VMware unveils cloud-based IT management suites

software, VMware is now attempting to stamp its credentials in the cloud computing space with the announcement of three new IT management product suites, iTWire says.

The new product suites, which focus on operations, applications and IT business management, claim to reduce the complexity of managing IT resources in cloud environments, and Australia is a prime market because of its relatively high adoption rate of cloud services.

vCenter Operations Manager was announced in March, but this update introduces integration with vCenter Capacity IQ and vCenter Configuration Manager, ServerWatch reports. The idea behind this is to let customers identify and remediate performance issues caused by configuration changes, and automatically discover and map relationships and dependencies between applications and the infrastructure that support them. The update will be available early next year as a free upgrade to existing vCenter Operations customers, or from $50 per VM for new customers.

The vFabric Application Management Suite will include two new offerings - vFabric AppDirector and vFabric Application Performance Manager - that integrate application disciplines, and together these suites support an "active application management" approach, CBR states.

VMware senior VP and GM, enterprise management, Boaz Chalamish said as IT organisations are implementing private and hybrid clouds, traditional management approaches associated with physical distributed systems and siloed management disciplines just aren't capable of keeping up with the pace and scale of modern IT operations.