VMware Unveils Management Portfolio for the Cloud Era
October 18, 2011
VMware, Inc. /quotes/zigman/464645/quotes/nls/vmw VMW +4.30% , the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today unveiled three product suites designed to simplify and automate IT management. With significant enhancements to VMware vCenter Operations(TM) and the introduction of new VMware vFabric Application Management(TM) and VMware IT Business Management suites, VMware will help customers amplify the value of their virtual environments and achieve the agility and economics of cloud computing…
VMware vSphere(R) has helped thousands of companies transform their datacenters, simplifying many core systems management functions by building them into the virtualization platform. VMware’s management philosophy is to continue to eliminate complexity across all areas of IT management — infrastructure, applications and the business of IT — by embedding and integrating management into its platforms, converging management disciplines to streamline processes and applying analytics to help customers achieve the degree of intelligence and automation required to deliver IT as a service.
"Capital markets customers have some of the most unique and stringent requirements for security, technology performance and platform reliability. They demand more from cloud solutions than typically offered by those outside our industry in terms of information security, managing large quantities of data, running high-performance applications and reliably connecting to their counter-parties," said Stanley Young, CEO, NYSE Technologies. "By tapping the power of VMware’s innovations in virtual infrastructure management, we were able to bring the financial industry’s first cloud computing solution specifically built for the global capital markets community to life, and at a cost well within the reach of all market participants."
New Suites Simplify and Automate IT Management VMware’s new management solutions will help customers transform how they manage infrastructure, applications and business services in virtual and cloud environments:
— Infrastructure: The VMware vCenter Operations Management(TM) Suite
The highly dynamic nature of cloud infrastructure has outpaced
traditional operations management disciplines. Introduced in March
2011, VMware vCenter Operations simplifies and automates operations by
integrating performance, capacity and configuration management and
applying analytics to deliver the actionable intelligence customers
need to proactively ensure service levels in cloud environments.
With this update, VMware will continue to deliver on its strategy of
converging management disciplines with deeper integration of VMware
vCenter Capacity IQ(TM) and VMware vCenter Configuration
Manager(TM). New dashboards and smart alerts will correlate
performance and capacity information to identify emerging problems,
help customers "right size" their infrastructure and identify and
remediate performance issues caused by configuration changes. In
addition, the vCenter Operations Management Suite will include new
application awareness capabilities that automatically discover and map
the relationships and dependencies between applications and the
infrastructure components that support them. This means customers will
be able to optimize infrastructure operations such as security
management and disaster recovery based on application needs.
Learn
more about the vCenter Operations Management Suite
— Applications: The vFabric Application Management(TM) Suite
The move
to cloud computing and the increasing velocity of application demand
are causing organizations to rethink how they develop and manage
applications, driving the emergence of converged application
operations models such as "DevOps." To help customers increase agility
and improve application performance, VMware is introducing a new
application management suite that will empower application owners to
deploy and manage a new generation of applications running on virtual
and cloud infrastructures.
The vFabric Application Management Suite will include two new
solutions that integrate application disciplines to unite and
streamline developer and operations efforts. Together, these suites
support an "active application management" approach that will help IT
keep up with business demand for application changes and more
effectively maintain application performance and availability in
dynamic environments. vFabric AppDirector will standardize and
automate the release/deployment of applications to any cloud through
easy-to-create blueprints with standardized templates, component
libraries, and deployment workflows. vFabric Application Performance
Manager will help customers proactively manage application performance
in virtual and cloud environments. The vFabric Application Management
Suite is optimized for vFabric, but extensible to other frameworks.
Learn more about the vFabric Application Management Suite
— The Business of IT: The VMware IT Business Management Suite
With the
rise of public cloud services, the role of enterprise IT organizations
is evolving into a broker of services to the business. This shift
requires better visibility into costs, service levels and vendor
operations. VMware is introducing the IT Business Management Suite,
which is based on technologies from VMware’s June 2011 acquisition of
Digital Fuel, to provide the rigor and discipline CIOs need to
optimize the business value of IT investments and communicate IT’s
value in language the business understands.
The suite will include three modules: IT Finance Manager, IT Service
Level Manager and IT Vendor Manager. Together, they will aggregate
data from a wide range of financial sources and apply analytics and
modeling to offer a single pane of glass into IT capital, operating
and service expenses with meaningful metrics and reports. The IT
Business Management suite will allow CIOs to make informed sourcing
decisions based on cost, risk, performance and compliance in order to
operate as a broker of IT services in full alignment with business
needs.
Learn more about the IT Business Management Suite
"Cloud computing requires a new way of thinking about the delivery of IT services," said Cameron Haight, research vice president, Gartner. "Automation is key not only to enable scale, but to keep pace with the rate of change in dynamic environments. And, as the infrastructure itself becomes programmable, management tools and processes must be updated to support an integrated, agile approach that spans across the IT divide."
Read industry comments on VMware’s management solutions
Pricing and Availability The updated vCenter Operations Management Suite will be offered in four editions to meet the IT operations needs of small and midsized businesses and enterprises, and is expected to be available in early 2012 with prices starting at $50 per VM. The updates will also be available as a free upgrade for current vCenter Operations customers. For more information, visit http://www.vmware.com/products/vcenter-operations/buy.html
To help customers more rapidly experience the tangible benefits of VMware’s operations management solutions, VMware is introducing a new vCenter Operations Management Accelerator Service. The latest offering in VMware’s portfolio of Operations Management Services, the new service lays the foundation for customers to begin more efficiently and effectively managing their virtual and cloud environments.
vFabric Application Performance Manager is expected to be available in Q4 2011 with prices starting at $360 per VM. vFabric AppDirector is expected to be available in early 2012. For more information, visit http://www.vmware.com/go/apm-suite.
The IT Business Management Suite is expected to be available in Q4, 2011 and will be licensed per user. For more information, visit http://www.vmware.com/go/itbm-suite.