Company Netgear announced that its family of universal storage for small and medium businesses ReadyNAS certified for compatibility with the solution for ESX 4.0 virtualization company VMware. This certification means that the storage device Netgear ReadyNAS can be fully integrated with VMware, which gives SMB firms the benefits of virtualization at an affordable price. As a result, Netgear partners in the channel will provide customers of SMB solutions for virtualization, which cost only about $ 1000 and placed on the table.

Compatibility with VMware certified the entire product line Netgear ReadyNAS, starting with the desktop ReadyNAS Pro and ReadyNAS NVX, and ending with rackmount ReadyNAS 2100 and 3200, supporting protocols Network File System (NFS). Now SMB will be able to reduce their spending on servers and storage systems, simplify infrastructure management and make it more flexible. Companies SMB, which previously did not use virtualization can introduce cost-effective solution ReadyNAS certified with VMware and get rid of dedicated file servers, and those companies that already use the ReadyNAS - easy to deploy VMware virtualization without purchasing additional capacity for data storage. Partners will be based on the ReadyNAS to promote powerful and affordable solutions for the universal storage.