VMware to Present at the Barclays Global Technology Conference

VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter to the cloud, today announced that Mark Peek, chief financial officer of VMware, will present at the Barclays Global Technology Conference in San Francisco, CA on December 8, 2009 at 2:30 p.m. PT/ 5:30 p.m. ET.


A live webcast will be available on the Investor Relations page at http://ir.vmware.com. The replay of the webcast will be available for one month.

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IBM, VMware and NSEC Partner to Simplify Computing on the Go

IBM , VMware and Keepod products family manufacturer NSEC, today announced that they have partnered to offer IBM's Lotus Symphony productivity software suite on Keepod devices for the first time.

IBM's Lotus Symphony software suite helps users create, edit and share documents, spreadsheets and presentations. Based on an open, secure platform, the intuitive business productivity offering is easy-to-use and free of charge. With today's news, for the first time, users can access the information they need anytime, anywhere securely via the Keepod.

This portable version of the software, packaged using VMware ThinApp™ and made possible through an original equipment manufacturer (OEM) agreement between IBM and NSEC, can be launched directly from any Keepod device, without installing anything on the PC and without leaving a footprint on the system. Launching Lotus Symphony directly from Keepod means that users won’t leave any trace of their work, which may be confidential in nature.

Keepod™ (http://www.mykeepod.com/) is the world’s slimmest USB secure portable device. Sized as a credit card and equipped with robust enterprise class encryption, Keepod provides a complete offering for business users. With up to 16GB of secure storage, Keepod stores all the user’s files and run applications on the go.

“Our goal with Lotus Symphony software, which is intuitive, easy to use, and richly-featured, is to provide a fully capable alternative to the market, giving business and consumers alike real choice and cost savings,” said Kevin Cavanaugh, Vice President, Messaging and Collaboration, IBM Lotus. “With this Keepod offering, we are able to extend Symphony benefits to many new users."

VMware ThinApp is an enterprise-proven, agentless application virtualization solution with the lowest total cost of ownership. ThinApp seamlessly fits into any environment, streamlines application deployments by packaging an entire application including its settings into a single executable that is isolated from the OS, ensures compatibility and portability, and reduces costly regression testing and application conflicts.

VMware ThinApp application virtualization software enables IBM to deliver the complete Lotus®Symphony™ suite on Keepod devices to enable maximum mobility to end users and allow them to work securely anywhere.

“The combined solution of Keepod, VMware ThinApp and Lotus Symphony allows for greater mobility of office automation software and provides secured access to corporate applications on the road or from home,” said Patrick Harr, vice president of enterprise desktop marketing, Desktop Business Unit, VMware.

The Keepod-compatible version of the software is being offered free of charge, exclusively via the Keepod Online Store (store.mykeepod.com). Visitors can download the virtualized Lotus Symphony on their Keepod after a fast registration process. The solution is available for current Keepod customers as well as new users who can download and test the software after registration.

“A free of charge professional office productivity suite, that is available to use at any-time, in a secure way, on any PC regardless of internet or network connectivity, sounded like a very good idea,” said Nissan Bahar, CEO of NSEC. ”Delivering applications on the Keepod platform provides a real added value to businesses in terms of mobility, IT flexibility, security and cutting costs. Partnering with IBM and VMware created a solution that is a safe choice for IT managers in businesses of any size.”

NSEC recently launched its Online Software Market, which leverages the VMware platform, and began providing virtualized open-source software that Keepod users can freely download and use on their Keepod devices.

Thanks to Lotus Symphony software, businesses can control software acquisition and upgrade costs, provide compatibility with Microsoft Office file formats, protect future access to documents with support for Open Document Format, and support a global workforce with Lotus Symphony's native language support for more than 28 languages.

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VMware to Present at the Credit Suisse First Boston Technology Conference

VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter to the cloud, today announced that Tod Nielsen, chief operating officer of VMware, will present at the Credit Suisse First Boston Technology Conference in Scottsdale, Arizona on December 3, 2009 at 10:00 a.m. MT/ 9:00 a.m. PT.


A live webcast will be available on the Investor Relations page at http://ir.vmware.com. The replay of the webcast will be available for one month.

