Overview:
VMware is the global leader in virtualization software for industry-standard desktops and servers. VMware delivers a complete suite of desktop and server products that are known for quality, innovation, and customer value. In 2006, it is estimated that VMware’s virtualization products ran more than 10 percent of the new x86 workload. More than 20,000 customers are using VMware products today to address business objectives such as consolidating servers and space, reducing power and cooling costs, enabling a cost-effective disaster recovery and business continuity strategy, reducing the cost of managing a desktop environment, and, overall, creating a more flexible and dynamic IT environment.

VMware Infrastructure allows IT organizations to achieve:

• 60-80 percent utilization rates for x86 servers, up from today’s 5-15 percent
• Provisioning of new applications in tenths of seconds, not days
• Change-request response times measured in minutes
• Zero-downtime hardware maintenance without waiting for maintenance windows