Too many people forget that VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 (VI3) is the entire virtual environment. Think far beyond ESX Server.
Our bloggers: Kevin Fogarty is a veteran technology journalist and analyst who has previously worked for Computerworld, Baseline, eWeek, and Illuminata. Virtualization expert Edward L. Haletky is the author of "VMWare ESX Server in the Enterprise: Planning and Securing Virtualization Servers", Pearson Education (2008) and runs his own firm, AstroArch Consulting. Laurianne McLaughlin serves as technology editor for CIO, focusing on virtualization as a primary area of coverage.
VMware is still counting to a disturbing degree on its hypervisor to keep it ahead of competitors like Microsoft, Citrix, and increasingly, every other operating system or server-manufacturer out there.
VMware , the biggest big in virtualization right now, has owned the virtualization market for the past few years. Microsoft is racing to catch up; we'll see how its efforts play out this summer when Hyper-V arrives.






