Amplify your datacenter’s efficiency and agility while enhancing security and control with a private cloud from VMware. Consolidate datacenters and deploy workloads on shared infrastructure with built-in security and role-based access control. Migrate workloads between pools of infrastructure and integrate existing management systems using customer extensions, APIs, and open cross-cloud standards. Deliver cloud infrastructure on-demand so end users can consume virtual resources with maximum agility.
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- IT Process Institute: Cloud Strategy Brief #3 - Situational Awareness
- IT Process Institute: Cloud Strategy Brief #4 - Executive Communication Best Practices.
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Maintain Control and Governance with Private Cloud Computing
Faster provisioning is great but not if it means compromising security or unauthorized access to resources. Many surveys on cloud computing cite security as the most significant concern hindering the adoption of cloud computing. VMware’s approach to virtual networking and security leverages a unique host-based traffic introspection technology that is distributed throughout the infrastructure. This host-based distributed architecture enables virtual networks to be protected at the host level, leading to lower overall costs and higher quality of service. VMware’s security technology is also change-aware, enabling you to leverage dynamic capabilities such as live migration while being assured that the security policies remain intact and follow virtual machines seamlessly.
Automated provisioning also requires control to ensure compliance with appropriate access policies. VMware enables two approaches to achieving automated control over resources. One approach controls the consumption of resources by users before the resources are provisioned either through request/approval workflow or quotes/limits on what can be provisioned. An alternative approach freely allows end users to consume resources from the infrastructure but observes this consumption to generate usage reports. Those usage reports can then have cost models applied to them to generate cost reports that display the cost of the consumption. Thus, VMware’s technology enables you to amplify your datacenter without compromising control or governance.
Obtain Agility with Policy-Driven Automation
VMware’s policy-driven approach to abstraction enables a unique degree of efficiency and acceleration for IT administrators. Resource management policies can improve utilization of shared infrastructure by allowing resources to be overcommitted beyond baseline reservations. Multi-cluster linked clone technology enables identical virtual machine configurations to be provisioned rapidly and without a full duplication of the original VM template. Resource pooling and virtual distributed network configuration reduce the amount of hardware needed to deliver services, and enable intelligent policy management mechanisms like distributed resource scheduling and VMware vMotion. Software controls can enforce isolation that minimizes the risk of a user-driven or system-driven fault.
With this unique policy-driven automation in place, you are able to essentially deliver zero-touch infrastructure, where IT is transformed into a service provider defining and delivering services rather than operationally responding to custom requests.
Retain Freedom of Choice
VMware's technology lets you build your cloud at your own pace without the need to re-architect your existing applications. As an out-of-the-box solution, VMware’s Private Cloud solution runs on top of your existing vSphere enabled resources. Open standards like the Open Virtualization Format (OVF) and the Private Cloud API ensure that the investment you make in your private cloud does not lock you into a specific deployment model. VMware gives you complete freedom of choice as to how to deploy workloads in your cloud.
