VMware Reports Second Quarter 2012 Results

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VMware Reports Second Quarter 2012 Results

- Year-over-Year Revenue Growth of 22% to $1.12 Billion

- Operating Margin of 18.9%; Non-GAAP Operating Margin of 31.9%

- Trailing Twelve Months Operating Cash Flows Growth of 33% to $2.05 Billion; Free Cash Flows Growth of 29% to $2.01 Billion

Supplemental Financial Tables

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

PALO ALTO, Calif., July 23, 2012 — VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced financial results for the second quarter of 2012:

• Revenues for the second quarter were $1.12 billion, an increase of 22% from the second quarter of 2011, and 23% measured in constant currency.
• Operating income for the second quarter was $212 million, an increase of 13% from the second quarter of 2011. Non-GAAP operating income for the second quarter was $358 million, an increase of 23% from the second quarter of 2011.
• Net income for the second quarter was $192 million, or $0.44 per diluted share, compared to $220 million, or $0.51 per diluted share, for the second quarter of 2011.   Non-GAAP net income for the quarter was $296 million, or $0.68 per diluted share, compared to $235 million, or $0.55 per diluted share, for the second quarter of 2011. 
• Trailing twelve months operating cash flows were $2.05 billion, an increase of 33%.  Trailing twelve months free cash flows were $2.01 billion, an increase of 29%.
• Cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments were $5.3 billion and unearned revenue was $2.9 billion as of June 30, 2012.

U.S. revenues for the second quarter of 2012 grew 22% to $551 million from 2011.  International revenues grew 22% to $572 million from 2011.

License revenues for the second quarter of 2012 were $517 million, an increase of 11% from 2011.  Service revenues, which include software maintenance and professional services, were $606 million for 2012, an increase of 33% from 2011. 

“The quarter’s strong performance reflects the continued confidence customers have in our solutions,” said Paul Maritz, chief executive officer, VMware.  “Our products, amplified by the recent acquisitions, including Nicira, are providing the means for our customers to transform IT as we move into the Cloud Era.”

“We are very pleased with our second quarter results,” said Carl Eschenbach, chief operating officer, VMware. “Despite the tough market conditions, we achieved record quarterly results in total revenue, license revenue, and non-GAAP operating income.  Third quarter 2012 revenues are expected to be in the range of $1.11 and $1.15 billion.  Annual 2012 revenues are expected to be in the range of $4.540 and $4.635 billion, an increase of 20.5% to 23.0% from 2011.  Annual license revenues are expected to grow between 11% and 15%.”

Recent Highlights & Strategic Announcements

• Today, July 23, 2012 VMware announced the acquisition of Nicira, Inc., a pioneer in software-defined networking and a leader in network virtualization for open source initiatives.  VMware will acquire Nicira for approximately $1.05 billion in cash plus approximately $210 million of assumed unvested equity awards. The acquisition is a key part of VMware’s vision for delivering the software-defined datacenter. 
• In June 2012, VMware announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders Quadrant of the 2012 Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure.  According to Gartner*, “The x86 server virtualization infrastructure market is the foundation for two extremely important market trends that relate and overlap: infrastructure modernization and cloud computing. …Virtualization is a fundamental enabler to IaaS, and will be used to establish private cloud services, public cloud services and interoperable hybrid cloud services.”
• Recent product announcements included: VMware vFabric™ Suite 5.1, featuring new capabilities that automate the deployment and management of complex applications on VMware cloud infrastructure and the introduction of an in-memory distributed SQL database.  VMware View™ 5.1 and an updated portfolio of end-user computing solutions, including Horizon Application Manager™ 1.5 and VMware Project Octopus Beta, that will help IT organizations empower a more agile, productive and connected enterprise.
• Recently, VMware closed two acquisitions: DynamicOps, a provider of cloud automation solutions that enable provisioning and management of IT services across heterogeneous environments including VMware-based private and public clouds, physical infrastructures, multiple hypervisors and Amazon Web Services, and Wanova, a leading provider of physical desktop management solutions. With Wanova, VMware now offers leading solutions for centralized image management of both physical and virtual desktops. 

VMware plans to host a conference call today to review its second quarter 2012 results and to discuss its financial outlook.  The call is scheduled to begin at 2:00 p.m. PT/ 5:00 p.m. ET and can be accessed via the Web athttp://ir.vmware.com. The webcast will be available live, and a replay will be available following completion of the live broadcast for approximately 60 days. 

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VMware to Acquire Nicira

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VMware to Acquire Nicira

Acquisition expands VMware’s networking portfolio to revolutionize networking for the cloud and provide a full suite of capabilities for any cloud environment.

PALO ALTO, Calif., July 23, 2012 – VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Nicira, Inc., a pioneer in software-defined networking (SDN) and a leader in network virtualization for open source initiatives.

“VMware has led the server virtualization revolution, and we have the opportunity to do the same in datacenter and cloud networking,” said Paul Maritz, chief executive officer, VMware.  “The acquisition of Nicira adds to our portfolio of networking assets and positions VMware to be the industry leader in software-defined networking.”

VMware will acquire Nicira for approximately $1.05 billion in cash plus approximately $210 million of assumed unvested equity awards. The acquisition is subject to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions.  The parties expect the acquisition to close during the second half of 2012.  The acquisition has been approved by the boards of directors of both VMware and Nicira and the stockholders of Nicira.

The Software-Defined Datacenter – The Foundation of Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is about agile, elastic, efficient, and reliable services, and it is achieved through sophisticated software that abstracts hardware resources, pools it into aggregate capacity, enabling automation to safely and efficiently dole it out as needed for applications. Tenants or customers utilizing the software-defined datacenter can have their own virtual datacenter with an isolated collection of all the compute, storage, networking, and security resources that they are used to. Furthermore, this virtual datacenter can grow and shrink to efficiently utilize physical resources.  This is what the software-defined datacenter is all about, and it is the architecture for the cloud.

