VMware Unveils Management Portfolio for the Cloud Era

New Product Suites Continue to Reduce IT Complexity, Automate Cloud Management to Help Customers Deliver IT as a Service

PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 18, 2011 —VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today unveiled three product suites designed to simplify and automate IT management.  With significant enhancements to VMware vCenter Operations™ and the introduction of new VMware vFabric Application Management™ and VMware IT Business Management suites, VMware will help customers amplify the value of their virtual environments and achieve the agility and economics of cloud computing. 

"As IT organizations are implementing private and hybrid clouds, traditional management approaches associated with physical distributed systems and siloed management disciplines just aren't capable of keeping up with the pace and scale of modern IT operations," said Boaz Chalamish, senior vice president and general manager, enterprise management at VMware. "VMware's management solutions will deliver a new approach that takes advantage of cloud infrastructure, is focused on eliminating IT complexity rather than orchestrating it, and will support IT’s ability to act as a broker of services to the businesses it serves."

VMware vSphere® has helped thousands of companies transform their datacenters, simplifying many core systems management functions by building them into the virtualization platform. VMware’s management philosophy is to continue to eliminate complexity across all areas of IT management – infrastructure, applications and the business of IT – by embedding and integrating management into its platforms, converging management disciplines to streamline processes and applying analytics to help customers achieve the degree of intelligence and automation required to deliver IT as a service.

"Capital markets customers have some of the most unique and stringent requirements for security, technology performance and platform reliability.  They demand more from cloud solutions than typically offered by those outside our industry in terms of information security, managing large quantities of data, running high-performance applications and reliably connecting to their counter-parties," said Stanley Young, CEO, NYSE Technologies. "By tapping the power of VMware's innovations in virtual infrastructure management, we were able to bring the financial industry's first cloud computing solution specifically built for the global capital markets community to life, and at a cost well within the reach of all market participants."