New Cloud Management Solution Introduces Continuous Delivery Functionality to Support Agile Development and DevOps Approaches BARCELONA, SPAIN--(Marketwired - Oct 14, 2014) - Today at VMworld 2014 Europe, VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) announced a wave of new cloud management offerings and capabilities including updates to VMware vRealize Suite 6, a cloud management platform purpose-built for the hybrid cloud. VMware today also unveiled a major update of VMware vRealize Operations (formerly VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite ), the new VMware vRealize Code Stream to enable DevOps teams to deliver frequent, reliable software releases, and the beta launch of VMware vRealize Air Compliance, a new addition to VMwares family of cloud management software as a service (SaaS) offerings.IT organizations today face a mix of conflicting priorities. IT must improve speed and agility to ensure success with new mobile, social, big data and web-scale applications. But also maintain control to ensure security, compliance and efficiency managing traditional IT systems. On top of that, IT is also tasked with managing both modern application architectures as well as traditional three-tier business applications that are both deployed on-premises or in the public cloud. Lastly, roles and responsibilities are shifting to address this increasingly complex mix. To address the multiple challenges IT organizations are facing, VMware introduced the vRealize Suite, a cloud management platform with a shared service model that delivers a unified management experience with fast time to value.
CIOs and IT organizations are seeking greater agility without sacrificing security, efficiency and cost, said Ramin Sayar, senior vice president and general manager, Cloud Management Business Unit, VMware. IT infrastructure and development teams are being asked to account for managing multiple private and public clouds, incorporating newer frameworks such as OpenStack along with adopting continuous delivery of new and modern applications and DevOps processes. VMware vRealize Suite presents enterprises with a single solution to manage through and capitalize on the wealth of IT choices available to them with the requisite agility and control.
VMwares vision for the vRealize Suite aligns perfectly with our IT mission, said K. Chris Nakagaki, Sr. Systems Engineer, AutoTrader.com. We are focused on transforming our service delivery capabilities while truly partnering with our developers to drive the business forward. By standardizing on VMwares cloud management platform we can now proactively manage and monitor our on-premises systems to achieve high performance, and have positioned ourselves to adopt a hybrid cloud model over time.
We call ourselves the Payment Distribution Experts, and we are committed to continuously develop our NxPay technology to offer clients and their customers multiple global remittance options in a fast, secure and compliant environment, said Jonathan Bowman, CTO, Nx Systems, Ltd. As we accelerate our international expansion, VMwares cloud management platform will help us automate operations management of our payment platforms while minimizing development and deployment time. Today, VMware solutions enable us to deliver new applications and services to market faster, more efficiently, with greater control and scalability.
VMware vRealize Code Stream 1.0 Enables Continuous Delivery Solution for DevOps
To help IT support agile development and DevOps processes, VMware is introducing vRealize Code Stream . VMware vRealize Code Stream will accelerate application releases and extend the agility provided by continuous integration to continuous delivery by enabling frequent, reliable software releases while reducing operational risks. The solution will automate the entire software release process and enforce governance across release stages. It will provide a single dashboard for end-to-end visibility of the release process across Dev and Ops teams. VMware vRealize Code Stream will integrate with build, continuous integration and source control tools such as Jenkins, Bamboo, Git, Subversion and others. Customers will be able to deploy application environments using VMware vRealize Automation starting, for example, with a public cloud development environment and later deploying in a secure, highly available production pod in a private cloud.
VMware vRealize Suite Delivers Unified Management Experience
VMware vRealize Suite combines the capabilities of VMwares cloud automation, cloud operations and cloud business management solutions into a single offering. It delivers a comprehensive and integrated management stack for automating the release and operational management of traditional and new cloud applications deployed on private and public clouds, multiple hypervisors, and physical infrastructure -- all with a unified management experience. A shared service model simplifies common tasks, reduces the need to switch between management tools, and gives admins a powerful user experience.
VMware is advancing its cloud management platform with significant new and improved product capabilities including:
VMware vRealize Operations 6.0 -- Intelligent Operations from Applications to Storage
VMware vRealize Operations 6.0 will provide intelligent operations management across physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures using predictive analytics and policy-based automation. VMware vRealize Operations 6.0 is a major product release featuring a new scale-out, resilient architecture that will be eight times more scalable than the previous release, and adapt to the needs of all customers from SMBs to global and distributed organizations. With an open and extensible platform, it will provide comprehensive visibility in a single console across applications, network and storage devices.
The new release will intr
