VMware Announces Ultimate Virtual Appliance Challenge

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VMware, Inc. announced the Ultimate Virtual Appliance Challenge contest with prizes totaling $200,000 to foster continued innovation in developing virtual appliances.

VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtual infrastructure software for industry-standard systems, announced the Ultimate Virtual Appliance Challenge contest with prizes totaling $200,000 to foster continued innovation in developing virtual appliances. Virtual appliances are pre-built, pre-configured and ready-to-run software applications, all packaged within virtual machines. They can be run using VMware virtualization products, including VMware Player and VMware Server.

"Virtual appliances are a better way to distribute and maintain complex software environments. With the introduction of VMware Player and VMware Server, we have seen a tremendous embracing of VMware virtual appliances across the industry. For example, the Browser Appliance, which allows users to securely browse the Internet from within a virtual machine, has been downloaded more than 200,000 times," said co-founder and chief scientist , VMware and chair of the Ultimate Virtual Appliance Challenge judging panel.

Dr. Mendel Rosenblum.

The Ultimate Virtual Appliance Challenge is open to participants worldwide with the first prize of $100,000, second prize of $50,000 and third prize of $25,000. Best Collegiate Appliance, Best Consumer Appliance, Best Developer Appliance, Best Server Appliance and VMTN Community Choice Appliance awards will be given with each winner receiving $5000.

The Ultimate Virtual Appliance Challenge judging panel will be led by Dr. Mendel Rosenblum and consist of the following distinguished judges: Jason Brooks, senior analyst at eWeek; Stephen Elliot, research manager of enterprise systems management software at IDC; Roger Howorth, enterprise editor at IT Week; Tim O'Reilly, founder of O'Reilly Media; Dave Parsons, vice president of engineering at ALG Software; and Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Ubuntu Linux.

There are currently more than 50 virtual appliances that have been developed by leading software vendors and open source projects, including ma