What is Cloud Management Platform?

VMware delivers a comprehensive cloud management platform that can manage hybrid (multi-cloud) environments running anything from traditional to container (cloud native) workloads. vRealize speeds up the delivery of IT services through automation and pre-defined policies, providing high levels of agility and flexibility for developers and lines of business while maintaining governance and control.

Independent analysts at Ovum named VMware Cloud Management Platform the clear overall leader in multicloud management solutions, outpacing 10 competitors. Read the blog post and discover why picking your cloud management vendor just became easier.

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How Our Customers Succeed with Cloud Management

Rent-A-Center - Cloud Management Platform Customer

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Rent-A-Center is Transforming IT for the Future

“[vRealize] has been a tremendous Savings in Every Dimension.” – Michael Conroy, Sr. Architect, RAC

Zebra Technologies - Cloud Management Platform Customer

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Zebra Technologies Automating and Managing Mulitple Clouds

“With VMware technologies, our IT department is becoming more automated and more efficient, VMware is making our department look much better.” – Andrew Hanas, Director IT, Zebra

Bharti Airtel - Cloud Management Platform Customer

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Bharti Airtel Automating and Executing at Scale

“We are no longer taking requests for resources…we have given the power to developers to provision resources on their own.” – Sachin Verma, VP of Infra and Ops Bharti Airtel

Dell EMC - Cloud Management Platform Customer

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Dell EMC Managing an Enterprise Hybrid Cloud

“This management layer allows us to make better, smarter decisions.” – Paul Divittorio, Sr. Director, Cloud Infrastructure, Dell EMC

What Cloud Management Platform Delivers

Self-Service

Provision infrastructure and application resources with your choice of consumption (API, Catalog or CLI) based on pre-defined policies and permissions.

Automation

Provisioning and maintenance of resources are automated through the creation of blueprints (models) that include all the components of requested services along with their relationships, including a mix of VM and container based services.

Cost Management

Comprehensive reporting and analytics which improve capacity forecasting and planning while optimizing workload placement, resource acquisition and utilization.

Multi-Cloud Management

Day one and day two operations across private, public and hybrid clouds using VMware and other vendors’ (AWS, Microsoft Azure, etc.) technology.

Operations Management

A unified view of health and utilization, automated performance management, accelerated capacity and planning decisions and proactive discovery of issues before they impact end-users.

Extensibility

The VMware Marketplace provides additional integrations with 3rd parties and custom applications and tools.

Benefits of VMware Cloud Management

Enterprise-ready Hybrid Cloud Management Platform (CMP)

VMware's cloud management technology enables a dynamic, consistent digital foundation to deliver the apps that power business innovation.

A cloud infrastructure coupled with cloud management provide a common approach for building and running an enterprise grade hybrid cloud. Hybrid clouds based on VMware provide high levels of agility, efficiency and control across both traditional and cloud native, container-based applications. VMware-based clouds also give IT organizations the ability to provide choice to their application development teams by supporting multiple models for requesting services and giving developers the freedom to use the tools of their choice.

VMware Cloud Management Platform Architecture

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