VMware Extends Cloud Mgmt Capabilities With vCloud Suite Updates

VMware, Inc., the virtualisation and cloud infrastructure company, has unveiled an updated cloud management portfolio, including significant enhancements to the management products in the recently released VMware vCloud Suite. VMware is also introducing a new product to the suite, VMware vCloud Automation Center 5.1, and is updating the VMware IT Business Management Suite to further simplify and automate management while empowering IT to govern services across multiple, heterogeneous clouds.

“Businesses of all sizes are leveraging a decade of virtualisation investments to transform IT through the software-defined datacenter,” said Raghu Raghuram, Executive Vice President, Cloud Infrastructure and Management, VMware. “VMware’s cloud management offerings fundamentally recast management for the cloud era, allowing customers to operate at cloud scale and begin to act as brokers of IT services to the business.”

VMware Cloud Management solutions help deliver the software-defined datacentre, allowing customers to achieve the efficiency and agility of cloud computing. VMware’s approach to managing hybrid and heterogeneous clouds addresses three critical areas, namely cloud service provisioning, cloud operations management and cloud business management.