VMware

The VMware-EMC strategic alliance aims to solve customer challenges by enabling them to leverage the benefits of VMware's industry-leading virtualization technologies. VMware has joined with Cisco and EMC to form the Virtual Computing Environment coalition (VCE) to accelerate massive virtualization and private cloud infrastructure.

VMware and EMC work together to build solutions that enable businesses to reduce information technology (IT) complexity and increase responsiveness to new business needs. Our solutions help you realize immediate capital and operational expense reductions without imposing new infrastructure requirements. Through joint product development, solutions, services, and support, the VMware-EMC alliance helps customers to radically simplify their infrastructure and operations.

Overview

Over the past seven years, VMware and EMC have been working together closely, providing our joint customers with proven solutions. This strong partnership provides customers with in-depth technical experience and proven product integrations and interoperability that will meet your requirements today and tomorrow.

VMware and EMC solutions enable customers to streamline IT management and increase availability and reliability by using a virtualized information infrastructure. EMC solutions for VMware environments include simple, easy-to-install solutions that can be up and running in minutes to large-scale enterprise-class solutions.

Next-generation data center

Virtualization is at the core of next-generation data center architectures. EMC, Cisco, and VMware have been working together to provide the efficiency, control, and flexibility our customers need in next-generation data center architectures.

Application solution areas

EMC and VMware have built several solutions for Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SharePoint Server, Oracle databases and applications, and SAP. These solutions simplify application management, accelerate deployment, and leverage the latest generation of data protection technologies to ensure your business is never down or compromised.

Cloud computing

EMC, VMware, and Cisco are working together and with other leading vendors to develop a cloud computing platform built on VMware's Cloud operating system (OS). Virtualization is the key technology to enable companies to leverage cloud infrastructure and services including enterprise-ready private clouds. This revolutionizes the way IT resources are utilized and represents a new paradigm of IT architecture.

Joint solutions

EMC and VMware have solutions built around:

• VMware vSphere and VMware infrastructure
• VMware View, delivering virtual desktop infrastructure
• Virtualized infrastructure management
• Backup, recovery, and deduplication
• Business continuity and disaster recovery
• Security, leveraging RSA solutions

EMC Consulting

EMC Consulting can help you adapt the ecosystem supporting your virtualized servers, storage, and networks. We have proven experience in accelerating the benefits of virtualization. Keep your technology goals and business vision aligned as you implement virtualization across your entire infrastructure. Our expertise includes business continuity planning with VMware Site Recovery Manager, backup and deduplication for virtualized environments, new infrastructure deployment, and residency services.

About VMware

VMware (NYSE: VMW) is the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the data center—bringing cloud computing to businesses of all sizes. Customers 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.