The annual VMworld user conference got underway Monday in Las Vegas, with the event’s host betting big on a new strategy that redefines its market-leading virtualization management products. VMware plans to expand its flagship virtualization platform into something resembling an operating system, a new cloud computing initiative and the company’s path toward a “universal client vision.” The big announcement is the company’s new Virtual Datacenter Operating System (VDC-OS), which expands VMware’s Infrastructure product into a new category, commented Bogomil Balansky, VMware’s senior director of product marketing, in a pre-conference interview. “The VDC-OS is to the entire datacenter what Windows and Linux are to the individual server,” he said.
VMware’s Vision of Virtualization as the OS
September 16, 2008