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CA and VMware announced the results of a sponsored study investigating the impact of data centers virtualization. The study, conducted by the IT Process Institute (ITPI) in December 2008, identifies specific procedures and controls that should be considered to reduce risk as organizations virtualize business-critical systems and when production virtualization objectives beyond server consolidation evolve to high availability, disaster recovery, and dynamic resource management scenarios.

VMWAre is the leader in virtualization technology but Microsoft's market share is rising, according to research from Evans Data. The North American Development Survey 2008, conducted in October and November, polled 400 developers. One third of them said they were involved with virtualization projects, and 56% of those used VMWare tools, compared to 37% for Microsoft.

An eWeek.com interview with VMware CEO Dianne Greene provides an overview of the company's history, current projects, and goals. VMWare pioneered commercial x86 virtualization back in the 90s, which in turn lead to the increasing virtualization of the datacenter. Mrs. Greene also touches on the changes VMWare's technology brings to security, cloud computing, and the development and deployment of software.