VMware has revealed a major overhaul of its technology including four new products at its Partner Exchange conference in San Francisco this week.
In front of its channel community, VMware unveiled the new edition of the flagship server virtualisation product, vSphere 6. The new version has 650 new features.
"This is a huge… no, this is the biggest ever release of vSphere," said VMware chief executive Pat Gelsinger.
The storage line also received an overhaul, with Virtual SAN moving up to version 6, and Gelsinger claiming that it is now an easy gateway into software-defined storage.
"Customers get software-defined now – they want it," said Gelsinger.
The CEO also revealed that networking software VMware NSX can now securely bring together public and private infrastructure under a single network.
"[This is the] first time ever we can really deliver hybrid networking: The ability to tie together on-premise environments with hybrid networking, to view the public cloud as an extension of their on-premise data centre."
The fourth announcement was the full integration of VMware's software with the open source cloud platform OpenStack.
VMware stated in a conference blog post that 4000 partner attendees from over 80 countries have attended this year's PEX conference, which concludes Thursday US time.
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