Managing networks and network services to support cloud architectures is complex, time consuming and limits the achievement of full application mobility across clouds.  Nicira is at the forefront of software-defined networking, which enables the dynamic creation of virtual network infrastructure and services that are completely decoupled and independent from the physical network hardware.  Many industry leaders, including AT&T, DreamHost, eBay, Fidelity Investments, NTT and Rackspace are using the Nicira Network Virtualization Platform (NVP) to accelerate service delivery from weeks to minutes and dramatically reduce complexity and cost.  

“Nicira helps customers dramatically improve business velocity and efficiency by transforming how networking works in the Cloud era,” said Steve Mullaney, chief executive officer, Nicira.  “I’m thrilled to be joining forces with VMware to help build the software-defined datacenter.” 

“The value we bring to customers lies in our open approach and the richness of capabilities in network virtualization,” said Martin Casado, co-founder and chief technology officer, Nicira.  “The combination of Nicira and VMware brings together two pioneering teams, and gives customers the industry leading SDN solution for any cloud environment, on any hypervisor in the enterprise and with Service Providers.”

VMware plans to continue to support the open principles and technologies that have made Nicira solutions successful, including the Open vSwitch to connect physical networks and multiple hypervisors and the open extensibility framework to implement business-level policies from any cloud management system.  This will allow enterprises and service providers to create the most flexible network topologies that seamlessly span any cloud environment.  VMware is committed to maintaining Nicira’s openness and bringing additional value and choices to heterogeneous environments and the OpenStack, CloudStack and other cloud related communities.

This acquisition expands VMware’s networking portfolio, which includes the VMware vSphere® virtual switching, VMware vCloud® Director™ networking, vShield™ Network and Security software defined services, and the VXLAN protocol to provide a full suite of software-defined networking capabilities  and a comprehensive solution lineup for virtualizing the network – from virtual switching to virtualized layer 3-7 services.  This will allow customers to create a pool of network capacity on top of any network infrastructure from which they can easily support tens of thousands of isolated virtual networks with the simplicity and operational ease of creating and managing virtual machines

VMware and industry leaders will be showcasing the software-defined datacenter at the upcoming VMworld® 2012 in San Francisco on August 27 – August 30.  Information on attending the conference can be found here.

Additional Resources

• VMware’s Steve Herrod blog here
• Nicira’s Martin Casado blog here
• Connect with VMware on Twitter and Facebook

About VMware
VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they build, deliver and consume Information Technology resources in a manner that is evolutionary and based on their specific needs. With 2011 revenues of $3.77 billion, VMware has more than 350,000 customers and 50,000 partners. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.
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VMworldÒ 2012, the Leading Virtualization and Cloud Computing Event of the Year, Heads to San Francisco and Barcelona

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VMworldÒ 2012, the Leading Virtualization and Cloud Computing Event of the Year, Heads to San Francisco and Barcelona

PALO ALTO, Calif., July 18, 2012 –VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced that VMworld 2012 US makes its return to San Francisco August 26th through August 30th at Moscone Center. VMworld 2012 Europe will be held October 9th through October 11th at Gran Via Barcelona in Barcelona. With more than 21,000 attendees expected worldwide, VMworld 2012 will spotlight VMware and the industry’s commitment to Business transformation through IT transformation.

This year’s VMworld theme, “Right Here, Right Now” focuses on how attendees will gain the tools and training needed to master the new cloud landscape, with the speed, security and control they’ve come to expect.
VMworld offers attendees informative deep-dive technical sessions and hands-on labs training, plus access to a broad set of technology and cloud partners gathering in San Francisco and Barcelona. Attendees will share and gain practical knowledge around virtualization best practices, building a private cloud, leveraging the public cloud, managing desktops as a service, virtualizing enterprise applications and more.

VMworld 2012 Registration
To register to attend VMworld 2012, please visit: http://www.vmworld.com/
For questions about press registration, please contact: vmworld2012@theoutcastagency.com
For questions about analyst registration, please contact: vmworld@nectarpr.com
For a current list of sponsors, please visit: http://www.vmworld.com/community/conference/us/sponsors

To network and join VMworld discussions on Facebook, Twitter and other social media, please visit:http://www.vmworld.com/community/discussion-document

About VMworld 2012 US
VMworld 2012 US is the industry’s largest virtualization and cloud computing event.  With more than 300 unique breakout sessions and over 250 exhibitors, attendees will have unparalleled access to the knowledge and tools they need to master the new cloud landscape and transform their business. To learn more about VMworld please visit:www.vmworld.com

About VMware
VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they build, deliver and consume Information Technology resources in a manner that is evolutionary and based on their specific needs. With 2011 revenues of $3.77 billion, VMware has more than 350,000 customers and 50,000 partners.  The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com. 

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VMware Announces Changes in Executive Leadership and Preliminary Second Quarter Financial Results

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VMware Announces Changes in Executive Leadership and Preliminary Second Quarter Financial Results

Pat Gelsinger will succeed Paul Maritz as Chief Executive Officer.  Maritz to remain on VMware Board of Directors, joins EMC as Chief Strategist. VMware announces record revenues.

PALO ALTO, Calif., July 17, 2012

VMware today announced that Paul Maritz will be succeeded in the post as Chief Executive Officer of VMware, effective September 1, 2012, by Pat Gelsinger, currently president and chief operating officer, EMC Information Infrastructure Products.  Maritz will remain a board member of VMware and will take on a new technology strategist role at EMC. Gelsinger will also be named to VMware’s Board of Directors, effective September 1, 2012.   

