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VMware launches vSphere 4
By Benny Thomas
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Thursday, 23 April 2009, 00:26 IST
Bangalore: So far, the complexity of IT environments has been making a big dent in the IT budget of companies, keeping the areas like innovation and competitive advantage off a needed focus. Software firm VMware is offering a solution to this problem by making use of the concept of cloud computing.
VMware, which has been providing virtualization solutions, has launched an operating system for cloud computing called vSphere 4, which is claimed to be the first operating system for building internal cloud. It is an extension of the previous platform by the same company, the VMware Infrastructure 3.
vSphere is said to deliver the efficiency and performance required to run business critical applications in large scale environments, providing uncompromised control over application service levels, and preserving customer choice of hardware, OS, application architecture and on-premise versus off-premise application hosting. "vSphere is more efficient, which would mean further cost reduction by virtualization," said Ganesh Mahabala, Regional Director- India and SAARC for VMware.
VMware sees a huge potential for cloud computing in the Indian market and is trying to tap the potential with this new product. Ganesh illustrates, "Our customer base in India has doubled over the last year and currently we have over 550 customers here, with many of them in the IT and ITES segments." He added that the company also has some government agencies in their customers list.
vSphere would be available from the end of this quarter in six different packages, based on the usage level. The pricing starts at $166 per CPU for a small office IT environment and goes up to $3495 per CPU for the package meant for large deployments.
