FD Insights Issue 4 | Page 24

VMware Unveils
Next-Generation
Products and Services
to Further Enable the
Software-Defined
Data Centre
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VMware NSX Network Virtualisation Platform
to Deliver New Network Operational Model
that Improves Agility and Advances Data
Centre Economics

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VMware Virtual SAN Introduces New
Approach to Storage, Delivering Simple,
Self-Tuning Storage for Virtual Machines

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New Versions of VMware vCloud Suite and
VMware vSphere with Operations
Management Increase Management and
Automation Capabilities to Strengthen
Foundation of a Software-Defined Data
Centre Architecture

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VMware vSphere 5.5 Extends Support for

Business-Critical Applications and New
Workloads
Addressing the needs of organisations to simplify IT, VMware, has announced a wave of new products and services
designed to help IT accelerate its adoption of a software-defined data centre architecture and take advantage of the
value of advanced virtualisation 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 the news, VMware is further empowering IT to help
organisations become more agile, responsive and profitable,” said Raghu Raghuram, executive vice president,
Cloud Infrastructure and Management, VMware. “New
products such as VMware NSX and VMware Virtual SAN
will fundamentally redefine the hypervisor and its role in
the data centre. 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 centre 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.”
A year after introducing the software-defined data centre architecture, VMware’s pioneering IT framework has
gained wide acceptance across global business giants
and start-ups alike. In addition, customers that moved to a
software-defined data centre architecture have experienced
greater value than those that did not. In a recent survey, for
example, VMware found two-thirds of respondents reported
being able to generate new revenue for their businesses
when they expanded their use of virtualisation. Of those
businesses able to take full advantage of a complete software-defined data centre architecture, 85 percent were able
to generate new revenue as high as 22 percent for their
businesses.

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