News Release: VMware Delivers New Operations Model for Cloud Environments with VMware vCenter Operations
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
VMware Delivers New Operations Model for Cloud Environments with VMware
vCenter Operations
VMware to Integrate Performance, Capacity and Configuration Analytics
to Streamline Management of Intelligent Virtual Infrastructure
PALO ALTO, Calif., March 8, 2011 - VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global
leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced a
strategy and a new solution to simplify and automate how IT
organizations manage services in dynamic virtual and cloud environments.
VMware vCenter™ Operations will help customers transform IT operations
to achieve the agility and economics of cloud computing.
Cloud computing represents a fundamentally different approach to IT
where resources are pooled across multiple sources, provisioning and
capacity are highly dynamic, and configurations are fluid. Traditional
management tools and processes, which were designed to handle discrete
processes across static computing stacks, cannot keep pace with the
velocity of these new, intelligent virtual environments.
"For opportunistic organizations, the move to cloud computing may
enable the 'breaking' of the traditional IT management model," said
Cameron Haight, research vice president, Gartner. "Decades of investment
in complex infrastructures, processes and management tools have
contributed to high IT operations and service delivery costs. Cloud
computing, or more specifically, the cloud operating model, represents a
real opportunity for enterprise IT to overcome the complexity that has
been dragging down overall IT efficiency and agility. But to do this, we
need to completely reassess the conventional wisdom of the role of
management in relation to the build-out of these emerging cloud
environments."
VMware vSphere® has helped thousands of companies transform their
datacentres, simplifying many core systems management functions, such as
resource allocation and load balancing, by building them into the
virtualization platform. VMware’s management strategy is to further
simplify IT by integrating performance, capacity and configuration
management and applying analytics to help customers achieve the degree
of automation required to operate a cloud environment.
"IT management is being turned on its head as enterprises expand their
virtual infrastructures to achieve improved efficiencies and
responsiveness," said Ramin Sayar, vice president product strategy,
enterprise management, VMware. "Increasingly, our customers are
realizing that a management model designed for yesterday’s IT systems
is making it difficult to keep up with the demands of today’s business
environment. We believe VMware vCenter™ Operations will help our
customers modernize their operations and take the next step in the
journey toward a more simplified, agile approach to IT."
Visibility, Analytics and Actionable Intelligence Drive New IT
Management Approach
vCenter Operations will be tightly integrated with VMware vSphere,
understand its advanced infrastructure management functionality and be
able to collect data from its underlying physical components (servers,
storage, network) as well as other management tools within the
enterprise. It will then analyze the millions of data points these
systems produce in real-time to get to the information that matters and
visually present it in a simple, actionable way through dashboards. This
means infrastructure and operations teams will have the intelligence
they need to make fast, informed operational decisions in order to:
- Proactively ensure service levels in dynamic cloud environments
Real-time performance dashboards with patented analytics and powerful
visualization of the health of the environment will allow IT to
proactively pinpoint performance issues and risks before they become
problems and impact SLAs.
- Get to the root cause of performance problems faster
The combination of patented analytics and infrastructure-awareness will
allow vCenter Operations to more accurately and rapidly determine
symptoms so that infrastructure and operations teams quickly get to the
root cause of performance problems. By enabling a more collaborative
approach, vCenter Operations can speed problem resolution and change
management cycles and reduce manual efforts by 40 per cent.
- Optimize deployments in “real-time” to enable self-service
provisioning
vCenter Operations will provide real-time analysis of performance and
capacity to help teams make fast, informed decisions on deployment. This
capability will be critical to enabling rapid and reliable provisioning
needed in self-service environments.
- Maintain compliance in the face of constant change
Automated provisioning and configuration analysis will ensure optimal
configuration by automatically detecting configuration changes and
enabling rollback to help IT maintain continuous compliance with
operational best practices and industry or regulatory compliance
requirements.
"To us, cloud computing means dynamic resources that are
self-provisioning, and VMware vCenter™ Operations is purpose-built to
support this type of environment," said Brian Alexander, systems
architect, information technology, Mentor Graphics Corporation. "Two
things set VMware vCenter™ Operations apart: the hooks into VMware
vSphere® that give it broad understanding of the system — storage,
network, VM performance — and the analytics that will transform the
data it gleans into actionable information."
vCenter Operations Pricing and Availability
vCenter Operations is designed as a set of products and solutions that
will bring together the performance, capacity and configuration
management capabilities VMware has developed and acquired, including
VMware vCenter CapacityIQ™, VMware vCenter Configuration Manager and
Integrien Alive™. vCenter Operations will be available in three editions
to meet the needs of customers managing both VMware vSphere-virtualized
and physical environments.
- vCenter Operations Standard offers performance management with
capacity and change awareness for VMware vSphere-virtualized and cloud
environments.
- vCenter Operations Advanced adds more advanced capacity analytics and
planning to vCenter Operations Standard’s performance management for
VMware vSphere-virtualized and cloud environments.
- vCenter Operations Enterprise offers performance, capacity and
configuration management capabilities for both virtual and physical
environments and includes customizable dashboards, smart alerting and
application awareness.
The first versions of these editions will be available in late Q1 with
prices starting at US$50 per VM. vCenter Operations will be available
through VMware sales and via VMware’s more than 25,000 channel
partners.
Additional Resources
- Download vCenter Operations screenshots at
http://www.vmware.com/files/zip/vcenterops-images.zip
- Learn more about vCenter Operations at
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/products/vcenter-operations-datasheet-feb2011.pdf
- Learn more about the VMware vCenter family of products at
http://www.vmware.com/products/vcenter/
- Learn more about VMware’s Approach to Cloud Computing at
http://www.vmware.com/solutions/cloud-computing/
About VMware
VMware delivers solutions for business infrastructure virtualization
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 2009 revenues of US$2 billion, more than 170,000 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.vmwar
e.ca.
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Forward-Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements including, among
other things, possible transformations of IT business models, the
expected availability and features of its vCenter Operations solutions
and their benefits to customers. These forward-looking statements are
subject to the safe harbor provisions created by the Private Securities
Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results could differ materially
from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of
certain risk factors, including but not limited to: (i) adverse changes
in general economic or market conditions; (ii) delays or reductions in
information technology spending; (iii) competitive factors, including
but not limited to pricing pressures, industry consolidation, entry of
new competitors into the virtualization market, and new product and
marketing initiatives by our competitors; (iv) our customers’ ability
to develop, and to transition to, new products and computing strategies,
(v) the uncertainty of customer acceptance of emerging technology; (vi)
rapid technological and market changes in virtualization software and
platforms for cloud and desktop computing; (vii) changes to product
development timelines; (viii) our ability to protect our proprietary
technology; (ix) our ability to attract and retain highly qualified
employees; and (x) the successful integration of acquired companies and
assets into VMware. These forward looking statements are based on
current expectations and are subject to uncertainties and changes in
condition, significance, value and effect as well as other risks
detailed in documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
including our most recent reports on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q and current
reports on Form 8-K that we may file from time to time, which could
cause actual results to vary from expectations. VMware assumes no
obligation to, and does not currently intend to, update any such
forward-looking statements after the date of this release.
For more information please contact:
Cindy Watson / Jennifer Rideout
StrategicAmpersand Inc.
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