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VMware announces vCloud Air for Australia

Dominant antipodean telco Telstra gets the hybrid-hosting gig

VMware has announced it will launch its vCloud Air hybrid offering in Australia in the first half of 2015. Australia's dominant telco, Telstra, scored the hosting gig and will stand up VMware's kit in a Melbourne bit barn.

VMware's schtick for vCloud Air is that it is designed from the ground up to hook into its vSphere control freakery and allow vSysadmins to wrangle on-premises and cloudy VMs from the same console. vCloud Air plays non-stop classic vSphere all day, every day, and doesn't offer any of the “pick your platform and run it here” frippery that the likes of AWS, Google and Azure offer as staples.

Virtzilla thinks that homogeneity is appreciated by dedicated VMware users, especially those who work in highly-regulated industries. While vCloud air is (optionally) a multi-tennant affair, VMware thinks some of its customers like using a cloud that's not occupied by all manner of ill-mannered folks.

Telstra will resell vCloud Air in its own right, and the Australian facility will also be available to existing members of the vCloud Air Network, aka VMware partners. Those operations now have the option of running their own vClouds or using the one hosted by Telstra. Canned quotes provided by VMware suggest they're chuffed to have the new option to pursue.

VMware Australia/New Zealand managing director Duncan Bennett told The Reg the company's colossal local user base is champing at the bit to go hybrid, so the new offering will be well-received. He added that there's no reason overseas customers keen on Australia's political and tectonic stability could not take advantage of the new facility.

vCloud Air will, once the Australian version fires up, be available in several regions of the USA, the UK, Germany and Japan. That's not quite on the scale the likes of AWS, Google or Azure can muster, or even smaller players like Pacnet and Equinix. VMware fills in the geographic blanks with partners' vClouds, but has signalled its intention to create more vCloud Air locations real soon now. ®

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