VMware Annouces GA of Managment and Automation Solutions

I’ve been noticing that “virtualization” conversations are starting to shift into an IT management and data center automation direction. The market has been doing a good job at educating us on the benefits of server virtualization such as server consolidation, improved resource utilization and new ways to look at business continuance and disaster recovery, but because of the encapsulation of the workloads and the mobile nature of virtual machines, there exists a new opportunity to achieve newfound IT efficiencies.

The goal of IT is to become a transparent entity that can dynamically predict and rapidly adopt to change while delivering consistent application access and performance to the end-user. While the benefits of virtualization in the automated data center are an attractive target, many firms deploying virtualization solutions struggle with virtual machine management from creation to retirement, scripting processes in an effort to pick up were the vendors have left off and smoothly transitioning test and development environments into production.

In an effort to address these challenges, VMware announced today the GA of its management and automation solutions. These solutions are a great opportunity for VMware to further differentiate itself from the competition and prove that they are committed to its customers by developing and innovating new products that complement and build upon its well proven infrastructure set of solutions and tools.

Site Recovery Manager, Lifecycle manager, Stage Manager and Lab Manager have all been announced by VMware, but now the products are ready for purchase! We can expect to continue to see improvements to the core infrastructure solutions, but management and automation are taking the main stage as more and more data centers look at virtualization as a technology that improves IT operations and delivers an improved service to the core business.