Managing in the Cloud Era
Greater efficiency. Increased agility. Improved compliance. Reduced costs. These are among the benefits that organizations moving to cloud computing can achieve when they properly consider both how they will build and how they will run their virtual and cloud infrastructure. The right architecture and the right management approach are equally important because the way infrastructure is built determines how it will be run. Similarly, the way the IT environment is managed greatly impacts how it will grow and develop with business demands.
Today, virtualization is the cornerstone of most IT initiatives, with many organizations leveraging their virtual infrastructure foundation to move to cloud computing. Yet, IT teams are challenged to effectively support new dynamic IT infrastructure using traditional management tools and approaches that were designed to support individual computing silos. IT organizations need a better way than legacy management solutions to maintain the performance, availability, quality of service, security and compliance requirements of infrastructure, applications and business services in the era of virtualization and cloud computing.
Increasing agility and driving innovation require a new IT management approach and tools that are as agile and flexible as virtual and cloud infrastructure. By adopting more-effective IT management, IT organizations can impose uniform governance, control and access over their heterogeneous environments. They can make the cost, quality and value of cloud services transparent to enable fact-based decisions. They can support greater visibility into the entire IT infrastructure and meet the demands of cloud computing—self-service, scale, velocity of change, shared service infrastructures—as well as the modern applications they support. Only then can they empower IT to move beyond being a service builder to being a broker that governs all IT services, becoming the single channel through which a business consumes cloud services.
VMware delivers comprehensive IT management solutions that quickly adapt to changing conditions based on infrastructure performance, application needs and user demands. VMware Cloud Management solutions simplify and automate the operations of heterogeneous environments and hybrid clouds. With VMware solutions, organizations can streamline and accelerate the provisioning of infrastructure, application and desktop services. They can monitor and measure the health, compliance and efficiency of their virtual and cloud infrastructure and applications. Moreover, organizations can govern and manage cloud services as a critical element of running IT like a business.
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