VMware Intros vFabric 5-Integrated Application Platform

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VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, has announced VMware vFabric 5, an integrated application platform for virtual and cloud environments.

 Combining the market-leading Spring development framework for Java and the latest generation of vFabric application services, vFabric 5 will provide the core application platform for building, deploying and running modern applications.  

vFabric 5 introduces for the first time a flexible packaging and licensing model that will allow enterprises to purchase application infrastructure software based on virtual machines, rather than physical hardware CPUs, and to pay only for the licenses in use. This model will eliminate the decades old need for organizations to purchase excess software in anticipation of peak loads, incurring significant costs and allowing software licenses to sit dormant outside of peak periods. The model in vFabric 5 more closely aligns to cloud computing models that directly link the cost of software with use, consumption and value delivered to the organization.
 
“Cloud computing is reshaping not just how IT resources are consumed by the business, but how those resources are purchased, licensed and delivered,” said Tod Nielsen, President, Application Platform, VMware.  

 vFabric 5 is engineered specifically to take advantage of the server architecture of VMware vSphere, the most widely deployed virtualization platform.  The new Elastic Memory for Java (EM4J) capability that will be available in vFabric tc Server will allow for optimal management of memory across Java applications through the use of memory ballooning in the JVM.

 
“The integration of memory management across the infrastructure and application platform layers is significant. By allowing for greater application server density customers will be able to gain greater efficiencies,” said Maureen Fleming, program vice president of IDC's business process management and middleware research.
 
Over 3 million developers use the Spring framework to build enterprise Java applications. With vFabric 5, users can gain unparalleled insight into the performance of their Spring applications with the new Spring Insight Operations.  

VMware vFabric 5 will introduce a new flexible licensing model designed to help customers directly tie software consumption to cost while also implementing an application infrastructure more closely linked with virtualization and cloud concepts. Licensed on a per-Virtual Machine (VM) basis, rather than a traditional CPU-based license, vFabric 5 will enable the enterprise to flexibly deploy different application platform components across different VMs in the datacenter.

 
VMware vFabric 5 will be generally available in late summer 2011.  It will be offered in two versions, VMware vFabric Standard at $1,200 per VM and VMware vFabric Advanced at $1,800 per VM.