EMC subsidiary VMWare has widened the already considerable gap between itself and Microsoft in the virtualisation market, with the release of its next generation virtualisation software suite, VMware Infrastructure 3.
VMWare and its open source rival Xen already have profucts in the market based on hypervisor technology, which allow servers to run multiple operating systems in virtual machines on single servers, which maximises usage of normally underutitilised servers. Microsoft is not planning to have hypervisor technology on the market for at least another year.
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