PALO ALTO, Calif. -- VMware, Inc., the global
leader in virtual infrastructure software for industry-standard
systems, today launched VMware Infrastructure 3, the third
generation of the industry-leading infrastructure virtualization
software suite that empowers enterprises and small businesses alike
to optimize and manage their IT environments through virtualization.
The first generation of virtualization for industry-standard
systems provided server partitioning through a hypervisor or hosted
architecture. The second generation added management, capacity
planning, a physical to virtual assistant and other tools for
consolidating production servers. The third generation, VMware
Infrastructure 3, enables systems infrastructure capabilities for
entire farms of servers and storage, independent of the
application/operating system workloads and of the underlying
hardware.
VMware Infrastructure 3 builds upon the award-winning VMware ESX
Server with Virtual SMP and VirtualCenter with VMotion technology
used in production at tens of thousands of enterprises worldwide
today and incorporates four new groundbreaking products -- VMware
VMFS, a next generation Distributed File System; VMware Distributed
Resource Scheduler (DRS); VMware High Availability (HA); and VMware
Consolidated Backup. The suite is designed to deliver comprehensive
virtualization, management, resource optimization, application
availability and operational automation capabilities in an
integrated offering.
