VMware: the gold-standard for virtualization technology. Amazon Web Services (AWS): the gold-standard for cloud-based computing.
VMware Cloud on AWS: the joining of these two bedrock technologies into a truly compelling offering for a firm’s diverse technology needs. Law firms will soon have this attractive new option for developing their cloud footprint while maintaining the flexibility and advanced feature-set of their existing VMware infrastructure.
While it is likely that more and more of your firm’s technology footprint has recently moved to the cloud, the benefits of on-premises hardware for speed, flexibility, desired support levels and pricing have no doubt been barriers to a completely cloud-based infrastructure. In response, many organizations have embraced a hybrid approach, leveraging the reliability of the cloud for specific services while retaining their on-premises equipment for the rest (or vice versa).
With this new offering, implementing a hybrid strategy for your VMware infrastructure will deserve serious consideration. The promise of vSphere integration suggests that the underlying hosts, both in AWS and on-premises, should be – for all intents and purposes – indistinguishable.
This is a welcome reprieve for anyone who has struggled with maintaining separate interfaces and expertise for their cloud and on-premises infrastructure. Moreover, it should entice many firms who have thus far been hesitant to embrace a cloud or hybrid approach. It may signal the time to test the water and venture “into the cloud†for the first time. With the ability to seamlessly migrate your virtual machines between on-premises and cloud hosts, you can leverage the reliability and scalability of AWS’ hardware as needed – without going through the ordeal and commitment of a permanent migration away from your existing infrastructure.
Are your on-premises servers running low on storage, CPU or memory? If you are not prepared for the capital expense of new hardware, or finding it necessary to add a few “9’s” to your uptime for critical services, you’ll no doubt enjoy the ability to quietly upload some of your servers into the cloud – and back again, if so desired. With VMware Cloud on AWS, the bridge between on-premises and in-cloud is just a few clicks away.
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