Virtual Infrastructure renamed as vSphere
VMware have announced that VI4 will be renamed VMware vSphere going forward. Jason Boche of boche.net heard the news at a VMware User Group meeting in Minneapolis and following a quick check with the powers that be at VMware he was given the go ahead to release the news.
Eric Sloof over at NTPRO.NL has however found out that a product already exists with this name. I myself found this company who appear to have the existing trademark on vSphere. Nothing a fat cheque from VMware can’t resolve I’m sure.
Changing the name of your products, seems to be a popular thing to do at the moment. Citrix change presentation server to XenApp, Microsoft changed SoftGrid to App-V. VMware not one to miss out on the action have now changed Virtual Center to vCenter Server and VI4 to vSphere. We await the official announcement from VMware on the name change and whether it’s going to end there.
