VMware Cloud offerings to SMBs

BANGALORE, INDIA: VMware has great cloud offerings for the SMBs — VMware Go Pro and VMware vCenter Protect Essentials Plus. VMware Go Pro is a software-as-a-service (SaaS) product designed to make it easy for SMBs to manage, monitor, and secure both physical and virtual machines through a single console.

VMware vCenter Protects Essentials Plus is an on-premise IT management system including asset discovery, configuration, power management, antivirus and endpoint security designed for use in both physical and virtual environments.

VMware Go Pro

While VMware Go Pro was introduced in January 2011, the latest release has some new important capabilities such as — “IT Advisor,” which scans and assesses an SMB’s physical and virtual infrastructure and then provides recommendations, guidance, alerts and actions to help the small and mid-market businesses optimize their environments, streamline management processes, improve security and expand their virtualized infrastructure.

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Each time the IT Advisor scans the environment, it provides new alerts to quickly identify and solve problems.  The latest release also includes updated asset and patch management capabilities that allow users to create and label groups of machines and then schedule patch scans and deployment for these groups.

VMware Go Pro with a starting price of $12 per managed system/per year will become available for download in Q4 2011. However, it will take some time for the product to be widely available through VMware’s global partner network of nearly 25,000 channels.

VMware vCenter Protect Essentials Plus

New features within VMware vCenter Protect Essentials Plus include — new scripting capabilities to drive increased efficiency by allowing SMBs to manage and execute scripts across machine groups or the entire network.  It will also allow users to execute Remote Desktop Protocol from the vCenter Protect Essentials Plus “Machine View,” allowing IT admins’ remote access to a target machine.

While not a typical scenario for a small business, nevertheless, vCenter Protect Essentials Plus console will also allow multiple administrators to simultaneously perform different tasks at the same time in IT-intensive mid-sized organizations that offer hosting and other cloud-based services including social media services.

Source: www.vmware.com