vSphere

I’m excited to announce a new sponsor to NTPRO.NL - David Davis from Train Signal. You probably know David from his VMware training video series. David is working hard on the upcoming vSphere video series, so when VMware will announce the general availability of vSphere, David should be ready.  I know David for a while, in September 2007 I reviewed his “ESX Server 3i Beta in Workstation” video, he has been in the IT industry for 15 years. He currently manages a group of systems / network administrators for a privately owned retail company and authors IT-related material in his spare time.

According to well informed people over at Channel Register, on April 21 VMware will announce its "next generation of virtualisation technology" with an event featuring VMware president and CEO Paul Maritz.

It is being billed as another giant leap, one that will help make cloud computing a reality for the data centre. Cisco and Intel will also be taking part in the launch of what looks to be ESX v4.0. Compellent has been certifying its SAN product against this coming version of the ESX hypervisor. StoneFly, an IP storage supplier, is also said to be working on ESX v4.0 certification.

Btw, an announcement isn’t the same as release…