VMware has unveiled an updated cloud management portfolio, including significant enhancements to the management products in the recently released VMware vCloud Suite.
VMware is also introducing a new product to the suite, VMware vCloud Automation Center 5.1, and is updating the VMware IT Business Management Suite to further simplify and automate management while empowering IT to govern services across multiple, heterogeneous clouds.
“Businesses of all sizes are leveraging a decade of virtualization investments to transform IT through the software-defined datacenter,” said Raghu Raghuram, Executive Vice-President (Cloud Infrastructure and Management), VMware. “VMware’s cloud management offerings fundamentally recast management for the cloud era, allowing customers to operate at cloud scale and begin to act as brokers of IT services to the business.”
“The flexibility and scalability enabled by our VMware-powered private cloud helps us address business needs by accelerating the delivery of business-critical applications and services,” said Fred Pond, Vice-President & CIO, Columbia Sportswear. “Our investment in VMware cloud management helps us simplify and automate the management of our cloud. This powerful combination means that Columbia Sportswear is able to respond to business and market opportunities faster than ever before.”
