Big 4 Benefits with Azure and VMWARE Team up:

Gain instant access to Azure’s high availability, disaster recovery and backup services to minimize risk and ensure business continuity for your critical workloads.

Get on-demand access to additional capacity when you consolidate, retire or expand your existing data centers. Even better, in your move to Azure, use the same VMware tools you already know from your on-premises environments – including VMware vSphere, vSAN and vCenter. You’re assured of operational continuity when redeploying vSphere-based applications to Azure – without the complexity of refactoring.

Keep managing your existing environments with the same VMware tools you already know, while you modernize your applications with native Azure management, security and services. With Azure VMware Solution, it’s simple to tackle modernization one step at a time. Continue to build cloud competencies and modernize over time, using the native VMware tools and management experiences you’re already familiar with.

Leverage the Azure Hybrid Benefit to bring your Windows Server and SQL Server licenses with Software Assurance to Azure. Customers of Azure VMware Solution receive free extended security updates for Windows Server and SQL Server 2008 and 2008 R2 licenses with Software Assurance for up to three years after the End of Extended Support date. You can reduce costs even further by selecting one or three year Reserved Instances for Azure VMware Solution.