VMworld 2010 Showcases New and Emerging Products that Provide Customers with New World of IT as a Service

The seventh annual VMworld 2010 conference hosted by VMware was held from August 30 through September 2 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. As a leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, VMware’s VMworld conference recorded the highest number of attendees exceeding 17,000, partners, press and analysts, also 233 sponsors and exhibitors thus signifying cloud computing’ growing popularity in the IT industry.

Featuring more than 170 unique breakout sessions across 10 tracks from companies and customers, VMworld showcased several innovative solutions in the virtualization and cloud industry. The company’s vision for IT as a Service was outlined by VMware President and CEO Paul Maritz and Steve Herrod, VMware CTO and senior vice president of R&D, along with the demonstration of new virtualization and cloud computing technologies.

A broad strategy and set of new and emerging products were announced that provide businesses and governments with more business-centric "IT as a Service" model designed to create improved approaches at each critical layer of a modern IT architecture: infrastructure, applications and end-user access. While vCloud Director enables a new model for delivering and consuming IT services across hybrid clouds, vShield product family helps tackle cloud security challenges and vCloud Datacenter helps customers build secure, interoperable enterprise-class clouds delivered by leading service providers. VMware vFabric, a modern application development framework and integrated platform of services was also announced that delivers speed, portability, and optimized use of cloud infrastructure. Organizations can transform their legacy desktop computing environments into a more modern, user-centric application and data delivery model using VMware’s View.

The Conference also announced the acquisition of Integrien which is a leader in real time application and infrastructure performance analytics software, and TriCipher which is a leader in secure access management and enterprise identity federation for cloud hosted Software as a Service (SaaS (News - Alert)) applications. At the conference, customers experienced virtualization and cloud technologies using the Hands-On Labs that were powered by VMware hybrid cloud technology based on VMware vSphere. VMworld attendees took advantage of more than 15,300 labs that were deployed using 145,000 virtual machines during the conference. Over 21,000 total lab hours were delivered with attendees accessing more than 480 Lab seats.

Using the VMware vSphere platform, VMware provides customers with reduced capital and operating expenses, improved agility, business continuity and strengthened security.