VMworld 2009, the Premier Virtualization Event of the Year, Returns to San Francisco

Attendees to Learn How Virtualization is Revolutionizing the Next Generation of Computing New Developer Day Focuses on Pushing the Boundaries of Innovation Using the VMware vSphere 4 Platform. VMware, Inc. , the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud, today announced that VMworld 2009, the leading virtualization event, makes its return to San Francisco August 31–September 3, 2009 at Moscone Center. With more than 11,000 attendees expected and more than 180 sponsors and exhibitors, including AMD, Cisco, Dell, EMC, Fujitsu, HP, Hitachi Data Systems, Intel, NetApp, Terremark and SunGard, VMworld 2009 will spotlight how virtualization is revolutionizing the next generation of computing.

The theme for this year’s VMworld is “Hello Freedom,” an expression of how virtualization is transforming business through IT. VMworld 2009 events, sessions and speakers will demonstrate how companies of all sizes can liberate IT from the technical constraints of conventional computing so that IT can focus more on the business.

New for Developers: Technology Exchange Developer Day
On Monday, August 31, VMware will host its first Technology Exchange Developer Day, an event dedicated to all software developers building solutions for the VMware vSphere™ 4 platform. Building on the success of past VMware Technology Exchange conferences, this event will feature beginner and advanced level sessions providing an overview and best practices in the adoption of VMware’s developer APIs, including the VMware vSphere 4 Web Services Software Development Kit (SDK). Attendees will learn about VMware developer products and see demos from the engineers who built them. The event will also feature content designed exclusively for the members of the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) Program.

Deep Dive Sessions on the Virtualization Journey
Attendees will be able to choose from more than 300 sessions—including technical deep dives – across six tracks: Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery, Desktop Virtualization, Enterprise Applications, Technology and Architecture, Virtualization Management and Virtualization 101. VMworld 2009 offers 12 instructor-led and nine self-pace labs with over 10,000 total lab seats and, new this year, 12 instructor-led business workshops focused on understanding and planning the virtualization journey and the value proposition and ROI of virtualization.

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Rapid Growth of VMware Service Provider Program Illustrates Increased Demand

With More than 700 Service Providers Worldwide, the VMware Service Provider Program Offers Industry-leading Products and Program Benefits and a Flexible Licensing Model, Enabling Partners to Easily Provide Cloud-based IT Solutions to Customers. VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud, today announced expansion and continued momentum of the VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP). The VSPP is designed to enable IT service provider partners—solution providers that offer cloud-based IT services to customers outside their traditional datacenters—to leverage the VMware platform, including VMware vSphere™ 4, to offer external IT infrastructures for customers so they can increase or reduce compute capacity based on business demands. Since its launch in 2008, more than 700 service provider partners have joined the VSPP, and the program has expanded to offer benefits to partners in the EMEA region. Service providers in 32 countries are current VSPP members.

VSPP members have access to a flexible VMware licensing model that enables them to pay for as many or few VMware licenses as they require to provide customized IT services. Service providers pay for monthly access to the industry-leading VMware platform on a per-virtual machine basis. In turn, service providers can offer customers services based on this model—as customer demand fluctuates, service providers can increase or reduce their licensing requirements as needed. This model allows service providers to quickly start and grow a VMware-based services business without the time and money needed to procure the necessary physical resources.

“We’re excited about the traction the VSPP has gained in such a short time, as it further validates the value proposition for customers to use cloud computing services based on the VMware platform,” said Scott Aronson, vice president, global accounts and VMware vCloud™ market development, VMware. “With more than 700 service providers participating in the program, customers of all sizes have numerous unique options for accessing these services. The VSPP also offers service provider partners an easy onramp to participate in the VMware vCloud initiative, which helps partners leverage our industry-leading virtualization platform to enable secure, robust and highly reliable internal and external clouds.”

