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software-defined data center by pooling industry-standard hardware and running compute, networking, and management functions in the data
center as software-defined services.
Our vCloud Suite offerings include combinations of the following components:
Our VMware vCloud Service Provider initiative, which is directed to hosting and cloud computing vendors, enables organizations to choose
more freely between running applications in virtual machines on their own “private clouds” inside their data center or on “public clouds” hosted
by a service provider. With a common VMware vSphere platform available across public and private clouds, internal and external IT resources
can be pooled into a hybrid cloud, and applications and data can be readily moved between the two based on economics and organizational need.
External cloud capacity can be accessed on-demand without the need to customize or change applications.
End
-User Computing
Enterprises are increasingly challenged to provide secure access to a growing mobile workforce while managing the diversity of data,
applications and devices to run their business. VMware's End-User Computing solutions are designed to enable a user-centric approach to
personal computing, ensuring secure access to applications and data from a variety of devices and locations. Our End-User Computing solutions
address the needs of IT departments by enabling the delivery of existing end-user assets as a managed service.
VMware's End-User Computing strategy addresses the needs of corporate IT by enabling IT organizations to deliver an environment with
high-
quality service, improved availability and scalable performance while leveraging both legacy and cloud architectures. Elements of VMware
End-User Computing solutions include:
We offer additional other end-user computing products, including VMware ThinApp, VMware Zimbra, VMware Workstation and VMware
Fusion.
Cloud Application Platform and the Pivotal Initiative
VMware also offers Cloud Application Platform solutions to help organizations build, run and manage enterprise applications in public,
private or hybrid clouds optimized for vSphere. Our Cloud Application Platform provides open source
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• vSphere Enterprise Plus - VMware's virtualization platform
enabling server virtualization with its most robust feature set designed for
policy-based automation.
• vCloud Director - enables self-service access to logical pools of compute, network and storage resources with policy-driven controls
and service-level agreements.
• vCloud Connector -
extends management to the hybrid cloud.
• vCloud Networking and Security - provides advanced networking and security for applications and the perimeter of virtual
datacenters, end-user computing and cloud environments.
• VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager -
provides simplified, automated disaster recovery for virtualized environments.
• vCenter Operations Management - provides performance, capacity and configuration management for virtual or physical
infrastructure.
• vFabric Application Director - accelerates and automates the configuration and deployment of multi-tier applications across private
and public cloud infrastructures.
• vCloud Automation Center -
enables customers to rapidly deploy and provision cloud services in the vCloud Suite.
• VMware View, an enterprise desktop virtualization platform designed to optimize application and desktop management and enable
flexibility, security and mobility for end users. In 2012, VMware released VMware View 5.1, significantly enhancing user experience
by optimizing storage performance and adding seamless support for unified communications, enhanced persona management and
increased available mobile device support.
• VMware Horizon Application Manager , a SaaS or on-premise solution that centralizes application management allowing unified
management of any SaaS, web and Windows applications through a centralized Application Catalog and securely delivers applications
to end-users on the device of their choice, increasing user's flexibility and reducing IT management cost.
• VMware Mirage , a unique solution for managing laptops and desktops that combines centralized Windows image and data
management for corporate IT with the ability for end users to run their local devices, fully leveraging local hardware and performance.
Mirage provides an easy migration path from Windows XP, while also providing robust self-service image repair, and device
backup/recovery.