Management & Automation

IT is under significant pressure to create, deliver and maintain flexible IT services that respond to changing business conditions and eliminate any type of downtime. Compliance with IT policies and standards can seem impossible to maintain while you deliver the flexibility and responsiveness business units demand. The key to meeting these seemingly contradictory goals is to increase datacenter automation.
Business Continuity

Business continuity means maintaining IT services no matter what. You must be able to deliver quick and reliable recovery in case of an entire site outage. Traditional disaster recovery solutions can leave you unable to meet recovery time and recovery point objectives. In addition to being slow, manual recovery processes are prone to errors and result in frequent failures.

Implement end-to-end disaster recovery management and automation with VMware Site Recovery Manager to maintain compliance and keep your flexibility and responsiveness.
IT Service Delivery

IT service delivery across the entire lifecycle of developing, staging, deploying, updating, and retiring IT services is crucial. Every step in this process must be completed in compliance with established corporate policies and within reasonable delivery times.

Each of the three key constituents who serve in different roles throughout lifecycle face their own challenges.

* IT administrators can be overwhelmed with keeping up with infrastructure requests. They are also concerned with compliance to established company standards and policies. VMware Lifecycle Manager ensures a consistent and automated process.
* Application administrators are tasked with transitioning new or updated applications into production and coordinating numerous changes while minimizing downtime risk due to pre-production error. VMware Stage Manager accelerates the transition of applications into production.
* Development and QA groups often face long lead times for their infrastructure requests, which leads to delayed product development cycles. VMware Lab Manager offers self-service provisioning with a library of ready-to-go environments.

Application Performance Management

As VMware Infrastructure deployments grow larger and more central to IT operations, there is an increasing need for administrators to monitor the performance of applications running in virtual machines. B-hive Conductor allows administrators to monitor and ensure applications service levels on VMware Infrastructure.