VMware Takes on Microsoft, Citrix with VDC-OS

September 18th, 2008

VMware this week announced a string of new products with a single goal in mind: to expand its flagship virtual-infrastructure suite into a Virtual Datacenter Operating System (VDC-OS).VDC-OS aims to help businesses pool hardware resources — servers, storage and network — into an aggregated on-premises cloud, and to move workloads to external clouds for additional computing capacity when needed.

“The first 10 years of VMware were about enabling customers to build out dynamic and efficient virtual infrastructure that delivered high levels of flexibility and resiliency,” said Paul Maritz, president and CEO of VMware. “The next generation of innovative technologies in the Virtual Datacenter OS will enable companies to realize the promise of enterprise cloud computing — where applications are automatically guaranteed the right quality of service at the lowest TCO by harnessing internal and external computing capacity.”

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