[1] VMware announced the vCloud initiative at the 2008 VMworld conference in Las Vegas and garnered significant press attention.
[7] vCloud Air provides a hybrid cloud—a public IaaS that functions as an extension of existing data centers running VMware vSphere, with common management and networking.
[10] On 4 April 2017 French cloud provider OVH announced its intent to acquire VMware vCloud Air Business and all personnel.
This infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) pay-as-you-go offering allows users to consume specific vCPU, storage, vRAM, Network, and IP as needed.
[14] VMware announced plans for a vCloud Air Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand early access program on October 14, 2014.
Virtual Private Cloud OnDemand was officially released publicly on January 20, 2015,[17] An initial offering of $300 in-service credits to be used in the first 90 days after signing up was also announced.