VMware vSphere Essentials Half Price Promotion

Online, April 1, 2010 (Newswire.com) - VMware，a provider of virtualization software, has recently announced that from March 1 to June 15, the price of VMware vSphere Essentials will be slashed for 50% off its $955 list price.

While VMware vSphere 4.0 may be considered the most sophisticated and enterprise-ready server virtualization solution on the market today, it still finds it tough to enter the small and medium business market which runs typically on Microsoft Windows Server environments.

Now the price of VMware vSphere Essentials has been cut to around 495 dollars from the previous 995 dollars.

"VMware vSphere allows SMBs (small and midsize businesses) to do more with less," said Timothy Stephan, senior director of product marketing at VMware, "We've helped thousands of SMB customers more efficiently utilize their storage, network, and computing resources to control costs and respond more quickly to business demand. With this promotion, we are happy to make the benefits of virtualization more affordable for offices of all sizes."

As a leader in the field of virtualization, VMware offers small and midsize enterprises with less than 20 physical servers a complete set of solutions. The Essential bundle of vSphere 4.0 includes enterprise-ready ESX and ESXi virtualization and VMware vCenter Server for Essentials which offer provisioning, centralized management, data protection and performance monitoring, physical-to-virtual machine conversion, and wizard-based deployment.

vSphere Essentials is an ideal solution and helps customers upgrade the product seamlessly at any time since vSphere 4.0 has such functions as VMotion, storage VMotion, VMware High Availability, fault tolerance, distributed power management, VMware consolidated backup, vShield zones.