New VMware vSphere 4 - the industry’s first operating system for building the internal cloud.

With a wide range of groundbreaking new capabilities, VMware vSphere 4 brings cloud computing to enterprises in an evolutionary, non-disruptive way – delivering uncompromising control with greater efficiency while preserving customer choice. 

Efficiency

VMware vSphere 4 enables transformative capital and operational expenditure cost savings over and above what was possible with the previous generation VMware Infrastructure 3:

• About 30% increase in consolidation ratios, further decreasing infrastructure cost per application.1
• Up to 50%  storage savings with VMware vStorage Thin Provisioning.
• Up to 20% additional power and cooling savings with VMware Distributed Power Management.

Control

VMware vSphere 4 enables efficient operational control of these very powerful “compute plants” with new large scale management features such as VMware Host Profiles and VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch:

• Zero downtime, zero data loss protection against hardware failures with VMware Fault Tolerance.
• Minimised planned downtime due to storage maintenance and migrations with VMware Storage VMotion.
• Quick, simple, integrated, and cost effective disk-based backup and recovery for all applications with VMware Data Recovery.
• Easier and stricter security compliance with VMware vShield Zones which simplifies application security.

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