VMware has added to its range of compute, storage and cloud management solutions with the introduction of VMware vSphere 6.5 - the next generation infrastructure for modern applications.
Pat Gelsinger, the company's CEO, said during his keynote at VMworld 2016 Europe in Barcelona this morning that the solution has been designed to help IT operations teams more efficiently run, manage and secure their traditional and modern applications whether on or off-premises.
The release adds support for new application types, such as containers, and will give users a universal application platform that can support both traditional and modern applications and run them irrespective of location.
"vSphere 6.5 features a simplified customer experience through increased automation and management capabilities and comprehensive built-in security," said Gelsinger.
These added capabilities give customers a universal application platform that supports traditional and modern applications, across 3D graphics, big data, cloud-native, containerised, machine learning and software as a service, to run any application anywhere.
According to the company, there are several new features, including VMWare VCentre Server appliance, which adds a "simplified building block for vSphere environments", providing a simple-to-deploy-and-manage approach that lowers operational complexity by embedding core functionality into a sole virtual appliance.
The appliance will also bring simplified patching, upgrading, backup and recovery, and high availability, including a 2x increase in scale and performance of customers' vCenter Server environments.
Another feature, REST APIs, aims to improve the IT and developer experience by allowing greater control and automation of virtual infrastructure for modern applications via new REST-based APIs.
VMware vSphere Client, which the company says is based on HTML5, simplifies the administrative experience via a modern, native tool that meets the performance and usability needs and expectations of users for day-to-day operations.
In terms of security, VM Encrytion is a new virtual machine-level encryption that protects against unauthorised data access, keeping data safe at rest, as well as virtual machines that are moved with VMware vMotion.
Another security feature, Secure Boot, prevents images from being tampered with, as well as the loading of unauthorised components into vSphere environments.
Finally, VMware vSphere Integrated Containers enable IT operations teams to provide a Docker compatible interface to their app teams allowing vSphere customers to transform their businesses with containers without the need to re-architect their current infrastructure.
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