VMware outlined its top three growth priorities:
Redefining Infrastructure — The Software-Defined Data Center
VMware is aiming to extend virtualization to all areas of the data center – network, security, storage and management. Specifically, the company will merge its VMware vCloud Networking and Security product line with the Nicira Network Virtualization Platform (NVP) into a single product family based on a common technology foundation, to be named VMware NSX.
VMware NSX will extend network virtualization across VMware and non-VMware hypervisors and cloud management systems, as well as any underlying networking hardware. Additionally, VMware NSX will provide an open framework for the integration of ecosystem services for networking and security. VMware said its intention here is to allow customers to accelerate application deployment, lower both capital and operational costs and transform network operations in a non-disruptive manner. VMware NSX is expected to launch in the second half of 2013.
Delivering the Hybrid Cloud
VMware plans to extend the software-defined data center with a hybrid cloud service offering that will allow its customers to reap the benefits of the public cloud without changing their existing applications while using a common management, orchestration, networking and security model.
A new VMware vCloud Hybrid Service is expected to launch later this year through the company’s existing channels and partner ecosystem. VMware has created a new Hybrid Cloud Services business unit, to be headed by Bill Fathers, who joins VMwarefrom Savvis, where he most recently served as President overseeing sales, marketing, product development, global operations and all corporate functions in North America, Europe and Asia.
Empowering the Multi-Device Era
A newly released VMware Horizon Suite for workforce mobility uses virtualization to transform silos of data, applications and desktops into centralized IT services that can be provisioned, managed and delivered to end-users on the devices of their choice. The product was introduced last month.
