VMTurbo, the leading provider of intelligent workload management software for cloud and virtualized environments, today announced that VMTurbo Operations Manager has been certified on VCE Vblock Systems as "VCE Vblock Ready."

"We are thrilled to provide a solution that is Vblock certified as the need for agile and flexible computing drives greater demand for converged infrastructure," said Yuri Rabover, vice president of products at VMTurbo. "These sophisticated virtual and cloud infrastructures magnify the need for greater levels of intelligence in determining and prescribing the specific actions that keep the environment running optimally. With VMTurbo, Vblock customers now have an automated control system that ensures Quality of Service and resource utilization goals are met, while driving down operating costs."

Virtualized data centers and cloud infrastructures require a different approach for IT operations management. VMTurbo delivers a cloud-scale control plane that continuously identifies and automates resource allocation and workload placement decisions while respecting technical and business constraints to optimize performance and maximize utilization. The technology addresses resource contention before problems occur, makes certain that applications have the resources they require, and ensures the infrastructure is utilized in the most efficient way possible.

Vblock systems integrate leading Cisco networking and server, EMC storage and VMware cloud infrastructure technologies into a single intelligent converged infrastructure system with seamless support. This certification provides customers with the assurance that VMTurbo Operations Manager will interoperate with Vblock systems.

"Service level assurance is at the heart of CSC's value proposition to enterprise cloud customers and VMTurbo's intelligent placement of workloads and ability to allocate resources based on application performance and business priorities enables us to provide reliable cloud services," said Eli Almog, chief technology officer for CSC Cloud Services. "CSC BizCloud and CloudCompute provide infrastructure as a service for doing real business on the cloud. We did a thorough competitive analysis and determined that VMTurbo's sophisticated analytics engine and its API integration to vCloud Director and Cisco UCS in our Vblock systems made it the right choice for CSC's enterprise cloud."