A ‘need-to-know’ guide

vCloud® Air™

Hybrid Cloud - Ready for public sector IT challenges

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Demands on public sector IT are

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What’s driving this? Demands on public sector IT are

5 factors.

Digital by Default

1.

Digital by DefaultBetter services for UK’s millions of citizens

1.

Flexible provisioning

2.

Flexible provisioningEnormous scaling of infrastructure

for peaks in demand e.g. Self Assessment, Passport Service.

2.

Reducing spend

3.

Reducing spendThe government’s stated aim is to reduce public sector IT spending by £1.7 billion p.a. both on capital projects and

expensive long-term contracts.

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‘Cloud First’

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‘Cloud First’ The government’s ‘Cloud First’ strategy

requires departments to consider cloud-based IT solutions before alternatives.

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Security & compliance

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5.Security & compliance

There is heightened concern about how and where data is stored, and the vast majority of UK citizen

data cannot leave these shores.

So, 5 Drivers Serving 5 Government Goals

...the Government needs to be...

Connected

...the Government needs to be...

ConnectedInteractive

...the Government needs to be...

ConnectedInteractiveImmediate

ConnectedInteractiveImmediate

Mobile

...the Government needs to be...

...the Government needs to be...

ConnectedInteractiveImmediate

MobileFluid

Yet, the ‘Digital by Default’ targets have left many IT departments...

....struggling to keep up.

The keyto success?

Provisioning

Provisioningbut with

2 key provisos

On-demand access to additional IT resources

On-demand access to additional IT resources

The flexibility to move workloads onsite or offsite

as required

It’s all possible thanks to...

The Hybrid Cloud

Here are 4 ways it will help your workload

Dev/test in the cloud - then move your applications onsite if required.

It’s an easy, fast, and cost-effective way to gain on-demand capacity.

vCloud Air uses the same platform you already run - you get the same results as per your internal data center.

1. Developing and testing

Reduce costs and free up resources – migrate your standard packaged apps to the public cloud.

Non-customised / non-strategic apps like email and collaboration software are good candidates.

vCloud Air supports 000s of apps and dozens of OS meaning you can test and run existing apps without any changes.

2. Extend existing applications

Not every organisation has the budget, expertise or time to develop a disaster recovery plan.

But cloud-based DR is emerging as a compelling alternative due to the flexibility in commitment, capacity and cost.

vCloud Air Disaster Recovery offers a simple, secure process - no new hardware, training or site required.

3. Disaster recovery

The cloud is ideal for Desktop-as-a-Service and enterprise applications built on traditional or three-tier architectures.

Upgrading an enterprise application presents an opportunity to evaluate where to host it.

vCloud Air delivers a secure, scalable platform - replicate the network your apps require without starting from scratch.

4. Modernise enterprise applications

And the best way to harness the public cloud?

vCloud® Air™ The world’s first true hybrid cloud solution.

The safest and fastest way to harness the public cloud.

vCloud® Air™

All the agility and cost-effectiveness of a

public cloud...

vCloud® Air™

...but without the

RISK,

vCloud® Air™

...but without the

RISK, COST,

vCloud® Air™

...but without the

RISK, COST, & TIME

of starting afresh.

vCloud® Air™

offersvCloud® Air™

Complete flexibilityYou can extend workloads and mission critical applications

in and out of the public cloud whenever additional capacity is needed – and only pay for the resources you need.

Superb integrationSupports over 5,000 applications

and 90+ operating systems.

Workloads can be moved seamlessly without any code adaptations, meaning the same performance and

uptimeas you already achieve internally.

SecurityThe UK-based data centre means all citizen data is stored under

UK and EU compliance and data sovereignty standards.

An industry winner

An easy way to get startedvCloud Air Dedicated Cloud

vCloud Air Virtual Private CloudvCloud Air Disaster Recovery as a Service...

...are all available on the G-Cloud 6 Framework

Next Steps?Learn how to get started with vCloud Air at

vmwareforyou.co.uk/hybridcloud