VMware Introduces New Platform for Enterprise Database as a Service
Accelerate Application Development with Self-Service Database Operations
and Improve Datacentre Efficiency Las Vegas, Aug. 29, 2011 - Today at VMworld® 2011, VMware, Inc. (NYSE:
VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure,
announced a new database provisioning and operations solution designed
to deliver a database as a service model for the enterprise. An
extension of VMware’s Cloud Application Platform strategy, VMware
vFabric Data Director™ will give IT the ability to control and manage a
growing set of heterogeneous databases through policy-based automation,
while streamlining application development via a self-service
provisioning model for developers to rapidly access the database
services needed for modern applications. Built on VMware vSphere,
vFabric Data Director will also extend the benefits of virtualized
infrastructures to the database tier, optimizing resource utilization
for increased operational efficiency and cost savings. “Enterprises are increasingly challenged to manage the significant
growth of data needed for modern applications while supporting critical
application development initiatives,” said Tod Nielsen, Co- President,
Application Platform, VMware. “Today, VMware is advancing its ongoing
cloud application platform strategy by delivering innovative data access
and management services that more efficiently serve today’s
applications and establish a foundation for next generation, cloud era
applications.” New Era of Applications Demand a Modern Cloud Application Platform
Applications in the cloud era are fundamentally different than those
written for previous client-server or internet architectures.
Increasingly, modern applications are written in high productivity
development frameworks and delivered via dynamic virtual and cloud
inf
rastructures. Today’s applications must also account for a wider
variety of web, SaaS, social and mobile platforms and exponentially
higher volumes of real-time data. To address this changing nature of applications, VMware is investing in
a complete cloud application platform, including innovative developer
frameworks, application and data services and new cloud based Platform
as a Service (PaaS) delivery models that promise to significantly
increase developer productivity and operational efficiency while
enabling access to the broadest range of infrastructure services from
VMware, third parties and the open source community. VMware has
significantly advanced the modern cloud application platform, extending
the Spring community of Java developers with key framework innovations,
delivering a core set of cloud application services including messaging
and in-memory data services, introducing Cloud Foundry, the industry’s
first Open PaaS and leveraging the PaaS environment to embrace multiple
modern frameworks and languages including Erlang, JRuby, PHP and Python
as well as data services such as Neo4J. Introducing VMware vFabric Data Director: Self-Service Database
Provisioning and Operations
With exponential growth in data to support today’s applications,
enterprises increasingly suffer from “database sprawl”, the
proliferation of under-managed, under-secured and even unknown databases
across the IT organization. Manual operations for this growing set of
databases restrict the ability of developers to rapidly access and
provision data services for their applications. vFabric Data Director
will establish a policy driven model for driving consistent security,
data protection and resource consumption across an enterprise’s
database portfolio. Automating routine database operations via
standardized policies and best practices will enable database
administrators to focus on higher value initiatives while laying the
foundation for a self-service database model for developers. Through a
powerful web-based portal, developers will be able to leverage vFabric
Data Director for self-service access to a broad range of database
services to serve their specific needs. vFabric Data Director also extends the benefits of virtual
infrastructure to the database tier, reducing operating costs through
automation of database provisioning, backup, restore, cloning and
monitoring. Built on VMware vSphere, the industry’s most widely
deployed virtualization platform, vFabric Data Director integrates with
unique resource management capabilities in vSphere, optimizing resource
utilization and reducing overall operating costs. “Making it easier for Tier 3’s Enterprise Cloud customers to manage
the complexities of their data is core to our Database as a Service
strategy,” said Jared Wray, Founder and CTO, Tier 3. “VMware vFabric
Data Director™ overcomes many of the challenges our customers face in
moving to self-service databases in the cloud and represents a real step
forward in technology that empowers Database as a Service.” Introducing VMware vFabric Postgres Relational Database, Optimized for
VMware vSphere
The first database supported on Data Director is VMware vFabric
Postgres, a new offering from VMware based on and fully compatible with
PostgreSQL. Fully ACID and ANSI-SQL compliant, PostgreSQL is an
enterprise class database, with a long history of mission-critical
customer adoption and support from a vibrant open source community. VMware has also completed specific optimizations of vFabric Postgres
for the vSphere environment. vFabric Postgres’ elastic database memory
dynamically adapts to changing workloads to achieve greater memory
efficiency and higher consolidation ratios. Dynamic checkpoint tuning
and the ability to automatically match VM parameters for optimal
performance and resource usage further establish vFabric Postgres as an
optimal database choice for vSphere environments. Database Industry Support for Data Director
VMware plans
to expand vFabric Data Director support beyond PostgreSQL,
extending the common provisioning and operations model to the broadest
range of commercial and open source databases. Database industry leaders today announced their support for vFabric
Data Director: Sybase, an SAP Company
"Sybase, an SAP Company, and VMware have a common vision that
customers’ new application demands and cloud deployment pursuits are
changing the database market from both an architectural and delivery
perspective. VMware vFabric Data Director™ will help deliver both
traditional as well as new database technologies as a service for
enterprises. We look forward to working closely with VMware as a
preferred partner to deliver Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise a leading
database solution through VMware vFabric Data Director."
- Dr. Raj Nathan, Executive Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer EMC/Greenplum
"The introduction of VMware's vFabric Data Director represents a
powerful innovation at the intersection of cloud, virtualization, and
data. We are thrilled to have collaborated with VMware, and excited
about the role that the vFabric Data Director technology plays in our
enterprise data cloud product offering: Greenplum Chorus."
- Bill Cook, President, Greenplum - a division of EMC Pricing and Availability
vFabric Data Director will be available for download in Q3 2011 at a
list price of US$600 per virtual machine for databases managed by
vFabric Data Director. vFabric Postgres is available in conjunction with
vFabric Data Director free of charge for non-production use and US$1,700
per virtual machine for production use. vFabric Postgres is also now available on CloudFoundry.com. Additional Resources
- Additional details on vFabric Data Director:
www.vmware.com/go/datadirector
- Additional details on Cloud Foundry: www.cloudfoundry.com About VMware
VMware delivers virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that
enable IT organizations to energize businesses of all sizes. With the
industry leading virtualization platform - VMware vSphere® - customers
rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, improve
agility, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green.
With 2010 revenues of US$2.9 billion, more than 250,000 customers and
25,000 partners, VMware is the leader in virtualization which
consistently ranks as a top priority among CIOs. VMware is headquartered
in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found
online at www.vmware.com. VMware Canada is headquartered in Burlington,
Ontario, and can be found online at www.vmware.ca. -30-