“Our work within Apollo Education Group is focused on providing unique technologies and innovative solutions to the global network of academic institutions and learning platforms that we serve,” said Michael Sajor, chief information officer of Apollo Education Group. “We are working with VMware’s technology and the larger EMC Federation to deliver an automated, reliable, and scalable cloud environment to support the delivery of online learning to our students. VMware’s technology has proved crucial in dynamically scaling our cloud environment. We have, proved more agile in meeting internal customers’ needs, improved productivity, enhanced operational efficiencies, and can reach a larger community of learners through our software-defined approach to IT service delivery.”

The software-defined data center empowers customers to manage heterogeneous clouds, hypervisors and physical environments, based on both VMware and non-VMware technologies, supports open infrastructure frameworks and runs on any underlying hardware infrastructure. The software-defined data center transforms security architecture through a ubiquitous virtualization layer, and by enabling network micro-segmentation with VMware NSX network virtualization.

“We selected OpenStack to build a self-service infrastructure-as-a-service cloud to support our Agile development environment,” said Laurence Vandeyar, senior systems engineer at TradeStation Technologies, Inc., an online brokerage company. “As we evaluated multiple competing technologies on which to deploy OpenStack, we found VMware infrastructure would provide the best enterprise-class capabilities to meet our needs. With VMware vSphere, we’re able to do vMotion®, DRS and easy

failover, and VMware NSX supports true 3-tier Web application development. The combination of Heat orchestration for OpenStack, vSphere, and VMware NSX, provides a solution that will give us the most value.”

Pricing and Availability

VMware Integrated OpenStack is expected to be available in the first half of 2015. Interested customers can apply to participate in VMware’s qualified Beta for this forthcoming product here. VMware NSX 6.1 is expected to be available in Q3 2014. VMware vRealize Suite is expected to be available in Q3 2014. VMware vCloud Suite 5.8 is expected to be available in Q3 2014. For pricing information customers should contact their VMware representative.

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