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Bring Automation Solution Onboard|
- By CXOtoday Staff, Feb 26, 2008 1421 hrs IST
- Tags : Bring Automation Solution Onboard
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Today's IT departments are under increasing pressure to create, deliver, and maintain flexible and resilient IT services that respond to changing business conditions and withstand any type of downtime. The process of IT service delivery typically includes multiple steps: build, deploy, update, monitor, recover, and retire. IT departments are often overwhelmed with the sheer number of one-off requests for providing new IT services or updating existing ones. Administrators also lack visibility into the status of IT services leading to risk exposures or errors. Business continuity has also traditionally been an intractable problem.
With an aim to bring unprecedented automation of IT service delivery and business continuity to the data center, VMware has showcased four new virtual machine management products. Three out of four, viz., VMware Lifecycle Manager, VMware Lab Manager, and VMware Stage Manager, are IT service delivery products. For business continuity the company has introduced VMware Site Recovery Manager.
* VMware Lifecycle Manager: addresses the needs of infrastructure administrators, and allows companies to implement a consistent and automated process for requesting, approving, deploying, updating, and retiring virtual machines.
* VMware Lab Manager: addresses the needs of development and QA engineers and the IT teams that support them by providing fast and simple self-service provisioning of multi-tier virtual machine based environments while enabling IT control over policies.
* VMware Stage Manager: addresses the needs of the IT and application administrators responsible for rolling new and updated IT services into production, enabling streamlined and accelerated transition of applications through the pre-production stages - including integration, testing, staging, user acceptance testing - and into production.
* VMware Site Recovery Manager: centralizes data recovery plans and automates and tests the processes. The products leverage virtual machines to automate the steps of the IT service delivery and business continuity processes -- eliminating repetitive, rote tasks, and minimizing the margin for error. The result can be scalable, repeatable, and efficient IT processes.
VMware Lab Manager is currently available. VMware Lifecycle Manager, VMware Stage Manager, and VMware Site Recovery Manager are expected to be available by the second quarter of this year.
Related Links:
VMware Introduces Free VMware Server
VMware To Announce Virtualization Software Suite
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