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VMware Expands Industry-leading VMware Ready Program

VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud, today announced an important enhancement to its VMware Ready™ program, expanding the program to allow middleware and application software to qualify for the VMware Ready logo. The logo simplifies the purchase and deployment process for customers and prospects by signifying that qualified applications deliver outstanding performance and reliability when deployed on VMware vSphere™– the industry’s leading virtualization platform.

Nearly 1,000 of the most widely used applications from independent software vendors (ISVs) support the VMware vSphere platform. Each month, dozens more applications are added to the supported list. These solutions include business applications such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) and human resource management (HRM) software, industry-specific applications such as electronic medical records and financial processing software, and middleware such as application servers and databases. As an extension to this rapidly growing list, ISVs whose applications qualify for the VMware Ready logo will benefit by gaining access to customer-focused branding from the undisputed leader in virtualization. ISVs will also be highlighted in the VMware Partner Product Catalog.

Customers who are making application purchase decisions for their VMware vSphere environments will see the VMware Ready logo and know these applications have been tested and are supported on VMware vSphere. The logo also means that these applications can take full advantage of VMware vSphere service-level controls for availability, security and scalability.

“Our partner ecosystem is among the largest in the industry, and having a wide selection of proven applications for VMware vSphere™ sets us apart from everyone else,” said Parag Patel, vice president, alliances, VMware. “The VMware Ready™ logo gives participating ISVs a powerful sales advantage and the ability to inform customers that their applications are leveraging the TCO savings and flexibility of the VMware platform. And, customers will have confidence and peace of mind knowing their applications are ready for the VMware platform. From the top of the technology stack to the lowest layers, customers have more and more choices with VMware.”

Adding application software to the VMware Ready program rounds out an already-robust program. Today, customers may select from more than 1,000 servers, 400 storage devices, 800 I/O products, and 450 operating system versions that have earned the VMware Ready logo. VMware is the only virtualization solution provider that offers customers such breadth and depth of certified and validated products from its partner community.

“Fujifilm was among the first PACS vendors to recognize the enormous benefits of virtualization for our customers,” said Jim Morgan, executive director, marketing, Fujifilm Medical Systems. “With VMware virtualization, Fujifilm can offer customers the performance, reliability and scalability that healthcare demands with a lower TCO than traditional server deployment configurations. The VMware Ready™ logo helps assure our customers that our Synapse products perform optimally in a VMware virtualized environment.”

“We are living in an age in which businesses must have access to vast quantities of information as a tool for making smarter and faster decisions, at a lower cost,” said Bernard Spang, director, Information Management Strategy, IBM. "Through the VMware Ready™ program and the long-standing collaboration between our two companies, our mutual clients can confidently enjoy the cost and energy savings both IBM DB2 software and VMware virtualization technologies deliver.”

“Through our strategic relationship with VMware, Mitel is a leader in providing VMware Ready™ real-time unified communications voice applications,” said Ron Wellard, executive vice-president product development and operations. “This means Mitel customers have the option to deploy our voice communications solutions in the dynamic, efficient virtualization environment provided by VMware vSphere™. The VMware Ready logo tells our customers and partners that our solutions carry with it built-in high availability and service-level controls that our combined customers depend on.”

“Manufacturers depend on our industrial automation and information solutions to improve their operations,” said Ken Deken, vice president, Portfolio Management, Rockwell Automation. “By deploying our software configuration, human interface and information solutions on the VMware platform, Rockwell Automation customers can leverage virtualization in the manufacturing environment, helping reduce costs, increase availability and extend the life of their investments.”

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VMware Enables Rapid Adoption of Desktop Virtualization

VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud, today announced VMware View™ 4, enabling rapid adoption of virtualized desktops and establishing a desktop as a managed service model. VMware View™ 4 is the industry’s only purpose-built desktop virtualization solution, setting a new quality, cost and scale standard for desktop virtualization environments. Built on VMware vSphere™, the industry’s leading virtualization platform, VMware View 4 is a complete desktop virtualization solution featuring a rich, flexible desktop user experience while delivering dramatic efficiency, security, performance, scalability and management improvements – all while reducing desktop total cost of ownership by as much as 50 percent.

Desktop virtualization has long remained a top IT goal because of the added security, manageability and compliance capabilities delivered. Adoption, however, has been limited due to high acquisition costs, insufficient user experience, scalability issues and limitations on the use cases that could benefit from virtualized desktops. With VMware View 4, VMware and its ecosystem of partners eliminate these barriers, enabling broader, mainstream enterprise adoption of desktop virtualization.

