Virtualization with VMware Solutions

An introduction into the VMware world of virtualization

VMware, is a global leader in Business Infrastructure Virtualization, delivers proven virtualization solutions—from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud—that energise business, while saving energy. IT organizations in companies of all sizes rely on VMware and its industry-leading platform, VMware vSphere, to achieve a more efficient, controlled and flexible IT environment. With 2008 revenues of $1.9 billion and more than 150,000 customers and 22,000 partners, VMware delivers the world’s most trusted solutions for virtualization, a strategic initiative that consistently ranks as a top priority among CIOs. The company’s innovation, excellence and strategic importance have been recognized by more than 240 industry accolades and awards.

What can VMware Solutions Achieve?

Over the past few decades, IT infrastructures have become increasingly complex and brittle. This is due to the inherent nature of IT—the constant addition of new applications, built on incompatible architectures, across a disparate collection of hardware and infrastructure. The result is a tight coupling of applications to physical hardware, with unreliable connectivity between systems, making it extremely difficult to support changing business needs. In essence, business opportunities are stuck in IT backlogs, and IT organizations are stuck maintaining a burdensome infrastructure.To make matters worse, the proliferation of IT assets—both servers in the datacenter and end-user devices—has led to significant inefficiencies in resource utilization and a more difficult environment to manage and control. Today, most IT organizations are forced to spend 70 percent or more of their resources on maintenance, leaving a small fraction available for more valueadded, strategic projects.

Datacenter Solutions - Enabling a more dynamic, agile service model, at lower costs.

VMware datacenter solutions drive business agility, while reducing capital and operating expenses. By simplifying IT infrastructure and creating a more dynamic, flexible datacenter, VMware enables businesses to achieve energy savings, faster application and IT service delivery, full IT process automation and higher levels of business continuity.

Desktop Solutions - Delivering the desktop from the datacenter as a secure managed service.

VMware desktop solutions are the only tightly integrated end-to-end solutions purpose-built for delivering desktops as a managed service. They enable IT to quickly respond to changing business needs, simplify and automate desktop management and provisioning, reduce costs by 50 percent and increase data security without sacrificing end-user experience, flexibility or productivity.

Cloud Services - Creating a bridge between the private and public cloud.

VMware and its cloud services partners offer new technologies and services that give customers application compatibility, enterprise-readiness and choice in type of service and location to enable seamless interoperability and mobility between private and public clouds. VMware offers the only fully compatible, unified platform, VMware vSphere, that seamlessly integrates both private and public clouds to deliver applications securely, where and when they are needed.

Application Development and Test Solutions - Optimizing development to deployment.

VMware application development and test solutions dramatically speed time-to-market while delivering higher quality. By supporting an accelerated development and deployment process with the highest scalability and performance in the industry, VMware transforms the IT infrastructure, enabling development and test teams to access self-service provisioning and release management capabilities, eliminating the administrative burden on the IT team.

To find out more about the range of VMware virtualization solutions contact Maywood Solutions today to discuss our range of evaluation and packaged proof-of-concept professional services designed to accelerate the adoption of the virtualized datacenter of the future.