VMware Infrastructure 3 is the most widely deployed software suite for optimizing and managing industry-standard IT environments through virtualization.

VMware ESX Server: ESX Server abstracts processor, memory, storage, and networking resources into multiple virtual machines, giving you greater hardware utilization and flexibility. VMware VMFS: A high performance cluster file system optimized for virtual machines. VMware Virtual SMP: VMware Virtual SMP allows a single virtual machine to use up to four physical processors simultaneously. VMware VirtualCenter: VirtualCenter intelligently optimizes resources, ensures high availability to all applications in virtual machines, and makes your IT environment more responsive with virtualization-based distributed services such as VMware DRS, VMware HA, and VMware VMotion. VMware VMotion: VMware VMotion keeps your IT environment up and running, giving you unprecedented flexibility and availability to meet the increasing demands of your business and end users. VMware HA: VMware HA provides cost-effective high availability for any application running in a virtual machine, regardless of its operating system or underlying hardware configuration. VMware DRS: VMware DRS continuously monitors utilization across resource pools and intelligently allocates available resources among the virtual machines based on predefined rules that reflect business needs and changing priorities. VMware Consolidated Backup: VMware Consolidated Backup provides an easy-to-use, centralized backup facility that leverages a centralized proxy server and reduces the load on production ESX Server hosts.

VMware Workstation: VMware Workstation is powerful desktop virtualization software for software developers/testers and enterprise IT professionals that runs multiple operating systems simultaneously on a single PC. VMTN Subscription: VMware Technology Network (VMTN) Subscription provides access to a powerful suite of VMware products, support, and upgrades in a convenient, low-cost annual subscription. VMTN Subscription is ideal for anyone involved in software development and testing.

Additionally, VMware acquired Akimbi in June 2006 and will be launching software lifecycle management products soon.

VMware ACE: VMware ACE gives security administrators the ability to lock down PC endpoints and protect critical company resources against the risks presented by unmanaged PCs. VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI): With VDI, companies can host individual desktops inside virtual machines that are running in their data centers. Users access these desktops remotely from a PC or a thin client using a remote display protocol. Since applications are managed centrally at the corporate data center, organizations gain better control over their desktops.

VMware Player: VMware Player lets you evaluate new or prerelease software contained in virtual machines, without any installation or configuration hassles. You can also share existing virtual machines with colleagues or friends just use VMware Player to run any virtual machine. VMware Server: VMware Server installs on any existing server hardware and partitions a physical server into multiple virtual machines by abstracting processor, memory, storage, and networking resources, giving you greater hardware utilization and flexibility. VMTN Virtual Appliances: A virtual appliance is a fully preinstalled and preconfigured application and operating system environment that runs on any standard x86 desktop or server in a self-contained, isolated environment known as a virtual machine.

Partners (Technology, OEMs, and Resellers)

VMware is providing a strategically better way to run industry-standard systems; they reduce complexity while also showing significant ROI in three to six months from purchase of the VMware Infrastructure. They have seen customers save millions of dollars in their first year of deployment. VMware has a robust, secure, and highly functional virtualization platform and leveraging that, VMware has add-on solutions that solve system infrastructure management and cost issues in a significantly better way than is possible without their virtualization platform. As they go forward over the next two years they will continue to invest in their platform and also work with their partners to keep that platform fully supportive of all of their innovations around processors, chipsets, servers, I/O subsystems, etc. They will also continue to develop add-on solutions that leverage the platform; they have a rich roadmap of functionality that they will deliver around ways to take the complexity out of system infrastructure management while increasing the service level quality.