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has increased exponentially. Businesses need to able
to launch applications quickly and take advantage of
lucrative market opportunities. By moving its infrastructure to the Cloud WorldPay was able offer customers
self-service provisioning, or in layman’s terms, the ability
to instantly add a payment method to their service.
Cloud is playing a vital role in ensuring employees are
kept in constant contact – working practices have been
transformed as the Cloud allows new and more efficient
forms of collaboration. The technology is no longer a
‘nice-to-have’, but is a critical part of any organisation’s
infrastructure.
We’re seeing more and more businesses relying on mobile devices as the era of ‘office working’ slowly draws to
a close. In fact, the trend is so important to workers that
over a third claimed they would leave their job if told they
couldn’t use their mobile device for work purposes. With
this in mind, nearly half of IT leaders said they would
be designing systems and policies this year to accommodate employee access to mobile data – once again
cloud technology proves vital in not only lending a competitive edge but also as a method of talent retention!
These are just a couple of examples of how the Cloud is
affecting your life without you knowing it - from helping to
improve healthcare standards and educational learning
to reducing our carbon footprints and cutting IT bills so
more resources can be invested into R&D operations.
The Cloud applications we’re seeing at the moment
really are the tip of the iceberg and, as the technology
matures further, who knows how we may be using the
cloud in even a year from now. Technologies and concepts such as the Internet of Things and smart cities are
growing ever closer to becoming the norm as organisations begin to realise that the Cloud can do so much
more than simply speed up or reduce the cost of their IT
– it can totally transform it.

VMware vCloud Suite
Overview
The VMware vCloud Suite lets you build and run a vSpherebased private cloud that delivers cloud service provider
economics at scale, application provisioning in minutes, and
automated operations management.
What does it do?
Cloud Provider Economics Through Policy-Driven Operations
Drive new levels of resource utilisation and staff productivity by
integrating virtualised IT services with analytics-based, highly
automated operations management. The results are unprecedented gains in efficiency and dramatic savings in both capital
and operating expenses.
Applications in Minutes via Automated Provisioning
Deploy infrastructure services in minutes with full command of
critical business and IT policies. Resource allocation levels are
automatically adjusted to meet continually changing business
and workload demands, for newfound agility and enhanced
end-user satisfaction.
Optimum Control, Availability and Security for Every
Application
Combine automated business continuity with virtualisation-aware security and compliance with vCloud Suite, which
delivers exceptional levels of application uptime and unparalleled control over the access, placement and cost of IT
services.
What’s included in vCloud Suite?
•
vSphere - Compute virtualisation platform with poli

cy-based automation.
•
vCenter Site Recovery Manager - Automated disaster

recovery planning, testing and execution.
•
vCloud Networking and Security - Networking and

security with ecosystem integration for a virtualised

compute environment.
•
vCloud Automation Center - Self-service, policy-en

abled IT and application services catalog publishing

and provisioning.
•
vCenter Operations Manager Suite - Integrated, pro

active performance, capacity and configuration man

agement for dynamic cloud environments.
•
vCloud Director - Virtualised data centres with

multi-tenancy and public cloud extensibility.

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