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VMware has announced a new cloud management offerings and capabilities including updates to VMware vRealize Suite 6, a cloud management platform purpose-built for the hybrid cloud. The company also unveiled an update of VMware vRealize Operations (formerly VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite), the new VMware vRealize Code Stream, and the beta launch of VMware vRealize Air Compliance, a new addition to VMware’s family of cloud management software as a service (SaaS) offerings.
To address the multiple challenges IT organisations are facing, VMware introduced the vRealize Suite, a cloud management platform with a shared service model that delivers a unified management experience with fast time to value.
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“CIOs and IT organisations are seeking greater agility without sacrificing security, efficiency and cost,” said Ramin Sayar, senior vice president and general manager, Cloud Management Business Unit, VMware. “IT infrastructure and development teams are being asked to account for managing multiple private and public clouds, incorporating newer frameworks such as OpenStack along with adopting continuous delivery of new and modern applications and DevOps processes. VMware vRealize Suite presents enterprises with a single solution to manage through and capitalize on the wealth of IT choices available to them with the requisite agility and control.”
To help IT support agile development and DevOps processes, VMware is introducing vRealize Code Stream. VMware vRealize Code Stream will accelerate application releases and extend the agility provided by continuous integration to continuous delivery by enabling frequent software releases. The solution will automate the entire software release process and enforce governance across release stages. It will provide a single dashboard for end-to-end visibility of the release process across Dev and Ops teams. VMware vRealize Code Stream will integrate with build, continuous integration and source control tools such as Jenkins, Bamboo, Git, Subversion and others.
VMware vRealize Suite combines the capabilities of VMware’s cloud automation, cloud operations and cloud business management solutions into a single offering.
VMware is advancing its cloud management platform with new and improved product capabilities including: VMware vRealize Operations 6.0 that will provide intelligent operations management across physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures using predictive analytics and policy-based automation. VMware vRealize Operations 6.0 is a major product release featuring a new scale-out, resilient architecture that will be eight times more scalable than the previous release, and adapt to the needs of all customers from SMBs to global and distributed organisations. With an open and extensible platform, it will provide comprehensive visibility in a single console across applications, network and storage devices.
The new release will introduce advanced analytics, smart alerts and problem detection capabilities to identify complex issues from multiple systems ahead of time, and suggest a resolution to the problem. Suggested resolutions include an embedded link to initiate policy-guided remediation enabling IT teams to address issues from a single console. VMware vRealize Operations 6.0 will also include new capacity planning and project management capabilities that extend beyond VMware vSphere to include physical and application-level metrics to better manage demand, available resources and service level agreements (SLAs). Learn more about
Building on recent cloud comparison capabilities, including VMware vCloud Air costing and the ability to manually add any service provider, VMware vRealize Business 6.0 will further empower infrastructure and operations teams with business management capabilities essential for managing a hybrid cloud. The new functionality includes pricing analysis, showback/chargeback and budgeting for infrastructure services out-of-the-box, delivering users an intuitive decision-making experience. Additionally, new releases of VMware vRealize Business 8.2 Advanced and Enterprises are being announced.
VMware vRealize Automation 6.2 will offer increased product integration and shared services with VMware vRealize Operations.
Enhanced integration between VMware vRealize Log Insight 2.5 and VMware vRealize Operations will enable organizations to combine and analyse both structured and unstructured data for end-to-end operations management. This latest release will introduce role-based access control capabilities that will enable customers to control access to log data based on organisational function.
VMware also announced the beta of VMware vRealize Air Compliance, the industry’s first SaaS compliance service built for the software-defined data centre.