"With VMware Go, we are eliminating the skill barrier for getting started with virtualization, so companies who are concerned about not having the IT resources or expertise, especially SMBs, can now more quickly and easily enjoy the many benefits of virtualization", stated Dan Chu, Vice President of Emerging Products and Markets, VMware. "Both VMware Go and VMware ESXi are free offerings that can provide instant cost-savings with improved server utilization, reduced energy use and centralized management of the datacenter so IT can focus more on innovation and less on maintenance."

One of the major barriers of SMB adoption of virtualization has always been a lack of confidence that the implementation process will work right the first time", stated Tim Cox, Principal at Cox Technical Services. "As such, I welcome VMware Go because it opens virtualization to a large market of SMBs who didn't think they had the knowledge to virtualize their servers. It is an awesome tool to introduce people to virtualization or reintroduce them if they've been away from it for awhile."

VMware Go has already successfully created over three-thousand virtual machines for over one-thousand beta testers. VMware Go together with VMware ESXi provides companies with a quick way to reduce overhead and simplify business operations by running multiple operating systems and applications on a single server - spending less money on hardware, power and cooling, and server administration.

"As I talk to IT Admins in the SMB market, what I have learned is that as their business grows, IT maintenance and the need for more servers grows even faster", stated David Davis, vExpert, VCP, and VMware video training author at computer training provider Train Signal. "With VMware Go and VMware ESXi, these same SMB IT centres can handle large influxes of server growth or perform virtual consolidation while saving time, money and resources in the process."

VMware Go dramatically simplifies and accelerates virtualization in three simple steps:

1. Initial ESXi server set-up

• Unique web-browser interface and intuitive wizard guides and accelerates installation and set-up process
• Built in hardware compatibility check automates the process of selecting physical server environments

2. Virtual machine creation

• Leverage existing physical server configuration, install a prebuilt virtual appliance, or start with a new, clean virtual machine.

3. Manage ESXi servers and virtual machines

• Centralized management interface simplifies changes to a virtual environment.
• Monitor virtual machines for basic performance and resource utilization.