Stuart Corner
Thursday, 07 August 2008 09:37
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Virtualisation software developer, VMware, has unveiled three separate initiatives in the past week designed to cement its lead role in the virtualisation market.
Research firm IDC estimates revenue for the virtual machine software market may increase by more than four times from 2006-2011 to reach $US 4.8 billion by 2011. A
recent survey by US research firm TheInfoPro (TIP) showed VMware firmly entrenched as the lead player in a rapidly growing virtualisation market, but TIP warned that complacency would be misplaced.
VMware has become a member of the Linux Foundation to serve a growing number of organisations that run their Linux environments on VMware virtualisation. It has introduced new educational services and certification programs designed for a range of IT roles; and has unveiled a new program within its VIP Partner Program designed for system builders that sell VMware virtualisation solutions.
Dan Chu, vice president of emerging products and solutions at VMware, said: "The Linux Foundation gives us a collaborative forum to effectively address the needs of our customers. Jim Zemlin, executive director of The Linux Foundation, added: "Linux is a natural platform for virtualisation and cloud computing. VMware is obviously a leader in that field and a leading ISV who has embraced the Linux platform."
VMware's participation in the Linux community wil include the contribution of the Virtual Machine Interface (VMI), a paravirtualisation interface, as an open specification, and subsequent collaboration with the Linux kernel community and others in the development of a source-level paravirtualisation interface (paravirt-ops) for the Linux kernel. In 2007, VMware released its Open Virtual Machine Tools, the open source implementation of VMware Tools, and the creation of the open-vm-tools project to enable community participation.
VMware claims to support all major Linux operating systems and says it will work with the Linux Foundation and its members to address the increasing number of Linux users who are working with high performance computing (HPC), managed desktops, Web 2.0 technologies, and software as a service (SaaS) in virtualised environments.
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