VMware introduced new VMware vSphere 4.1 solutions for small and medium enterprises (SMEs). VMware’s platform offers SMEs the most advanced capabilities for virtualised environments that can be rapidly deployed at very affordable price points. VMware also announced the availability of VMware vSphere 4.1, with key performance and efficiency enhancements for virtualisation and cloud computing environments.
“Small and medium enterprises face similar IT challenges as large enterprises,” said Bogomil Balkansky, Vice President, Product Marketing, Virtualisation and Cloud Platforms, VMware. “Solving these challenges requires innovative technologies that deliver cloud-like IT services such as high availability, effective disaster recovery and simplified management. But unlike large enterprises, SMBs have less legacy and organisational complexity, giving them the freedom to adopt emerging technologies more rapidly and quickly achieve significant benefits.”
“By combining more than a decade of proven virtualisation expertise with pricing and packaging appropriate for SMBs, VMware delivers a unique set of solutions that helps SMEs accelerate the journey to IT as a Service delivering enterprise-class functionality while enabling the scalability needed to support the needs of a growing business.” Balkansky said.
VMware vMotion delivers the most advanced live migration capability, enabling rapidly to run virtual machines across hardware environments without interrupting business operations. Live migration allows effective consolidating physical systems and utilises resource pools by moving workloads to the optimal environment. vMotion is in use in over 70% of VMware vSphere.
VMware vSphere Hypervisor (formerly ESXi single server edition) delivers the proven foundation of VMware’s virtualisation technology to customers of all sizes at no cost. Composed of the same underlying hypervisor architecture as the entire VMware vSphere product portfolio, VMware vSphere Hypervisor enables rapidly to implement production virtualisation environments to take advantage of server consolidation, cost savings and reduced power and cooling consumption.