"We do all the heavy lifting of keeping all these things synchronized and integrated," Jackson says.

VMware says it expects the vCloud Suite 5.1 to be available on Sept. 11, 2012 in three flavors: Standard, Advanced and Enterprise. It includes vSphere Enterprise Plus, vCloud Director, vCloud Connector, vCloud Networking and Security, vFabric Application Director, vCenter Operations Management Suite and vCenter Site Recovery Manager. Prices will start at $4,995 per processor.

Until the end of the year, VMware is also offering vSphere Enterprise Plus customers a free upgrade to vCloud Suite 5.1 Standard or an upgrade to vCloud Suite 5.1 Enterprise at 35 percent off the list price.

in CIO's Virtualization Drilldown.