Collaborate 11 Tuesday - VMware the common platform

I was walking around the different vendor booths at the Collaborate conference and seen there is one common platform across the databases, middle-tier technology, business applications, hardware solutions and application development.  That common platform is VMware.  It seemed no matter what type of vendor booth I went to, they are leveraging VMware's virtualization.

VMware's virtualization solution abstracts out the hardware layer.   The operating system runs in in a machine that happens to be a virtual machine not a physical machine.  So the VM platform is consistent running on supported hardware such as Dell, HP, and IBM.  This consistent foundation provides numerous advantages:

• A complete platform for public and private clouds.
• Ability to run legacy applications and software as well as the latest cloud applications in a common environment.
• Full support for an open environment where different solutions such as Microsoft, Oracle MySQL, SAP, Veritas, EMC, Netapps and NAS can run in the infrastructure provided by VMware.
• Less administration on the hardware and plumbing surrounding the hardware.
• Reduced errors and downtime.
• Easier to maintain.
• Less time required to troubleshoot.