Cisco announced that it will acquire an increased equity stake in VMware.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that its flagship storage virtualization solution -- IBM System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) -- has been certified by VMware for use in conjunction with VMware Infrastructure.

Symantec Corp. today announced that Veritas NetBackup 6.5, the newest version of Symantec’s market-leading data protection platform was presented with the Best of VMworld Gold Award for Data Protection and Security at the VMworld 2007 conference in San Francisco last week.

Cisco® today announced the integration of Cisco VFrame Data Center with VMware Virtual Infrastructure, a key solution for the Cisco vision of next generation data centers, called Data Center 3.0. The solutions and services that support Cisco Data Center 3.0 are designed to help customers better utilize their data center resources, deploy more robust business continuance, and enhance data security.

Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced enhancements to its Veritas Cluster Server for VMware ESX and Veritas Application Director solutions which strengthen VMware environments for production use and simplify management of virtual machines in the data center.

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.

Network Appliance, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP) today announced that it will be a Platinum Sponsor of VMworld, hosted by VMware September 11-13 at Moscone Center in San Francisco.

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AMD today announced that leading x86 operating system (OS) and virtual infrastructure (VI) vendors are embracing support for AMD’s native Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor, code-named “Barcelona.”

Network Appliance, Inc. a leading provider of storage and data management solutions, announced today that it has strengthened its relationship with VMware, the global leader in software for industry-standard virtualized desktops and servers, to collaborate on joint engineering, marketing, service, and support.

VMware, Inc., the global leader in software for virtualization solutions announced on July 9 that Intel Corporation, through its global investment arm, Intel Capital has agreed to become an investor in VMware.