VMware
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 $1.9 billion, 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).
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.
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.
