"VMware and HP have a strong relationship that delivers state-of-the-art efficiency, lower capital & operating costs and rich service offerings to our customers, solving real-world business problems," said Jiju Joseph, Business Manager, ESS Software, Technology Solutions Group, HP India. "With VMware vSphere 4, our combined portfolios will offer simple, packaged solutions that deliver efficient, flexible and reliable IT as a service to meet the most demanding needs of customers of all sizes in India."

HP ProLiant servers, HP BladeSystem servers and HP StorageWorks systems are enhanced with support for VMware vSphere 4.

· HP ProLiant and HP BladeSystem servers provide greater customer choice for cost-effective solutions to consolidate existing workloads. As a leader in performance, HP has the highest VMware VMmark two-socket (eight cores) benchmark score in the industry -- 23.96 at 16 tiles(2) on an HP ProLiant DL370 G6, HP 's recently launched server powered with Nehalem Intel® Xeon® 5500 processors.

· Newly announced HP BladeSystem Matrix is a converged platform for virtualization that pools network, storage and compute resources to optimally meet the demands of hundreds of diverse applications. Organizations using Matrix can lower infrastructure costs, control energy consumption, increase data center flexibility and accelerate productivity and return on investment for their businesses.

· HP has certified its complete families of arrays with VMware virtualization technologies. With one of the broadest collections of storage arrays qualified for VMware vSphere 4, HP StorageWorks can meet all needs for storage, particularly in a VMware virtualization environment.