Launched in 2008, the VSPP is part of the award-winning VMware Partner Network and provides numerous program benefits to help service providers grow their VMware-based services with the lowest possible overhead. To facilitate the program experience for service providers, the VSPP has established a network of global “aggregators” experienced in working with service providers and the requirements around subscription-based licensing models. Aggregators provide tailored tools and processes to help service providers centralize and streamline the monthly reporting, billing and collection cycles associated with subscription-based service models. VSPP partners also have access to the other benefits of the VMware Partner Network, including free demo and evaluation products, marketing tools, training and competency programs, and access to Partner Central, VMware’s online partner portal that provides everything partners need to maintain their virtualization practices.

Service provider partners and aggregators currently participating in the VSPP have experienced increased demand for cloud-based IT services that leverage the VMware vSphere™ 4 platform.

“The VSPP enables us to offer solutions that provide cost-effective, cloud-based virtualized infrastructure that meets the specific needs of clients of all sizes through a simplified, easily accessible service model,” said Simon Hansford, vice president, Service Strategy, Attenda. “We get all the benefits of the VMware vSphere™ 4 platform—reduced capital and operating expenses, increased IT flexibility and a smaller carbon footprint—with a convenient ‘pay as you go’ model that scales easily according to customer demand.”

“VMware vSphere™ 4 is at the forefront of cloud computing, providing significant cost savings, resource efficiencies and IT flexibility—so it’s no surprise that combining this platform with a world-class partner program just for service providers would gain significant momentum,” said David A. Casillo, senior vice president, Strategic Partnerships and Marketing, Insight. “We’re excited to be working with VMware to help service provider partners increase their services


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VMware Furthers Collaboration with HP through OEM Agreement and Co-Development Plans

VMware Furthers Collaboration with HP through OEM Agreement and Co-Development Plans to Deliver New Solutions for Datacenter and Application Management. VMware Signs OEM Agreement with HP to Embed HP Discovery and Dependency Mapping Software Into VMware vCenter Suite; VMware Also Collaborates with HP to Deliver Integrated Client Automation Solutions. Today at HP Software Universe 2009, VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud, announced that it signed an OEM agreement to integrate HP Discovery and Dependency Mapping software into the VMware vCenter™ suite and is working with HP on new datacenter management initiatives. In addition, HP has integrated VMware ThinApp™ with the HP Client Automation policy-based management platform. Both of these initiatives will help customers seamlessly and cost-effectively manage their physical and virtual datacenter and desktop initiatives. Today’s announcement expands on the companies’ existing strong relationship designed to provide customers with complete solutions that help them build and manage dynamic datacenters for delivering IT as a service.

“VMware and HP have a strong relationship that delivers state-of-the-art efficiency and helps our customers lower capital and operating costs while providing innovative solutions for their end users,” said Raghu Raghuram, vice president and general manager, Server Business Unit, VMware. “Combining VMware vCenter™ virtualization management products with HP’s leading heterogeneous management software for physical infrastructure is another step forward in helping customers cut through the complexities of dynamic datacenter management so they can focus less on the plumbing of their datacenters and more on providing efficient, flexible and reliable IT as a service.”

"Customers are looking for a dramatically better approach to IT management in order to reduce costs and risks, while achieving integrated seamless management of the physical and virtual datacenter," said Ramin Sayar, vice president, Products, Software & Solutions, HP. "The combination of HP software and VMware solutions will provide customers with an end-to-end automated solution for building and managing next-generation datacenters."

Co-development of Unified Discovery and Dependency Mapping
In the first area of collaboration, VMware will OEM the HP Discovery and Dependency Mapping software into the VMware vCenter™ management suite. VMware will integrate HP Discovery and Dependency Mapping software as a virtual appliance into VMware vCenter ConfigControl™ in 2010 after ConfigControl becomes available to further enable customers to maintain visibility and ensure compliance of configuration states in their VMware vSphere™ 4 environments. A combined solution will give VMware vCenter administrators “single pane of glass” visualization of how business services running in VMware virtual machines map to the physical infrastructure. This will enable customers to simplify management of their heterogeneous infrastructures through comprehensive discovery and dependency mapping as well as automation of common management tasks including change detection, configuration updates, provisioning, patching, and enforcement of compliance and security policies.

