Build a Flexible & Dynamic Datacenter via Virtualization
Turn your datacenter into a flexible cloud infrastructure with the performance and reliability needed to run enterprise applications on the platform trusted by the most demanding datacenters around the world. Leverage existing assets and applications while offering self-service deployment and provisioning through virtualization. Create a private cloud and deliver IT infrastructure as an easily accessible service.
Deliver IT as a service, when and where needed, while reducing capital and operating costs. Reduce power needs while freeing your IT staff from mundane administrative tasks so they can focus on innovative solutions to your changing business needs.
Virtualize Desktops and Applications for Improved Business Continuity
Deploy desktops faster and improve business continuity and disaster recovery while reducing capital and operating system costs through desktop and application virtualization. Migrate and upgrade operating systems and applications with less downtime, eliminate the need to recode, retest and recertify applications, and get more out of your existing desktop assets.
Reduce the need for IT admin staff at remote and branch offices by delivering virtual desktops to remote and temporary users while protecting corporate data. Centralize desktop management and speed up desktop deployments while reducing both operating and support costs.
How the Cloud Is Transforming IT
In a business world where first movers gain the advantage and IT is central to every decision, IT responsiveness and agility provide a competitive edge. Yet many IT organizations aren’t quick enough on the uptake because their infrastructures are exorbitant to manage and too complex to easily adapt.
Cloud computing provides a vastly more efficient, flexible, and cost-effective way for IT to meet escalating business needs: IT as a Service. VMware offers you an evolutionary and practical path to this new model, with solutions that harness the power of the cloud while ensuring security and preserving the value of your existing technology investments.
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VMware’s Approach: Enabling the Journey to Your Cloud
Virtualization is the essential catalyst for cloud computing. As the virtualization leader, VMware builds on this solid foundation with platforms and solutions to power your cloud infrastructure, build and run robust cloud applications, and supply end-user computing as a cloud-based service.
Our approach is comprehensive, but unlike other cloud offerings, it’s not one-cloud-fits-all. To deliver competitive advantage, cloud computing must be flexibly tailored and aligned to your individual needs. For your enterprise, that could mean a cloud that’s internal and private, one that leverages external services, or a hybrid cloud that combines both.
Whichever cloud option suits you best, only VMware offers a complete solution stack for building and managing it, plus a broad partner ecosystem to ensure that everything in it works seamlessly and securely. The result is not just any cloud, but your cloud—where accelerated IT delivers accelerated results for your business.
VMware’s tailored approach delivers flexibility and security while protecting your existing investments, by enabling:
- Efficiency Through Utilization and Automation
Resource pooling and a self-managed, dynamically optimized environment dramatically increase IT performance—leveraging existing resources to avoid unnecessary infrastructure investment and technology lock-in. The result is lower total cost of ownership (TCO). - Agility with Control
Cloud computing aims to empower end-users while ensuring security and preserving IT oversight and authority. The VMware solution interweaves all three, greatly simplifying IT services provisioning and deployment while maintaining IT control, protective safeguards, and regulatory compliance. The IT organization can thus respond more quickly and securely to evolving business needs. - Freedom of Choice
IT retains the ability to support traditional systems and gains the flexibility to deploy them internally or externally, without being restricted to any single technology or vendor. Developers can build applications that are portable among hybrid, private, and public clouds within a common management and security framework.
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Our Solutions. Your Cloud. Key Advantages.
VMware solutions are engineered and integrated to equip your cloud with a unique combination of benefits:
Virtualization Security
VMware solutions deliver always-on, virtualization-aware security that adapts to the dynamism of cloud-based deployments while simplifying the protection of endpoints, applications, and the network edge. Learn more about Security & Cloud Computing >>
Automation and Management
Once IT resources are virtually pooled, business rules, policies, and defined service levels are mapped to them, creating a highly efficient, self-managing infrastructure where IT is available as a service.
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Interoperability and Openness
With a shared management and security model based on open standards, VMware solutions free you from vendor lock-in, ensuring application portability between internal datacenters and external service provider clouds hosted by VMware vCloud partners. Additionally, the VMware cloud application platform lets developers build robust modern applications that are portable, dynamic, and optimized for elastically scalable deployment on popular public clouds such as VMforce and Google App Engine.
Self-Service for the Cloud
Our approach delivers a new level of IT efficiency by standardizing and automating IT services provisioning and management. Rather than having to wait for manual provisioning, line-of-business units can deploy standardized, preconfigured IT services from a web-based catalog available via a self-service portal. Business units receive tailored services right when they need them, IT administrators are relieved of the bulk of their maintenance burden, and IT preserves control over policies, compliance, and internal chargeback.
