VMware announced that it is seeing growing adoption of VMware vCloud Suite – its advanced cloud infrastructure solution – among 
enterprises in India. With the Software Defined Datacenter (SDDC) approach to IT now adopted among local enterprises across various sectors, VMware is solidifying its leadership position in India’s cloud infrastructure market.
VMware vCloud Suite is an integrated offering for building and managing a VMware vSphere private cloud. Based on Software-Defined Data Center architecture, it dramatically improves efficiency, agility, and control for IT organizations. VMware vCloud Suite helps enterprises automate their IT operations, manage performance and gain visibility across physical and virtual infrastructure with a unified management experience. . A business running vCloud Suite can respond quicker to customer demands, spend more time on innovation, and be ready for the next generation of applications.
“Today, IT organizations need to rapidly transform and partner with the business to stay competitive in a dynamic business environment,” said Arun Parameswaran, Managing Director, VMware India. “The ability to drive real impact has made the software-defined data center mainstream among leading businesses in India. We’re seeing our local customers increasingly adopt our vision for the software-defined data center to deliver the automation, operations and business management capabilities that make IT a strategic partner to the business,” he added.
“The need for us to automate our IT operations for faster release cycles and go-to-market faster is critical for our business,” said Srinivas Sheshadri – Senior Director and Head of Technology Management at EdgeVerve- an Infosys Company. “The software-defined data center architecture enables us with a private cloud to deliver true Infrastructure-as-a-Service and Platform-as-a-Service to our lines of business and our development organization with the performance, availability, and security they require. With the increased agility and efficiency VMware vCloud Suite offers us, we’re poised to meet the present and future demands of the business,” he added.
“We have built a private cloud, powered by VMware vCloud Suite, to deliver Infrastructure-as-a-Service that comprises of compute, storage, and networking resources to efficiently develop and deliver services to our large customers based in Europe and United States,” said Vijay Kumar Srivastava, Associate Director-IMS at IGATE. “The VMware vCloud Suite has also enabled us to develop customized solutions for our customers that span multiple platforms and technologies that help their businesses be more agile and quickly adapt to the changing market dynamics,” he added.
“In India’s highly competitive life insurance market, technology plays a critical role in partnering with business and we at Max Life, are aggressively pursuing a digital transformation journey to meet the needs of our consumers,” said Ekhlaque Bari, Executive Vice President – IT at Max Life Insurance Company Limited. “A key driver for using the VMware vCloud Suite is its highly automated and easily manageable platform that enables Max Life to introduce new and enhanced applications as well as functionalities,” he added.
