VMware Outlines New Strategy To Deliver IT As A Service: Page 2 of 2

Sabre Holdings, the company that provides reservation systems for airlines, travel agencies and the hospitality industry is using vSphere and vCloud Director on a trial basis to deliver its IT in the cloud, said Glenn Harper, vice president and chief infrastructure architect at the firm.

Provisioning applications and the IT resources to deliver them is a "long, manually-intensive process," said Harper in one of many breakout sessions during the conference. With vSphere and vCloud director, employees can self-provision applications from a catalog of pre-approved applications and a virtual machine environment is automatically created. The environment can be set to expire after 60 or 90 days unless the user can obtain an extension. Because Sabre is used by 150 different airlines, multi-tenant security is a top priority and vCloud Director isolates virtual environments from each other. "VSphere takes the time to provision down to a very small window," said Harper.

The company also announced two acquisitions Tuesday. Integrien is a provider of performance analytics software for managing application and infrastructure performance in virtual and cloud environments. Its products will be combined with VMware's vCenter management products.

TriCipher, a provider of security in hybrid public-private clouds, will support multiple VMware initiatives, including identity-based security and managed access to SaaS applications. Terms of the acquisitions, which are expected to be completed in the third quarter, were not disclosed.