“The development of new software and services for the auto
retail and the OEM auto manufacturing industry globally is
key to ADP Dealer Services business,” said Bill Naughton,
CIO of ADP Dealer Services. “The software-defined data
centre architecture enables us to deliver true Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service to our lines
of business and our development organisation with the
requisite performance, availability, and security – all automated by software. With increased IT agility and efficiency,
we’re poised to meet the present and future demands of the
business.”
VMware NSX is an extensible platform that leverages a
distributed service framework for easy insertion of partner
services. VMware NSX technology partners are organised
into service categories that follow the network virtualisation
lifecycle and include network service gateways to bridge
physical and virtual environments; network security platforms that provide multi-service network security including
firewall and threat prevention; application delivery services
including load balancing, application delivery and WAN
optimization controllers; and security services including
anti-virus, IDS/IPS and vulnerability management.
Enabling the Future of the Data Centre
• VMware Virtual SAN – Delivering Simple and Dynamic
Storage for Virtual Machines
By extending the virtualisation principles of abstraction,
pooling and automation across all data centre resources
and services, the software-defined data centre architecture
can simplify and speed up the provisioning and management of compute, storage and networking resources
through policy-driven automation. To this end, VMware
announced four products that enable customers to virtualise
infrastructure and deliver it as a service; providing efficiency, agility and control for building and operating private,
hybrid and public clouds:
• VMware NSX – The Platform for Network
Virtualisation
VMware NSX is a network virtualisation platform that will
deliver the entire networking and security model in software,
decoupled from networking hardware. By virtualising the
network, VMware NSX delivers a new operational model
for networking that breaks through current physical network
barriers and will enable data centre operators to achieve
significantly better speed and agility, while reducing costs.
VMware also introduced VMware Virtual SAN, a breakthrough technology that extends VMware vSphere to pool
compute and direct-attached storage. VMware Virtual SAN
will deliver a virtual data plane that clusters server disks and
flash to create high-performance, resilient shared storage
designed for virtual machines. It will unlock a new tier of
converged infrastructure that enables rapid and granular
scaling of compute and storage resources.
Similar to VMware NSX, VMware Virtual SAN is built on
a unique distributed architecture that will enable storage
services to scale out linearly with the needs of the application. Through the seamless integration of VMware Virtual
SAN with VMware vSphere, VMware has redefined the
role of the hypervisor to deliver virtualised compute and
storage services in an elastic, flexible fashion. The distributed architecture enables VMware Virtual SAN to deliver I/O
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