Do It Yourself (DIY) hybrid clouds are deceptively expensive. They take quite a bit of time to configure and deploy, require deep technical resources and very risky. Public cloud solutions like AWS and Azure run workloads entirely off premises in the cloud. For critical applications, this creates challenges related to security, privacy, data protection and data custody. Plus, these public cloud solutions are classic bait and switch...they appear to be inexpensive initially and work well for small scale deployments but at scale they can get expensive as well. So, customers - especially medium to large - are increasing leaning towards Enterprise Hybrid cloud (EHC).
EHC combines best-in-class technology from EMC, VCE and VMware. More specifically, EHC brings together VMware vRealize Automation and VMware vRealize Orchestrator integrated with EMC ViPR Controller and VMware NSX to provide the compute, storage, network, and security virtualization services for the software-defined data center.
EHC allows you to create a private cloud with the ability to broker public cloud services. EHC accelerates time to value while offering enterprise-class performance, security and data protection. More importantly, just a single number for customer support.
EHC 4.0 expands dual-site capabilities to multiple sites with multiple vCenters. A multi-site EHC can be centrally managed through a single service catalog. Several new data protection capabilities like RecoverPoint for VMs expand user flexibility for data protection on VMs. an always-on portal for centralized access to multi-site configurations and backup-level flexibility using Avamar and Data Domain. Last but not least, you can now change CloudLink VM encryption via the self-service catalog at any time in a VM's life cycle.