VMware in enhanced cloud tie-up with IBM

Las Vegas

ON the opening day of its annual global event VMworld 2016 on Monday, US data centre and network virtualisation company VMware announced a slew of tools and products to enhance its cloud-computing offerings.

VMware, which is owned by EMC but operates independently as a publicly listed company, announced a technology demonstration of its new Cross-Cloud Architecture that will extend the company's hybrid cloud strategy and enable customers to run their applications across clouds and devices in a common and secure operating environment that spans both public cloud as well as private clouds.

Computer maker Dell is in the process of taking over EMC to create the world's largest integrated enterprise technology company. Once the deal goes through, VMware would be a part of…