Industry Support for VMware Infrastructure 3
"AMD and VMware are innovating with a common vision - that virtualization is a critical enabling technology for the agile, adaptive and dynamic data center of tomorrow," said Marty Seyer, Senior Vice President, Commercial Segment, AMD. "VMware Infrastructure 3, capitalizing on AMD Virtualization technology, with expanded support for memory, addresses many of the critical issues facing the enterprise, including power, cooling and space constraints and will help to enable the high performing virtualized data processing environment our customers demand."
"BMC Software continues our commitment to deliver solutions that leverage VMware Infrastructure. BMC is very excited about the launch of VMware's next generation virtualization suite, VMware Infrastructure 3. Virtualization through VMware provides the infrastructure to optimize the value of our Business Service Management solutions for virtual environments," said Fred Johannessen, Vice President and Program Executive, Data Center Optimization, BMC Software. "The combination of the BMC solutions for virtual environments such as BMC Discovery, BMC Performance Manager and BMC Performance Assurance with specific offerings for VMware and the new capabilities in VMware Infrastructure 3, such as High Availability and Distributed Resource Scheduler, provide our joint enterprise customers with a comprehensive platform to ensure IT is aligned with the business requirements to lower costs, improve agility and mitigate risk."
"By building support for VMware across our entire product line - including our solutions for systems, asset, storage and security management - CA enables our customers to effectively deploy virtualization enterprise-wide and realize the full value it offers," said Laura Mccluer, Vice President, Strategic Alliances, CA. "With VMware Infrastructure 3, CA customers can take advantage of the next generation of virtualization technologies to simplify and optimize their IT infrastructure using CA and VMware technology. CA is also taking advantage of VMware solutions internally to quickly and efficiently create virtual testing environments that enable us to enhance our development and QA activities."
"Through Dell's direct model, we immediately respond to customer demands for cost effective and scalable solutions that address availability and utilization needs associated with virtualization," said Brad Anderson, Senior Vice President, Dell Product Group. "When customers invest in the combined strength and flexibility of Dell's standards-based scalable enterprise technology and the power of VMware Infrastructure 3, they get the industry-leading solution for virtualization in the enterprise."
"EMC is excited about the launch of VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 that, in conjunction with EMC storage virtualization and other EMC offerings, will give customers a better way to realize the ultimate benefits of virtualized IT operations," said Chuck Hollis, Vice President, Technology Alliances, EMC. "EMC has always provided robust qualification of new environments through EMC's eLab, and VMware Infrastructure 3 is no exception. A broad range of our networked storage systems and information management software is ready for VMware Infrastructure 3 today, and we've qualified VMware's new NAS and iSCSI capabilities. The new performance and scalability features in VMware Infrastructure 3 will be welcomed additions to our global customers working on large-scale consolidation efforts."
"Fujitsu welcomes the release of VMware Infrastructure 3, a powerful new infrastructure virtualization suite," said Akira Yamanaka, Corporate Vice President, Fujitsu Limited. "Many of our customers require virtual IT environments that provide business continuity and operational efficiency, and now with the combination of VMware Infrastructure 3 and Fujitsu PRIMERGY PC servers and ETERNUS storage systems, we can offer them an ideal solution."
"Fujitsu Siemens Computers and VMware are eager to continue the expansion of our successful offerings with the release of VMware Infrastructure 3," said Jens-Peter Seick, Vice President, Enterprise Server Business, Fujitsu Siemens Computers. "For several years, customers have been asking for a flexible and scalable virtualization infrastructure solution. VMware is the market leader in this space, and with VMware Infrastructure 3, we see increased opportunities for adoption by our clients throughout all of Europe."
"VMware Infrastructure 3 gives our joint customers the best, production-proven, solution available to deploy next-generation virtualized data centers and includes significant advances in resource management and disaster recovery capabilities," said Rick Becker, Vice President and General Manager, HP BladeSystem and Volume Software. "VMware Infrastructure 3, combined with HP SIM, ProLiant, BladeSystem, StorageWorks platforms and HP OpenView, enables customers to optimize their IT investments, improve overall availability and security of data center applications and more effectively manage power and cooling needs."
"With the announcement of VMware Infrastructure 3, VMware provides a feature-rich infrastructure solution for the market. Our joint customers know they can trust these solutions when they consolidate and virtualize their IT data center on IBM System X and BladeCenter," said Susan Whitney, General Manager, System X, IBM. "VMware's announcement of support for a greater number of processors and larger memory configurations per virtual machine creates an important advantage for IBM's high performance X3 customers. Customers can now run more virtual machines on a single system, which will lower the total cost of management. With VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 and IBM's X3 technology, our mutual customers will achieve higher server utilization rates from better work-load balancing, higher availability and increased security."
"Intel is pleased to be a key participant in the introduction of VMware Infrastructure 3. VMware Infrastructure 3 runs on Intel's latest generation Dual-Core Intel Xeon processor-based server platforms - the industry's first to support hardware-assisted virtualization with Intel Virtualization Technology. Our joint enterprise customers will achieve transformative cost savings through higher availability, business continuity and higher server utilization," said Diane Bryant, Vice President, Digital Enterprise Group and General Manager, Server Platforms Group, Intel Corporation. "Intel will continue to collaborate with VMware to provide innovation in our hardware that will continue to drive virtualization on Intel technology-based server platforms across the data center."
"NEC welcomes VMware Infrastructure 3 announcement. Ever since NEC became the first OEM partner in Japan, we have positioned VMware as one of the most important platforms and have been delivering it to many customers," said Masato Yamamoto, Executive General Manager, Computers Software Operations Unit, NEC Corporation. "NEC's offers EXPRESSCLUSTER, a high availability solution and SigmaSystemCenter which enables automatic platform management. By integrating these products with VMware Infrastructure 3, we provide a high level of integrated management of virtual and physical environments. We hope this will lead to providing our customers leading solutions."
"Customers are constantly demanding simplified, lower-cost IT infrastructures, and VMware Infrastructure 3 fulfills this need," said Patrick Rogers, Vice President, Alliances and Products, NetApp. "With the introduction of VMware Infrastructure 3, which includes support for iSCSI and NAS, our customers can now consolidate their servers and storage faster and easier using their existing IP network infrastructure. New features, such as VMware DRS and VMware HA, combined with NetApp Snapshots equates to a robust end-to-end data center solution that is of high value to our joint customers."
"With VMware Infrastructure 3 support for the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS), customers can now run the Solaris 10 OS on the leading infrastructure virtualization platform available today," said John Fowler, Executive Vice President, Systems Group, Sun. "This combination is the ultimate data center server consolidation solution, delivering optimal return on investment for customers running x86 or x64 systems."
"Unisys is excited about the release of Virtual Infrastructure 3 by VMware," said Colin Lacey, Vice President and General Manager, Enterprise Server Business, Unysis. "With this new release, VMware enables Unisys to deliver enhanced virtualization capabilities to our customers deploying scalable enterprise solutions with the Unisys ES7000 server. Unisys expects that the strengths of VMware Infrastructure 3 can make it easier for Unisys clients around the world to deploy real-time infrastructure that directly and dynamically supports critical business processes and help them realize significant benefits of secure business operations: increased agility in IT management, streamlined operations and improved cost of IT ownership."