Joe Tucci, Paul Maritz and Pat Gelsinger will participate in a financial analyst conference call today at 1:30 p.m. PT to discuss these executive changes and the opportunity ahead. The call will be broadcast live at http://ir.vmware.com  or you may dial-in: 1-800-369-3179, pass code: 0717.

VMware also announced preliminary second quarter results, including record quarterly revenues of approximately $1.123 billion, up 22% over second quarter 2011, versus guidance of $1.100 billion to $1.120 billion, and second quarter non-GAAP operating margins of approximately 32% versus guidance of 30.25% to 31.25%.  VMware expects full-year 2012 revenues to be between $4.540 billion and $4.635 billion with non-GAAP operating margins between 30.25% and 31.25%. VMware will discuss further details about its second quarter results and full-year business outlook during its earnings call at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time on Monday, July 23, 2012.

“VMware has an extraordinary opportunity to help customers transform IT and deliver fundamentally more value to the businesses they serve,” commented Paul Maritz, chief executive officer, VMware. “I’m very proud to have been part of an exceptional team of people who have accomplished a great deal over the past four years. VMware has not only transformed current IT practices but is leading in bringing Cloud Computing approaches and infrastructure to enterprises – on-premise and off.”

Maritz added, “Pat, with his deep passion for technology and track record, will complement the strong management team that is already in place at VMware, recently strengthened by the promotion of Carl Eschenbach to Chief Operating Officer. This all means that I can devote my time to developing the strategy of EMC as it relates to big data and a new generation of cloud-oriented applications.”

Having spent 30 years at Intel before joining EMC, Pat has unique expertise in the x86 architecture and ecosystem underpinning the vast majority of virtualized environments today, which is broadly recognized as the foundation for Cloud Computing.  At Intel, Pat was Senior Vice President and Co-General Manager of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group, the company's largest business group accounting for more than half of Intel's annual revenue. Under Gelsinger's leadership, that group was responsible for Intel's enterprise products including clients (PC's), Server, Embedded, Communications, Visualization and Storage products.

Gelsinger said, “The next generation of software defined-datacenters will be built by combining software with standardized hardware building blocks. VMware is uniquely positioned to be the leader in this endeavor and deliver a whole new level of value to customers and its existing important ecosystem partners.  For more than ten years I have interacted with the team at VMware and have developed a deep appreciation for the people and technology of this remarkable company. I am really excited about the mission and becoming part of the team.”

 “In Pat and Paul, we are fortunate to have two world-class leaders,” said Joe Tucci, chairman of VMware’s Board of Directors. “The strong teams that we now have in place at VMware and EMC allow me to ask Pat and Paul to take on two of the defining challenges and opportunities of the new, unfolding IT era: Cloud Infrastructure and big data. They have unique backgrounds and skills, and I look forward to continuing to work with both of them.”

Tucci continued, “I want to personally thank and congratulate Paul for all he’s accomplished over the past four years helping transform VMware from a technology leader in virtualization to an industry leader in Cloud Computing, and I’m excited that he’ll now be working full time on these new opportunities.”

About VMware
VMware (NYSE: VMW) is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they build, deliver and consume Information Technology resources in a manner that is evolutionary and based on their specific needs. With 2011 revenues of $3.77 billion, VMware has more than 350,000 customers and 50,000 partners. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.

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VMware Simplifies Journey to The Cloud With Zimbra® 8.0

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VMware Simplifies Journey to The Cloud With Zimbra® 8.0

New Zimbra Collaboration Server 8.0 offers email, address book, calendar and integrated unified communications built for the Post-PC era

Palo Alto, Calif — July 11, 2012 —VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced Zimbra® Collaboration Server™ 8.0. For many organizations interested in cloud-based email, Zimbra 8.0 offers a clear path for moving messaging and collaboration to the cloud. Easily deployed in private or public clouds, Zimbra is flexible enough to deliver the solution that best fits an organization’s needs - both now and in the future. As part of this announcement, VMware is making Zimbra 8.0 Betaavailable for download to organizations worldwide.

The newest version of Zimbra is built on the strength of VMware’s cloud expertise, offering all organizations from enterprise companies to small business the option to deploy a browser-based email solution in a private or public cloud, while delivering the advanced features and enterprise functionality that users demand. Further simplifying the IT experience, Zimbra 8.0 is available as a virtual software appliance that can be deployed in as little as ten minutes and requires minimal ongoing management. 

"We’re witnessing a fundamental shift in the way people work, and in turn a new set of demands that are put on IT infrastructure and applications like email and integration communications," said John Robb senior director at VMware. “Zimbra 8 is designed to make end users more efficient by connecting them with their data while providing IT departments a simple way to manage the transition to a public or private cloud and help deliver the benefits promised by the post-PC era." 

Zimbra 8.0 connects users to their personal cloud with a redesigned interface and a smarter mailbox that helps manage the flow of information through their email, calendar, voice and social channels. New to Zimbra 8.0, VMware has partnered with Cisco and Mitel to offer unified communications capabilities embedded within Zimbra. These deep integration capabilities allow users to connect their voice and message systems in a unified inbox, enabling Click2Call, voicemail, presence, and chat all from within the Zimbra Web app. Zimbra 8.0 features a user interface and the integration options to connect users to their cloud and enables a new way to work in the post-PC era.

