In its Techworld Awards 2007 both PlateSpin and VMware achieved recognition.
PlateSpin won Green Product of the Year award for its PowerRecon 3.0, while VMware won Virtualisation Product of the Year award for its Infrastructure 3.
It’s true virtualization can drastically reduce power consumption in worldwide datacenters, but it’s clear green computing is the new marketing hype of the year. Most virtualization products could be considered green.