[April 23, 2009] VMware Launches VMware vSphere 4 OS Tweet Apr 23, 2004 (Close-Up Media via COMTEX) -- VMware, Inc., a provider of virtualization, announced the launch of VMware vSphere 4, an operating system for building the internal cloud, enabling the delivery of IT as a service. VMware said its vSphere 4 brings cloud computing to enterprises. Leveraging VMware vSphere 4, the company said, customers can take steps to achieve cloud computing within their own IT environments. With these "internal" clouds, IT departments can simplify how computing is delivered, enabling IT to respond to changing business requirements. VMware vSphere 4 will aggregate and holistically manage large pools of infrastructure - processors, storage and networking - as an operating environment. For enterprises, VMware vSphere 4 will bring cloud computing to the datacenter. For hosting service providers, VMware vSphere 4 will create a path to deliver cloud services that are compatible with customers' internal cloud infrastructures. Over time, VMware said it will support federation between internal and external clouds, enabling "private" cloud environments that span multiple datacenters and/or cloud providers. "Since pioneering virtualization for x86 systems 10 years ago, VMware has delivered an impressive list of 'industry-firsts' - the first hypervisor, the first VMotion capability now synonymous with VMware, and the first platform for pooling servers, storage and network, allowing customers to decrease the capital and operating cost of computing by up to 60-70 percent," said Paul Maritz, president and CEO, VMware. "VMware vSphere 4 is the next evolution along this path of innovation. By giving IT organizations a non-disruptive path to cloud computing, we will be leading our customers on a journey that delivers value every step of the way, delivering up to an additional 30 percent cost reduction today while enabling IT to provide reliable and adaptable IT services." VMware vSphere 4 includes the following features. - Zero downtime, zero data loss protection against hardware failures with VMware Fault Tolerance. - Minimized planned downtime due to storage maintenance and migrations with VMware Storage VMotion, available with an administrator interface, which provides live migration of virtual machine disk files across heterogeneous networked storage types. - Integrated disk-based backup and recovery for all applications with VMware Data Recovery. - Security compliance with VMware vShield Zones which simplifies application security by helping to enforce corporate security policies at the application-level within logical zones in a shared environment, while still maintaining trust and network segmentation of users and sensitive data. - Application service level management with VMware vApp, encapsulating all virtual machine components of an application and describe their compute and memory resource requirements. ((Comments on this story may be sent to [email protected])) [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]