"In the post-PC era employees are collaborating in innovative new ways.  More than ever, our customers are asking for cloud-based collaboration services that deliver compelling, integrated, productivity enhancing user experiences," said Laurent Philonenko, vice president, Cisco Unified Communications.  "Cisco works with innovative partners like VMware to integrate collaboration applications such as Cisco Jabber and Cisco WebEx — that bring together presence, instant messaging, voice and video, voice messaging, desktop sharing and conferencing into a consistent experience across PCs, Macs, tablets and smart phones."

“Mitel and VMware have delivered virtualized voice apps to more than 2,000 Mitel clients of all sizes,” said Alan Zurakowski, director of business development and strategic alliances for Mitel. “By offering an out-of-the-box integration with Zimbra, we’re extending the benefits of virtualized voice apps by providing end users with a great, streamlined unified communications experience, while simplifying usability, deployment, maintenance and upgrades for both Zimbra and Mitel apps."

Key Features of Zimbra 8.0

Integrated Unified Communications

Now unified communications are built into Zimbra with an all-new voice application that features out-of-the-box integration with Cisco and Mitel UC solutions accessible through the main user interface. This integration also features:

• Click-to-Call any phone number with call routing to device or soft phone
• Visual Voicemail with inline playback, management, and MWI status update
• Presence indication and launch of Click-to-Chat with Cisco Jabber integration
• Cisco WebEx integration to schedule and launch Cisco WebEx sessions directly from Zimbra
• Call history with placed, received, and missed calls visible within Zimbra
• Ability to extend or integrate other 3rd party UC solutions

Connecting the Personal Cloud
As part of the transition to the post-PC user experience, Zimbra has been updated to provide leading browser-based functionality featuring a smarter mailbox that helps users manage the flow of information through their email, voice and social channels. This functionality includes:

• Updated browser-based user interface featuring social conversation view
• Auto-filtering of bulk and distribution lists
• Expanded search capabilities, end-user managed distribution lists, shared tagging
• Enterprise Calendar – scheduling suggestions for complex meetings, smart views for managing multiple calendars

Managing ITaaS in the Cloud Era
Zimbra Collaboration Server 8.0 offers a consolidated collaboration service for messaging, calendar and contacts with enterprise IT security controls built to be delivered as a service as a private or public cloud solution. Zimbra 8 offers simplified IT management features such as:

• New Virtual Software Appliance that is feature complete and available for any size deployments
• Simplified upgrades and migrations with less than 60 seconds of mailbox downtime when moving to the new version of Zimbra
• SaaS administration and self-service experience to minimize end-user demands on IT
• End-user distribution list management from the web client. A delegated DL manager can create and manage subscriptions to distribution lists based on IT defined policies
• End-users can search and recover deleted items across Mail, Calendar, Contacts, and tasks based on IT defined recovery retention policies

For product download, video and screenshots of Zimbra 8, and to register for a webinar go to:http://www.zimbra.com/products/whats_new.html

About VMware:

VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they build, deliver and consume Information Technology resources in a manner that is evolutionary and based on their specific needs. With 2011 revenues of $3.77 billion, VMware has more than 350,000 customers and 50,000 partners. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.

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VMware Announces VMware vFabric Data Director 2.0, Adds Support for Oracle to Enterprise Database as a Service Platform

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VMware Announces VMware vFabric Data Director 2.0, Adds Support for Oracle to Enterprise Database as a Service Platform

Database-aware Virtualization on VMware vSphere, and Self-Service Lifecycle Management Reduce Database Costs and Accelerate Application Development

PALO ALTO, Calif., July 10, 2012 –VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced VMware® vFabricTM Data Director 2.0 with support for virtualization of Oracle databases on VMware vSphere®.vFabric Data Director 2.0 simplifies and automates database lifecycle management, allowing IT to deliver Database as a Service in order to increase developer agility while reducing total cost of ownership for databases.
 
“The journey to cloud computing is all about reducing complexity for developers and IT operations in order to be able to more effectively meet the demands of today’s application realities – faster development cycles, more data and higher expectations for IT responsiveness,” said Jerry Chen, vice president, Cloud and Application Services, VMware. “VMware vFabric™ Data Director leverages the benefits of virtualization at the database tier to reduce database complexity and cost through policy-based automation and a self-service management model.”

Today, enterprises and service providers are rapidly implementing self-service cloud platforms that enable IT to quickly provision virtual machines and other core infrastructure components. Now, users are looking for their IT providers to deliver similar benefits from the most critical software solutions, including databases. VMware vFabric Data Director’s database virtualization makes this possible while addressing some of the challenges customers face managing a growing, heterogeneous database infrastructure—long lead times for developers, overworked DBAs and excessive operational costs.

Self-Service Database Lifecycle Management
vFabric Data Director 2.0 automates deployment, management and governance of heterogeneous databases and enables IT to securely automate and delegate routine database management tasks, including provisioning, backup, cloning and patching. This means application teams can provision or refresh a database in minutes rather than days and IT can offer developers self-service database access while maintaining control and compliance through policy.

New and expanded capabilities in vFabric Data Director 2.0 include:

• Expanded database support – vFabric Data Director 2.0 now supports Oracle 10gR2, Oracle 11gR2 as well asvFabric Postgres 9.1 (a VMware optimized relational database based on PostgreSQL).
• Automated physical-to-virtual migration – To further simplify database virtualization, vFabric Data Director 2.0 now automates the process of migrating a physical database into a virtual environment. This enables enterprises to consolidate existing databases on VMware vSphere, achieving further cost savings and agility.
• Integration with cloud infrastructure and big data solutions – APIs for integration with other products such as vCloud® Director™, vFabric Application Director™,the Cloud Foundry™ open source project, EMC Data Domain, and Greenplum Chorus. Enterprises using these products can now leverage Data Director for database provisioning and management for an integrated experience.

