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IBM Announcement on change of support withdrawal date.

VMware is working aggressively to encourage the world to embrace cloud computing by building critical infrastructure resources into ESX (the base technology of vSphere).   vSphere 4 enhances the infrastructure capabilities of VI3 to enable  customers to implement internal clouds with security, high availability, and fault tolerance.  Customers are building internal clouds with plans to enhance their environments with vSphere for expanding their infrastructure to incorporate utility based computing – allowing internal and external clouds to securely federate between one another.

While cloud computing has quickly become an industry buzzword, virtualization is the only way to get there.  So, it figures that customers are implementing vSphere – the industry’s most mature virtualization OS for x86 systems.  Implementing a virtualization infrastructure requires planning with a long term view of the global cloud infrastructure.   As an Enterprise level VMware partner in Orange County, thinkASG has the sales and technical skills to help you make the move to vSphere 4 and Cloud Computing.

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