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VMware expands cloud management solutions portfolio

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BARCELONA, SPAIN: VMware, Inc. announces new capabilities and enhancements across its portfolio of cloud management solutions to simplify and automate management of IT services for multiple clouds and platforms.

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New product releases introduced today include VMware vCloud Automation Center 6.0, VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite 5.8, VMware IT Business Management Suite, and VMware vCenter Log Insight 1.5. In addition, VMware will update the automation and management capabilities of VMware vCloud Suite 5.5, recently introduced on August 26, 2013.

"For IT to keep pace with business demands, stay relevant and deliver IT services with agility, it must transition from being builders to brokers of IT services," said Ramin Sayar, senior VP and GM, Cloud Management, VMware. "VMware cloud management solutions enable IT to deliver this agility while standardizing and ensuring governance and control -- whether the goal is to better manage a highly virtualized environment, build a vSphere-based private cloud, extend to the hybrid cloud or broker services across many providers."

As IT organizations evolve into brokers of IT services, they can rely on VMware cloud management solutions to enable key aspects of IT as a Service including on-demand access to any service, cost transparency, automated operations, supporting multiple clouds and platforms.

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VMware has released VMware Cloud Management Marketplace, a one-stop destination for trusted management solutions from VMware and its industry leading partner ecosystem. Customers can browse, download and try management solutions from industry leading vendors. These solutions, available in a service catalog setting, streamline the provisioning process, and are built in partnership with VMware using open and extensible product interfaces and implementation SDKs.

VMware also announced new Cloud Automation Design and Deploy service focuses on policy-based automation, enabling customers to build cloud management infrastructure for improved time-to-project completion, operational reliability and efficiency. Enhanced VMware Accelerate Advisory Services help organizations evaluate the value of cloud operations and cloud business management solutions within their IT environments, mapping out a plan for current and future business requirements.

VMware vCenter Log Insight 1.5 is now available for download via a public beta program today and is priced at $200 per operating system instance with no log data size limits.

VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced 5.5 is priced at $1,095 per processor with no restrictions on number of protected VMs per license.

VMware vCloud Automation Center 6.0 and VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite 5.8 capabilities will be included in VMware vCloud Suite 5.5, which is licensed per processor starting at $4,995. VMware vCloud Automation Center 6.0 and VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite 5.8 will also be available a la carte and priced per VM.

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