"One of the primary obstacles to infrastructure migration, be it to virtualized environments or to the cloud, is the complexity and risk associated with the database," said Stephen O'Grady, Principal Analyst at RedMonk. "Now, with support for Oracle as well as PostgreSQL, VMware is offering customers a more seamless transition of database assets."

vFabric Data Director is part of the VMware vFabric family of products which includes GemFire®, SQLFire and runtime products optimized for Spring, a Java development framework, plus a complete set of services to build, run and manage modern applications in distributed cloud environments.

Pricing and Availability
vFabric Data Director 2.0 is currently available and is licensed per VM of managed database at $750 per VM up to two vCPUs. For more information, please visit the product page.

Additional Resources

• Data Director product sheet
• Tune into a live Webcast on Thursday, July 26 at 9:00 AM PTto learn more about virtualizing Oracle databases with VMware vFabric Data Director
• Oracle Databases on VMware - Best Practices Guide
• Understanding Oracle Certification, Support and Licensing for VMware Environments
• VMware vCloud Director
• VMware vFabric Application Director
• Cloud Foundry

About VMware
VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they build, deliver and consume Information Technology resources in a manner that is evolutionary and based on their specific needs. With 2011 revenues of $3.77 billion, VMware has more than 350,000 customers and 50,000 partners. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.

VMware, Cloud Foundry, VMware vCloud,GemFire,VMware vFabric and VMware vSphere are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. The use of the word “partner” or “partnership” does not imply a legal partnership relationship between VMware and any other company. All other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies.

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VMware to Acquire DynamicOps, Inc.

News release from VMware:

http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmw-dynamicops-07-02-12.html

VMware Named a Leader in Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure

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VMware Named a Leader in Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure

PALO ALTO, Calif., June 29, 2012 – VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders Quadrant of the 2012 Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure. (1) 

According to Gartner, “Virtualization penetration has surpassed 50 percent of all server workloads, and it continues to grow.” The report continues: “The x86 server virtualization infrastructure market is the foundation for two extremely important market trends that relate and overlap: infrastructure modernization and cloud computing. Virtualization is a fundamental enabler to IaaS, and will be used to establish private cloud services, public cloud services and interoperable hybrid cloud services.”

"VMware customers of all sizes are leveraging a decade of virtualization investments to build cloud operations that will allow them to achieve the peak in automation, flexibility and efficiency," said Rick Jackson, VMware CMO. "We believe our placement in the Leaders Quadrant underscores that VMware has the vision, strategy and offerings to help customers transform IT and deliver on the promise of cloud computing."

Industry Momentum and Recognition

VMware vSphere® is the most widely deployed virtualization platform in the world, broadly utilized by enterprises, small and midsize businesses (SMBs), public cloud service providers and as a foundation for the growing virtual desktop (VDI) market.

• In the past year, VMware's customer base has grown to more than 350,000 customers worldwide, including 100 percent of the Fortune 100.
• There are now more than 125 verified VMware vCloud® public clouds across 26 countries.
• More than 2,000 Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) support more than 3,600 applications running on VMware vSphere.

To access the 2012 Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure, go to:http://www.gartner.com/reprints/vmware?id=1-1B2IRYF&ct=120626&st=sg

About the Magic Quadrant
Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About VMware
VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they build, deliver and consume Information Technology resources in a manner that is evolutionary and based on their specific needs. With 2011 revenues of $3.77 billion, VMware has more than 350,000 customers and 50,000 partners. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.
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VMware, VMware vSphere and VMware vCloud are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions.  All other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies.

(1) Gartner “Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure,” by Thomas J. Bittman, George J. Weiss, Mark A. Margevicius, Philip Dawson, June 11, 2012

VMware vSphere 5.0 Earns Common Criteria EAL4+ Certification

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VMware vSphere 5.0 Earns Common Criteria EAL4+ Certification

Industry’s Most Trusted and Widely Deployed Virtualization Platform Achieves Highest-Level Security Certification

PALO ALTO, Calif., May 30, 2012 – VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced that VMware vSphere™ 5.0 has achieved Common Criteria certification at Evaluation Assurance Level 4 (EAL4+) under the Common CriteriaEvaluation and Certification Scheme (CCS). Common Criteria is an international set of guidelines (ISO 15408) that provides a common framework for evaluating security features and capabilities of Information Technology (IT) security products, and EAL4+ is the highest assurance level that is recognized globally by all signatories under the Common Criteria Recognition Agreement (CCRA).

"Cloud computing is a top priority for CIOs of government IT organizations,” said Aileen Black, vice president, public sector, VMware. “With VMware vSphere 5.0, government organizations can trust that they have a solid and reliable platform to achieve the benefits of cloud computing while maintaining the security, control and efficiency they require."

With VMware vSphere 5.0 achieving EAL4+ certification, this marks the completion of an intensive effort during which VMware vSphere 5.0 was examined, tested and certified at EAL4+, validating that VMware vSphere is one of the most proven platforms for modern IT infrastructure.

To facilitate the successful achievement of the Common Criteria certification, VMware worked with Corsec Security, Inc., and CGI’s accredited Common Criteria lab to complete the evaluation.

"VMware vSphere continues to lead virtualization and cloud computing solutions in its class and surpass security expectations by achieving Common Criteria at an EAL4+, " said Matthew Appler, CEO of Corsec Security. "VMware’s consistent certification strategy clearly demonstrates their commitment to security."

“CGI is pleased to support VMware’s continuing commitment to providing Common Criteria certified products for use worldwide” said Jason Lawlor, lab director at CGI’s IT Security Evaluation and Test Facility. “The growth of virtualized environments adds to the requirement for providing customers with certified solutions that have been tested to recognize industry standards like Common Criteria. VMware continues to be a leader in this regard.”

