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VMware Cloud on AWS Delivers Significant Business Value, Cost Reductions, and a Fast Path to Hybrid Cloud

A recent IDC study interviewed VMware Cloud on AWS customers to compare the solution against other public clouds. VMware Cloud on AWS allows customers to migrate apps to the cloud 46% faster and at 57% lower cost compared to other public cloud solutions. Promote why VMware Cloud on AWS is the fastest, most cost-effective solution for migrating applications using our ready-made digital assets (on the Partner Demand Center) – including downloading this case study and sharing it with your customers.

  • 57% lower cost of migration
  • 59% less staff required for migration
  • 46% faster migration
  • 39% lower infrastructure costs
  • 83% less unplanned downtime
  • 351% 3-year ROI

Partner Demand Center Updates & Upcoming vmLIVEs!

Take a look at these new campaigns!

    • Hybrid Cloud Management – enables organizations to leverage consistent infrastructure and operations for container- and virtual machine-based workloads across hybrid cloud. This new campaign replaces the existing Hybrid Cloud Operations campaign. Register now for the January 20 vmLIVE to learn more.

Monthly Open Training Sessions
Join our monthly open training sessions to learn how to find the right marketing activities, execute your first campaign, and more. Monthly session dates and times for all regions can be found on the Partner Demand Center homepage (access quickly through the Partner Connect Marketing page).

New Solution Playbooks + More Localizations Available

We’ve just launched the Digital Workspace and VMware Cloud on AWS Solution Playbooks, as well as initial localizations for the Tanzu Portfolio Partner Solution Playbook. As a reminder, all playbooks are available on the Solutions tab within Partner Connect. Keep checking back–there are more localizations to come!

 

VMware Cloud Director 10.2 & Service Now Available

VMware Cloud Director service is a SaaS implementation of VMware Cloud Director – the industry leading multi-tenant Service Delivery Platform for VMware Cloud Providers. Available since May 2020 in US West region, this solution now has a global presence with CDs available in Frankfurt and Tokyo. Having a global footprint means cloud providers can utilize VMware Cloud Director service in their geography to manage infrastructure in their nearest VMware Cloud on AWS data center.

Welcome VMware Cloud Director 10.2 – continuing to be a market leader, delivering highly scalable and NSX-T backed secure cloud infrastructure. Cloud Providers can deliver more economical infrastructure and new application services faster than ever with support for Kubernetes clusters and digital application delivery from VMware Cloud marketplace and custom solutions. Transformation is now simplified (indifferent to the predefined infrastructure and security), allowing customers to focus on their business and transformation strategies all in one platform. Check out this briefing paper.

New VMware Cloud on AWS Sales Plays for VDI Available

Access these Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) sales plays – which include VDI use cases, email templates, and call guides – and share them with your sales teams to enable selling, as well as to complement VMware-built campaigns. Updates are for content only in English.

A Guide to VMware @ AWS re:Invent 2020

From fireside chats to product demos and meetings with VMware experts, AWS re:Invent 2020 (Nov-30 through Dec-18) is guaranteed to deliver if you’re interested in learning how you can build, run, manage, connect and protect your hybrid cloud with VMware.

VMware Cloud on AWS is the preferred service for AWS for for all vSphere-based workloads which means there will be a significant VMware Cloud on AWS presence at re:Invent this year. However, you will discover many more solutions in the various VMware-related activities at re:Invent. Get hands-on with AWS Jams and work through the VMware NSX Advanced Load Balancer Challenge or learn how you can continuously deliver better software with the VMware Tanzu portfolio of solutions. The 3-week virtual event makes it easy for you to engage with all of our content and activities!

Leverage the VMware @ re:Invent Guide that highlights all of the VMware and AWS joint sessions and activities! 

New Partner Demand Center Campaigns & Upcoming vmLIVE

Join us on October 26 to learn how to make the most of VMware Cloud on AWS. Get everything you need from solution experts to optimize VMware Cloud on AWS through Scale on Demand and Cloud migration campaigns.

