The World is Flat.
Relaxed sitting in my home theater today I was live connected at 5 PM Dutch time to San Francisco, while Karthik Rau, Vice President of Marketing opens VMWORLD 2007.
What’s new:
- Ultra Thin Embedded hypervisor (small footprint of 32 Mb) integrated in hardware.
- Virtual desktop manager
- VMware Site Recovery Manager
At the widest screen in town Diane Green, President and chief Executive Officer, demonstrates the new launced ESX3i . This Dell server (other brands are also available) with an embedded ESX hypervisor of 32 Mb placed on a flash-disk was connected by Diane live in a datarack. In about 2 minutes she connected the datastore on this server and starts up a virtual machine, running on the just installed ESX 3i server.
Al other hardware builders like HP, IBM, Fujitsu, Dell and NEC are delivering hardware specially made for virtualization.
See mentioned Virtualization makes free money for business to invest in new innovations.
Flat World at home. Just ADSL of 20 MB and a beamer. Next show 13/9 5:00 PM.
Intels Patrick P. Gelsinger, Senior VP and General Manager, shows the strategy of Intel for virtualisation. The new processors are made foor virtualisation. New features for I/O and device handling are build in.
Hector de J. Ruiz, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AMD. The new AMD 64 bits Qoud Core Processor is announced. Do more with Less.
New processors and virtualization are saving lots of energy. The datacenter of AMD is hosted on 7 ESX server and two swinging servers. (hosting 177 virtual machines) 79% energy savings! The Green Datacenter is cumming. In 2005, 5 year later, the power-consumption of America’s datacenters are doubled.
New idea’s: virtual datacenter with hot standby datacenter.
At the end off the keynote, Karthik asked for a minute silence, remembering victims of 911.
Links: VMug