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Veeam has further announced that in mid-September Backup & Replication will support Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT)'s Hyper-V virtual machine environments as well as ESX Server, when Hyper-V 2.0 becomes available in late October.

"We think Hyper-V 2.0 will be a good, reliable release. We think it will take market share," he said.

Another third party making a splash at VMworld was Liquidware Labs. It said its Stratusphere Assessment and Diagnostics software will help VMware customers build out their virtual desktop infrastructures.

Stratusphere can diagnose existing physical desktops, capture user settings and data files, and migrate them to virtual machines that are managed by Windows. The physical-to-virtual migrations can take place between different versions of Windows, according to Carl Eschenbach, executive VP, in an announcement at the show.

Stratusphere can provide detailed configuration information on the user and his applications and offer visibility of the virtual desktop from running applications to the storage area network. Application response times or network response times to the user can be determined through the the software's diagnostics. Its pricing starts at $3,900. Stratusphere is meant to be a complementary product to VMware's View.