Bladewatch.com

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,52073.shtml

PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. 30 /PRNewswire/ — VMware, Inc., the global leader in software for industry-standard virtualized desktops and servers, today announced that SearchWinComputing.com has named VMware Infrastructure 3 the 2006 Disaster Recovery Product of the Year. VMware Infrastructure 3, the third generation of the industry-leading infrastructure virtualization software suite, provides hardware-independent recovery, reduces hardware and infrastructure requirements and simplifies the steps in disaster recovery, enabling faster, more reliable and cost-effective disaster recovery.

Using VMware to provide your disaster recovery infrastructure and application servers does make sense, it allows you to be more efficient with the datacenter space rented for disaster recovery, whilst reducing the total power utilization by consolidating the physical servers on to fewer ESX servers. I know it’s been done by some firms in the US, I’m waiting with interest to see if any of the banks start considering it. You can’t virtualize everything (grid engines for example) but what you can virtualize, do and obtain the power/thermal benefits.

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