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VMWare – Company Profile

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Full name: VMWare, Inc.

Parent company: EMC Corporation

Key people:

Diane Greene, President and CEO
Brian Byun, Vice President of Global Partners and Solutions
Dr. Stephen Herrod, Vice President of Technology Development
Karthik Rau, Vice President of Marketing
Mark Peek, Chief Financial Officer

Main address:

3401 Hillview Avenue
Palo Alto, CA 94304
USA – Google Map

Tel: +1-650-4275000 (also see global toll free numbers)

Technical support number (premium only): 1-877-4-VMWARE

Fax: +1-650-4275001

Website: http://www.vmware.com

Blog: http://blogs.vmware.com (also check http://communities.vmware.com)

E-mail: N/A, although there is an online support request form. Security issues can be e-mailed to [email protected]

Type: Public (NYSE: VMW)

Summary:

VMware, Inc. is a provider of virtualization solutions. Its suite of virtualization solutions addresses a range of information technology (IT) problems that include infrastructure optimization, business continuity, software lifecycle management and desktop management. It offers a portfolio of products in three main categories: Virtualization Platforms, which includes a hypervisor for system partitioning that provides the capability to run multiple operating systems simultaneously on the same physical machine; Virtual Infrastructure Automation, which utilizes the benefits of its virtualization platforms to automate system infrastructure services, such as resource management, availability, mobility and security, and Virtual Infrastructure Management, which automate the interaction between various IT constituencies and the virtual infrastructure for a specific set of point solutions.

Products:

VMware ACE delivers the only highly controlled and easily managed desktop virtualization solution for enterprise users.

VMware Capacity Planner is an IT capacity planning tool that collects comprehensive resource utilization data in heterogeneous IT environments and compares it to industry standard reference data to provide analysis and decision support modeling.

VMware Consolidated Backup (VCB) provides an easy to use, centralized backup facility for virtual machines.

VMware Converter is a highly robust and scalable enterprise-class migration tool that automates the process of creating VMware virtual machines from physical machines, other virtual machine formats and third party image formats.

VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS) dynamically allocates and balances computing capacity across a collection of hardware resources aggregated into logical resource pools.

VMware ESX Server is a robust, production-proven virtualization layer that abstracts processor, memory, storage and networking resources into multiple virtual machines.

VMware ESX Server 3i is a next generation thin hypervisor to be embedded in server systems from the world’s largest computer companies.

VMware Fusion (for the Mac) leverages the full power of Intel-based Macs to seamlessly run Windows and other x86 operating system applications side-by-side with Mac applications.

VMware High Availability (HA) provides easy to use, cost effective high availability for applications running in virtual machines.

VMware Lab Manager is a new class of software development and test infrastructure that automates the rapid setup and teardown of even the most complex multi-machine software configurations.

VMware Player is free software that enables users to easily run any virtual machine on a Windows or Linux PC.

VMware Server is a free virtualization product for Windows and Linux servers with enterprise-class support.

VMware Site Recovery Manager dramatically improves organizations’ ability to rapidly and successfully recover their data centers when disasters and outages occur.

VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) enables an organization to host desktops inside virtual machines running on centralized servers in a data center.

VMware Virtual Desktop Manager is a new generation connection broker.

VMware Virtual Machine File System (VMFS) is a high performance cluster file system that provides storage virtualization optimized for virtual machines.

VMware Virtual Symmetric Multi-Processing (SMP) enhances virtual machine performance by enabling a single virtual machine to use multiple physical processors simultaneously.

VMware VirtualCenter delivers centralized management, operational automation, resource optimization and high availability to IT environments.

VMware VMotion enables the live migration of running virtual machines from one physical server to another with zero downtime, continuous service availability and complete transaction integrity.

VMware Workstation is the gold-standard virtualization software for desktop and laptop computers, enabling users to run multiple operating systems on a single PC.

