Enabling SMBs to improve infrastructure efficiency and business continuity, VMware has introduced new VMware vSphere 4.1 solutions for SMBs with prices starting at $83 per processor. It is available with key performance and efficiency enhancements for virtualization and cloud computing environments and delivers the most complete virtualization offering for businesses of all sizes.
"Small and midsize businesses face similar IT challenges as large enterprises," said Bogomil Balkansky, Vice President, product marketing, Virtualization and Cloud Platforms, VMware. "Solving these challenges requires innovative technologies that deliver cloud-like IT services such as high availability, effective disaster recovery and simplified management. But unlike large enterprises, SMBs have less legacy and organizational complexity, giving them the freedom to adopt emerging technologies more rapidly and quickly achieve significant benefits."
VMware vMotion delivers the most advanced live migration capability, enabling customers to rapidly migrate virtual machines across hardware environments without interrupting business operations. Live migration allows customers to effectively consolidate physical systems and utilize resource pools by moving workloads to the optimal environment. vMotion is in use in over 70% of VMware vSphere customers. In vSphere 4.1, vMotion is enhanced to deliver a 5X increase in migration speed while supporting up to eight simultaneous migrations.
