Friday, 25 April 2008

VMware-Lenovo Partnership to Increase Virtualization Adoption in China

VMware and Lenovo have inked an agreement to work towards making virtualization more broadly available to the Chinese market

The deal will see Lenovo sell, distribute and support the VMware Infrastructure 3 platform on Lenovo server systems.

This partnership enables businesses and organizations in China to leverage both the performance and scalability of Lenovo servers with VMware virtualization to reduce operating expenses, improve business continuity, strengthen security and reduce their power consumption and carbon footprint.

“Virtualized architectures are gaining momentum in China as a better way to run datacenters,” said Diane Greene, president and chief executive officer of VMware.

“With VMware virtualization, Lenovo customers can quickly experience its significant business benefits including reducing operating and capital costs by as much as 50 percent, delivering applications more quickly and reliably in virtual machines, and improving security across the datacenter and on the desktop.”

VMware Infrastructure 3 is available on Lenovo servers immediately.

Customers can now purchase Lenovo servers pre-installed with VMware’s market-leading datacenter virtualization and management platform, VMware Infrastructure 3, provided with full support from Lenovo.

VMware Infrastructure 3 enables automatic load balancing, business continuity and power management and the ability to move a virtual machine across physical machines to minimize service interruption.