· VMware vRealize™ Suite – Combining the capabilities of VMware’s existing cloud automation, cloud operations and cloud business management solutions into a single offering under the new VMware vRealize brand, VMware is delivering a complete software stack for managing a software-defined data center and public cloud infrastructure services (IaaS). The comprehensive management platform, purpose-built to manage heterogeneous environments and hybrid clouds, enables IT to deliver infrastructure and applications at the speed of business, but with the control IT requires.

· VMware vRealize Air™ Automation –VMware also introduced the first in a family of new as a service (aaS) cloud management offerings – VMware vRealize Air™ Automation. Offered initially as a qualified beta, this new subscription service will enable customers to automate the delivery and on-going lifecycle management of application and infrastructure services while maintaining compliance with IT policies. Learn more about VMware’s management news here.

· VMware vCloud® Suite 5.8 – The VMware vCloud Suite is an integrated offering for building and managing a VMware vSphere® private cloud based on a software-defined data center architecture will enable organizations to achieve critical IT outcomes around efficiency, control, and agility. VMware vCloud Suite 5.8 will feature enhanced policy-based provisioning capabilities that will enable customers to add compute, network, security, storage and now disaster recovery services to their applications and infrastructure. The newest release of vCloud Suite 5.8 will include:

5x the scale of protection – IT organizations can set up recovery plans scalable up to 5,000 virtual machines per VMware vCenter Server™ using array-based replication to enable enterprise-level protection--five times larger than with previous limits.

Additional integration will offer customers self-service access to provision predefined disaster recovery protection tiers to new VMs via blueprints in VMware vCloud Automation Center when using array-based replication.

Software-Defined Data Center: The Answer for a Brave New IT

Businesses are at a crossroads, where IT is faced with two fundamentally opposing approaches to building and managing data centers. The first is the software-defined data center, an agile and open architecture which is secure and cost-effective. The other is the hardware-defined data center, which is a closed architecture that can be costly and time-consuming to implement and limits agility and flexibility.

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