Another day, another virtualization vendor announcement. This is getting tougher to follow than a Neil Stephenson Sci-Fi novel. Right on the heals of the Oracle VM Server and Microsoft Hyper-V announcements, VMware serves up an ace by coming out with VMware Server 2. That's what I call impeccable timing.
While everyone else tries to play catch up, VMware Server 2 raises the bar by adding a web-based management interface (yeah), support for 30 OS's including Microsoft Server 2008 beta and Windows Vista. I was getting tired of Vista locking up when starting up VMware Server on my laptop. VMware is also solidifying their hot standby support to transition between running virtual machine instances, load balancing between multiple virtual machines and inter-vm communications via their Virtual Machine Interface support.
I've got to give VMware credit for raising table stakes while others are getting into the game. I'm guessing Oracle is feeling a little bit less ecstatic after last week's Oracle VM announcement.
Okay, Citrix / XenSource. Your turn to keep things intersting. My Google Alerts are on full standby waiting for your next move.
Mitchell Ashley is principal consultant at Converging Network LLC where he provides product, technology and social media consulting to emerging technology companies. A successful CTO and product innovator, Mitchell has created many successful, award winning products in the networking, security, convergence, Internet and IT industries. In addition to blogging for NetworkWorld, Mitchell regularly blogs at TheConvergingNetwork and co-hosts the widely popular StillSecure After All These Years podcast.
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