VMware View ™ 4 provides:

* Simplified desktop provisioning and management with flexible on-demand provisioning of thousands of desktops and applications instantaneously and the ability to manage up to tens of thousands of desktops from a single console
* User flexibility and rich user experience with always on access to applications and desktops from nearly any device
* Differentiated desktop SLAs including enterprise-class availability, disaster recovery, failover and scalability supporting tens of thousands of users across the enterprise
* Improved security and compliance through centralized management of security policies permissions and updates

“At VMware, we’re extremely proud of the impact we’ve had on the datacenter, transforming decades old computing models and accelerating the emergence of private and public cloud environments,” said Paul Maritz, president and chief executive officer, VMware. “With the introduction of VMware View 4, we see an equally compelling opportunity to leverage our knowledge and expertise in virtualization and forever change how desktop services are both delivered and consumed.”

“In addressing the main barriers to broad desktop virtualization adoption – acquisition costs, user experience and scalability – VMware, along with its broad ecosystem of partners is working to pave the way for enterprises to more easily transform their desktops into a managed service with significantly improved security, management, availability and compliance at a reduced total cost of ownership,” said IDC industry analyst Mike Rose. “IDC expects that because of these and other advances, organizations will continue to increase the size of virtual desktop environments both in terms of users and use cases.”

“VMware View 4 will enable us to centralize the management of our virtual desktops in regional data centers – without compromising the end-user experience that they're used to today,” said Greg Ball, solutions architect for Owens Corning. “VMware View 4 will also offer a lot more control over the data that's coming in and out of the virtual desktops than we ever had before. Thanks to the flexibility and ease of administration, we will be able to manage our growing desktop deployment without exponentially growing our staff.”

Highest Quality Desktop Experience

VMware View 4 establishes a new desktop experience standard, capable of satisfying the broadest range of users – from the basic task worker to the designer, with a rich, high-quality user environment across the widest range of devices and networks. View 4 will deliver a complete desktop environment including:

* VMware View with PC over IP (PCoIP) - New adaptive display protocol specifically developed for virtual desktop delivery dynamically detects device type, network connections and locations providing the optimal desktop experience for each unique user scenario. Only VMware View with PCoIP analyzes and optimizes for both hardware and software environments. A strong ecosystem of hardware and solution providers have announced support for PCoIP, enabling adoption and support of this key innovation.
* VMware View Display – Multi-monitor, adaptive display support, resolution optimization for each monitor with an option to pivot and rotate the display output, supporting rich audio and video content with increased performance.
* VMware View Direct – Seamless mapping from the virtual desktop to the end users device for locally attached peripherals through USB connection for increased productivity.
* VMware View Printing – Users automatically discover, connect and print to locally attached printer without the need to install print drivers. Delivers a high quality printing experience even over low bandwidth connections.
* VMware View Unified Access – Continuous desktop availability with a single point of authentication for users to access - VMware View environments, Windows Terminal Servers, Blade PCs or even remote physical PCs.

“We are looking forward to deploying VMware View 4 for easier, more cost-effective centralized management of our desktops,” said Mark Larson, senior systems engineer for Jostens. “With VMware View 4, we will be able to efficiently deploy and manage secure desktops for users and scale out as our business grows. VMware View will also provide our employees with rich user experiences so they can access their desktops and, even, graphically-rich applications across a wide range of devices and networks.”

Reduced Acquisition Cost and TCO
VMware View 4 will establish new levels of efficiency and cost savings through product advancements and close collaboration with partners, driving down storage, networking and compute resource costs.

* Platform Optimization - VMware View 4 is built upon VMware vSphere 4, the industry’s leading virtualization platform. VMware vSphere 4 includes unique enhancements for desktop virtualization, delivering better performance and higher virtual machine densities to support demanding desktop environments on a minimum numbers of servers, reducing overall costs.
* Centralized Security and Management – VMware View 4 will enable enterprises to significantly reduce the ongoing management and operating expenses associated with desktops. Centralized management, standardized desktop images and flexible provisioning and upgrades enable enterprises to manage thousands of users from a single console while bringing greater enforcement of security, permissions and compliance policies. Customer deployments consistently demonstrate administrative cost reductions of 50 percent or greater.
* Broad Ecosystem Alignment – Desktops as a managed service requires coordination between multiple software and hardware infrastructure providers to reduce the overall solution cost and to drive support and interoperability. Through close collaboration with key partners ranging from PCoIP hardware endpoints and other thin clients to management, security, storage and network infrastructure providers, and ISVs, VMware has further reduced acquisition costs and TCO for customers. VMware and partners have designed, built, and validated end-to-end solutions of hardware and software to take the guesswork out of designing a virtualized desktop deployment, documented in reference architectures (see http://www.vmware.com/products/view/resources.html).

