VMware, Inc today announced new features of VMware Go™, a Web-based service that provides small and medium businesses (SMBs) with an easy on-ramp to virtualizing their applications by automating the installation and configuration of the industry-leading hypervisor, VMware ESXi. With VMware Go™, SMBs can not only easily virtualize servers and create new virtual machines, but customers that have created virtual machines on VMware® Server can now move to the more scalable VMware ESXi platform without losing the investment they’ve made in creating and fine tuning virtual machines. VMware Go™ was developed in partnership with Shavlik Technologies, an IT management software vendor and a member of VMware’s Technology Alliance Partner Program.

Another new feature of VMware Go™ is Collective Intelligence, which helps guide a customer’s virtualization experience by aggregating user data to show virtualization best practices. With Collective Intelligence, users can view what other users have done in each stage of the virtualization process so they can be more confident they are making the right virtualization decisions. Additionally, users can view reports and dashboards with such information as the average number of virtual machines users are creating per VMware ESXi host, the top five hardware types on which the community is running VMware ESXi, or the top five virtual appliances that have been downloaded from VMware Go.

Watch the promotional video of VMware Go at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQd6PM5TMDA