Today at VMworld 2007, Microsoft Corp. and Citrix Systems Inc. announced that they have strengthened their longtime integration alliance in the desktop and application delivery market by standardizing on the Microsoft® Virtual Hard Disk (VHD) format as a common runtime environment for both virtualized operating systems and applications.

Stratus Technologies, Inc. and NEC Corporation announced today from VMworld 2007 new levels of availability for virtualized infrastructures through the introduction of fault tolerant support for VMware Infrastructure. Fault tolerant platform support for VMware Infrastructure will be especially beneficial in data center and infrastructure virtualization programs where mission critical business environments require the highest levels of availability.

Sybase iAnywhere today highlighted opportunities for use of Information Anywhere® suite mobile management and security technology in virtualized environments. Meeting demand for multi-tenancy and hosted applications, partners can leverage virtualization technology to increase security and scalability of management services based on Information Anywhere mobile management technology.