Zoho
is about offering Online Business, Productivity & Collaboration
applications. These apps are delivered from our data centers serving
millions of users worldwide. Apart from our standard public cloud
offering, some of our applications are deployed with strategic partners
and within large enterprises, behind their firewall.
We currently have partners like NTT who deployed Zoho in Japan serving
the local market. Similarly, Baihui currently offers Zoho Apps in China
with a local deployment. Some enterprises also deployed Zoho Apps
behind their firewall. In all these cases, our apps are deployed on
Zoho recommended hardware.What if an enterprise wants to run our apps on a different hardware or VMs?
We are excited to announce a new relationship with VMWare. Zoho Apps can now run on VMWare's vSphere. Enterprises will now have an option to deploy Zoho Apps behind
their firewall either on Zoho recommended hardware or on VMWare's
vSphere. We will be showcasing this new deployment option at VMWorld this week at the vCloud Pavilion.
We are excited about this new relationship/offering with VMWare and It
is great to see the same level of interest from VMWare as well. To
quote Dan Chu, VP of emerging products and markets, VMWare...
“Customers are continually looking for ways to simplify their IT
environments. For customers that wish to run their Zoho applications
on-premise, VMware vSphere™ 4 provides the foundation for delivering
these applications as a private cloud service inside their own firewall
and datacenter — retaining the Web-based simplicity and efficiency
benefits of Zoho’s applications while keeping the applications and data in-house.”
For large enterprises, 'Keeping the applications and data in-house' is the key. We
recently offered 'Zoho Office for Microsoft SharePoint' along the same
lines - keeping the data behind the firewall while taking advantage of
cloud applications. Now, with both apps and data behind the firewall,
it opens up new integration possibilities with other enterprise applications.
With this new private deployment model, we bring the benefits of cloud
applications to enterprises. This deployment option is currently
available for businesses with over 10,000 employees.
If you are at VMWorld, drop by the Zoho booth at vCloud pavilion.