At the recent Minneapolis VMware User Group (VMUG) meeting, VMware employees disclosed to a group of 150+ attendees the new name for the next generation of Virtual Infrastructure many have been referring to as VI4 or VI.next.  The new name is VMware vSphere.

This is just the next step in a series of product renames: Virtual Desktop Manager becomes VMware View, VirtualCenter becomes vCenter Server ...

Expect that vSphere will truly represent the needs and attributes of a multi-site, meshed data center operating system - providing true cloud computing and ingress/egress capability for workloads.