More interesting links:

Wikipedia – VMWare

Yahoo! Finance – Quotes ‘VMW’

VMWare Academic White Papers

Endeavors Partnering Up With Several US Companies

January 18, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Endeavors Technologies , an application streaming and virtualisation technology provider and its UK-based parent company, Tadpole Technology , have announced a new multi-level partner programme with Blackhawk Technology Consulting , Client-Server Technology Group , and NTAKT7 in the Americas region.

Endeavors develops technologies that enable servers to stream PC-based applications to client computers for execution. Application virtualisation and streaming enables organisations to reduce the total cost of ownership by improving service levels, simplifying the management of computers and improving security and reliability. The company provides its services through licensing, royalty, and technology transfer models.

According to Endeavors, the partner companies will participate at four levels: reseller partners, consulting partners, accredited partners and premier partners.

Reseller partners are service providers, value-added resellers (VARs) and systems integrators that sell Endeavors’s products.

Consulting partners offer products or services that complement Endeavors’s application virtualisation and streaming products and accredited partners are managed service providers, VARs and systems integrators that sell the company’s products and also provide basic, first line technical support.

Premier partners are national or international managed service providers, VARs and system integrators with technical expertise to provide in-depth technical support for the products of Endeavors that they sell.

Peter Bondar, CEO, Endeavors Technologies, said: “Partners form a strategic component of our expansion plans; harnessing their expertise and relationships allows us to leverage our sales resources and engage with a broader set of potential customers, sooner. We are particularly pleased to have attracted partners with considerable expertise in other application virtualisation products.”

Endeavors claims that its partners will reap benefits from joint marketing activities, sales leads, training, technical support and other resources.

Bondar claimed that the company’s partners have shown interest in using its products in enterprise application virtualisation deployments. The products are also useful to partners who offer their software as software as a service (SaaS) model. Application Jukebox, Endeavors’s application streaming and virtualisation product suite, includes both enterprise and SaaS versions. He added that the company was concentrating on developing its distribution channels and strategy.

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Patch Management Coming to a Citrix XenServer Near You

January 17, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Roger Klorese , Product Marketing Manager for Citrix XenServer , wrote a blog post revealing a major upcoming new feature in XenServer: pool-wide Patch Management.

“XenServer has had a relatively small number of patches, and in the case of security advisories, we’ve been consistently able to announce the fix for an issue very quickly, or in one case, even before the vulnerability was publicized.

But it’s true that virtual platforms can add complexity to patch management. While other Citrix technologies — Provisioning Server, for instance — can reduce the impact of patching significantly, the maintenance of the virtualization server platform itself is an major concern.

We don’t talk about future features very often, but here’s one area of the next release of Citrix XenServer — which is in closed beta with Citrix employees and partners now — that is worth crowing about.”

In conjunction with a wizard in XenCenter, there will be a possibility for you to:

* Check the Citrix XenServer website for updates
* Download any pending updates to your XenCenter system
* Choose which servers in your managed pools you wish to apply the patches to
* Put each server in maintenance mode (with their VMs kept online on another server via XenMotion)
* Apply the patches
* Bring the server back online and move VMs back to it automatically

No word on timing for the public beta.

Hat tip to Tarry Singh .

Combell Group Chooses SWsoft For Its Virtual Server Hosting Plans

January 17, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Virtualization software company SWsoft is powering a new line of virtual server hosting service plans by the Belgian hosting company Combell Group .

Frederik Poelman, CTO at Combell, noted, ”With SWsoft Virtuozzo, our new virtual server offering delivers exceptional performance and results, and allows our customers the flexibility to work how they want to work. Virtuozzo’s server density ratio, performance response rates, and streamlined administrative management tools allow us to easily manage large numbers of virtual environments without affecting the customer experience.”
Virtuozzo partitions a physical server into multiple, isolated containers to provide customers with an economical alternative to dedicated servers. Combell’s new offering gives customers control over their own virtual environment through root access and empowers them to perform application installation, backup and reboot processes.

