New release of VMware lab manager enables multiple teams and projects to effectively share a single global virtual lab.

VMware, Inc., a provider of virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, today announced the general availability of VMware Lab Manager 3, providing automation and control for IT lab environments. The company states that VMware Lab Manager has fast become the industry-standard lab automation solution that provides software development and QA engineers with self-service provisioning of multi-VM environments while giving IT departments increased control over policies. With this new release, the company says that its VMware Lab Manager now offers support for multiple organizational units, advanced networking capabilities, and tighter integration with VMware Infrastructure.

"We have development teams working on trading gateways for virtually every major futures exchange around the world," said Patrick Benson, senior systems engineer for corporate infrastructure at Trading Technologies International, Inc., the leader in electronic futures trading systems. "VMware Lab Manager 3 gives us much more flexibility in the way we deal with a global lab environment. It simplifies administration, supports multiple networks, and lets us assign resource pools and manage user access rights for all of our teams from a central location."

"VMware Lab Manager has quickly become the industry standard virtual lab automation solution used by software development and testing teams worldwide," said Raghu Raghuram, vice president of products and solutions, VMware. "This new release expands the appeal of VMware Lab Manager to more groups of people at our customers by promoting effective self service combined with centralized IT control."