| | By Akanksha Prasad @ Tuesday, March 24, 2009 10:11 AM
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| | Virtualisation vendor Vmware has unveiled the strategy of leveraging on business continuity in the coming years. The company plans to introduce a range of new products, which will provide zero downtime and more business continuity to the companies - including Vmotion, Chargeback, fault tolerance etc.
“Customers tell us they need to do more with less, and business continuity is the best example,” said, Raghu Raghuram, vice president, server business unit, Vmware. According to the company, business continuity tops customers' demand with 45 per cent followed by server consolidation having 40 per cent of the total demand.
The company is introducing ‘fault tolerance’ feature based on Vlockstep technology. It is supposed to provide zero downtime, protecting from data loss without the cost and complexity of traditional hardware or software clustering solutions.
Another new feature to be introduced is Vmotion. It enables live migration of running virtual machines from one physical server to another with zero downtime and continuous service availability.
Vmware's Vcenter Chargeback is basically for the administrators. It helps understand costing and drive accountability across all business units. Service providers can provide detailed service level agreement (SLA) by describing the base cost models, fixed costs, and additional factors.
Vmware Vcenter Appspeed is another effective tool for the administrators. It provides performance management and service-level reporting for applications running within virtual machines, and gives visibility into the multi-tier applications (performance, usage and dependencies) running across both virtual and physical infrastructure.
It is also eyeing upon the disaster recovery, with the expected launch of Vmware Vcenter Site recovery Manager. According to the company, it eliminates complex manual recovery process. Currently, Vmware is providing 60-day free trial pack to its customer, which can be easily downloaded.
The company is trying hard to pioneer the virtualisation market, and in order to do so, it has prepared a mobile virtualisation platform (MVP) scheduled for launch in 2009. This is an embedded thin layer of software that will sit in the mobile phones.
While the company is aggressively introducing new features, it is still facing the problem of low penetration of virtualisation in the country. Ganesh Mahabala, regional director, India and SAARC, Vmware said, “Today, less than five per cent of the companies are virtualisation customers, which means there is a huge untapped market. Virtualisation will see a huge growth in future.”
He said that the company is working on various programs to help the partners in developing the right skills and getting more customers. X
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