Yesterday, we have introduced the VMware vCloud Integration Manager which will help service providers to accelerate delivery of cloud services. The Integration Manager will allow service providers to quickly create and deploy cloud service offerings, operate at maximum efficiency and scale to meet customer demand in a reliable, repeatable and cost-effective manner.
The vCloud Integration Manager will be tightly integrated with VMware vCloud Director, VMware vSphere®, VMware vShield™ Edge and VMware vCenter™ Chargeback Manager to automate and accelerate the provisioning and delivery of infrastructure and associated services. It will provide a REST-based API to integrate with a service provider’s back office systems (CRM, billing, etc.), and a Web-based administration portal.
It will also include Web-based portals to streamline and automate service plan, customer lifecycle and reseller management. With the click of a button, service providers will be able to standardize product configuration and delivery, manage customer lifecycles from sign-up to decommission, and reduce the time and overhead involved in transacting with resellers.
In the same news, we now have nearly 90 service provider partners in our ecosystem, who now offer services that meet the criteria to be called “VMware vCloud Powered,” which is almost three times as many as we had six months ago.
And today, SlideRocket announced the “Make an Impact” contest for non-profit organizations, in which prize money of $30,000 will be split up between the winners whose SlideRocket presentations will receive the most views, and are judged by the panel to have the best stories.
The Bits blog of the New York Times has published an interview with our CEO Paul Maritz last week, in which he talks about how cloud computing will transform the information technology industry. Paul goes into some detail explaining the meaning of the cloud era in computing, and how he sees our company’s role in moving IT from client-server to big data and cloud environments.
Recently, we have also published a Desktop modernization toolkit, containing analyst reports of VMware View, to learn how our customers have benefitted from virtualization. Grab your kit today.
