VMware is the world's leading provider of virtualization solutions for x86-based servers and desktops. Through a pioneering approach to virtualization, the VMware technology works to separate the software from the underlying hardware. This allows a single computer to run multiple operating systems and applications simultaneously, delivering significant improvements in efficiency, availability, flexibility and manageability.

Founded in 1998, VMware is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, and has offices around the world. VMware's customer base consists of more than 20,000 organizations of all sizes, including 100% of Fortune 100 companies. VMware delivers technology designed to substantially lower the IT costs, provide more flexibility in choosing operating systems, and offer highly automated and resilient systems infrastructure capable of responding to variable business demands.

Products & Solutions

Award-Winning Products: VMware offers a wide range of award-winning virtualization products -- from free software for virtualizing desktops and servers to comprehensive enterprise-class platforms for optimizing data centers and IT infrastructure.

Proven Solutions: VMware's broad and proven suite of virtualization solutions addresses a range of complex challenges faced by IT organizations, including:

• Server Consolidation & Infrastructure Optimization: The VMware technology, including the industry's only complete virtual infrastructure, helps organizations consolidate servers and increase utilization rates, greatly reduce power and cooling costs, and manage as well as automate IT processes for the maximum availability, performance and scalability.
• Business Continuity: With exclusive features such as automated load balancing and live migration of virtual machines, the VMware technology enables organizations to increase uptime and reduce the cost as well as complexity of meeting high availability and disaster recovery objectives.
• Software Lifecycle Automation:  Developers and other IT professionals use VMware solutions to streamline the software development and testing process, reduce server provisioning time and improve software quality.
• Enterprise Desktop Management: Enabling enterprises to manage and control their desktop systems better, VMware helps customers speed up the deployment of desktop systems, administer them from a central location, and provide the end-users with a satisfying physical PC-experience.

Global Partner Ecosystem: To meet the customer requirements for added value and product interoperability, VMware maintains partnerships with the world's leading technology companies. This includes technical alliances with 200+ hardware, software, network and storage companies; a reseller network of 4000+ accredited resellers, distributors and systems integrators; and dozens of virtual appliance makers offering software-OS combinations in pre-configured packages.

Services and Support: To protect and leverage customer investments in the VMware technology, VMware provides a range of Professional Services and Customer Support through VMware teams as well as through hundreds of authorized partner organizations in 40 countries. This includes proactive, top-quality support offerings and consulting services to accelerate virtualization implementations, and extensive education services for building in-house expertise.

Superior Technology & Value

• Mature, production-proven products with unparalleled performance, robustness and reliability.
• The industry's only complete virtualization infrastructure, enabling virtualized assets to be aggregated and deployed as a shared utility for dynamic, automated and always-on computing.
• Platform neutrality and open standards for greater interoperability and the flexibility to create shared resource pools, independent of specific OS and hardware platforms.
• Maximum value through rapid ROI, lower ownership costs and a scale-as-you-grow adoption cycle of escalating value.