At VMworld 2015, VMware, announced new innovations for the company’s unified hybrid cloud platform. These new public cloud services and software-defined solutions will enable customers to build applications faster, improve IT security, rapidly recover from disasters and drive meaningful business value.
“Digital business transformation is creating new opportunities and new risks across every industry,” said Raghu Raghuram, executive vice president and general manager, Software-Defined Data Center Division, VMware. “Applications are the fuel of this digital business transformation. With our One Cloud, Any Application, Any Device strategy and our unified hybrid cloud platform, VMware is empowering the next wave of industry leaders to deliver applications with the stability, security and reliability of an enterprise, while allowing organizations to innovate with the agility of a startup.”
VMware vCloud Air, the public cloud component of VMware’s unified platform, allows the data center and cloud to remain connected so that all resources are accessible and shared across the hybrid cloud. VMware vCloud Air streamlines the digital processes required to realize the value of applications while maintaining the security and performance organizations demand.
New or expanded vCloud Air services include: VMware vCloud Air Disaster Recovery Services, VMware vCloud Air Object Storage, VMware vCloud Air SQL.
VMware announced new product releases for the software-defined data center that include: VMware NSX 6.2, VMware vRealize Operations 6.1, vRealize Log Insight 3, VMware Integrated OpenStack 2, VMware Site Recovery Manager 6.1, and VMware vSphere APIs for IO Filtering.
VMware also revealed a technology preview of Project Skyscraper, a new set of innovative hybrid cloud capabilities for vSphere. These new capabilities will enable customers to extend their data center to the public cloud and seamlessly operate across boundaries while providing enterprise-level security and business continuity.
