EMC Corporation, on Thursday announced the availability of the EMC enterprise hybrid cloud solution, delivering hardware, software and services from EMC and VMware to unite the strengths of private and public cloud. The EMC enterprise hybrid cloud solution enables IT-as-a-service (ITaaS) in as few as 28 days. Organizations no longer will have to make tradeoffs between the speed and agility of public cloud services and the control and security of private cloud infrastructure.

To help deliver its hybrid cloud solution in India, EMC is also partnering with cloud service providers Netmagic and Sungard Availability Services, as well as additional partners to be announced in the future, to target customers in manufacturing, healthcare, retail, BFSI and IT/ITeS sectors.

“As per our 2014 EMC Survey with IT decision makers, around three quarters of the IT decision makers in India (76%) believe that a combination of public and private cloud services allows for a higher level of agility and security, and 31% have already deployed hybrid cloud. We’ve spent the time to engineer the EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Solution to deploy quickly, and give customers choice. Our combined hybrid cloud offering enables customers to adopt a true IT-as-a-Service model and change the way they run IT. We have a huge market opportunity in front of us, and 76% of our customers are looking to implement hybrid cloud solutions,” said Vikas Arora, General Manager, Professional Services Delivery, Asia Pacific & Japan, EMC.

“IT transformation leveraging hybrid cloud is more about just technology and that’s why EMC also offers customers proven services expertise and know-how aligned to help CIOs plan and implement the changes needed to transform IT’s approach to IT-as-a-Service. Analyst reports indicate that buyers of Hybrid Cloud believe success will come less from project management and more from technical and/or functional insights and competence. EMC has the vision, technology and services to thrive in the hybrid cloud market,” added Vikas Arora.

The EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Solution empowers IT to be a broker of trusted cloud services while maintaining the freedom to choose the Management and Orchestration technology upon which the hybrid cloud is standardized. The result is a hybrid cloud solution capable of supporting traditional and next-gen applications, financial transparency so IT can prove its value to the business, and a seamless and secure management experience.

EMC invested 40,000 engineering hours to develop and deliver the EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Solution, designed to be simple, automated and on-demand and features a number of valuable benefits to accelerate customer time-to-value including:

• Solution designed to be implemented in 28 days or less with EMC Professional Services
• Access to a full service catalog of automated data services
• Integration with public cloud services built on VMware vCloud Air, Microsoft Azure, AWS and other EMC-powered cloud service providers
• EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Solution can be built on VCE Vblock Systems and VSPEX for accelerated deployment
• EMC’s gold standard level of Customer Service to provide world-class support

The EMC Enterprise Hybrid Cloud Solution Federation SDDC Edition with VMware is available now and is offered in three sizes, to support deployments for up to 500, 5,000 and 10,000 virtual machines.