Secure Enterprise-Scale VMware on IBM Cloud
Key Points
- IBM Cloud for VMware offers top‑tier security with FIPS 140‑2 Level 4 encryption for data at rest and in motion, role‑based access controls, and built‑in data‑sovereignty features such as geofencing and config‑drift management.
- Leveraging over a decade of experience managing more than 850,000 VMware workloads across banking, government, finance, insurance, and retail, IBM provides an automated, enterprise‑grade platform that enables rapid provisioning, high uptime, and simplified third‑party integration.
- The solution is globally available in over 35 data centers, giving customers a large, resilient footprint and the flexibility to choose from a wide range of storage and deployment options tailored to enterprise needs.
- IBM’s deep VMware expertise at scale ensures that organizations can confidently run mission‑critical workloads in a secure, compliant cloud environment while maintaining control over where their data resides.
Sections
- IBM Cloud VMware Security Overview - Simon Kofkin‑Hansen outlines how IBM Cloud for VMware delivers enterprise‑grade security through FIPS‑validated encryption, role‑based access controls, data‑sovereignty geofencing, and comprehensive compliance and configuration‑drift management.
- Enterprise-Scale VMware Solution Overview - The speaker highlights VMware’s enterprise‑ready platform, emphasizing its extensive workload management experience, large migration achievements, and validated performance across multiple industry verticals.
Full Transcript
# Secure Enterprise-Scale VMware on IBM Cloud **Source:** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ogm2YN6YmmQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ogm2YN6YmmQ) **Duration:** 00:04:57 ## Summary - IBM Cloud for VMware offers top‑tier security with FIPS 140‑2 Level 4 encryption for data at rest and in motion, role‑based access controls, and built‑in data‑sovereignty features such as geofencing and config‑drift management. - Leveraging over a decade of experience managing more than 850,000 VMware workloads across banking, government, finance, insurance, and retail, IBM provides an automated, enterprise‑grade platform that enables rapid provisioning, high uptime, and simplified third‑party integration. - The solution is globally available in over 35 data centers, giving customers a large, resilient footprint and the flexibility to choose from a wide range of storage and deployment options tailored to enterprise needs. - IBM’s deep VMware expertise at scale ensures that organizations can confidently run mission‑critical workloads in a secure, compliant cloud environment while maintaining control over where their data resides. ## Sections - [00:00:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ogm2YN6YmmQ&t=0s) **IBM Cloud VMware Security Overview** - Simon Kofkin‑Hansen outlines how IBM Cloud for VMware delivers enterprise‑grade security through FIPS‑validated encryption, role‑based access controls, data‑sovereignty geofencing, and comprehensive compliance and configuration‑drift management. - [00:03:42](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ogm2YN6YmmQ&t=222s) **Enterprise-Scale VMware Solution Overview** - The speaker highlights VMware’s enterprise‑ready platform, emphasizing its extensive workload management experience, large migration achievements, and validated performance across multiple industry verticals. ## Full Transcript
Hi, I'm Simon Kofkin-Hansen from IBM Cloud
and today we're here to talk about
IBM Cloud for VMware Solutions.
This is the most secure enterprise grade cloud for VMware at scale.
So, let's break down - what does this mean?
The security leadership,
enterprise grade,
and the VMware expertise at scale.
Starting with the security leadership,
IBM provides the highest form of encryption
for data at rest and data in motion
with FIPS 140-2 level 4 based encryption
ensuring that your data, where it resides
and while it's moving around within your organization,
is using that the highest form of encryption available out in the market today.
We also provide in our security role-based access control
allowing different parts of your organization to interact with the data,
maintaining the compliance,
the security, and the visibility to the different parts of the business
- and ensuring the wrong people don't get access to the wrong types of data.
Furthermore, we can comply with Data Sovereignty Regulations,
ensure we provide geofencing for your workloads.
Ensuring data doesn't necessarily cross the relevant borders as we find this becomes more and more
easily achievable in this cloud and this virtual based world. We want to ensure that this sovereignty remains intact
also providing compliance and regulatory control through config management and managing the
configuration drift through our wide variety of partners. We've brought all these different security solutions together
all based on the real-time advice and guidance
provided from our highly regulated and security conscious clients. So let's explore enterprise-grade
and what does that mean?
So what we've done is we've utilized and codified IBM's experience of managing for over a decade
these
850,000 based VMware workloads for all our enterprise clients across the world. And these consist of banking,
government, and things in the financial sector, insurance
retail, and all the other industry sectors. And the ability to take all that experience
codify it and creating an automated way of deploying these solutions out there
The automation that we have provided not only brings a rapid
provisioning and a rapid uptime to provide these solutions and these platforms
but it has ancillary benefits
downstream by making these solutions much easier to support and much easier for all the third
parties that we have out there to integrate their solutions and integrate their products onto this overall platform.
The other thing with enterprise-grade is we have the largest footprint of the solution available
with the solution available in over 35 data centers globally.
We also have the flexibility and this is what the final factor of enterprise-grade
the flexibility of options and the flexibility of choice with the myriad of options that you can choose. And
What I mean by that is we have a number of different storage
options as we found out by direct lessons learned from the enterprise is
Most enterprises are not going to choose just one or two different storage options
so taking that lessons learned you have a myriad of choice with software defined back storage, with
endurance based storage, and with object storage for long term data, archiving and retrieval.
All these lessons learned have been brought together along with the partners and our broad partner
ecosystem to bring together what we believe is a truly
enterprise grade and enterprise ready solution.
Which has been tested validated and verified by many of the enterprises out there today.
VMware expertise at global scale,
let's dive into that for a second or two. We are the largest manager of workloads out there with 850 thousand VMs under management.
We've migrated over a hundred thousand workloads from on-premise into the cloud and
ensuring and helping our clients out there with their data
transformation.
We have over decades worth of experience in managing these workloads, providing these solutions
across various industry verticals.
So, with these three things it all makes it out to be why we're unique in the market with our VMware solutions.
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