Friday, April 24, 2009

VMWARE UNVEILS OS FOR BUILDING THE CLOUD

Bengaluru
The Asian Age

Virtualization pioneer VMware announced VMware vSphere 4, the industry’s first operating system for building the "internal cloud", enabling the delivery of flexible IT as a service.

Ganesh Mahabala, regional director, India & SAARC, said: "As the complexity of IT environments have continued to increase over time, 70 percent of customers’ IT budgets are spent on simply trying to ‘keep the lights on.’ Leveraging VMware vSphere 4, customers can take pragmatic steps to achieve cloud computing within their own IT environments. With these internal clouds, IT departments can dramatically simplify how computing is delivered in order to help decrease cost by 30-50 percent, increase its flexibility, enabling IT to respond more rapidly to changing business requirements."

VMware vSphere 4 brings the capability to aggregate large number of virtual machines and large amounts of physical infrastructure into a single logical resource pool or "compute plant" on a cloud scale — that would create the mainframe of the 21st century, the firm said.

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