Today at VMworld Europe 2015, VMware Inc. announced two major updates in its cloud management platform, VMware vRealize Automation 7 and VMware vRealize Business 7 Standard. VMware had recently released VMware vRealize Operations 6.1 and VMware vRealize Log Insight 3, those releases combined with today’s announcement represents a complete refresh of its cloud management platform. Today’s releases with further enable IT to transform digital business with its organization.
Today at VMworld Europe 2015, VMware Inc. announced two major updates in its cloud management platform, VMware vRealize Automation 7 and VMware vRealize Business 7 Standard. VMware had recently released VMware vRealize Operations 6.1 and VMware vRealize Log Insight 3, those releases combined with today’s announcement represents a complete refresh of its cloud management platform. Today’s releases with further enable IT to transform digital business with its organization.
As software continues to transform the business landscape IT needs the tools to help their organizations compete better and deliver cloud-native applications that customers need and have come to expect. At the same time, this transition to virtualized and software-defined technologies is increasing the delivery of these applications, keeping down costs, and allowing IT to keep its governance over the data. The updates announced today further enhances IT’s ability in digital business while giving them better capabilities for rapid production of applications while increasing transparency across the hybrid cloud.
To this end, VMware’s cloud management platform combines the capabilities of its cloud automation, cloud operations and cloud business management solutions into a single integrated solution. The platform integrates with VMware infrastructure to ease adoption of the Software-Defined Data Center (SDDC). The new updates to the cloud management platform are:
VMware vRealize Automation 7
This marks a major update for vRealize Automation. A large part of this announcement is the introduction of unified service blueprints that enable the modeling of infrastructure, networks, security, applications and custom IT services. The unified service blueprints are accessible through APIs or CLIs as code for textual and human readable authoring of blueprints by DevOps teams. The blueprints come with out-of-the-box support for VMware vCloud Air and Amazon Web Services (AWS), including new support for VMware vCloud Government Service and AWS GovCloud (US), OpenStack Kilo, and updated heterogeneous hypervisors including VMware vSphere 6 Update 1, Microsoft Hyper-V 2012 R2 , and KVM 3.4 and 3.5.
This update also integrates with NSX 6.2 and VMware Identity Manager. vRealize Automation 7 enhances extensibility through an Event Broker allowing new functionality to be plugged-in without changing core code to preserve upgradability as well as simplified consumer APIs to request and manage services. Also the new vRealize Automation 7 offers enhanced identity services and introduces a dramatically consolidated architecture.
VMware vRealize Business 7 Standard
This update also features new and enhanced capabilities such as increased transparency, cloud pricing and pricing policies for private and public clouds including VMware vCloud Air, AWS, Microsoft Azure, and all other clouds supported by vRealize Automation, through a single dashboard, showback capabilities providing fine-grain cost reporting, and new planning and cost optimization capabilities to help visualize both costs and capacity in the data center.
Availability
VMware vRealize Automation 7 and VMware vRealize Business 7 Standard are both expected to be available in the fourth quarter of 2015 as standalone products.
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