User manual VMWARE CLOUD COMPUTING BROCHURE

[. . . ] VMware and Cloud Computing An Evolutionary Approach to an IT Revolution A New Era in IT During the past 40 years, information technology has undergone many revolutions in how applications and data have been delivered to users. Mainframes provided a centralized computation facility where end users consumed resources on a shared basis. Client-server architectures offered flexibility and lowered computing costs while bringing more power to the desktop. Mobile computing introduced the notion of anytime, anywhere application access from a laptop or handheld device. [. . . ] VMware customers have prioritized these types of applications for selfservice due to the high rate of change they experience with them. Often, the bulk of requests that consume IT staff time are generated by ad hoc workloads rather than businesscritical production applications. Plus ad hoc workloads cause the biggest cost and administrative headaches for IT. Applications such as these will benefit considerably from being served out of a cloud environment and can drive immediate value to the business. "Strategically, server virtualization is an IT modernization catalyst that will change how IT is acquired, consumed, managed, sourced and paid for. Virtualization will even change how businesses innovate and grow, " writes Thomas Bittman, VP Distinguished Analyst at Gartner. "Done well, server virtualization makes fundamental changes that can lead an organization down the path of private and public cloud computing. " Gartner, Inc "Server Virtualization: One Path That Leads to Cloud Computing, " Thomas Bittman, October 29, 2009. 7 Trusted The industry's most complete virtualization platform, VMware vSphere now forms the foundation for building cloud infrastructures for customers across all industries. VMware Solutions for Cloud Computing VMware delivers cloud infrastructure and management, cloud application platform, and end-user computing solutions that can accelerate your organization's transformation to cloud computing and enable your team to rapidly realize value from this new approach. The Foundation for the Cloud VMware has saved enterprises billions of dollars by aggregating datacenter resources into large, shared, elastic pools of computing power and driving up infrastructure utilization. With VMware vSphere, you can: · Virtualizebusiness-critical applications to achieve unprecedented flexibility and reliability with the highest levels of For more than a decade, VMware vSphereTM has set the standard as the most robust, reliable and complete virtualization platform. Deployed in the most demanding datacenters around the world, VMware vSphere now forms the foundation for building cloud infrastructures for customers across all industries. VMware Solutions for Cloud Computing Figure 3: VMware delivers customer-proven cloud infrastructure and management, cloud application platform, and end-user computing solutions. 8 VMware vSphere Secure VMware vSphere and the VMware vShield family of products work together to secure applications and data in the cloud. Figure 4: More than 190, 000 customers rely on VMware vSphere, the foundation for cloud computing. availability and responsiveness for all applications and services. · Createresourcepools, sothatyou can deliver the highest levels of application SLAs with the lowest total cost per application. · Beassuredyoucanmaintain security, control and compliance over your applications and data in the cloud. Security for the Cloud Just as virtualization is indispensable for transitioning legacy applications to new cloud infrastructures, it is also a critical security enabler in a cloud environment. VMware vSphere works in conjunction with the VMware vShield family of products--the foundation for the next generation of cloud security--to address the challenges related to securing applications and data in the cloud. Together these solutions provide assurance that your applications and data can be properly segmented into trust zones for compliance and that these can be maintained to meet requirements to keep data in specific jurisdictions. Specifically, the VMware vSphere platform has unique introspection capabilities that help to identify hard-to-detect problems and enable comprehensive security controls. These capabilities result in better performance, reduced complexity and more comprehensive security protection. With VMware security solutions, you can: · Dramaticallysimplifysecurityand be assured security policies can be rapidly implemented and monitored for IT compliance while maintaining the relevant levels of control and visibility into ownership domains. · Makesecurityagile, soITcan leverage dynamic capabilities such as live migration, while being assured that the security policies follow the IT service seamlessly. 9 Virtual VMware vCloud Director builds on the VMware vSphere foundation, allowing IT to expose virtual datacenters to users through a Web-based portal and to define and expose a catalog of IT services that can be deployed within the virtual datacenter. · Deliverasingle, cost-effective framework for comprehensive protection of your cloud deployments. VMware vShield provides a programmable framework for third-party solutions to integrate and extend into monitoring and management services. For organizations of all sizes, VMware vShield helps unlock cloud benefits by delivering agile, dynamic and costeffective security to ensure a smooth transition for your cloud deployments. Service Catalog and Self-Service for the Cloud VMware is developing new solutions to further enable cloud computing. VMware vCloud Director builds upon the VMware vSphere foundation and exposes virtualized shared infrastructure as multi-tenant virtual datacenters that are completely decoupled from the underlying hardware and isolated from one another. [. . . ] More than just another email client, Zimbra focuses on users, taking the best of traditional and online email clients to provide a richer, personalized experience through an interface that easily integrates with other relevant content. VMware end-user computing Graydon, Head and Ritchey LLP "By using VMware View, we can not only save management time but also have much better control over the user experience. We'll be able to support old legacy apps such as WordPerfect and older versions of Windows that are needed for specialized applications. In addition, we can provide better security for the entire environment. " Robert Gunyon, IT Manager, Graydon, Head and Ritchey LLP With VMware View, you can: · Gainalloftheflexibility, cost efficiency, scalability, manageability and control of cloud computing with the richness and end-user productivity appropriate for each user's needs. [. . . ]