Here is brief list of the major announcements at VMWorld 2014 today. You can read a lot more about these updates on Chad’s blog or VMware’s website.
- VMware EVO, a solution to deliver SDDC at cloud scale.
- Announcement of EVO:RAIL. An appliance installed with software based on vSphere, VSAN with a nice HTML5 interface. Initially 6 server hardware vendors will sell and support. Video showing look and feel here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l37dokaZ7zY
- Announcement of a technical preview of EVO:RACK. The big brother of EVO:RAIL.
- vSphere 6.0 Beta
- Virtual Volumes and VSAN 2.0 Beta
- Introduction of vRealize Suite, a cloud management platform
- Announcement of Site Recovery Manager 5.8and vSphere Data Protection 5.8
- vCloud Suite 5.8
- vRealize Cloud Management Platform
- vCloud Air On Demand GA 2015. Beta program starts August 25! Join the beta hereTrue Pay-as-you-go model with minute by minute billing.
- vCloud Air for Government Services (FEDRAMP certified) will roll out in US in September
- Tech Preview: vCloud Air Object Storagebased on EMC ViPR technology.
- vCloud Air Database as a Service
- AirWatch mobile management services available on vCloud Air
- Introduction of vRealize Operations Insight(“vROI”)
- VMware NSX for vSphere 6.1. Info hereas well. Over 150 NSX customers and 40+ partners. Gartner lists NSX on the networking MQ. SDDC & NSX are enabling a breakthrough in IT security.
- VMware is now an Open Compute Project Gold Level Member
- VMware Partners With Docker, Pivotal And Google To Bring Container Support To Its Platform. See also this Docker blog.
- Project Fargo, for faster, more compliant, lighter-weight containers on VMware’s SDDC platform
- Announcement of private beta of VMware integrated OpenStack(VIO)
A few days before VMworld started the following listed below was announced.
- The rebranding of vCloud Hybrid Services to vCloud Air
- The acquisition of CloudVolumesby VMware
- Ubuntu available on vCloud Air