VMware unveils Next-Gen Products, Services

Addressing the needs of organizations to simplify IT, VMware, Inc., at VMworld 2013, has announced a wave of new products and services designed to help IT accelerate their adoption of a software-defined data center architecture and take advantage of the value of advanced virtualization in areas such as networking and security, storage and availability, and management and automation. The news was unveiled at the company’s 10th annual VMworld in San Francisco, where more than 22,000 attendees saw first-hand details and demos of newly-introduced technology including VMware NSX, VMware Virtual SAN, VMware vCloud Suite 5.5 and VMware vSphere with Operations Management 5.5.
 
With today’s news, VMware is further empowering IT to help organizations become more agile, responsive and profitable. New products such as VMware NSX and VMware Virtual SAN will fundamentally redefine the hypervisor and its role in the data center. Along with the recently introduced VMware vCenter Log Insight, these products represent the next wave of innovation at VMware. We continue to evolve the software-defined data center architecture to address IT’s critical needs, enabling them to build infrastructure that is radically simpler and more efficient while delivering the agility and flexibility to support the velocity of their businesses, said Raghu Raghuram, Executive Vice-President, Cloud Infrastructure and Management, VMware.

By extending the virtualization principles of abstraction, pooling and automation across all data center resources and services, the software-defined data center architecture can simplify and speed up the provisioning and management of compute, storage and networking resources through policy-driven automation. More than 55,000-strong VMware’s partner community is central to delivering VMware’s software-defined data center solutions to customers.

VMware vCloud Suite 5.5 and VMware vSphere with Operations Management are expected to be available in Q3 2013. VMware vCloud Suite 5.5 is licensed per processor with prices starting at $4,995 per processor. VMware vSphere with Operations Management 5.5 is offered in three editions: Standard, Enterprise and Enterprise Plus. Pricing starts at $1,745 per processor.