VMworld 2014 US Roundup
Thousands of IT technical professionals and business decision-makers from organisations of
all sizes, and across a wide range of industries, attended VMworld 2014 US to hear a
number of announcements.
T
he primary news centred on VMware’s new
innovations for the open, agile and secure software-defined data centre. VMware EVO: RAIL,
the fastest way to build and deploy a software-defined data centre, was launched, and the new
vCloud Air mobile and hybrid cloud services
were unveiled.
These and other developments announced at the event
helped to further cement VMware’s position as a leading
global provider of virtualisation and cloud-based solutions.
New innovations for the open, agile, secure software-defined data centre
VMware announced new virtualisation, cloud management
and integrated OpenStack solutions for implementing a
software-defined data centre, and supporting the dynamic
needs of businesses.
These innovations support open frameworks as well as
hybrid cloud environments based on VMware and non-VMware technologies:
• VMware Integrated OpenStack - enables IT organisations to quickly and cost-effectively deliver developer-friendly OpenStack APIs and tools on top of their existing
VMware infrastructure.
• VMware NSX 6.1 - provides new capabilities for VMware
NSX for advanced network micro-segmentation, improved
hybrid cloud connectivity, equal cost multi-path (ECMP)
routing and VMware vCloud Automation Center 6.1 integration.
• VMware vRealize Suite - combines the capabilities of
VMware’s existing cloud automation, cloud operations and
cloud business management solutions into a single offering
under the new VMware vRealize brand.
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• VMware vRealize Air Automation - a new subscription
service that will enable customers to automate the delivery and on-going lifecycle management of application and
infrastructure services while maintaining compliance with IT
policies.
• VMware vCloud Suite 5.8 - will feature enhanced
policy-based provisioning capabilities that will enable
customers to add compute, network, security, storage and
now disaster recovery services to their applications and
infrastructure.
The software-defined data centre offers an agile and open
architecture that is secure and cost-effective, empowering
customers to manage heterogeneous clouds, hypervisors
and physical environments, based on both VMware and
non-VMware technologies. It supports open infrastructure
frameworks and runs on any underlying hardware infrastructure, transforming security architecture through a
ubiquitous virtualisation layer, and by enabling network micro-segmentation with VMware NSX network virtualization.
The fastest way to build and deploy a software-defined
data centre
VMware EVO: RAIL is the first solution in a family of
hyper-converged infrastructure offerings from VMware. It
is a hyper-converged infrastructure appliance that helps
customers streamline the deployment and scale-out of software-defined IT infrastructure at the speed of business.
VMware EVO: RAIL will dramatically simplify the delivery of
software-defined infrastructure services while lowering operating expenses. A new building block for the software-defined data centre, VMware EVO: RAIL will deliver integrated
compute, network, storage and management software that
enables customers to rollout and scale-out software-defined
infrastructure services in a rapid and repeatable fashion.
The hyper-converged infrastructure appliance will feature