VMware provides a TCO desktop calculator http://www.vmware.com/go/view_calculator to enable customers to estimate their year-over-year savings with VMware View 4.

New Scalability and Performance Standards
VMware View 4 also raises the bar for performance and scalability of desktops with:

* Industry-Leading Virtualization Platform – VMware vSphere 4 will ensure scalability and consistent performance regardless of desktop loads and across peak usage periods, balancing resources and requirements for optimal performance, without disruption or downtime. Proven in the most demanding enterprise environments, vSphere will deliver unparalleled availability and business continuity for virtualized desktop environments, ensuring the highest level of performance without disruption to desktop users.
* Scalable Desktop Management – With VMware View 4, customers can now scale to deploy and manage tens of thousands of desktops as a result of advancements in virtual desktop provisioning and management.
* Partner Ecosystem Optimization – VMware View takes advantage of unique optimization at the CPU, hardware, server and network levels to drive the highest performance, highest quality solutions. Partners also have provided reference architectures (http://www.vmware.com/products/view/resources.html) – blueprints showing best practices for deploying virtualized desktops – for VMware View 4.

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ACS and VMware Now Offering “Next Generation”

Affiliated Computer Services, Inc. (NYSE: ACS) will be providing a more cost-effective way to deliver desktop managed services for its clients through a partnership with VMware (NYSE: VMW).

As part of the agreement, ACS will now standardize the deployment of VMware View™, the industry-leading enterprise desktop virtualization solution, at all of its customer datacenters around the world in order to help customers avoid the capital costs, time and IT resources required to build a virtual desktop solution from scratch.

Desktop virtualization is an emerging trend in the IT marketplace and essentially allows you to run several “virtual” computers on a single physical machine, sharing the resources of that single computer across multiple environments.

“VMware View™ has helped us improve the efficiency of desktop management so we can deliver a more cost-effective solution for our customers,” said Wayne Scalf, vice president of ACS Global IT Service Delivery. “Plus, we will be able to provide an even greater level of service while expanding our reach to address our growing customer base and a diverse set of new requirements.”

ACS currently supports hundreds of thousands of desktops for leading global corporations and government organizations worldwide. By utilizing VMware View to simplify and automate its desktop and application management, ACS will be able to significantly reduce desktop total cost of ownership (TCO) for its customers, as well as improve data security, and enhance flexibility and productivity across multiple end-user platforms and devices.

“This partnership with ACS is a significant step in furthering the movement toward adoption of desktops as a managed service,” said Jocelyn Goldfein, vice president and general manager, Desktop Business Unit, VMware. “ACS with VMware View is at the forefront in providing end users with the reliability, flexibility and customization required in today’s highly competitive business environment through the delivery of desktops as a managed service.”

ACS’s desktop management service focuses heavily on preventive maintenance to provide workers with fast, reliable and robust desktops. This solution includes leveraging VMware View to help ensure application version control, administer OS patches and updates, and comply with software-licensing agreements.

ACS Global IT Outsourcing Solutions (ITO) enable commercial businesses and government organizations worldwide to focus on their core competencies. ACS ITO solutions include application infrastructure, business applications, technology infrastructure and IT consulting services. ACS is ranked as the Best Performer for Infrastructure Providers by Global Services 100.

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VMware View 4 Partner Ecosystem Rallies Behind PC-over-IP Display Protocol

VMware, Inc. , the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud, today announced broad ecosystem support of the Teradici PC-over-IP® (PCoIP®) protocol delivered in VMware View™ 4, also announced today (see news release, “VMware Enables Rapid Adoption of Desktop Virtualization by Driving New Quality, Cost and Scalability Standards with VMware View ™ 4”).

