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VMware enables Customer Datacenter Modernizations

VMware Customer Datacenter Modernizations

At VMworld 2017, VMware announced new releases of VMware Integrated OpenStack and VMware vRealize Network Insight to help customers modernize their data centers to increase business and developer agility while introducing increased networking and security capabilities. Additionally, VMware is unveiling a new VMware vSAN offering to accelerate the adoption of distributed IT by reducing the cost and complexity of expanding enterprise IT features beyond the data center.

The announcements include:
• VMware Integrated OpenStack 4 will be based on OpenStack Ocata and boost support for containerized applications
• VMware vRealize Network Insight 3.5 to deliver increased monitoring and compliance capabilities for NSX
• New HCI Acceleration Kit to enable distributed IT with cost-effective hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) systems powered by VMware vSAN
• VMware to embrace Big Data and High-Performance Computing (HPC) workloads with new vSphere Scale-Out edition

Business and IT leaders are aligning on a core set of business outcomes as they experience the benefits of digital transformation. VMware is helping customers achieve those outcomes with a portfolio spanning cloud, digital workspace, and security. The company’s strategy is to enable customers to run, manage, connect, and secure any application on any cloud to any device.

“Companies are focused on digital transformation to deliver new customer experiences through applications and services,” said Rajiv Ramaswami, chief operating officer, Products and Cloud Services, VMware. “VMware is helping its customers to modernize IT infrastructure and application services with the speed, security, and agility that enable them to drive transformation from the data center to the edge. These new product releases and solutions will help support customer business innovation and growth while optimizing their total cost of ownership.”

VMware Validated Designs 4.1 features a new, optional consolidated data center architecture for small footprint deployments in a single region. This latest version also delivers an updated software bill of materials (BOM) with support for vSphere 6.5 U1, vSAN 6.6.1, NSX 6.3.3 on both the standard and new consolidated architecture to enable customers to implement the latest VMware software releases with fully-validated interoperability. VMware Validated Designs are comprehensive and extensively-tested blueprints to build and operate an SDDC. The designs are engineered to help customers deploy VMware SDDC components to achieve a wide variety of use cases such as private cloud, micro-segmentation, IT automation, and virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) with predictable results – according to best practices.

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