VMware introduces new innovations in its vSphere offering

VMware Inc, the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, has today introduced two new offerings to help customers further leverage their investments in VMware vSphere.

"Increasingly, customers have standardized on VMware vSphere as the core of their data centers," said Mike Clayville, vice president, product marketing, cloud infrastructure, VMware.

"To help maximize the value of their investments in VMware vSphere, customers require purpose-built, integrated solutions to more efficiently manage, optimize and protect their virtualized environments. We've made it convenient for new and existing customers of VMware vSphere to enhance the core capabilities of their virtual infrastructure with vCenter Operations Management Suiteand VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced," he added.

VMware is also announcing a new VMware vSphere product line that combines the industry-leading virtualization platform with the award-winning VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite. In addition, VMware is introducing a new edition of VMware vSphere Data Protection, the back-up and recovery solution first introduced as part of VMware vSphere 5.1 in August 2012. With these new offerings, customers can:

· Reduce capex costs by up to 30%

· Optimize capacity, improving utilization by up to 40 percent and consolidation ratios by 37%

· Improve application availability and performance, cutting downtime by more than a third and reducing the time it takes to find and resolve problems by up to 26% and,

· Reduce backup storage capacity by up to 95 percent and backup on network traffic by up to 99%