VMware vFabric Data Director powers database-as-a-service for your cloud, reducing database sprawl and drastically accelerating application development cycles with a self-service database provisioning and operations platform. vFabric Data Director is an enterprise solution that extends the benefits of VMware’s leading virtualization platform to the database tier and lets administrators securely automate and delegate routine tasks, including database provisioning, backup, and cloning. The first database supported on Data Director is VMware vFabric Postgres 9.0 (vPostgres), a new offering from VMware based on and fully compatible with PostgreSQL. vPostgres is a vSphere-optimized ACID and ANSI-SQL relational database and is the first of a broad range of commercial and open source databases to be supported by Data Director. These capabilities enable vFabric Data Director to offer the agility of public cloud database services with enterprise-grade security, flexibility, control and compliance.

• Enforce enterprise corporate IT governance to reduce database sprawl
• Self-service database management increases developer agility and accelerates application development cycles
• Extend vSphere's virtual resource capabilities to the data tier