Telstra has revealed the addition of almost one million new mobile services in the six months to December 2011, but Sensis revenues plummeted 24 percent in 12 months.
Virtualisation specialist VMware has unveiled a swag of new tools to further reduce data centre costs and simplify management at its annual VMworld conference in San Francisco.
But while the incremental announcements added to the VMware roadmap for
data centre management and cloud integration, they did not feature any
big ticket, new directions for the company.
However, VMware chief executive Paul Maritz revealed for the first time
integration plans for its SpringSource acquisition, which was announced
two weeks ago. SpringSource, which was founded by Australian software
engineer and entrepreneur Rod Johnson, will become a division of VMware
and continue on its open source course.
The SpringSource acquisition, at US$362 million (A$440 million), is
among the biggest in VMware history, and although it still awaits
regulatory approval, Maritz expects to start integrating the two
companies in the next six weeks – and he is clearly keen to get started.
Among the new products Maritz announced during his keynote address in
front of 13,000 VMworld conference attendees in San Francisco were
additions to its vCenter suite of data centre management products.
Maritz said the company’s focus continued to be in simplifying IT
operations and improving flexibility. Its eye on the prize, he said,
remained firmly on producing products and services that reduced the 70
per cent of most IT budgets that is spent on simply maintaining
existing operations.
That “overwhelming cost and complexity”, Maritz said, remained a huge
pool of money – and a potential revenue source for those companies that
could relieve the complexity pain.
VMware continued to focus on cloud technologies – both internal and
external – and was building tools to make it easier for users to move
functionality to the cloud where it made sense – and then retain the
flexibility to bring that functionality back in house when
circumstances changed.
VMware server business unit vice-president and general manager Raghu
Raghuram said the company’s new vCenter tools were able to inject
policy across all layers of the stack to enable new levels of
automation and efficiency.
“Customers will be able to dramatically simplify infrastructure
management, service delivery, and application management eliminating
tedious manual tasks, achieving greater visibility into datacenter
operations, and ultimately guaranteeing service levels,” Raghuram said.
The new vCenter products include service delivery tools to enable IT
departments to better service and charge different divisions within
their organisations for internal data centre and cloud services, or to
provide cloud services to external customers. The products include a
chargeback tool for the first time.
The VMware vCenter Product Family gives customers a framework for
policy-centric, service-level driven management across complex
infrastructure, allowing IT departments to operate more efficiently as
an internal service provider, the company said.
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