VMware has led the industry with the completion of the first Common Criteria certification for a virtualization product on x86 hardware with the certification of VMware ESX® Server 2.5 and VMware VirtualCenter™ in 2006.  Since then, VMware has maintained industry leadership with certifications of each subsequent release. The achievement of Common Criteria certification for vSphere 5.0 at EAL4+ continues to demonstrate VMware’s commitment to providing industry leading certified solutions.

Additional Resources

• Visit VMware’s Certifications webpage
• Read “VMware vSphere v5.0 Earns Common Criteria EAL4+ Certification” blog post by VMware Certifications Manager, Eric Betts
• Learn moreabout VMware vSphere 5

About Corsec Security, Inc.
Corsec Security, Inc. specializes in helping companies navigate through the complex process of achieving FIPS 140-2, Common Criteria (CC), and UC APL certifications. Corsec delivers unmatched expertise in the areas of security consulting, document creation, and project management, which can be leveraged to streamline the validation process. Corsec partners with companies around the world to achieve U.S. and international certification on a wide range of products. Corsec minimizes the time, effort and money a vendor needs to invest in validation, and performs its services at a firm, fixed price, ultimately maximizing the return on that investment. For further information, please visitwww.corsec.com.

About CGI
Founded in 1976, CGI Group Inc. is one of the largest independent information technology and business process services firms in the world. CGI and its affiliated companies employ approximately 31,000 professionals. CGI provides end-to-end IT and business process services to clients worldwide from offices and centres of excellence in Canada, the United States, Europe and Asia Pacific. As at December 31, 2011, CGI's annualized revenue was approximately $4.1 billion and its order backlog was approximately $13.6 billion. CGI shares are listed on the TSX (GIB.A) and the NYSE (GIB) and are included in both the Dow Jones Sustainability Index and the FTSE4Good Index. Website: www.cgi.com.

About VMware
VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they build, deliver and consume Information Technology resources in a manner that is evolutionary and based on their specific needs. With 2011 revenues of $3.77 billion, VMware has more than 350,000 customers and 50,000 partners. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.
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EMC Press Release

EMC and VMware Extend Partnership to Develop, Sell and Deliver Storage Analytics for VNX

EMC VNX to Integrate with VMware vCenter™ Operations Management Suite; Deliver Actionable Storage Analytics for Improved Performance, Faster Issue Resolution and Storage Planning

Contacts

Megan Lane (781) 426-6382  megan.lane@emc.com

Ken Lotich (650) 427-1911  klotich@vmware.com

EMC World 2012, LAS VEGAS—May 21, 2012

News Summary:

• EMC ® and VMware will work together to integrate VNX ® storage intelligence with the patented analytics of VMware vCenter ™ Operations Management Suite.
• EMC will extend its VNX storage software portfolio with the addition of the EMC Storage Analytics Suite that is based on VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite.
• EMC's VNX unified storage systems will also be integrated with VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite via the new EMC VNX Connector, enabling a single, end-to-end view of IT infrastructures with EMC VNX storage.

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Full Story

At EMC World 2012, EMC (NYSE:EMC) and VMware (NYSE: VMW) today extended their long-standing partnership with a new sales and development agreement designed to deliver offerings that combine comprehensive storage intelligence with the analytics and infrastructure visualization of VMware vCenter Operations. As part of the expanded relationship, the two companies will deliver:

• EMC VNX Storage Analytics Suite, based on VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite, will offer capabilities such as storage performance and capacity optimization and SLA improvement through analytics and diagnostics.
• EMC VNX Connector will provide VNX storage metrics and configurable dashboards within VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite.

Customers today are evolving in the way they manage their IT infrastructures as more organizations virtualize their business-critical applications. With this shift, organizations must address siloed infrastructure management and high end-user expectations of performance and uptime, as well as increase optimization and efficiency while reducing costs. With today's news, EMC and VMware have jointly developed and will deliver solutions to help with this transition.

Technology Highlights

Introduces Storage Performance and Capacity Analytics

• The EMC VNX Storage Analytics Suite enables storage operations management with customizable, intuitive dashboards. It will support block and file storage as well as displayEMC Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST ™ ) Cache configuration and performance, and FAST VP (FAST for Virtual Pools) tiers and policies.

Extends Visibility Across IT Infrastructure

• VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite provides holistic visibility and understanding of the virtual environment leading to optimization across compute, storage and network. New integration with EMC VNX Connector for VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite will marry VNX storage metrics with VMware vCenter Operations capabilities such as intuitive, configurable dashboards with drill down, health alerts and patented analytics.

Improves Storage Efficiencies and Faster Troubleshooting and Resolution

• These solutions will offer deep storage intelligence and analytics that enable proactive storage performance and capacity optimization across physical and virtual environments. Additionally, customers can maintain service levels by quickly troubleshooting performance abnormalities and immediately remediating errors.

EMC Executive Quotes:

Ramin Sayar, Vice President and General Manager, Products, Cloud and Virtualization Management, VMware "The powerful combination of EMC storage intelligence and VMware's vCenter™ Operations Management Suite will offer automated optimization and simplicity for our joint customers. Together, these solutions can help drive increased storage performance and infrastructure management in highly dynamic virtual and cloud environments, as well as physical data centers, while delivering operational cost benefits. With this integrated cross-domain solution, organizations of all sizes can proactively manage their overall infrastructure system health, as they continue to automate and transform their IT infrastructure."

