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About VMware

VMware (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualisation and cloud infrastructure, delivers customer-proven solutions that significantly reduce IT complexity and enable more flexible, agile service delivery. VMware accelerates an organisation's transition to cloud computing, while preserving existing IT investments and enabling more efficient, agile service delivery without compromising control. With more than 190,000 customers and 25,000 partners, VMware helps organisations of all sizes lower costs, preserve freedom of choice and energise business through IT while saving energy—financial, human and the Earth's.

VMware at a Glance

Founded: 1998
URL: www.vmware.com
Headquarters: 3401 Hillview Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304
Stock Symbol: VMW (NYSE)
Employees: More than 8,200
2009 Revenue: $2 billion, 5th largest infrastructure software company
Market Category: Virtualisation and cloud infrastructure
Customers: More than 190,000, 97% of the Fortune 1000, 94% of the Fortune Global 500
Partners: 25,000+
Certified Professionals: 51,000
vCloud Service Providers: 2,600+
VMware Community Members: Over 1 Million
VMware Product Lines: VMware vSphere™, VMware vCloud™, VMware vShield™, VMware vCenter™, VMware vFabric™, VMware View™

Products and 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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