VMware Product Literature Sample

IT management tools and processes are essential to building a more automated, highly dynamic environment. Management tools enable an administrator to make the right decision at exactly the right time and execute it perfectly every time. And with experience and confidence, IT will begin to automate these tasks—quickly. IT’s role is shifting away from administering and towards managing. To constantly optimize a virtual environment in a never-ending sea of changing requirements and workloads, IT’s responsibility will be to set policy and best practices and let an intelligent tool automate the management.

This product brief highlights key findings of ESG's 2011 Virtualization Management survey to illustrate a shift in the way customers are approaching the management of their infrastructure and operations tools, people and processes.