Tech Data Corporation announced a partnership with Vizioncore, a market leader in server virtualization management. Through AIS, Tech Data will offer value-added resellers (VARs) access to a wide array of Vizioncore’s software solutions that enable organizations to better manage and administer virtual and physical servers.

Pillar Data Systems announced its Window Server certification and application compatibility with Microsoft’s Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, Microsoft’s newest server operating system with built-in, hypervisor-based virtualization. The Pillar Axiom Storage System and Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V work together so customers can more efficiently run multiple operating systems in parallel on a single server and more fully leverage the power of x64 computing.

Devon IT announced their continued success with thin client deployments despite the slow economic condition, and sees unprecedented growth in the industry due to companies looking for a more green and cost-effective alternative to their expensive and difficult to manage PCs.

VMware announced its intention to expand its strategic relationship with HP to include the joint development of management software solutions that manage both physical and virtual datacenter resources. VMware intends to deliver with HP integrated physical and virtual datacenter management and automation software solutions that would standardize on various technologies within HP’s Business Technology Optimization (BTO) software. These new solutions would bring even greater management capabilities to the emerging concept of a virtual datacenter operating system (VDC-OS).

Sun Microsystems announced an enhanced line of Sun Fire(TM) x64 servers and Sun Blade(TM) systems that deliver up to 35 percent better performance over previous generations. With the new Quad-Core AMD Opteron(TM) processor, Sun's strengthened x64 server line offers exceptional scalability, virtualization and consolidation capabilities with up to twice the storage, memory and I/O capacity as compared to competing servers. Sun's portfolio of x64 Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor-based servers offer a choice of Solaris(TM) 10 Operating System (OS), Linux, Windows and VMWare.