VMware vCloud™ Director zajišťuje nový model poskytování a využívání IT služeb napříč hybridními cloudy

Řada produktů VMware vShield™ řeší otázky bezpečnosti cloudů

Služby pro datová centra VMware vCloud™ Datacenter: bezpečné, vzájemně spolupracující cloudy podnikové úrovně zajišťované předními poskytovateli služeb

Společnost VMware, Inc., globální lídr v oblasti virtualizace a cloudové infrastruktury, představila dnes na konferenci VMworld 2010 rozšířenou vizi moderní IT infrastruktury a šest nových produktů a služeb, které podnikům a poskytovatelům služeb pomáhají těžit z výhod revoluce technologie cloud computing a zároveň si zachovat kontrolu a svobodu volby, kterou požadují.

Vize IT jako služba představuje transformaci IT směrem k většímu obchodnímu přístupu zaměřenému na výsledky jako efektivita provozu, konkurenceschopnost a rychlé reakce. Znamená to přechod IT od produkování IT služeb k optimalizaci produkce a spotřeby služeb v souladu s obchodními požadavky. Tím se mění tradiční pohled na IT jako centra nákladů na tvůrce hodnoty.

Nové produkty a služby cloudové infrastruktury společnosti VMware, které vycházejí ze základů VMware vSphere™, zavádějí hybridní cloudový model, který hladce propojuje privátní a veřejné cloudy: 

• VMware vCloud™ Director: Nový model poskytování a využívání infrastrukturních služeb

• Řada produktů VMware vShield™: Bezpečnost virtualizovaných a cloudových prostředí VMware na vyšší úrovni než v případě fyzické infrastruktury

• Služby pro datová centra VMware vCloud™ Datacenter: Bezpečné vzájemně spolupracující hybridní cloudy zajišťované předními poskytovateli služeb

• Konzultační služby VMware vCloud™

Pokračuje tisková zpráva v anglickém jazyce:

„Enterprises are embracing a new model of infrastructure to deliver IT as a Service through hybrid cloud computing,“ said Raghu Raghuram, senior vice president and general manager, virtualization and cloud platforms, VMware. „The products and services we are launching today provide a comprehensive enterprise architecture that will deliver the agility and economics of the cloud with the security and quality of service our enterprise customers need.“

"We are excited about our new state-of-the-art cloud, based on open standards and robust, manageable software," said Professor Greg Ganger of Carnegie Mellon University. "VMware cloud infrastructure solutions are helping us to transition to a new computing paradigm that provides greater agility, while also allowing us to study data intensive computing and security in a cloud environment."

Building on the VMware vSphere™ foundation, VMware’s new cloud infrastructure products and services introduce a hybrid cloud model that seamlessly bridges private and public clouds:

• VMware vCloud™ Director: A new model for delivering and consuming infrastructure services
VMware vCloud Director changes the way IT delivers infrastructure services and the way users access and consume them. By extending the resource pooling capabilities of VMware vSphere, VMware vCloud Director enables IT to create ―virtual data centers‖ (VDCs) – logical pools of compute, network and storage resources with defined management policies, SLAs and pricing. IT organizations can offer these VDCs – along with catalogs of other infrastructure and application services such as virtual appliances, VMs, and OS images – to users through fully automated self-service access.

Through VMware’s broad ecosystem of technology partners and service providers, customers can extend their datacenter capacity to include secure and compatible public clouds and manage them as easily as their own private clouds. Through this hybrid model, IT organizations can act as service providers to the business, achieving the benefits of cloud computing without sacrificing security or control.

• The VMware vShield™ product family: Better-than-physical security for VMware-virtualized and cloud environments
Today, VMware is introducing three new products that deliver a security model designed specifically for virtual and cloud environments. Traditional enterprise security depends on agents, dedicated hardware and brittle configurations. The dynamic nature of cloud environments, where applications and services are mobile and leverage shared infrastructure, requires a new approach.

VMware vShield Edge, VMware vShield App, and VMware vShield Endpoint virtualize security and edge services, including firewall, VPN and load balancing, freeing them from the constraints of physical infrastructure and providing a single, adaptive and programmable security infrastructure. This eliminates the complexity and rigidity of traditional approaches, giving IT teams more visibility and control. When coupled with VMware’s partner solutions, VMware vShield delivers VMware-virtualized and cloud environments that are more secure than traditional, physical deployment models at a fraction of the cost.

• VMware vCloud™ Datacenter Services: Secure, interoperable enterprise-class hybrid clouds delivered by leading service providers
While public cloud services have created an alternative for delivering compute capacity in a self-service, pay-per-use model, security concerns, uncertain SLAs, lack of compliance and fears of lock-in have limited enterprise adoption. VMware vCloud Datacenter Services provide a way for enterprises to extend their datacenters to external clouds, while preserving security, compliance and quality of service. Delivered by some of the world’s leading service providers, including Bluelock, Colt, SingTel, Terremark and Verizon, VMware vCloud Datacenter Services will use globally consistent infrastructure, management and security models to make it possible for enterprise customers to move computing workloads from internal virtualized infrastructure to an external cloud and back.

VMware vCloud Datacenter Services offer VMware-certified compatibility and portability, auditable security controls, SAS-70-Type-II or ISO-27001 certifications, and virtual application security including stateful firewall and layer two network isolation, as well as role-based access control and LDAP directory authentication.

• VMware vCloud™ Consulting Services
To help customers accelerate their journeys to the cloud, VMware’s vCloud Consulting Services include a complete portfolio of professional service offerings. Based on VMware’s experience helping enterprises and service providers build cloud architectures, VMware vCloud Consulting Services provide assessment, planning, design, and deployment services for IT infrastructure transformation. Leveraged by enterprises and vCloud service providers, vCloud Consulting Services provide a common blueprint for next-generation infrastructure.

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