Take a look at these NEW Partner Demand Center campaigns:

  • Future Ready Workforce – to enable ‘anywhere organizations’ to embrace a sustainable work-from-home strategy by providing a secure, scalable, and unified digital infrastructure for today’s distributed workforce.
  • VMware Cloud Simplified with Modern HCI (Mid-Market) – enables you to specifically target mid-market organizations to embrace the benefits of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI).
  • VMware HCI Expand – will help you leverage early success with VMware vSAN and their customers add more HCI clusters or more SDDC solutions that will ultimately put them on the path to the cloud journey.
  • VMware vSphere with Tanzu – for upgrading existing vSphere customers to vSphere with Tanzu, which opens the door for other upsell and cross-sell opportunities. vSphere 7 is key to infrastructure modernization and agile operations.
  • VMware Cloud on AWS Scale on Demand – helps you prospects extend on-premises environments to the public cloud and take advantage of future ready, instantaneous scalability with VMware Cloud on AWS.
  • VMware Cloud on AWS Cloud Migration – promotes migration of apps to the cloud and modernizing for the future via VMware Cloud on AWS. Additionally, 2-node promotional materials enable partners to help prospects take advantage of on-demand cloud capacity for a 33 percent lower cost.
  • Carbon Black Replace Antivirus – enables prospects to consolidate multiple security capabilities via one endpoint agent and console to fit their specific organizational needs without requiring additional agents, deployments, or training.
  • Cloud Network Security Content Kit – these materials position VMware Cloud Network Security as the premier distributed security solution for modern data center defense.

 

Partner Demand Center Updates

Our NEW Partner Demand Center Launched Last Month
With the amazing new interface, you will be able to easily find the right campaigns, download resources, customize content and branding, and quickly generate new demand.

New Partner Demand Center Campaigns are Available

  • VMware Cloud Simplified with Modern HCI – enables you to specifically target mid-market organizations to embrace the benefits of hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI).

  • Future Ready Workforce – enable “anywhere organizations” to embrace a sustainable work-from-home strategy by providing a secure, scalable, and unified digital infrastructure for today’s distributed workforce – watch and share this video and view the campaign guide for a sneak peek.
  • Scale on Demand – to extend on-premises environment to the public cloud and take advantage of future ready, instantaneous scalability with VMware Cloud on AWS.
  • Cloud Migration – to migrate apps to the cloud and modernize for the future via VMware Cloud on AWS. Additionally, 2-node promotional materials enable you to help prospects take advantage of on-demand cloud capacity for a 33% lower cost.
  • Carbon Black Replace Antivirus – for consolidating multiple security capabilities via one endpoint agent and console to fit the specific needs of each organization without requiring additional agents, deployments, or training.

AWS Presence @ VMworld 2020 – Lots of Activities, Start Planning Now!

Discover how you can take a faster, easier, and cost-effective path to the hybrid cloud with VMware and AWS at VMworld 2020 with keynotes, sessions, guided workshops/hands-on labs, meetings with VMware and AWS experts and more.

As VMware’s preferred cloud partner for vSphere-based workloads, AWS will have a significant presence at this year’s VMworld.  The VMworld virtual format makes it easier than ever for you to learn about our joint hybrid solutions. Whether you’re interested in migrating applications to the cloud, deploying Horizon virtual desktops with VMware Cloud on AWS, running containerized workloads with TKG on VMware Cloud on AWS, or scaling databases with RDS on VMware, there are interesting sessions available.

To help you prepare, leverage this all-inclusive guide highlighting all AWS-VMware joint sessions, activities, and opportunities!

VMware Cloud on AWS Latest Release: 33% Lower Cost, Higher Performance, & More

VMware recently announced a new release of VMware Cloud on AWS that is more affordable and appealing for disaster recovery and data-intensive workloads. The two major enhancements in this release are support for Amazon EC2 i3en.metal and General Availability of a 2 host configuration. Learn more.