VMware expands its cloud infrastructure strategy

VMware expanded its vision for modern
IT infrastructures and announced six new products and services that
will help enterprises and service providers achieve the benefits of
cloud computing while maintaining the control and freedom of choice
they require. IT as a Service is the transformation
of IT to a more business-centric approach, focusing on outcomes such
as operational efficiency, competitiveness and rapid response. This
means IT shifts from producing IT services to optimizing production
and consumption of those services in ways consistent with business
requirements. This changes the role of IT from a cost center to a
center of strategic value.

“Enterprises are embracing a new
model of infrastructure to deliver IT as a Service through hybrid
cloud computing,” said Raghu Raghuram, Senior VP and GM
-Virtualization and Cloud Platforms, VMware. "We are excited about our
new
state-of-the-art cloud, based on open standards and robust,
manageable software. 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." said Professor
Greg Ganger of Carnegie Mellon University.

Building on the VMware vSphere
foundation, VMware's new cloud infrastructure products and services
introduced a hybrid cloud model that seamlessly bridges private and
public clouds. 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.