The document discusses the partnership between IBM and VMware, stating that they offer the broadest portfolio of virtualization solutions and deep integration between their products. It notes that they provide comprehensive services and support, and leadership in software defined strategies and cloud innovation. The partnership enables customers to dramatically reduce IT complexity, lower costs, improve efficiency and scalability, and increase flexibility and business agility. IBM delivers storage systems, software defined storage, and converged infrastructure for VMware environments.

1. Trusted Partners: IBM and VMware
• IBM & VMware together offer
• The broadest portfolio of proven virtualization solutions for
maximum choice
• Deep integration between products for enhanced features and
usability
• Comprehensive services and support to simplify change and
maintain peace of mind
• Leadership in software defined strategies and cloud innovation
• IBM & VMware together enable you to
• Dramatically reduce the complexity of IT
• Significantly lower IT costs
• Improve efficiency, performance and scalability
• Increase flexibility and business agility
IBM & VMware together are uniquely positioned to help you rapidly progress along your
virtualization journey, from the desktop to the datacenter to the cloud.
IBM delivers the ideal storage systems, software defined storage offerings and
converged infrastructure for your VMware environment.

2. IBM and VMware – A Winning Combination
Accelerate your digital transformation and journey to the cloud with VMware and IBM.
IBM supports VMware’s vision with tightly integrated offerings and comprehensive services.
Any Cloud
Any Device
VMware Workspace ONE™
Desktop Mobile Identity
Any Application
Traditional Apps Cloud-Native Apps SaaS Apps
Integrate
Public
Clouds
Transform
Security
Empower
Digital
Workspaces
Modernize
Data
Centers
Software-Defined Data Center
VMware Cross-Cloud Architecture™
Private Cloud Hybrid Cloud Public Cloud
VMware Cloud Foundation™
VMware vRealize® Cloud Management
VMware vCloud Air
VMware vCloud
®
Air™
Network
F
VMware Cross-Cloud Services™
Software
Cloud service
Storage Systems

3. The Storage Stack for VMware
Storage Infrastructure Matters: Data Economics for Today and Tomorrow
IBM Spectrum Computing
• IBM Spectrum Symphony
• IBM Spectrum LSF
• IBM Spectrum Conductor
Software Defined Computing
Storage Systems
Tier 0 Acceleration FlashSystem
Enterprise Storage Systems
XIV
Midrange & Entry Storage Systems
Tape and Virtual Tape Systems
TS7700
ProtecTIER
Deduplication IBM Elastic Storage
Server
• IBM Spectrum Virtualize
• IBM Spectrum Protect
• IBM Spectrum Control
• IBM Spectrum Accelerate
• IBM Spectrum Scale
• IBM Spectrum Archive
• IBM Spectrum Conductor
• IBM Cloud Object Storage
• IBM Spectrum CDM
Software Defined Storage
Storwize V7000
Unified
V7000 Unified
V7000 Unified
V7000 Unified
V7000 Unified
Storwize
V5000
Storwize
V7000
Integrated Infrastructure Solutions
Tape Libraries LTO7 and
enterprise
tape drives
VersaStack
FlashSystem
V9000
DS8880
FlashSystem
A9000
FlashSystem
A9000R

4. IBM Software Defined Storage
Proven Technology, Open Standards, Modular Adoption
Flash
Any
Storage
Cloud Services
Family of Storage Management
and Optimization Software
Private, Public
or Hybrid Cloud
Storage Rich
Servers
Secure Efficient Hybrid
Cloud
High-
Performance
Simplified copy data management that can increase
business velocity and efficiency
IBM Spectrum CDM
High-performance, highly scalable
hybrid cloud storage for unstructured dataIBM Spectrum Scale
Highly flexible, scale-out enterprise block
storage for hybrid clouds that deploys in minutes
IBM Spectrum Accelerate
Long term retention for active archive data that lowers
costs up to 90% by delivering a fast tape file system
IBM Spectrum Archive
Virtualization and optimization of hybrid cloud block
environments that helps improve flexibility and
stores up to 5x more data
IBM Spectrum Virtualize
Optimized hybrid cloud data protection that can
simplify restores and reduce backup costs by up to
53 percent
IBM Spectrum Protect
Hybrid cloud storage and data management that helps
optimize applications and reduce costs by up to 73%IBM Spectrum Control
Flexible and economical scalable hybrid cloud object
storage with geo-dispersed enterprise availability and
security
IBM Cloud Object Storage