VMware Latest Cloud Management Portfolio To Help IT Keep Pace with Cloud, IaaS Adoptions

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By the end of the year, VMware is poised to ship an ambitious range of cloud management offerings aimed to help IT quickly and easily embrace business-facing cloud services. Earlier this month, VMware executives previewed releases for vCloud Automation Center 6.0; VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite 5.8; VMware IT Business Management Suite, and VMware vCenter Log Insight 1.5. The company also updated the automation and management features of its VMware vCloud Suite 5.5, which it rolled out in August.

“With these cloud management solutions, VMware is pulling out all the stops to support for heterogeneous and on-demand services in a way that IT is more responsive to business needs,” VMware’s Martin Klaus, group manager for product marketing, told IDN…

VMware’s latest full court press in cloud management also is responding to what Klaus called “a definite shift,” in what IT is asking for to help regain control over shadow IT or grassroots initiates – where business users embrace clouds, IaaS and SaaS services without involving IT. “We’ve seen customers embrace the public cloud when IT isn’t able to respond quickly enough to their needs, so for us the focus of cloud management is to provide ways to help IT stay relevant to the business and more easily embrace clouds,” Klaus said…

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