TECHNOLOGY SERVICE NEWS

QUARTERLY REPORT July 2005, Vol. 2, Issue 3 ©2005

VMware Earns eWEEK Excellence Award VMware ESX Server has been named a winner in eWEEK's 5th Annual Excellence Awards program in the System and Application Management category. "Few products have helped utilize standard servers more efficiently than VMware ESX Server," said Cameron Sturdevant, West Coast Technology Editor, eWEEK. "VMware ESX Server can handle everything from data center disaster recovery to server redeployment. This wide-ranging influence, combined with the technical excellence and clear productivity improvements ESX Server can provide, creates a new IT benchmark." VMware ESX Server speeds service deployments and adds management flexibility by partitioning industry-standard servers into a pool of secure, portable and hardware-independent virtual machines. Customers using ESX Server reduce total cost of ownership by increasing server utilization and simplifying system administration. The unique bare-metal architecture of ESX Server offers market-leading reliability, performance and scalability. VMotion technology enables live virtual machines to be migrated for dynamic load balancing and zero-downtime maintenance. "This award is a significant endorsement of VMware's leadership in the virtual infrastructure market and reaffirms our commitment to provide the enterprise with best-in-class virtualization software," said Karthik Rau, VMware Director of Product Management. The eWEEK Excellence award is the seventh major industry award that VMware ESX Server has received. Past industry recognition includes the CNET Enterprise Product of the Year award, IDG Enterprise Product of the Year award, InfoWorld Technology of the Year award, Microsoft TechEd Europe Best of Show award, PC Magazine Technical Excellence award and Windows IT Pro Magazine Best Overall Product award.