Virtualisation Software Provider VMware launched Suite of Cloud Infrastructure Solutions

Virtualisation software provider VMware on 13 July 2011 globally launched a series of comprehensive suite of cloud infrastructure solutions to help customers drive a more productive relationship between IT and the businesses they serve. The solutions launched include VMware vSphere 5, vShield 5, VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5 and VMware vCloud Director 1.5. The solutions together will amplify the value customers can realise from virtualised resources by enabling cloud-scale operations.

The comprehensive suite of cloud infrastructure technologies was built to help customers transform IT to drive greater efficiency of existing investments and improve operational agility.
vSphere 5 will support humongous virtual machines with up to 1 terabyte of memory and 32 virtual CPUs. It also has the ability to process over one million input/output operations per second, which is bigger than any organisation's requirement.

VMware’s vSphere set the foundation of VMware's cloud infrastructure suite, supporting the virtual and cloud infrastructure needs of enterprises, small and medium businesses, public cloud service providers and the growing virtual desktop infrastructure market. vSphere is set to introduce auto-deploy, profile-driven storage and storage DRS features to help save customers a 1,000- virtual machines environment up to a full year of administrator time.

vSphere storage appliance, a new software product that would bring the business continuity and automated resources management capabilities of VMware vSphere to SMBs without the cost and complexity of shared storage was also launched.

VMware is currently focussing on scalability.