VMWARE UNVEILS VIRTUAL DATA CENTRE

Bhanu Pande, Las Vegas
The Economic Times (Delhi edition)

Vmware announced the next generation of virtualisation–the virtual datacenter operating system (VDC-OS) at VMWorld 2008 on Wednesday. The $1.3 billion, global leader in virtualisation solutions catering to everything from the desktop to the datacenter, announced a comprehensive roadmap of groundbreaking new products and technologies that expand its flagship suite of virtual infrastructure into a Virtual Datacenter Operating System (VDC-OS).

The VDC-OS allows businesses to efficiently pool all types of hardware resources - servers, storage and network – into an aggregated on-premise cloud – and when needed, safely federate workloads to external clouds (virtual computing resources) for additional compute capacity. Virtualisation is a broad terms that refers to abstraction of computer resources. The technique is used to create a virtual machine environment that provides a simulation of the underlying hardware. VMware develops software to enable this.