Rich Napolitano, President, EMC Unified Storage Division"The benefits of total transparency into storage systems, in both physical and virtualized infrastructures, are staggering. VNX Storage Analytics Suite is designed to capitalize on this transparency by offering simplified storage management, optimized performance and easily maintained service levels for unprecedented efficiency. This holistic view of assets, combined with storage metrics including FAST Cache and FAST VP, will optimize both efficiency and performance—critical elements of any IT strategy."

Availability:

The EMC VNX Storage Analytics Suite and EMC VNX Connector for VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite are expected to be generally available in the second half of 2012.

About EMC

EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing.  Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset — information — in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found atwww.EMC.com.

About VMware

VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they build, deliver and consume Information Technology resources in a manner that is evolutionary and based on their specific needs. With 2011 revenues of $3.77 billion, VMware has more than 350,000 customers and 50,000 partners. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.

EMC and VMware Extend Partnership to Develop, Sell and Deliver Storage Analytics for VNX

VMware News Releases

EMC and VMware Extend Partnership to Develop, Sell and Deliver Storage Analytics for VNX

EMC VNX to Integrate with VMware vCenter™ Operations Management Suite; Deliver Actionable Storage Analytics for Improved Performance, Faster Issue Resolution and Storage Planning 

EMC WORLD, LAS VEGAS—May 21, 2012

At EMC World 2012, EMC (NYSE:EMC) and VMware (NYSE: VMW) today extended their long-standing partnership with a new sales and development agreement designed to deliver offerings that combine comprehensive storage intelligence with the analytics and infrastructure visualization of VMware vCenter Operations. As part of the expanded relationship, the two companies will deliver:

• EMC VNX Storage Analytics Suite, based on VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite, will offer capabilities such as storage performance and capacity optimization and SLA improvement through analytics and diagnostics. 
• EMC VNX Connector will provide VNX storage metrics and configurable dashboards within VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite.

Customers today are evolving in the way they manage their IT infrastructures as more organizations virtualize their business-critical applications. With this shift, organizations must address siloed infrastructure management and high end-user expectations of performance and uptime, as well as increase optimization and efficiency while reducing costs. With today’s news, EMC and VMware have jointly developed and will deliver solutions to help with this transition.

Technology Highlights:

Introduces Storage Performance and Capacity Analytics

• The EMC VNX Storage Analytics Suite enables storage operations management with customizable, intuitive dashboards. It will support block and file storage as well as displayEMC Fully Automated Storage Tiering (FAST™) Cache configuration and performance, and FAST VP (FAST for Virtual Pools) tiers and policies. 

Extends  Visibility Across IT Infrastructure

• VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite provides holistic visibility and understanding of the virtual environment leading to optimization across compute, storage and network.  New integration with EMC VNX Connector for VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite will marry VNX storage metrics with VMware vCenter Operations capabilities such as intuitive, configurable dashboards with drill down, health alerts and patented analytics.

Improves Storage Efficiencies and Faster Troubleshooting and Resolution

• These solutions will offer deep storage intelligence and analytics that enable proactive storage performance and capacity optimization across physical and virtual environments. Additionally, customers can maintain service levels by quickly troubleshooting performance abnormalities and immediately remediating errors.

Executive Quotes:
Ramin Sayar, Vice President and General Manager, Products, Cloud and Virtualization Management, VMware

“The powerful combination of EMC storage intelligence and VMware’s vCenter™ Operations Management Suite will offer automated optimization and simplicity for our joint customers. Together, these solutions can help drive increased storage performance and infrastructure management in highly dynamic virtual and cloud environments, as well as physical data centers, while delivering operational cost benefits. With this integrated cross-domain solution, organizations of all sizes can proactively manage their overall infrastructure system health, as they continue to automate and transform their IT infrastructure.”

Rich Napolitano, President, EMC Unified Storage Division

“The benefits of total transparency into storage systems, in both physical and virtualized infrastructures, are staggering. VNX Storage Analytics Suite is designed to capitalize on this transparency by offering simplified storage management, optimized performance and easily maintained service levels for unprecedented efficiency. This holistic view of assets, combined with storage metrics including FAST Cache and FAST VP, will optimize both efficiency and performance—critical elements of any IT strategy.”

Availability:
The EMC VNX Storage Analytics Suite and EMC VNX Connector for VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite are expected to be generally available in the second half of 2012.

About EMC
EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset — information — in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found at www.EMC.com.

About VMware
VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they build, deliver and consume Information Technology resources in a manner that is evolutionary and based on their specific needs. With 2011 revenues of $3.77 billion, VMware has more than 350,000 customers and 50,000 partners. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.
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All other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies.

VMware Cloud Infrastructure Validated by SAP for Virtualization of SAP’s Database Portfolio

VMware News Releases

VMware Cloud Infrastructure Validated by SAP for Virtualization of SAP’s Database Portfolio

Testing of SAP® Sybase® ASE Running on Virtual Machines Achieves High-Performance Results that Match Physical Infrastructure

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- (May 14, 2012) – VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced that SAP® Sybase® Adaptive Server® Enterprise (SAP Sybase ASE) running on VMware vSphere® has achieved high performance levels comparable to results of physical infrastructure. The data further validates the value of virtualizing business-critical applications, such as security, support for application availability and disaster recovery, and reduction in time-to-market for deploying systems and applications.

With the successful testing of virtualizing SAP Sybase ASE, VMware will continue to collaborate with SAP to fully support the entire SAP database portfolio, including the SAP Sybase IQ server, SAP Sybase Replication Server and SQL Anywhere on VMware cloud infrastructure.

VMware, in cooperation with SAP, conducted testing across a range of configurations to compare the performance of SAP Sybase ASE running on a virtual machine versus directly on physical hardware. The results showed throughput on a high-transaction OLTP database running on virtual machines often matched that of an identical physical system ¹.

