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VMworld 2008 Europe

For any of you fortunate enough to go to VMworld 2008 Europe, you have my jealousy.... what a beautiful part of the world Cannes, France is! To recap the major announcements that took place there:

VMware OEM Partners (HP, Dell, IBM) all announced their 3i systems with time lines:
http://www.vmware.com/partners/oem-esx-server-3i.html

VMware announced the availability of the Thinstall Beta (Northstar):
http://www.vmware.com/beta/northstar/

VMware announced that about 20 security partners including Symantec, McAfee, Checkpoint, RSA, F5 and a whole host of others have signed up to use the VMSAFE API, which is the VM security enablement that is being added to the ESX hypervisor layer:
http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmsafe_vmworld.html

Veeam Announced the availability of their newest product Veeam Backup 1.0:
http://www.veeam.com/vmware-esx-backup.html


Alessandro Perilli has more notes from the event that are definitely worth a read here:
http://www.virtualization.info/2008/03/vmworld-europe-2008-round-up.html

Posted by Dominic Rivera at Monday, March 03, 2008.