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November 2007 05

The Middle East and Asia Pacific is where it’s at

http://vmblog.com/archive/2007/11/04/vmware-virtualization-software-eyes-chinese-reality.aspx

VMware Inc, a global leader in virtualization software, said on Thursday it hopes to expand rapidly in China, a market where it has only recently established a toehold.

VMware has built 35-person research and development team in Beijing over the past six months and hopes to expand that to 350 by 2009.”We look to China for a host of reasons,” Diane Greene, chief executive of the software maker, told reporters. “China is a vast country with a lot of IT infrastructure.”

VMware is 86 percent owned by data storage equipment and software maker EMC Corp and controls over two thirds of the market for virtualization software, which allows a single computer to operate several operating systems simultaneously.

I was speaking with a friend the other day he was saying that there is great demand for data center space, for hosting/services in the middle east/asia pacific regions – certainly with the news that China’s economy continues to grow (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7078518.stm) – as more companies and users want their services online, the number of servers (virtual or physical) needed to provide this capacity/functionality will need to rise. The interesting issue will be whether these new economies choose to go down the blade and virtualization route, or rack servers and virtualization are seen as the way forwards? Do these new customers want open source virtualization technologies? It’s all very exciting, we’ll need to see.

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