VMware Extends Virtual Infrastructure into a Virtual Datacenter Operating System
The traditional IT stack with its tight coupling of software and hardware falls short of supporting customers' needs. The accelerating rate of business change, non-negotiable requirements for 24X7 business resiliency and inexorable pressure to reduce cost are increasing the pressure on IT. At the same time, IT has dramatic opportunity to change the status quo by leveraging the immense power and attractive economics of x86 hardware, the maturing of virtualization technologies, increasing choice in new application architectures and the availability of vast new clouds of cheap and readily accessible computing power.
The Virtual Datacenter Operating System Defined
VMware's comprehensive roadmap of groundbreaking new products expand its flagship VMware Infrastructure suite into a virtual datacenter OS. The virtual datacenter OS addresses customers' needs for flexibility, speed, resiliency and efficiency by transforming the datacenter into an "internal cloud" – an elastic, shared, self- managing and self-healing utility that can federate with external clouds of computing capacity freeing IT from the constraints of static hardware-mapped applications. The virtual datacenter OS guarantees appropriate levels of availability, security and scalability to all applications independent of hardware and location.
Just like the single server OS was an indispensable part of the traditional IT stack, the Virtual Datacenter OS is an indispensable platform for business computing of the future.
The Virtual Datacenter OS Simplifies Computing
The virtual datacenter OS allows an IT professional to:
- Automatically manage applications to pre-defined SLAs by providing built in availability, security and performance assurance for all applications.
- Run applications on a highly unified, reliable, efficient infrastructure made up of industry standard components that can be easily replaced
- Move applications with the same service level expectations across on premise or off premise computing clouds for the lowest TCO and highest operational efficiency
The virtual datacenter OS enables a dramatically simpler and more efficient model of computing that meet customers' needs. In this new model customers define the desired outcomes and the computing infrastructure guarantees these outcomes precisely. For example, IT professionals would like to provision an application, specify the application service levels, response time, security protection, and availability level– and the infrastructure should deliver and assure these service levels, at the lowest possible cost with minimal maintenance effort required.
VMware's Virtual Datacenter OS
VMware Infrastructure delivers the virtual datacenter OS through the following essential components:
- Application vServices guarantee the appropriate levels of availability, security and scalability to all applications independent of hardware and location.
- Infrastructure vServices subtract, aggregate and allocate on-premise servers, storage and network for maximum infrastructure efficiency.
- Cloud vServices federate the on-premise infrastructure with third party cloud infrastructure.
- Management vServices allow you to proactively manage the virtual datacenter OS and the applications running on it.
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