Building the Foundation of Virtualization
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Intel to Sell and Distribute VMware vSphere 4 to its Reseller Channel
VMware announced an agreement with Intel® to sell VMware vSphere™ 4 with Intel board and system products starting in the fourth quarter of 2009.
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VMware and Intel work together to deliver reliability, value, and ease of deployment in today’s dynamic data center, giving customers the confidence to start benefiting from virtualization now. VMware and Intel bring the combined expertise to ensure infrastructure resources are designed, manufactured and optimized to handle current and continually evolving data center requirements. We are collaborating to introduce innovative architectural hardware and software enhancements that provide customers with improved security, reliability, and manageability.
Performance and Reliability
Our close engineering collaboration delivers a scalable, flexible infrastructure that can grow and change with your needs. VMware Infrastructure 3 combined with Intel’s multi-core processor technology brings significant computing power and performance to virtualized environments without increasing footprint or power demands.
Customers benefit from the performance advantages of running VMware virtualization solutions on Intel® Xeon® Processor-based servers. The availability of additional cores enables new usage models such as dedicated processing resources for intrusion detection, security, system monitoring and management.
Quad-Core Intel® Xeon® processor-based systems combined with VMware vSphere provide mainframe-like uptime through Intel’s advanced server reliability features and VMware’s High Availability feature, making this joint solution the foundation of a dependable IT infrastructure.
For over 35 years, Intel Corporation has developed technology enabling the computer and Internet revolution that has changed the world. More recently VMware added a critical innovation by enabling mainframe-style virtualization on the powerful, flexible, cost-effective Intel® server platform. This combination of high-end virtualization capabilities and industry-standard servers is driving fundamental breakthroughs in datacenter operations, and helping businesses address some of their most critical computing challenges.
VMware and Intel: Virtualize Your Datacenter
VMware executive talks about the benefits of Quad-Core Technology (Video)
Joint Programs
VMware-Intel ESAA
Validated solutions that deliver peace of mind.Intel® Enabled Server Acceleration Alliance (Intel® ESAA) helps deliver reliable, high-quality server solutions to end users. Find out more about how this alliance can benefit you.
