In addition to serving as a secure foundation for cloud computing, VMware solutions ensure application portability between internal datacenters and external hosting and service provider clouds from VMware vCloud partners. This enables applications to run with little or no modification internally or externally. Beyond infrastructure, VMware offers a cloud application platform that allows developers to create portable cloud applications that further enhance an organization’s ability to respond to change. Today, more than 2 million developers worldwide rely on VMware cloud application platform solutions to create rich applications that are portable, dynamic, scalable and optimized for cloud-scale deployment, including deployment on popular public cloud offerings such as VMforce and Google App Engine. IT staff can extend this agility to end users by leveraging VMware solutions to dynamically provision and manage cloud-ready IT services securely across any device.

VMware solutions ensure application mobility and portability between clouds within a common management and security model. They are based on open standards, including the Open Virtualization Format (OVF), which has been adopted as an American National Standards Institute (ANSI) standard. They also extend to a large ecosystem of service providers.

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