Company offers virtual datacenter operating system that makes datacenters elastic, self-managing and self-healing.

VMware, Inc., a provider of virtualization solutions for desktops and  datacenters, today announced a roadmap of new products and technologies that expand its flagship suite of virtual infrastructure into a virtual datacenter operating system (VDC-OS). The company avers that virtual datacenter OS allows businesses to pool all types of hardware resources - servers, storage and network – into an aggregated on-premise cloud – and, when needed, safely federate workloads to external clouds for additional compute capacity. It adds that datacenters running on the Virtual Datacenter OS are elastic and, businesses large and small can be benefited by the flexibility and the efficiency of the lights-out datacenter.

It explains that the VDC-OS expands virtual infrastructure along three dimensions. First, it delivers a set of infrastructure services (called Infrastructure vServices) to aggregate servers, storage and network as a pool of on-premise cloud resources and allocate them to applications that need them most. Second, it delivers a set of application services (called Application vServices) to guarantee the right levels of availability, security and scalability to all applications independent of the operating system, development frameworks or architecture on which they were built to run. Third, the VDC-OS delivers a set of cloud services (called Cloud vServices) that federate compute capacity between the on-premise and off-premise clouds. Further, unlike a traditional OS, which is optimized for a single server and supports only those applications written to its interfaces, the VDC-OS serves as the OS for the entire datacenter and supports the full diversity of any application written to any OS, from legacy Windows applications to modern distributed applications that run in mixed operating system environments and these services will also be bolstered by the vCloud Initiative.

"The first ten years of VMware were about enabling customers to build out dynamic and efficient virtual infrastructure that delivered high levels of flexibility and resiliency," said Paul Maritz, president and chief executive officer, VMware. "The next generation of innovative technologies in the Virtual Datacenter OS will enable companies to realize the promise of enterprise cloud computing – where applications are automatically guaranteed the right quality of service at the lowest TCO by harnessing internal and external computing capacity."