Pooling and Dynamic Resource Allocation
Your IT resources are pooled and abstracted into logical building-blocks of storage, network, and server units—effectively creating virtual datacenters. These resource containers are then dynamically allocated to your various applications, governed by defined business rules and user demand.
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Join the Evolution to Your Cloud
Cloud computing holds the very real promise of agile, efficient IT service delivery with dramatically lower complexity, significantly reduced costs, and much greater business responsiveness. The key to realizing these advantages is tailoring the cloud model to work for your business and your approach to IT.
As the acknowledged leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, VMware is uniquely positioned to help you transition to your cloud—the private, public, or hybrid cloud environment that’s best fits your business needs and goals. Thousands of enterprises have already achieved exceptional results with VMware solutions. And because our approach is open, flexible, and geared to addressing individual needs, they’ve done so without a heavy customization burden.
VMware offers a 3-layered solution stack to supports your evolution to the cloud:
- Cloud Infrastructure and Management. The foundation for your cloud, based on virtualization and the ability to unify private and public cloud resources with consistent security, compliance, management, and quality of service.
- Cloud Application Platform. Enabling developers to rapidly build and run modern cloud applications while deploying on premises or off for maximum flexibility.
- End-User Computing. Creating a modern, user-centric approach to personal computing, delivering secure access to applications and data from any device, anytime and anywhere.
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Virtualization and Management Solutions from VMware for SMB
Business Continuity
VMware simplifies business continuity by delivering a flexible IT environment and automating backup, failure detection, and recovery, for your server and desktop workloads.
Business continuity begins with the industry’s most robust virtualization platform: VMware vSphere. Give all your applications high availability protection, so apps automatically come back in just a few minutes when server failures occur. Run your most important applications with fault tolerance protection to get continuous availability even through sever failures. If your business has multiple sites, VMware enables you to automate disaster recovery planning and execution with Site Recovery Manager.
Security
VMware delivers “better-than-physical security” with virtualization-aware security that stays with your virtual machines no matter where they are running. Manage your security in a single comprehensive framework at all levels – host, network, application, data, and endpoints, all in a single pane of glass. VMware security solutions can also work seamlessly with your existing security solutions. There’s a reason why all of the Fortune 100 and military and government installation trust VMware.
Server Consolidation
Deploying new applications while dealing with platform dependencies can lead to server sprawl and quickly drive up costs. VMware gives you control and flexibility with the highest consolidation ratios in the industry. This means you can better utilize your hardware and run more applications while ensuring performance levels. The result is less servers to manage, and increased flexibility to provision new apps without buying a new server every time.
Automation and Performance
Running IT environments can be tedious with numerous manual tasks to set up new applications and constant monitoring of your apps to make sure they’re performing. VMware addresses both these challenges. Accelerate provisioning time by up to 70% with reusable images all done from a single pane of glass. And ensure service levels for your most critical applications with policy-based compute, network, and storage resource prioritization.
Simplified Setup and Management
From installing and configuring vSphere to ongoing management of your virtual and physical infrastructure, VMware keeps it simple with a web-based infrastructure management service. Even if you’re new to virtualization, get started with wizard-like simplicity using VMware Go.
Infrastructure as a Service
Whether you’re looking for a service providers to run your apps with production service levels, or just need some additional capacity for development and testing, VMware gives you options. VMware’s certified vCloud Datacenter partners deliver enterprise-class infrastructure services. To quickly get computing capacity for with development, vCloud Express partners provide on-demand, pay-as-you-go cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS).
Email and Collaboration
Many existing email solutions cannot support multiple user platforms – they are desktop centric, and have limited capabilities while offline, and don’t easily integrate with other applications.
VMware addresses these challenges with an enterprise-class, open source email, calendar, and collaboration platform: VMware Zimbra. You can simplify administration while end users maximize productivity with a feature rich experience with anywhere access. Your business can benefit from integration or mash-ups with other applications to streamline workflows.
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Desktop Virtualization
From hosted virtual desktops solutions to running multiple environments on PC or Macs, VMware is the gold standard for end-user computing virtualization. With VMware, you have the option to modernize your desktops into untethered workspaces available from anywhere, at any time, or simply run multiple operating systems on your PC or Mac.
VMware’s centralized desktop virtualization solution, VMware View, benefits from vSphere’s business continuity and security features. View delivers rich virtual desktops to end users with a single view of all their applications and data in a familiar, personalized environment. End users get flexibility, while you minimize costs for desktop and application management.
You also have the option run multiple computing environments directly on your desktop. VMware Workstation for PCs enables you to quickly switch between different computing environments, set multi-tier configurations and networks, create multiple virtual machine snapshots, and more. Built from the ground up for the Mac, VMware Fusion lets users run all Windows applications and devices on any Intel-based Mac.
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