Collaborative Product Integrations for Client Desktop Management
VMware has also worked with HP to extend the HP Client Automation policy-based management platform to support VMware ThinApp™. This enables customers to standardize on a single client management solution to publish, deploy, track and report on virtualized applications along with physical applications. Customers can use the distributed infrastructure and preconfigured templates available in HP Client Automation software to manage VMware ThinApp’s new management functionality, decreasing infrastructure requirements and simplifying overall manageability. Customers can also use reports generated by HP Client Automation software to track virtual and physical applications for tighter asset management.

As a result of this enhanced collaboration and co-development, the two companies plan to jointly develop go-to-market and sales programs that leverage both companies' direct and channel sales forces.

“We’re excited to see this enhanced collaboration between VMware and HP because it addresses a critical need our customers have been asking for around managing the physical and virtual infrastructure through one pane,” said John Gilda, director of x86 solutions at Forsythe, a solution provider that has been a VMware Authorized Consultant (VAC) and VMware Premier Partner since 2003 and an HP Platinum Business Partner since 1992. “With these new integrations, we’ll be able to provide our customers a truly holistic solution for managing their entire infrastructure in a much more simplified way.”

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VMware View™ Delivers “Follow Me Desktop” for Healthcare Practitioners

Desktop Environments Tied to User Identities Instead of Devices Helps Healthcare Professionals Reliably, Securely Access Information for Better Patient Service

PALO ALTO, Calif., June 9, 2009 — VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud, today announced that healthcare providers are using VMware View™ to furnish medical staff with reliable access to their desktops, applications and information as they roam from room to room and floor to floor within hospitals to care for patients. Healthcare organizations including Norton Healthcare, St. Vincent’s Catholic Hospital and Riverside HealthCare are using VMware View to help deliver cost-effective, flexible, highly available IT services, ultimately improving patient care. Healthcare provider “follow me” desktops deliver the medical information they need to care for patients, while giving IT staff the ability to easily provision, secure and manage desktops and applications from the datacenter.

VMware View lets businesses run virtual desktops in the datacenter which are then accessed using thick or thin clients. End users see a familiar desktop environment with all their productivity and clinical applications available in a single view. In healthcare environments, where minutes or seconds can make a difference in patient care, it is crucial for staff to be able to quickly and reliably access medical information. VMware View enables healthcare organizations to host virtual desktops on servers in a central location, protecting valuable medical information, while providing secure, mobile desktop environments for medical staff as they care for patients throughout a hospital. Administrators also benefit from being able to manage, provision and update desktops from a central location saving valuable time and resources.

Norton Healthcare Gains Increased Flexibility and Improved Support with VMware View™
Norton Healthcare is the largest health care system in the Louisville, Kentucky region with nearly 10,000 employees and a network of five hospitals and eleven immediate care centers. With nearly 950 virtual desktops deployed, Norton uses VMware View to better service their practitioners at all locations by providing a flexible and reliable desktop model with a single view of all their applications and data in a familiar, personalized environment on any device at any location.

“With VMware View™, our physicians can go to a thin client, login, access a patient list and then walk down the hall to another thin client, and their patient list would be right where they left it,” said Brian Cox, director of customer service for Norton Healthcare. “The staff recognized the benefit of that capability immediately. The moment we switched over to VMware View™, the staff stopped calling us with support issues related to their access to clinical applications being disrupted or disconnected. The overall response was great.”

Additionally, VMware View helps Norton to streamline previously time-consuming tasks like application upgrades. “We have all the virtual machines on the backend, so we can easily push out new software,” said Cox. “Application upgrades are non-events now. Recently, we upgraded one of our main applications—Meditech—and received zero helpdesk calls for the virtual desktops. Everything just runs so much more smoothly with VMware View.”

