Introduction

Today, many IT organizations utilize VMware® vSphere™ to virtualize their enterprise infrastructure or create
private clouds with VMware vCloud Director™. As enterprises look for ways to contain costs, many are turning to
public clouds in order to reduce their IT infrastructure footprint or expand a private cloud with additional
resources. Unfortunately, many public cloud offerings require customers to adopt proprietary and incompatible
packaging, making it difficult, time-consuming, and expensive for customers to make the transition. The VMware
cloud computing approach—made possible by sophisticated and readily available automation, provisioning,
management, and virtualization technologies—gives cloud service providers the ability to offer on-demand

infrastructure that is consumed as a service