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New Release of VMware Infrastructure Helps Enable SMBs to Simplify IT and Achieve Enterprise-class Disaster Recovery, High Availability and Management. VMware, Inc., the virtualization leader, today announced three new VMware Infrastructure product packages tailored for small and medium businesses (SMBs). The new bundles are designed to enable IT administrators and decision makers at SMBs to easily deploy virtual infrastructure and quickly reap its transformative benefits. The bundles are expected to be available later this year.

Simplify management of your virtual infrastructure by automating patches and updates with the new VMware Update Manager. This essential component of VMware Infrastructure makes it easy to manage tracking and patching of ESX Server Hosts, as well as select Windows and Linux virtual machines, giving you the ability to: Secure your data center against vulnerabilities, Reduce risks associated with patching of virtual machines, Reduce or eliminate downtime related to host patching.

Enable live migration of virtual machine disk files across storage arrays with VMware Storage VMotion. Building on the proven value of VMware VMotion, VMware Storage VMotion lets you relocate virtual machine disk files between and across shared storage locations while maintaining continuous service availability and complete transaction integrity. These capabilities make it possible to: Perform proactive non-disruptive storage migrations, Simplify array refreshes/retirements, Eliminate virtual machine storage I/O bottlenecks and Free up valuable storage capacity.

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