According to VMware Seminar today, the future of the VMware Enterprise Edition Virtualization which name as ESX 4 will be launched next year, will contain some of the features which been show case during the seminar to the public. Below is some of the information which had been shared by VMware for reference

1. 64 bits kernel VS the current 32 bits kernel on ESX server
2. Thin Provisioning
3. Fault Tolerance
4. 8 way virtual SMP
5. 256 GB memory per single VM

There are more to come in the road map of year 2009 which will be specified on the Vcloud, virtual data center and etc. At lease for today, this had been presented to the end user about some of the technology road map and features in the next version. ESX 4 is still under private beta test at this moment, which aim to be launched at 1st quarter next year.