Enterprise Product of the year: ESX Server 2, VMware ESX Server is a piece of software that carves physical servers up into smaller virtual machines, allowing multiple operating systems to run simultaneously on the same Intel-based box.
The capability, called 4-Way VMware Virtual SMP, will be released as an add-on to VMware's higher-end ESX Server software in the second half of 2005, the company said on Wednesday at its VMworld conference.
The memory-sharing feature was first introduced in the company's high-end product, ESX Server, about two years ago, said Srinivas Krishnamurti, the company's workstation software product manager. The number of independent operating systems VMware...
IBM will bundle a six-month evaluation version of VMware's ESX Server product and other software with its blade servers, the companies plan to announce on Wednesday. Other VMware software included in the promotion lets one virtual machine be paused...
Subscribers will be able to use all EMC's major projects -- Workstation, the lower-end GSX Server and the top-end ESX Server -- instead of having to pay individually for each one, said Srinivas Krishnamurti, a VMware group product manager.
As part of its agreement with VMware, Sun will resell VMware ESX Server, VMware GSX Server and VMware Workstation. VMware has been busily assembling cross-industry alliances to protect its leadership in the market for virtual-machine software as it...