Embedded ESX 3i to start shipping in next 60 days
February 28th, 2008 | 
Author: One of the announcements this week from VMworld Europe was that ESX 3i will begin shipping integrated in Dell, Fujitsu Siemens, HP, and IBM industry standard servers in the next 60 days. The following is a VMware VIP Partner Bulletin email I received. Check out the links to the hardware manufacturer’s individual announcements in the body of this email.
Dear Richard,
Today, February 26, 2008 at VMworld Europe, VMware announced agreements with the world’s largest systems providers—Dell, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, HP and IBM—to embed VMware ESX Server 3i across broad lines of servers to accelerate the proliferation of virtualization across companies ranging from small business to large enterprises. These partners are expected to commence shipping their respective industry-standard servers integrated with VMware ESX Server 3i within the next 60 days.
Last year we previewed this strategy with you when we announced the latest release of VMware Infrastructure 3 and ESX 3i. Combined, Dell, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, HP and IBM accounted for 4.1 million, or 75 percent of the x86 servers shipped during the first three quarters of 2007 (IDC). These announcements open vast opportunities in the marketplace for you to upsell VMware solutions – Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, Desktop Virtualization, Lab Automation and Virtual Infrastructure – on top of the most reliable, secure and leading hypervisor on the market today – ESX 3i.
Together with our system providers we are seeding the market with VMware virtualization-ready customers. These servers will provide customers with the simplest way to deploy virtualization to reduce IT costs, simplify their IT environment and improve security.
We are very excited to see these system providers bringing their ESX 3i preinstalled servers to market.
We encourage you to:
- Familiarize yourself with the announcements made at VMworld Europe.
- Talk to your system vendors to get more information on the servers, skus and shipping dates.
- Upsell potential future customers with embedded ESX 3i to the full vision – that moving to a virtualization platform is the only real choice for companies of all sizes from the datacenter to the SMB.
We are currently working to bring you tools and materials to help you take full advantage of the upsell opportunity so make sure to keep up-to-date by checking out the partner newsletters and Partner Central regularly.
Sincerely,
The VMware Partner Team
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