VMware View 4 is the industry’s only purpose-built desktop virtualization solution, setting a new quality, cost and scale standard while eliminating critical barriers that have traditionally restricted customer adoption. The VMware software implementation of the patented PCoIP protocol is a key feature of VMware View 4, raising the bar for delivering a rich, high-quality desktop experience to any user—from the basic task worker to the most demanding power user—regardless of location, addressing more use cases than ever before. With support for native VMware View software clients and PCoIP-enabled hardware from a variety of ecosystem partners, VMware View with PCoIP is specifically designed to provide customers the flexibility to deploy end-to-end solutions with a variety of end point options to meet the most diverse range of end user and business needs.

Unlike other legacy application delivery solutions, the robust PCoIP protocol in VMware View 4 is purpose-built for virtual desktop delivery over any network. The flexible access model enables users to work with a wide range of applications, view rich media content, choose any number of monitor configurations and seamlessly access locally attached peripheral devices such as printers, scanners and mass storage with a PC-like experience regardless of location or task. The protocol dynamically detects and adapts to the end user’s network connection, automatically analyzing and optimizing to compensate for changes in latency and bandwidth to help ensure the best user experience for the scenario.

“VMware prides itself on partnering with a robust ecosystem so that together we can enable the best desktop solutions based on our diverse customer needs,” said Jocelyn Goldfein, vice president and general manager, Desktop Business Unit, VMware. “With VMware View™ 4, PC-over-IP, and strong support from the ecosystem, we’re expanding the reach of our solutions and addressing more use cases than ever before while delivering an optimal experience to end users.”

Partners Support New VMware View™ 4 with PCoIP Display Protocol

“Many of our customers are looking to extend the power of virtualization beyond the datacenter to the desktop. Cisco is working closely with key desktop virtualization solutions vendors, like VMware, to help deliver high-performance applications to the virtual desktop through our network and compute infrastructure and WAN optimization solution,” said Manjula Talreja, vice president, business development, Strategic Partner Organization, Cisco. “Cisco is also developing security capabilities found in Nexus 1000V that work with VMware View™ 4 to help protect customers from malware attacks in centralized virtual desktop server environments.”

“VMware supporting the PC-over-IP protocol with VMware View™ 4 provides tremendous value for customers looking to extend the capabilities of Virtual Remote Desktop computing throughout the enterprise,” said Steve Lalla, vice president and general manager, Business Client Product Group, Dell, Inc. “With VMware View 4 and Dell’s Virtual Remote Desktop solution, customers will be able to access a wide variety of applications and play rich media content without compromising data security or the end-user experience.”

"Devon IT has been delivering PC-over-IP client computing solutions since the inception of the technology," said Joe Makoid, president, Devon IT. "We have built an entire suite of products around VMware View™ 4 because we believe this is a premier platform for deploying virtual desktop solutions. Devon IT is pleased to offer our leadership and experience in PC-over-IP thin client solutions with our VMware View 4 certified hardware and software solutions to VMware customers and help promote this quantum leap in desktop virtualization as a way for organizations to improve hosted desktop computing."

"HP's thin computing platforms and solutions always support the latest VMware View™ enhancements like PC-over-IP to deliver a superior user experience with rich multimedia, high-performance graphics and high-definition audio,” said Jeff Groudan, vice president, Thin Client and Client Virtualization Solutions, HP. “HP and VMware work together to deliver a better user experience for customers as well as fully integrated desktop virtualization solutions that are simple to configure, deploy and manage."

“We are extremely excited with the launch of VMware View™ 4 and the broad support of PCoIP® technology now available in a variety of software and hardware accelerated platforms – all from leading virtualization solution partners,” said Dan Cordingley, president and CEO, Teradici Corporation. “VMware View 4 is the only desktop virtualization solution tailored to deliver a compelling remote computing experience to meet the needs of all enterprise user types.”

"Wyse's day-one support and certification of VMware View™ 4 featuring the new PC-over-IP protocol, ensures Wyse and VMware customers can deploy end-to-end virtual desktop solutions effectively," said Param Desai, director, product management, Wyse. "Together, Wyse and VMware are delivering the Wyse P20 with PC-over-IP protocol technology, enabling the practical consolidation of all IT resources into the datacenter. Wyse is also working closely with VMware to deliver the new PC-over-IP software client on a variety of thin client devices that can deliver an uncompromised user experience, including improved scalability with media remoting, anywhere, without incurring the security risks associated with transmitting data across a network or having data reside in remote PCs."

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