St. Vincent’s Catholic Medical Center Saves Money and Power with VMware View™
St. Vincent’s Catholic Medical Center is one of New York’s most respected healthcare providers. The St. Vincent system treats nearly 150,000 patients each year and is anchored by St. Vincent's Hospital Manhattan, which also serves as the academic medical center for New York Medical College. With VMware virtualization platform, the renowned healthcare system virtualized 85 percent of its infrastructure and retired 185 servers in 90 days.

“Implementing our EMR solution required us to refresh our existing desktops so could address the demand for new applications and functions,” said Tony Antinori, vice president of technology and operations, St. Vincent’s Catholic Medical Center. “We took this opportunity to re-evaluate our current solution and look at alternatives that could save us money, help the environment and satisfy the need for a more flexible and accessible model for our clinicians.”

“With VMware View™, we are able to move to a ‘zero footprint’ device, reduce power consumption and provide our emergency staff department an always on and available desktop,” said Kane Edupuganti, director, IT operations and communications, St. Vincent’s Catholic Medical Center. “We plan on continuing desktop virtualization across nearly 5,000 endpoints in order to maximize ROI in areas outside of IT."

Riverside Medical Center Gains Improved Mobility with VMware View™
A nationally recognized and award-winning hospital with leading programs in heart care, cancer care, neurosurgery and orthopedics, Riverside Medical Center serves nine communities throughout suburban Chicago. Riverside has 17 different locations and two medical campuses and has been successfully using VMware virtual desktops for throughout their organization for over two years.

“Riverside originally decided to move to a virtual desktop solution to avoid an upcoming desktop hardware refresh and to help roll out new applications,” said Wayne Kelsheimer, corporate director, Information Services at Riverside Medical Center. The VMware solution allowed us to centralize our desktop operations and maximize our IT resources. We can provision a desktop in less than 15 minutes without having to be onsite. Our nurses are able to go up to any workstation or mobile medical cart and get their same desktop on any device. We were also able to re-purpose some of our existing desktop devices into thin clients, leveraging the investments we had already made in this equipment.”

VMware View™ 3.1 Streamlines Workflow, Offers Localization in German and Japanese
The latest version, VMware View™ 3.1, now generally available, delivers a client information feature that helps administrators track the location of the access device and location of the caregiver so they can set policies to help streamline processes and workflow. VMware View 3.1 also includes localization in German and Japanese and increased scalability with the ability to accommodate the requirements of organizations with a larger number of VMware View users.

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VMware vSphere 4 Powers SaaS Solution for TradeBeam

TradeBeam Uses VMware vSphere™ 4 to Create an Internal Cloud that Delivers IT as a Dynamic, Flexible Service

PALO ALTO, Calif. -- June 2, 2009 -- VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud, today announced that TradeBeam, Inc., a leading provider of on-demand supply-chain management solutions, is using VMware vSphere™ 4 to power its software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution.

TradeBeam’s SaaS offering provides over 6,000 organizations with import and export compliance, inventory management, shipment tracking, supply-chain event management, and global trade finance solutions. TradeBeam has embraced cloud computing as the strategic direction for its IT operations, leading the company to evaluate VMware vSphere4 as a platform to transform its datacenter into a cloud infrastructure. VMware vSphere 4 is designed to aggregate and holistically manage large collections of IT resources – including CPUs, storage and network equipment – as a seamless, flexible and dynamic operating environment. During the beta program, TradeBeam found VMware vSphere 4 to be extremely effective for managing the company’s heterogeneous environment, which includes high-capacity storage systems and sophisticated networking technologies.

