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Inspiration for the modern business
Volume 4 : Issue 2 : November / December 2010
The consumerisation of IT
The changing face of IT in the workplace
IT governance
Securing the IT estate
IT as a Service
Virtualisation is the foundation for unlocking the potential of
cloud computing. VitAL editor Matt Bailey asked John Murnane
of virtualisation leaders VMware, how Service Management
will feature in the move into this brave new virtual world.
A virtual pioneer
VMware delivers customer-proven virtualisation,
cloud infrastructure and management
solutions that reduce IT complexity and
enable the transition to a more efficient and
flexible service delivery model: IT as a Service.
VMware’s innovation and excellence has been
recognised by strategic research firms globally
and more than 260 industry awards.
As part of its expanding portfolio of
management solutions, earlier this year,
the company acquired certain software
products and expertise from EMC’s Ionix IT
management business.
At the time Paul Maritz, president and chief
executive officer of VMware commented,
“Customers are increasingly leveraging
virtualisation as the foundation for modern
IT architectures and their path to cloud
elasticity, scalability and security of a hybrid management in the cloud we get a higher
cloud environment. level of choice and control. The challenge
“With VMware you have actual control of the is how we migrate the existing infrastructure
platform. Management tools are inherently part and get to the cloud-based operation. How
of the infrastructure.” says Murnane. do we live with this hybrid arrangement?
And how do we make the business
Self service aware of the value and the benefits? These
business automation are the important questions for IT service
At the application or service layer, cloud managers. IT is currently hugely under-
computing offers a new service consumption utilised in most organisations. They need a
approach that applies standardisation well thought out, end-to-end and achievable
and automation to enable rapid service way to exploit their IT estate and optimise
provisioning. By standardising processes, its usage. VMware offers the means to
increasing automation and delivering IT as deliver and manage virtualisation and move
a Service, VMware can help drive additional to cloud environments. The challenge overall
savings beyond virtualisation, while significantly is to optimise how businesses work.”
reducing the amount of maintenance required
per IT administrator. Cloud Security
Instead of waiting for manual IT procurement Virtualisation is indispensable for transitioning
and provisioning processes, organisations legacy applications to new cloud
are able to consume services exactly infrastructures and a critical security enabler
when they need them. IT organisations can in a cloud environment. VMware provides
now deliver standardised IT services on the foundation for the next generation of
shared infrastructure through a Web-based cloud security to address the challenges
catalogue. By standardising these service of securing applications and data. With
offerings, organisations can simplify many introspection capabilities that help to
IT management tasks, from troubleshooting identify hard-to-detect problems and enable
and patching to change management, comprehensive security controls, VMware
and eliminate much of the administrative maintains its capabilities result in better
maintenance that burdens the IT team. They performance, reduced complexity and more
can also automate provisioning through policy- comprehensive security.
based workflows that empower validated users Security policies can be rapidly
to deploy preconfigured services with the click implemented and monitored for IT
of a button. Meanwhile, IT retains control over compliance while maintaining the relevant
policies and billing that govern service usage. levels of control and visibility into ownership
“What we want to achieve is control with domains. They can make security agile, so
end-to-end automation to allow businesses IT staff can leverage dynamic capabilities,
to achieve the end state and strategy they are such as live migration, and ensure that
aiming for,” explains Murnane. “With service the security policies follow the IT service