Let's hope they've learned a bit about testing things since last month's shameful debacle.

"It all sounds pretty thorough and impressive and raises the bar yet again for VMware competitors Citrix, Microsoft, Red Hat, Sun and Virtual Iron."

Red Hat already have a virtualization storage API through libvirt (http://libvirt.org/storage.html) It is being used by Sun and VirtualIron too.

but they lack the sales penetration and tier of partner companies Vmware have, so VMware's storage API usage will paly a lot better

*Cough* SMI-S *Cough*

http://www.snia.org/forums/smi/