“Cloud computing is the future for us, and VMware vSphere 4 is an ideal platform,” said Nasser Mirzai, vice president of IT at TradeBeam. “In our business, prospective customers would need to have similar environment to the production systems during the on-boarding phase for their training and process re-engineering for weeks or even months. In the past, we had to dedicate large amounts of computing resources for each new customer. It’s very expensive to scale that type of sales model. VMware vSphere 4 allows us to pool our computing resources in an internal cloud. We can then carve out a virtualized piece of the infrastructure for any new customer aside from the production systems. We can manage our resources and increase utilization much more efficiently while helping our customers with their budgets and deployment.”

During the beta program, TradeBeam was particularly interested in VMware vSphere 4 features that maximize efficiency and control. VMware vStorage Thin Provisioning, for example, can help TradeBeam expand its use of shared storage and reduce storage-related costs by up to 50 percent. Another new feature, VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch, helps simplify network management and configuration and nearly eliminates the possibility of human error. Other new features, such as VMware Fault Tolerance, can help TradeBeam ensure high availability and operational resiliency at a fraction of the cost and effort required for traditional tools.

“The capabilities and tools in VMware vSphere 4 really do seem too good to be true,” said Mirzai. “In addition to the enhancements in efficiency and control, VMware vSphere will give us choice – the flexibility to utilize nearly any type of server, any storage system, and any OS that could help our company. That’s important because we have a heterogeneous environment with products and solutions from multiple vendors. The beauty of a cloud is that it aggregates these resources and allows us to deploy internally or with a VMware vCloud service provider, enabling us to choose where we want the application to live. VMware vSphere 4 will allow us to bring everything together seamlessly so we can run applications more efficiently, accelerate time to market, and optimize reliability and performance. I’ve found vSphere to be a great fit for our cloud roadmap.”

VMware vSphere 4 offers organizations like TradeBeam an evolutionary, non-disruptive path to cloud computing that helps to decrease IT costs while positioning IT to be a flexible and responsive service provider. VMware vSphere 4 will enable TradeBeam’s applications to be provisioned via the cloud on-demand and with guaranteed service levels. VMware vSphere 4 is now generally available.



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VMware to Present at the RBC Technology, Media and Communications Conference

PALO ALTO, Calif., June 2, 2009 — VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud, today announced that Jeff Jennings, vice president of desktop marketing of VMware, will present on desktop virtualization at the RBC Technology, Media and Communications Conference in San Francisco, CA on June 9, 2009 at 10:30 a.m. PT/ 1:30 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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Newly Released VMware vSphere™ 4 Wins Top Honors at Interop Las Vegas 2009

VMware vSphere™ 4 Wins Grand Prize and Best of Interop Award in the Cloud Computing and Virtualization Category

PALO ALTO, Calif., June 1 , 2009 — VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud, today announced that VMware vSphere™ 4 was named the Best of Interop 2009 Grand Prize Winner and won the Best of Interop Award in the Cloud Computing and Virtualization category. The awards were announced last month at Interop Las Vegas 2009.

“We are extremely pleased with the positive reception that VMware vSphere 4 has already received from customers and partners and this recognition from Interop is another impressive achievement,” said Dr. Stephen Herrod, chief technology officer and senior vice president of R&D, VMware. “These Best of Interop awards underscore our continued leadership in the virtualization industry and recognize the unparalleled efficiency, control, and choice that VMware vSphere 4 delivers to IT.”

VMware vSphere 4, which became generally available last month, is a quantum leap forward in helping customers transform IT into a dynamic, flexible service, while dramatically lowering costs. With VMware vSphere 4, customers can bring the benefits of cloud computing to their datacenters, creating a practical approach to their own private clouds – cloud computing infrastructures that span internal IT with external cloud service providers.

“This year was an exciting year for the Best of Interop Awards because there were so many strong contenders in every category,” said Art Wittmann, Judge for the 2009 Best of Interop Awards and Managing Director of InformationWeek Analytics. “VMware and each of the category winners have truly demonstrated the essence of innovation and deserve this recognition for their contributions to the industry.”

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