolidated VM and container-based workloads on a single platform, AI workloads at enterprise scale, and data service capabilities. Security and Resilience Consistent security policy to protect workloads and infrastructure from lateral cyber-threats, ability to meet corporate compliance and government requirements, distributed network-based context-aware security, and market-leading live recovery capabilities and workflows to protect and recover critical applications and data after a cyber-attack or other disaster event.