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Table of Contents
Our VMware vCloud Service Provider initiative, which is directed to hosting and cloud computing vendors, enables organizations to choose
more freely between running applications in virtual machines on their own “private clouds” inside their data center or on “public clouds” hosted
by a service provider. With a common VMware vSphere platform available across the public and private clouds, internal and external IT
resources can be pooled into a hybrid cloud, and applications and data can be readily moved between the two based on economics and
organizational need. External cloud capacity can be accessed on-demand without the need to customize or change applications.
Cloud Application Platform
VMware Cloud Application Platform solutions help organizations build, run and manage enterprise applications in public, private or hybrid
clouds optimized for vSphere. Our Cloud Application Platform provides open source application frameworks, application run-time and data
management solutions and an open platform as a service, or PaaS. Our solutions are designed to increase developer agility in responding to
business needs while maintaining application portability. We seek to enhance the value of our products and services through the creation and
promotion of developer communities and vendor ecosystems.
Our SpringSource product group develops and supports the Spring application framework for enterprise Java applications and the Grails
framework for high productivity web applications written in the Groovy programming language. Both of these frameworks are open source
software.
Our VMware Cloud Application Platform runtime and data products enable developers to deploy and manage applications and databases in
traditional server environments as well as on virtualized infrastructure based on vSphere. These products include:
VMware offers bundled licensing for many of these products through the vFabric Standard and Advanced licensing options.
The Cloud Application Platform also includes the Cloud Foundry project, which is designed as an open PaaS to allow application
developers to rapidly deploy, scale and manage web applications. VMware makes the core technology for Cloud Foundry available as an open
source project.
End
-User Computing
Enterprises are increasingly challenged to provide secure access to a growing mobile workforce while managing the diversity of data,
applications and devices to run their business. VMware's End-User Computing solutions are designed to enable a user-centric approach to
personal computing that ensures secure access to applications and data from a variety of devices and locations. Our End-User Computing
solutions are also designed to address the needs of corporate IT departments by managing and connecting end-user assets delivering them as a
managed service.
We also offer End-User Computing solutions that provide the ability to manage software as a service ("SaaS"), Windows, Mobile or
enterprise applications. Additional VMware offerings are designed to enhance seamless communication and collaboration between end users.
VMware's End-User Computing strategy addresses the needs of corporate IT by enabling IT organizations to deliver an environment with
high-quality service, improved availability and scalable performance while leveraging both legacy and cloud architectures. Key VMware End-
User Computing solutions include:
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• VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager
provides simplified, automated disaster recovery for virtualized environments.
• VMware vCenter Operations
provides performance, capacity and configuration management for virtual or physical infrastructure.
• VMware vShield provides security for applications and the perimeter of virtual datacenters, end-user computing and cloud
environments.
• VMware vFabric tcServer
provides an enterprise Tomcat application server.
• VMware vFabric GemFire enables real-
time data distribution, caching and management for high performance and cloud applications.
• VMware vFabric Data Director
enables greatly simplified management and operation of databases on vSphere.
• VMware View, an enterprise desktop virtualization platform designed to optimize application and desktop management and enable
flexibility for end users. In 2011, VMware released VMware View 5.0, which significantly enhanced user experience by optimizing wide
area network ("WAN") performance while supporting unified communications, persona management and multi-client support.