BANGALORE, INDIA: VMware, Inc announced advancements in virtualization management with the general availability of two new products—VMware vCenter AppSpeed and VMware vCenter Chargeback.

The company also released VMware vCenter Lab Manager 4. These new products simplify and automate key IT processes such as application performance monitoring, chargeback, and management of dev/test environments to increase IT productivity in the data center.

"As customers continue to grow their VMware deployments for the increased efficiency and agility inherent in virtualization, we are taking this opportunity to simplify and automate key IT management processes," said Bogomil Balkansky, VP—Product Marketing, Server Business Unit, VMware. "If the first wave of the virtualization revolution was about reducing capital expenditures, the next wave is innovative virtualization management capabilities that allow IT to extricate itself from mundane tasks, become more productive, and reduce IT operating costs. With these new VMware vCenter products, VMware customers can achieve even greater efficiency in the data center, more control over service levels and greater flexibility."

"With VMware vCenter products, we can focus on delivering applications at the service levels needed by users instead of managing the underlying infrastructure—all at a lower cost," said Mike Rappette, Delivery Manager—Global Information Systems, Intel Infrastructure Engineering, Whirlpool. "Business and application owners can easily request services, specify their desired service levels, and then consume those services, giving us the agility and flexibility to meet our business objectives.".