Instead of spending valuable time managing physical infrastructure or applications, VMware solutions enable organizations to focus on innovation and delivering value to the business. Once all hardware resources are pooled into virtual building blocks and service-levels are defined with associated applications, organizations can deploy an automation plan based upon business rules and application needs. Cloud automation and cloud management drive the ultimate efficiency in IT, mapping plans and policies to the business and defining them within the service delivery mechanism (applications and services delivered according to service-levels) of the cloud.

Automation and management rules applied to the cloud infrastructure effectively lead to a zero-touch infrastructure, where IT is available as a service. IT organizations also can better manage risk with an approach to cloud computing that retains the security, control and compliance that the business demands.

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