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 last 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.
On the same day Marathon Technologies Corporation announced everRun VM, the world’s first fault-tolerant, high availability software for server virtualization. Based on the same everRun® automated availability software employed by over 1800 organizations, everRun VM prevents outages and data loss in Citrix XenServer virtual infrastructures. The significance of this new software for the IT industry is threefold:
1. Companies can now reliably run high value production applications in virtual machines, gaining the benefits of virtualization across a much broader range of applications.
2. It will now be practical to make high availability and DR a standard part of the IT infrastructure for midsize and larger companies.
3. A key component is in place to accelerate the next wave of server virtualization adoption.
