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 VMware outlines its vision for the next decade of information technology.
This week at VMworld 2010, VMware, Inc., will spell out its vision for the future of information technology, which it believes is a move away from ‘IT as a cost center’ to a more business-centric ‘IT as a service’ model. This new model of IT creates improved approaches at each critical layer of a modern IT architecture: infrastructure, applications and end-user access. It would also have major implications for the way that organizations manage IT continuity.
"Two years ago VMware set out a vision to modernize the data center and transform IT: this week we are taking significant steps forward to bring this new world of IT as a service and hybrid cloud computing to reality," said Paul Maritz, president and CEO of VMware.
IT as a service is the transformation of IT to a more business-centric approach, focusing on outcomes such as operational efficiency, competitiveness and rapid response. This means IT shifts from producing IT services to optimizing production and consumption of those services in ways consistent with business requirements. This changes the role of IT from a cost center to a center of strategic value.
Central to the VMware IT as a service strategy is an infrastructure that will enable IT to fundamentally redefine its relationship with the business. This new infrastructure model will enable IT to produce services in a self-service model, with consistent policies and business contracts aligning resources to business needs. Within this model, the physical boundaries that have governed enterprise IT will erode, establishing logical pools of resources combining those of the enterprise data center with those provided by external or public cloud providers, without compromising security or quality of service. For the consumer of IT services, the result will be near infinite resources, on demand, with cost structures and performance levels matched to business priorities.
Unlike previous tectonic shifts in IT that required wholesale replacement of infrastructure hardware and software, the VMware vision for infrastructure is based on extending existing investments in hardware and software, enabling IT to achieve unprecedented results in an evolutionary manner.
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•Date: 31st August 2010 • Region: World •Type: Article •Topic: IT continuity
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