VMware focusing on higher tolerance for hardware failure
VMware plans to improve virtual infrastructure through technologies such as
high availability, automatic restart, better tolerance and masking of hardware
failure, and site disaster recovery, the company's chief scientist and co-founder,
Mendel Rosenblum, told reporters in Bangalore on Monday.
A virtual machine would, for example, be able to record its execution on another
virtual machine in a compact form, so that if one of them dies the other one
takes over, Rosenblum said. He did not disclose the time frame when products
based on these technologies will be available.
Virtualization will be more attractive if companies are pinched by a recession,
said Diane Greene, VMware president and CEO. "People can do more with less,
include perhaps postpone opening a new data center for three years, and do things
more rapidly with fewer IT people," she added.
VMware, which had 88 percent revenue growth last year, expects 50 percent growth
in revenue this year, after taking into account competition, a larger revenue
base and the rate of adoption of its technologies, according to Greene. The
competition is, however, far behind in virtualization technologies, Rosenblum
said.
VMware also announced Monday that it plans to double its R&D (research
and development) staff in India to over 1,000 by 2010. The company is also investing
US$100 million during the period to expand its development team and its sales
and marketing organization in the country.
The company has development centers in Bangalore and Pune, though most of the
development staff is currently in Bangalore.
IDG News Service
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