VMWare on a roll
By Mauricio Freitas, in
Technology, posted: 27-FEB-2008 11:12
VMWare is on a roll today... I just read press releases of VMWare software being distribued with HP and Dell servers, plus some EMC solutions for virtualised storage.
When I attended the Symantec Vision event in Sydney (Australia) last year I asked one of the top Symantec executives there about Microsoft's virtualization solution - at the time only Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 was available and Windows Server 2008 with hypervisor was just a dream in the future - and why it wasn't represented at all during the event. The reply was short but conveyed a clear message: "Microsoft's virtualization is not ready for prime time".
Meanwhile VMWare is rolling out more and more solutions - with more flexibility.
Virtualization is a new area in computing, still. It may take a few years before more companies jump on this, but it will happen.
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VMware and HP today announced VMware's ultra-thin hypervisor software, VMware ESX 3i, is expected to be broadly integrated and available beginning March 31, 2008, on 10 models of HP ProLiant servers. The joint offering helps customers adopt virtualization with greater speed and simplicity. Virtualization helps companies share and pool technology resources to better optimize their datacenters, resulting in greater flexibility to meet business demands and business pressures to reduced costs.
Dell will begin the process of putting VMware ESX 3i hypervisor across all virtualization-certified Dell PowerEdge servers starting in early April. Customers will be able to purchase with a single click, easing virtualization planning, deployments and management. More information is available at http://www.dell.com/vmwarenow.
Leveraging its extensive applications expertise, EMC has defined optimized application and storage solution configurations, assured interoperability and fully documented complete deployment best practices for Microsoft SQL Server 2005, Microsoft Exchange 2007, Oracle 10g and 11g, and SAP environments to provide quick and simplified implementation in advanced VMware infrastructures. These application solutions have been tested and documented at broad workloads in VMware Infrastructure 3.5 environments to enable deployments that meet customer expectations for application-level performance, backup and recovery, remote replication, high availability and manageability. As a result, joint EMC and VMware customers can more rapidly achieve the cost-reduction and flexibility of VMware environments in less time and with less effort.
When I attended the Symantec Vision event in Sydney (Australia) last year I asked one of the top Symantec executives there about Microsoft's virtualization solution - at the time only Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 was available and Windows Server 2008 with hypervisor was just a dream in the future - and why it wasn't represented at all during the event. The reply was short but conveyed a clear message: "Microsoft's virtualization is not ready for prime time".
Meanwhile VMWare is rolling out more and more solutions - with more flexibility.
Virtualization is a new area in computing, still. It may take a few years before more companies jump on this, but it will happen.
Other related posts:
Vodafone UK Twitter wasn’t hacked, just a disgruntled employee
Telecom and Vodafone have we covered where kiwis work, live and play - your turn to sell it now
There are more serious things than Bill Shock: modern telephone fraud
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