VMware Unveils the Easiest Way to Deploy and Operate the Software-Defined Data Center at Scale

SAN FRANCISCO, CA--(Marketwired - August 31, 2015) - Designed to dramatically simplify the build out and ongoing operations of software-defined data center at scale, today at VMworld® 2015, VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) announced VMware EVO™ SDDC™ and VMware Virtual SAN™ 6.1.

Serving as the foundation of VMware's Unified Hybrid Cloud platform, the software-defined data center extends the virtualization principles of abstraction, pooling and automation across all data center resources and services. As a result, a software-defined data center is designed to be dramatically more efficient. By extending virtualization across the data center, IT organizations can slash CAPEX by as much as 49 percent(1) while reducing deployment and provisioning time from days to hours.

With the introduction of VMware EVO SDDC, customers will be able to more easily deploy and operate virtual infrastructure as a service; providing efficiency, agility and control for building and operating private, public and hybrid clouds. VMware EVO SDDC will include foundational components of VMware's hyper-converged infrastructure -- VMware vSphere®, VMware Virtual SAN and VMware NSX™ -- which will enable the convergence of compute, storage and networking onto a single, integrated layer of software that can run on any commodity x86 infrastructure.

The Easiest Way to Deploy and Operate the Software-Defined Data Center
VMware EVO SDDC (previously code named VMware EVO: RACK™), will be a fully automated software suite for delivering the software-defined data center as an integrated system. Enterprises and service providers will be able to use VMware EVO SDDC to deploy a software-defined data center at scale. With VMware EVO SDDC, IT organizations can meet key data center scale initiatives, ranging from application and infrastructure delivery automation to business mobility to high availability and resilient infrastructure, without compromising security, control or choice.

"Organizations have adopted the software-defined data center architecture to become more agile, responsive and profitable," said John Gilmartin, vice president and general manager, Integrated Systems Business Unit, VMware. "VMware EVO SDDC will bring to bear the entirety of our innovations across our software-defined data center portfolio in a comprehensive and integrated system that will be easy to deploy, operate and scale."