Your Cloud. Accelerate IT

Your Cloud. Accelerate IT. Accelerate Your Business. Your Cloud. The future of business is defined by those who are prepared for what’s next. Cloud computing has the potential to change everything about IT. It promises a more agile and efficient IT environment that leverages pools of elastic, self-managed virtual infrastructure, consumed as a service at the lowest possible cost. It enables organizations to eliminate traditional, costly and inefficient silos of IT infrastructure and create an infrastructure that can intelligently and dynamically respond to business needs. As organizations make this transition, they want to achieve the benefits of cloud, with a scalable, secure and manageable solution that addresses their unique business challenges. VMware solutions uniquely help enterprises meet these requirements—delivering the benefits of cloud with the flexibility, security and control that enterprises need to meet their specific business needs—without throwing away existing investments or creating vendor lock in. Our approach addresses what is most important to your business, so that you can build the only cloud that matters— your cloud. The global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, VMware delivers customer-proven solutions to more than 250,000 customers, including over 99 percent of Fortune 1000 and 97 percent of Fortune Global 500 companies. We’re accelerating IT by reducing complexity and enabling more flexible, agile service delivery. We’re helping enterprises adopt a cloud model that addresses their unique business challenges. With VMware, your organization can accelerate its transition to cloud computing while preserving existing investments and improving security and control. Our solutions significantly lower costs, increase business agility and ensure freedom of choice—accelerating IT so that, in turn, you can accelerate your business. It’s not about just any cloud—it’s about your cloud. Move your business forward with your cloud. 1 Virtualization first. Then Your Cloud. “ As of August 2009, Virtualization is rapidly transforming the IT landscape approximately and fundamentally changing the way companies compute. VMware is the industry leader, and our solutions are used by more than 250,000 customers of installed virtual around the world. machines in enterprises are VMware-based.” Our virtualization solutions have while preserving and even enhancing Gartner Presentation, “Server enabled IT organizations of all sizes security and control. Chosen by Virtualization: From Emerging to Mainstream at Light Speed,” to deliver resources and applications both enterprises and public cloud T. Bittman, December 2009. when and where they’re needed, providers as their preferred cloud enabling businesses to respond to infrastructure platform, VMware market dynamics more quickly and vSphere lets you optimize your more efficiently than ever. computing infrastructure and your costs. This common platform allows Virtualization is the fundamental you to run workloads either in your technology that enables cloud private cloud or VMware-enabled Amway computing. Our customer-proven public clouds with same level of VMware vSphere® virtualization security, transparency and control. “Anybody, everybody should platform dramatically expands IT be looking to use virtualization. Companies can make effectiveness and efficiency, going Whether you have virtualized of it what they need. If it’s beyond basic virtualization to deliver all of your workloads or are just just cost-reduction through critical management and quality- starting out, you are laying the server consolidation, that’s of-service capabilities that provide foundation for a new model for IT. great. With virtualization, you don’t have to jump in neck- a complete cloud infrastructure And we can help you build on it, deep to see advantages. But solution. Working in concert with as you transform your current IT we’ve taken it to the next our partners, we’re helping businesses infrastructure into a cloud model level—and so can anyone of all sizes accelerate IT and their that specifically meets your unique else—by leveraging VMware disaster-recovery solutions business results. business requirements. like SRM and desktop technology like VMware View™ Only VMware provides an evolutionary and cloud frameworks like approach to cloud computing—the vSphere. My advice is to fastest and most pragmatic path—that start where you need to, get familiar with VMware extends existing applications and technology and then grow preserves IT skill sets. VMware offers your virtualized infrastruc- the most trusted solutions for trans- ture to suit your business.” forming your current IT environment to Tom Van Harn, Principal Systems deliver optimal agility and flexibility, Support Specialist, Amway 2 3 Why now? In the technology-driven marketplace, a business can only Siemens be as agile as its IT infrastructure. Today’s businesses need “When we started, we thought the greatest IT to be more flexible and responsive, but also to control benefit of virtualization would be the hardware cost costs and be more efficient. As business and IT leaders savings. We have definitely begin to understand both the financial and agility benefits saved there. But we’ve also seen tremendous opera- of cloud computing, they seek an approach that will meet tional savings in the form of increased efficiency and their specific business need. agility. In fact, we expect to save hundreds of thousands The relentlessly growing costs of Virtualization and cloud computing of dollars. With VMware supporting complex and brittle legacy will make it happen. virtualization and cloud infrastructure in place, we technology, coupled with increasing Businesses don’t have the luxury of can now more easily transi- regulatory and compliance burdens, throwing away working infrastructure tion to a cloud computing means that IT organizations spend to pursue new initiatives. On the con- approach, which will enable 70 percent or more of their resources trary, they must harness the value and us to optimize IT service delivery even further.” on maintenance, leaving little time expertise in existing systems and human for innovation or strategic projects. resources. As business stakeholders Juergen E. Mueller, VP, Head of Cloud Computing Program, At the same time, intense competitive seek out instantly accessible compute IT Solutions and Services, Siemens pressure is increasing the need for capacity for competitive agility, IT rapid application development and organizations understand they must deployment. Yet developers are embrace cloud computing, but they saddled with platforms that lack still have concerns about maintaining the flexibility and scalability that security, control and choice. modern applications require and the manageability that internal Only VMware offers an approach IT teams need to maintain control that lets you encapsulate legacy and compliance. In addition, the applications and move them to a proliferation of end-user devices modern environment with higher levels and end-user demand for anytime, of manageability and reliability. As anywhere access is putting further the industry’s leading virtualization strain on IT. Caught between shrinking technology provider, VMware offers resources and growing business needs, the best and most trusted solutions organizations are looking to cloud for transforming your current IT infra- computing to provide a more efficient, structure into a secure private cloud flexible and cost-effective model for architecture that delivers the agility and IT, without compromising control. flexibility you need to stay competitive and efficient. But we don’t stop there. 4 The IT Challenge your enterprise applications running with the highest levels of availability and respon- siveness. Imagine a scalable, streamlined IT infrastructure that increases agility as it lowers costs. Imagine optimizing IT while retaining the security, compliance and interoperability that your business demands. VMware and our extensive network agility that a cloud approach offers. of VMware service provider partners This agility gives your organization can help you seamlessly leverage a competitive advantage and the public clouds to create an inter- ability to grow your business more operable service delivery model. effectively to deliver new revenue. This hybrid cloud approach provides The business gets what it needs the ultimate scalability and flexibility. because it has easy, self-service The best part, your enterprise hybrid access to applications and comput- cloud is tailored to meet the specific ing. And the IT organization gets needs of your organization. what it needs—the flexibility to acquire and release capacity on Cloud computing with VMware— demand while maintaining complete what are the real benefits? control of the IT environment. Cost savings is a big benefit, but it’s just the beginning. The greatest At VMware, our focus is to provide benefit of your cloud approach is that you with a path to weave together all it allows you to create an agile, virtual the computing resources that serve infrastructure that can be scaled up your business into a secure, com- Mastek or down as needed and provisioned pliant and controlled whole. We can “VMware vSphere is the on demand, as a service. VMware help you take your existing IT infra- perfect platform for Mastek solutions enable you to deliver applica- structure and evolve it into a much to extend its server consoli- tions and services on demand, with more efficient,

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