VMware vCloud Express : On-demand, pay-as-you-go Infrastructure as a Service

vCloud Express is an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering delivered by leading VMware service provider partners. It provides reliable, on-demand, pay-as-you-go infrastructure that ensures compatibility with internal VMware environments and with VMware Virtualized™ services.

This class of service allows IT to reduce both the capex and resource challenges associated with the fluctuating infrastructure requirements of development teams. Developers are able to use the vCloud Express service at their convenience to address various infrastructure and programming needs such as experimentation, prototyping and testing. The vCloud Express service retains the robustness, interoperability and reliability that VMware is known for.

vCloud Partner Ecosystem, which includes the ISV and open source community has taken note of our investment in vCloud and is integrating key solutions with the VMware vCloud API as part of innovative services from VMware vCloud Express providers. For example, we now have available both Java and Python software development kits (SDKs) for the vCloud API, making it easier for developers and ISVs to jumpstart their projects by flexibly leveraging private and public cloud services via the vCloud API.