VMware announced a wave of new cloud management offerings and capabilities including updates to VMware vRealize Suite 6, a cloud management platform purpose-built for the hybrid cloud.
VMware brings together all new and existing cloud management products under a single family name -- vRealize. The rebrand highlights VMware's commitment to helping its customers realize the value they expect from their IT investments, and help them fulfill their journey to the hybrid cloud.
VMware also unveiled a major update of VMware vRealize Operations (formerly VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite), the new VMware vRealize Code Stream to enable DevOps teams to deliver frequent, reliable software releases, 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.
"CIOs and IT organizations are seeking greater agility without sacrificing security, efficiency and cost," said Ramin Sayar, SVP and GM, 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, reliable software releases while reducing operational risks. 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. Customers will be able to deploy application environments using VMware vRealize Automation starting, for example, with a public cloud development environment and later deploying in a secure, highly available production pod in a private cloud.
VMware vRealize Suite combines the capabilities of VMware's cloud automation, cloud operations and cloud business management solutions into a single offering. It delivers a comprehensive and integrated management stack for automating the release and operational management of traditional and new cloud applications deployed on private and public clouds, multiple hypervisors, and physical infrastructure -- all with a unified management experience. A shared service model simplifies common tasks, reduces the need to switch between management tools, and gives admins a powerful user experience.
VMware is advancing its cloud management platform with significant new and improved product capabilities including:
VMware vRealize Operations 6.0 -- Intelligent Operations from Applications to Storage
VMware vRealize Operations 6.0 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 organizations. 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).
VMware vRealize Business 6.0 -- Empowering IT with Cost and Quality Insights
VMware vRealize Business (formerly VMware IT Business Management Suite) provides transparency and control over the costs and quality of IT services enabling CIOs to align IT with the business. Building on recent enhanced 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 -- Enhanced Platform Integration with vRealize Operations
VMware vRealize Automation (formerly VMware vCloud Automation Center) provides the agility businesses need by automating the delivery of IT services and applications. This latest product release will offer increased product integration and shared services with VMware vRealize Operations. The enhanced integration adds operational intelligence and analytics to optimize cloud lifecycle management. VMware vRealize Operations 6.2 will add visibility of service health badges and identification of idle machines in multi-vendor infrastructures. This will allow VMware vRealize Automation's policy-driven workflows to verify if resources are still needed before reclaiming and reusing underutilized and idle capacity to improve resource usage and facilitate capital savings.
Additionally, VMware vRealize Automation's integration with VMware NSX will address a major problem -- which is the ongoing management and provisioning of virtual networks and services such as load balancers and security policies. Blueprints will incorporate network and security policies tying them to applications whether for deployment, reinstantiation or migration. When an application is decommissioned, VMware vRealize Automation will reclaim network services and does away with security policies and firewall rules. Thus, admins will not be left wondering about the hundreds of firewall rules and security policies, many of which are detritus from long-dead applications.
VMware vRealize Log Insight 2.5 -- New Role-based Access Control Capabilities
VMware vRealize Log Insight (formerly VMware vCenter Log Insight) delivers real-time log management featuring machine learning, high performance search and troubleshooting across physical, virtual and cloud environments. Enhanced integration between VMware vRealize Log Insight 2.5 and VMware vRealize Operations will enable organizations to combine and analyze both structured and unstructured data for end-to-end operations management to help them improve overall IT performance and avert disruptions. This latest release will introduce role-based access control capabilities that will enable customers to control access to log data based on organizational function.
VMware continues to grow its partner ecosystem aggressively resulting in the development of several new content and management packs. In Q4 2014, VMware and its partners are expected to deliver new content packs for the most popular networking gear as well as management packs for OpenStack and storage devices addressing iSCSI and NFS protocols (in addition to SAN) as well as VMware Virtual SAN. Dozens of content and management packs are available today in the VMware Cloud Management Marketplace to help customers simplify and automate the management of hybrid cloud environments.
The new and enhanced cloud management solutions are expected to become available in Q4 2014.
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