Many enterprises today are running their business-critical applications on the VMware virtualization stack in either colocation or VMware Cloud VMC on AWS. The first group of VMware customers prefers colocation for its more versatile hardware selection, better security controls, ease and agility of network setup and connectivity to other environments and legacy applications. The second group of customers values fast provisioning, programmability, and automation of services in the Cloud, as well as abstraction of the physical layer so they can focus more on IT design logic.
This begs the question, what if we could bring together the pros from colocation and cloud hosting environments? This is precisely what VCF on Equinix Metal aims to accomplish, all while building additional value.