VMware Showcasing vCloud Director In New Cloud Bundle

Grazed from CRN. Author: Kevin McLaughlin.

vCloud Director has become VMware’s second most important product after vSphere, and it is central to the vendor’s vision of virtual data centers running entirely on software. Yet few people outside the VMware ecosystem understand what vCloud Director is and what it does. That’s a problem for VMware and a potential roadblock to its cloud computing ambitions.

With Tuesday’s launch of vCloud Suite 5.1, VMware is looking to get customers better acquainted with vCloud Director by bundling it with vSphere and its other management, security and storage products…

Steve Kaplan, vice president of data center virtualization at Presidio Networked Solutions, Greenbelt, Md., describes vCloud Director as a cloud management platform that abstracts virtualized resources and makes them available to users through a self-service catalogue. vCloud Director’s built-in automation can handle time consuming IT tasks — such as configuring a network — in minutes…

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