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The service will help accelerate enterprise cloud transformation to support digital innovation with lower costs and risk

Alibaba Cloud and VMware have announced their jointly-developed public cloud service. Called Alibaba Cloud VMware Service, it aims to help enterprises across China accelerate enterprise cloud transformation to bring about digital innovation with lower costs and risk.

The new service by Alibaba Cloud and VMware will enable Chinese enterprises to migrate and modernize applications faster and seamlessly move workloads between on-premises VMware environments and Alibaba Cloud at scale.

“In today’s app-driven economy, more and more Chinese enterprises are adopting a hybrid cloud model to accelerate their digital transformation” said Mark Lohmeyer, senior vice president and general manager, Cloud Infrastructure Business Group at VMware. “Alibaba Cloud VMware Service helps customers modernize applications, infrastructure and operations faster with demonstrable economic benefits and less risk.”

The Alibaba Cloud VMware Service will have the power of the entire VMware Cloud stack running natively on Alibaba Cloud's advanced infrastructure, which will maximize performance, availability, security and increase workload density. With this service, customers will be able to use a consistent VMware Cloud platform that can support vMotion migration of workloads to Alibaba Cloud VMware Service with zero disruptions.