Sybase has never asked its customers to reproduce on physical configurations, provided the virtual environment is certified by the operating system vendor and that operating system is certified by SAP/Sybase, which is unique within the virtualization industry. 

Sybase has offered the licensing of a Sybase product on a subset of the CPUs available on a physical machine (sub-capacity licensing) on VMware for Sybase ASE and Sybase IQ products since 2010, helping customers realize the cost effectiveness of virtualization. These test results present another strong step toward demonstrating the commitment to validating and optimizing these solutions to work together seamlessly.

Parag Patel, vice president, Global Strategic Alliances, VMware

“Virtualizing databases is a vital part of an organization’s journey to the cloud as they shift from running business-critical applications on physical infrastructure to full virtualization. We are pleased to continue to work with SAP to help ensure our customers have the confidence to successfully virtualize SAP’s portfolio of Sybase solutions to transform their businesses with high-performing, agile and cost-effective IT infrastructure.”

Supporting Materials

• Follow VMware on Twitter: @VMware
• Twitter hashtag #SAPPHIRENOW
• VMware Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vmware
• VMware YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/VMwareTV

For more VMware news, please visit: http://www.vmware.com/company/news/

About VMware
VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they build, deliver and consume Information Technology resources in a manner that is evolutionary and based on their specific needs. With 2011 revenues of $3.77 billion, VMware has more than 350,000 customers and 50,000 partners. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.

VMware and VMware vSphere are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. The use of the word “partner” or “partnership” does not imply a legal partnership relationship between VMware and any other company.

SAP and all SAP logos are trademarks or registered trademarks of SAP AG in Germany and in several other countries.
Sybase and Sybase 365 are trademarks or registered trademarks of Sybase, Inc. ® indicates registration in the United States. Sybase is an SAP company
All other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies.

¹HP  ProLiant BL 460c G7, * 2.666 GHz, Socket = 2 Core per socket = 6, Memory = 65 GB; Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 6.1; EMC VNX5700 8Gb FC to PCI Express HBA, QLogic; ESXi 5.0.0 469512

VMware View™ Leads the Small and Mid-sized Business Segment with the Majority of Desktop Virtualization Installations

VMware News Releases

VMware View™ Leads the Small and Mid-sized Business Segment with the Majority of Desktop Virtualization Installations

Spiceworks Study Finds Desktop Virtualization Market Poised to Grow Among SMBs in 2012

PALO ALTO, Calif., May 8, 2012 — VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced the results of a recently commissioned study conducted by Spiceworks that investigated desktop virtualization industry trends among small and mid-sized businesses (SMBs). The research revealed that more than 60 percent of SMBs who responded to the survey plan to roll out or evaluate desktop virtualization in 2012. In addition, the study showed that VMware View™ is the leading desktop virtualization solution deployed by SMBs.

“It’s clear that SMB customers want virtual desktop solutions that are both easy to implement and can scale with them as they grow,” said Vittorio Viarengo, vice president, End-User Computing, VMware. “Customers choose and deploy VMware View™ because of its proven ability to simplify their desktop deployments, improve security and manage IT more efficiently.”

Spiceworks, a leading social business network of more than 1.9 million SMB IT professionals worldwide, conducted the proprietary study on desktop virtualization industry trends. The research included data from 4,800 members of the Spiceworks Community, along with survey responses from 249 SMB IT professionals.

According to the results of the “Trends around Desktop Virtualization for Small and Mid-sized Organizations” study (April 2012), 53 percent of desktop SMB virtualization installations were deployed using VMware View. Citrix installations represented 27 percent of virtual desktop installations, with an additional 3 percent accounted for by Kaviza (recently acquired by Citrix).  Desktop virtualization installations from other vendors accounted for 8 percent or less individually.

“Our study clearly shows that desktop virtualization is a growing trend among SMBs,” said Jay Hallberg, co-founder and vice president of marketing, Spiceworks. “We’ll continue to follow the evolution of virtualization closely in our ongoing review of technology adoption and purchasing trends among SMBs.”

Desktop Virtualization within SMBs
The survey also found that 88 percent of respondents would implement an on-premise solution if they move to desktop virtualization and cloud computing, while 12 percent said they would consider a hosted virtual desktop offering.

Survey respondents also highlighted maintenance of security and compliance and lack of people/resources as the two biggest challenges SMBs face in managing end users. Desktop virtualization enables IT to centrally manage and secure desktops, applications, and data, which can enable IT to protect data more easily. Desktop virtualization also enables small IT teams to deliver desktops and applications to any device, anywhere, making it simple to support geographically diverse teams. 

For more information on this research and for a complete outline of results, can be found in the Spiceworks white paper.

Related Links and Additional Information

• Download the Spiceworks Whitepaper – Trends around Desktop Virtualization for Small and Mid-sized Organizations
• Read moreabout how Myron Steves and Company have transformed their Small Business IT environment
• WatchRuss Stockdale, vice president and general manager, SMB Products, VMware, outline how SMBs can simplify IT and focus on growing their business.
• Learn more about the VMware end-user computing portfolio in the VMware EUC Online Press Kit
• Learn moreabout VMware solutions for SMBs
• Read the VMware SMB Blogfor more on solutions for small and mid-size businesses
• Follow the VMware SMB team on Twitter, Facebook and Spiceworks.

About VMware
VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they build, deliver and consume Information Technology resources in a manner that is evolutionary and based on their specific needs. With 2011 revenues of $3.77 billion, VMware has more than 350,000 customers and 50,000 partners. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.

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VMware and VMware View are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. All other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. The use of the word “partner” or “partnership” does not imply a legal partnership relationship between VMware and any other company.