New Approach Simplifies and Automates Management of the Software-Defined Datacenter; Extends Multi-Platform, Multi-Cloud Management
PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwire - Oct 9, 2012) - VMware, Inc. (
"Businesses of all sizes are leveraging a decade of virtualization investments to transform IT through the software-defined datacenter," said Raghu Raghuram, executive vice president, cloud infrastructure and management, VMware. "VMware's cloud management offerings fundamentally recast management for the cloud era, allowing customers to operate at cloud scale and begin to act as brokers of IT services to the business."
VMware Cloud Management™ solutions help deliver the software-defined datacenter, allowing customers to achieve the efficiency and agility of cloud computing. VMware's approach to managing hybrid and heterogeneous clouds addresses three critical areas:
"The flexibility and scalability enabled by our VMware-powered private cloud helps us address business needs by accelerating the delivery of business-critical applications and services," said Fred Pond, vice president and CIO, Columbia Sportswear. "Our investment in VMware cloud management helps us simplify and automate the management of our cloud. This powerful combination means that Columbia Sportswear is able to respond to business and market opportunities faster than ever before."
VMware vCloud Suite Gets Enhanced Service Provisioning and Operations Management
Introduced in August 2012, the VMware vCloud Suite brings together the components customers need to build, operate and manage cloud infrastructure. Today VMware is introducing significant advancements to the management components of the VMware vCloud Suite:
According to Gartner, "Cloud computing is accentuating the role of IT as a service broker. Success in implementing a cloud computing strategy requires IT infrastructure and operations to become proactive in creating pre-defined policies, service levels and actions that take place automatically in the runtime environment."
VMware IT Business Management Suite™ 7.5 Enables Cloud Business Management
As the strategic importance of cloud computing grows, IT needs solutions to manage the business of cloud effectively by measuring the performance and cost across all cloud services -- infrastructure, application and end-user computing. The VMware IT Business Management Suite gives customers transparency into the cost, quality and value of cloud services, providing a business context for IT activities and enabling fact-based decisions aligned with business goals and ultimately transform to become a broker of IT services.
Today, VMware is introducing VMware IT Business Management Suite 7.5 with a new IT benchmarking module that includes more than 3,500 metrics across 18 domains, allowing IT organizations to compare their performance with industry and functional peers. VMware IT Business Management Suite 7.5 also includes enhancements to its IT Finance Manager capabilities that will further automate and streamline the budgeting process.
Read industry comments on VMware's Cloud Management solutions.
VMware Cloud Ops Services and IP -- A New Operating Model for the Cloud Era
These advancements to VMware's management portfolio are part of a complete solution approach to cloud computing, including new Cloud Ops Intellectual Property (IP) and advisory, transformation and education services announced in August 2012. Based on VMware's experience working with hundreds of successful cloud implementations worldwide, Cloud Ops helps customers build, operate, staff and measure the impact of cloud computing. Specifically, VMware announced new cloud operations services, new and updated technology consulting services, new education offerings and certifications and VMware Architecture Toolkit (vCAT) 3.0.
Read the Press Release: VMware Defines New Operating Model for the Cloud Era
Pricing & Availability
VMware's updated Cloud Management Solutions are expected to be available in Q4 2012.
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