IntroductionVMware Cloud brings VMware’s enterprise-class Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC) software to the public Cloud, enabling you to operate your production applications and workloads across VMware vSphere®-based private, public, and hybrid cloud environments. The solution integrates VMware’s flagship compute, storage, and network virtualization products (vSphere, vSAN, and NSX) along with vCenter management, and optimizes it to run on elastic public cloud infrastructure. Infrastructure Operations and Service Control AutomationVMware Cloud is an open, extensible platform that provides several ways to integrate, extend, and automate IT workloads across VMware products and services. As automation has become increasingly important for hybrid cloud infrastructure and the expectation is to have an easy and fast way to automate and learn about new features of hybrid infrastructure, VMware Cloud provides a seamless developer experience across the entire platform with developer tools and automation tools available at your fingertips. Cost ManagementCloud cost management helps businesses control their spending on cloud services while also maximizing their resources. SustainabilityEnterprises worldwide, across geographies and industries, are pursuing the imperative of digital transformation, which enables them to stay ahead of their competition through business agility and operational efficiency. This is becoming a non-negotiable imperative as organizations face relentless competitive pressure from both traditional rivals and digital upstarts.