The name of the base system (platform): | VMware vSphere |
Developers: | VMware |
Date of the premiere of the system: | October, 2011 |
Last Release Date: | 2014/10/14 |
Technology: | Virtualization |
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Thanks to growth of public cloud services of IT department of the companies begin to play a mediator role between services and business. Similar changes require bigger transparency of the prices, the service level and actions of suppliers. The VMware company represents IT Business Management Suite which is based on technologies of the Digital Fuel company purchased by VMware in June, 2011 for providing the exact data necessary for directors of investments for optimization of financing of IT infrastructure and explanation of its importance in the language clear to representatives of business.
The packet will include three modules: IT Finance Manager, IT Service Level Manager and IT Vendor Manager. Together they will collect data from a broad spectrum of resources on finance and also to apply the analysis and modeling to providing the uniform information report about IT resources, computation processes and maintenance expenses with exhaustive reports and evident indicators. IT Business Management suite will allow directors of investments to make the conscious decisions on financing based on data on the prices, risks, performance and coordination to work as IT service provider in full accordance with business needs.
2013: VMware IT Business Management Suite 8.0
On October 15, 2013 the VMware company announced a release of the new version of the solution VMware IT Business Management Suite 8.0.
New in a product
VMware IT Business Management Suite 8.0 Advanced and Enterprise are equipped with the new personalized control panels adapted to needs financial and Chief information officers, heads of IT projects and owners of the companies.
The latest version provides integration with VMware IT Benchmarking that allows the companies to compare constantly the cost of the services to the cost of services of competitors in the industry and the companies with similar operational characteristics.
VMware IT Business Management Suite 1.0 Standard Edition
VMware provided VMware IT Business Management Suite 1.0 Standard Editions — new addition to VMware IT Business Management Suite. New development helps to estimate quickly cost and use of virtual infrastructure in the private and public cloud systems due to integration with VMware vCenter Server, VMware IT Benchmarking and VMware vCloud Automation Center.
Sales are begun
On December 13, 2013 the VMware company announced the beginning of sales of VMware IT Business Management Suite.
2014
VMware vRealize Business 6.0
On October 14, 2014 VMware provided vRealize Business (before VMware IT Business Management Suite).
According to developers, the new solution will provide transparency and cost control, quality of IT services. At the same time helping Chief information officers to correlate possibilities of IT and need of business.
By means of the newest opportunities of comparison of cloud environments, including calculation of cost of VMware vCloud Air and manual adding of any providers of services, VMware vRealize Business 6.0 in addition will help to expand infrastructure and to provide to groups of services management tools, necessary for hybrid clouds.
As a part of new features:
- price analysis,
- showback/chargeback,
- budgeting for "boxed" infrastructure services,
- providing evident experience to users for decision making.
The company announced also new releases of VMware vRealize Business 8.2 Advanced and Enterprises.