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VMware: The Future of Virtualisation (Cloud Computing)

About VMware
 VMware at a Glance
VMware (NYSE: VMW) is the global leader in virtualisation solutions from the desktop to the datacenter.  Customers of all sizes rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green. With 2008 revenues of $1.9billion, more than 130,000 customers and more than 22,000 partners, VMware is one of the fastest-growing public software companies.  Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, VMware is majority-owned by EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC).
 Founded: 1998; acquired by EMC in 2004; IPO in August 2007 (NYSE:VMW)
2008 Revenue: $1.9billion
Customers: 130,000, including 100% of Fortune 100
Employees: 6,600+
Headquarters: Palo Alto, CA, USA
Locations: 40+
Partnerships: More than 22,000
 

Products & Solutions


Award-Winning Products.  VMware offers a wide range of award-winning virtualisation products, from free software for virtualising desktops and servers to comprehensive enterprise-class platforms for optimising datacenters and IT infrastructure.

Proven Solutions.  VMware's broad and proven suite of virtualisation solutions addresses a range of complex challenges facing IT organisations, including:

  • Server Consolidation & Infrastructure Optimisation: VMware technology – including the industry's only complete virtual infrastructure -- helps organisations consolidate servers and increase utilisation rates, greatly reduce power and cooling costs, and manage and automate IT processes for maximum availability, performance and scalability.
  • Business Continuity: With exclusive features such as automated load balancing and live migration of virtual machines, VMware technology enables organisations to increase uptime and reduce the cost and complexity of meeting high availability and disaster recovery objectives.
  • Virtual Lab Automation: Developers and other IT professionals use VMware solutions to streamline the software development and testing process, reduce server provisioning time, and improve software quality.
  • Enterprise Desktop Management: Enabling enterprises to better manage and control their desktop systems, VMware helps customers speed deployments, administer systems from a central location, and provide end-users with a satisfying physical-PC experience.

Superior Technology & Value


VMware offers customers a superior choice for virtualisation solutions through:
  • Mature, production-proven products of unparalleled performance, robustness and reliability.
  • The industry's only complete virtualisation infrastructure, enabling virtualised assets to be aggregated and deployed as a shared utility for dynamic, automated, always-on computing.
  • Platform neutrality and open standards for greater interoperability and the flexibility to create shared resource pools independent of specific OS and hardware platforms.
  • Maximum value through rapid ROI, lower ownership costs, and a scale-as-you-grow adoption cycle of escalating value.

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