VMware Unveils New vCloud Air Mobile and Hybrid Cloud Services

The VMware vCloud Air is a hybrid platform for existing and new applications. It supports mobile-cloud applications such as Virtual Private Cloud onDemand and Air Object Storage. The Air Object Storage feature will include lifecycle management, versioning and large object features to reduce management overhead.

VMware's Hybrid Mobile Cloud solutions offers a choice of capabilities to meet a variety of customer needs, the company states. Features include Enterprise Mobility Management, Mobile Backend as a Service, Mobile Application Development Platform and Rapid Application Delivery.

"Businesses today look to modern, mobile applications to drive revenue, differentiation and loyalty," said Bill Fathers, executive vice president and general manager, Hybrid Cloud Services Business Unit, VMware. "We are continuing to push the pace of our cloud expansion, intent to make VMware vCloud Air the industry's leading hybrid cloud platform for building, deploying, scaling and operating next-generation, mobile-cloud applications."

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