Combell’s services are built on a deep commitment to quality and innovation. As the only Belgian hosting company to achieve ISO 9001:2000 certification and an early adopter of the software-as-a-service (SaaS) business model, Combell keeps the customer at the center of its decision-making. Security, customer issue rates and ease of use were key criteria for selecting Virtuozzo to fuel its virtual server offerings.

Nils Hueneke, Hosting Europe, SWsoft added, ”We are pleased that Combell has selected Virtuozzo to power its new virtual sever offering. Combell and its customers will benefit from our ongoing Open Fusion technology initiative to advance an open platform for hosting, as well as a commitment to quality and innovation that matches their own.”

Enomalism Beta-Released Management Console for Xen

May 16, 2006 by Robin Wauters 1 Comment

Virtualized Management Console (VMC)

Enomaly, a Canadian innovator in virtualization solutions, announced the Beta deployment of Enomalism Virtualized Management Console , a pre-packaged virtualization infrastructure solution based on Xen 3.0 and available under LGPL open source license. The Enomalism VMC is a powerful web-based systems administrator management tool for XEN hypervisor that enables the management of multiple isolated Virtual Private Servers (VPS) to be managed from a central web based interface. Enomalism brings the performance, stability, security and openness of the Xen hypervisor to the market in a product that emphasizes ease of use, effortless deployment and management of Xen-based virtual infrastructure.

“By using Enomalism, organizations can clearly implement a controlled and easy to manage virtualization environment resulting in increased server utilization, reduced IT cost and improved operational performance,” said Reuven Cohen, CTO of Enomaly. “Enomalism supplies customers with a superior virtualization solution that provides open access to source code and price performance benefits over proprietary offerings. By leveraging Xen virtualization technology and open source standards, Enomalism increases flexibility and reduced total cost of ownership for our enterprise customers”.

Xen is an operating system level server virtualization solution that makes efficient use of your hardware, software and management resources. Xen lets a computer run several operating systems simultaneously, sharing the same hardware and more effectively utilizing its capacity than is typically the case for stand-alone servers. In the Xen virtual environment independent servers perform and execute with their own memory and I/O, configuration files, users and applications running on a single operating system.

Enomalism enables customers from a single interface to start, stop and move virtual machines from one physical computer to another without any interruption in service or availability. Enomalism comes equipped with a provisioning wizard which deploys new virtual machines and centralized user management. Customers can manage memory resources changing virtual machine behavior so priorities are easily met.

Download a free copy of the Enomalism beta or visit their website for more information

Dell touts ‘disposable desktop’

April 6, 2006 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Computer maker brings virtualisation to the desktop

Tom Sanders from vnunet.com at Linuxworld in Boston on 06 Apr 2006.

Virtualisation technology will enable the creation of dedicated environments for desktops that can be tailored to optimise characteristics such as security or gaming, Dell chief technology officer Kevin Kettler said in a keynote presentation at LinuxWorld in Boston.

Virtual systems on a desktop system could allow a browser to run in a dedicated environment that can be killed entirely if it became infected by a virus.

The user experience would be the same as if they had only closed the browser, but under the hood the underlying operating system would be terminated as well.

“If you have virus problems or spam problems, it would be great to just step back and say: ‘I’m having trouble with my machine. Let me just kill this secure browser,'” Kettler told delegates.

Virtualisation can also be used to run media servers, offer support for legacy applications when switching operating systems, and make for easier system maintenance, Kettler argued.

The technology lets users run several operating systems on a single physical server with each operating system acting as though it is running on dedicated hardware.

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According to Dell, the trend is driven by the rise of multi-core processors, the integration of virtualisation technology into processors from AMD and Intel, and moves towards storage virtualisation.

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This could allow developers to tailor Linux towards special applications, for instance creating a Linux version that is designed to deliver good gaming performance.

“Think about these encapsulated environments and the opportunity to develop around these things. The opportunity is pretty powerful,” he said.

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