Addressing the needs of organizations to simplify IT, VMware at VMworld 2013 has announced the launch of a series of new products and services designed to help IT accelerate their adoption of 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. To further simplify IT’s ability to support the growing mobile workforce, the company has also unveiled new capabilities and partnerships.
VMware Horizon Suite offers a cost-effective and secure transition to the mobile-cloud era for organizations struggling to modernize their infrastructure. VMware is the only company that offers a comprehensive end-user computing platform with highly integrated management capabilities to make managing disparate users, devices and operating systems simple and effective,” said Sanjay Poonen, Executive VP & GM, End-User Computing, VMware.
Other major announcements at the event include announcement of general availability of the new VMware vCloud Hybrid Service, vSphere with Operations Management 5.5 version, a new software-defined storage solution named VMware Virtual SAN to compute and direct-attached storage.
VMware has also announced a new release of the integrated suite of cloud infrastructure and management software VMware vCloud Suite 5.5 that enables customers to build and operate vSphere-based private clouds using the software-defined data center architecture.
Cisco and VMware announced that a growing number of customers are using joint private cloud, data center, and virtual desktop solutions from the two companies to accelerate business transformation and increase IT agility. EMC and VMware collaborated on new server based storage infrastructure.
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