An exciting month for VMware, there is lot of new releases which happened this month. Here is a quick Snapshot of what products got released on which date.
| Product Name | Product Family | Release Date | Quick Summary |
| vSphere 5.1 | vCloud Suite 5.1 | 10-Sep-12 | No introduction required, undisputed king of the Virtualization world |
| VMware vCloud Director 5.1.0 | vCloud Suite 5.1 | 10-Sep-12 | Base Cloud software, enabling private, hybrid and public cloud models |
| VMware vCenter Server 5.1.0 and modules | vCloud Suite 5.1 | 10-Sep-12 | Management for vSphere infrastructure |
| VMware vSphere Data Protection 5.1.0 | vCloud Suite 5.1 | 10-Sep-12 | New Backup feature |
| VMware vSphere Replication 5.1.0 | vCloud Suite 5.1 | 10-Sep-12 | Host based replication feature embedded in vSphere now for DR |
| VMware vSphere Storage Appliance 5.1.0 | vCloud Suite 5.1 | 10-Sep-12 | Convert your local attached storage on vSphere to shared storage |
| Cisco Nexus 1000V Virtual Ethernet Module | vCloud Suite 5.1 | 10-Sep-12 | Cisco N1K module |
| VMware vCenter Orchestrator Appliance 5.1.0 | vCloud Suite 5.1 | 10-Sep-12 | Automation with workflows |
| VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.1.0 | vCloud Suite 5.1 | 10-Sep-12 | Base DR product |
| VMware vFabric Application Director 1.0.0 | vCloud Suite 5.1 | 10-Sep-12 | Application provisioning in cloud |
| vCenter Operations Manager Enterprise 5.0.3 | vCloud Suite 5.1 | 10-Sep-12 | Monitoring the virtual and cloud infra , awesome tool |
| vCenter Infrastructure Navigator 1.2.0 | vCloud Suite 5.1 | 10-Sep-12 | Provides continuous dependency mapping of applications through vCenter plugin |
| vCenter Configuration Manager 5.5.1 | vCloud Suite 5.1 | 10-Sep-12 | Compliance management for your virtual infrastructure |
| vCenter Chargeback Manager 2.5.0 | vCloud Suite 5.1 | 10-Sep-12 | Chargeback for your cloud infra |
| vCenter Chargeback Manager SDK for Java 2.5.0 | vCloud Suite 5.1 | 10-Sep-12 | SDK for chargeback |
| VMware vCloud Networking and Security 5.1.0 | vCloud Suite 5.1 | 10-Sep-12 | Security Component |
| vShield Endpoint 5.1 | vCloud Suite 5.1 | 10-Sep-12 | Security Component |
| vShield Zones for vSphere 5.1 | vCloud Suite 5.1 | 10-Sep-12 | Security Component |
| PowerCLI 5.1 | Automation | 10-Sep-12 | Automation for vSphere and Cloud based on powershell |
| vCloud Architecture Toolkit 3.0 | Architecture | 11-Sep-12 | vCloud architecture framework , must have for any cloud architect |
Most of the releases here are part of the vCloud Suite 5.1 announced in VMworld 2012, they all map to the VMware vision of Software Defined Datacenter. I am really excited to be part of such a great set of people and an organization which is focused on innovation and being a true visionary and a leader in the Virtualization and Cloud industry.
VMware now demands more share from a CIO IT budget than ever and people have noticed it, in my interaction with customers, they want to listen from VMware on their datacenter journey as a whole which speaks volume of how the world of IT is transformed by VMware.Great work again by VMware.
