EMC, VMWare offer virtual data centres

EMC says its broad portfolio has been rigorously tested and integrated with VMware vSphere 4, the industry's first operating system for building the internal cloud and the virtual data centre, reports HardwareZone.

EMC products, solutions and services help customers store, protect, and add intelligence to their information while virtualising and automating their traditional IT environments and laying the foundation for next-generation virtualised data centres.

“EMC shares with VMware a common vision for the future of computing, the result of which will completely transform the way customers purchase and deploy IT resources,” said Frank Hauck, EMC's executive vice-president, global marketing, alliances and customer quality.

Xen has ruled the open source virtualisation software market, but Red Hat is looking to change all that, states SearServerVirtualization.

The company's upcoming Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation suite is based on another open source product, the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM).

Red Hat Enterprise Virtualisation is in private beta now. The company will include the KVM-based open source server virtualisation hypervisor in its Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 operating system later this year.

HP has announced shared storage solutions that improve business reliability and reduce costs by simplifying server virtualisation deployments, says HardwareZone.

Customers deploying virtual environments often overlook the storage requirements needed to match their redesigned infrastructure.

This can lead to lower levels of data availability and poor utilisation of storage assets.