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Forget VMware: Think vSphere. The virtualization company’s flagship software, VMware, is no longer going to be described as a virtual data center operating system. Instead, the company’s suite of virtualization software was rebranded and updated this morning. The software will now be known as vSphere 4.0, and it is being positioned as a cloud operating system.

Jon Bock, group product marketing manager for VMware, said that “there are a couple different ideas of cloud computing floating around. One is this notion that [the] cloud is basically something provided by service providers. But what we’re really talking about is broader than that. It’s the ability to pool your resources to be able to rapidly provision those resources while still being able to maintain service levels.”

Thus, vSphere 4.0 includes revised management tools for provisioning and monitoring virtual machines. Bock said that security and compatibility were also points of improvement for this release.

“A lot of people who talk about cloud talk about it as requiring you to rewrite your applications. We’re working with software providers to develop APIs to allow customers to run their own internal cloud without changing applications,” said Bock.

An interesting article talking about VMware’s vSphere announcement, do check it out.

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