VMware Delivers vSphere TM4

18.05.2009
VMware unveiled VMware vSphereTM 4, with new features and product editions that deliver "Always on IT" for small and midsized businesses (SMBs) and remote and branch office (ROBO) IT environments. VMware vSphere 4 will reportedly deliver zero-downtime application availability and enterprise-class data protection managed under a single pane of glass, providing simplified and truly affordable disaster recovery previously out of reach for most small IT organizations.

"VMware leads the way in providing IT solutions that make customers' lives easier, and for SMB and ROBO customers, we provide a means of administering a robust, continuously available IT infrastructure with minimal overhead and high investment return," said Paul Maritz, president and chief executive officer of VMware. "VMware vSphere 4 will extend these benefits to customers of all sizes, needs and budgets with proven technology that enables them to do more with less."

VMware vSphere 4 is perhaps the only virtualization solution to deliver 'Always On IT' that meets the most critical needs of SMB and ROBO customers by providing zero-downtime application availability and comprehensive data protection features ideal for smaller IT environments:

• VMware Fault Tolerance and High Availability provides true continuous availability for infrastructure and applications to further enhance service continuity, enabling critical applications to run with zero downtime or data loss due to hardware failures.

• VMware VMotion reduces planned downtime from server maintenance activities by enabling the live migration of running virtual machines from one server to another with no disruption or downtime.

• VMware Data Recovery provides fully automated backup and recovery for all applications and data, with complete integration with VMware's management client for simple deployment and efficient operation.