VMware vSphere 4
Bring the Power of Cloud Computing to Your Datacenter
With VMware vSphere you can offer the highest levels of availability and responsiveness for all applications and services, the industry’s most reliable platform for datacenter virtualization. Optimise your IT service delivery and deliver the highest levels of application availability with the lowest total cost per application workload by decoupling your business-critical applications from the underlying hardware for unprecedented flexibility and reliability.
Reduce Costs and Maximise IT Efficiency
With VMware vSphere you can dramatically reduce capital and operational expenses, while also minimising any potential lost revenue associated with downtime, outages and failures. VMware vSphere is proven to comprehensively virtualize server, storage, and networking resources, reducing capital and operational expenses per application by more than 50 percent. Organisations can achieve consolidation ratios of more than 15:1, while increasing efficiency through management automation and the dynamic allocation of resources to enterprise applications across internal and external cloud infrastructures.
Increase Application Availability and Control Through Service Level Automation
Automate the enforcement of service-level agreements to ensure the availability, security and scalability of enterprise applications. VMware vSphere shields application owners from the complexity of servers, storage and network infrastructure, enabling them to focus on delivering business value. The result is an automated, controlled and resilient IT environment that that responds rapidly to changing business requirements.
Empower Your IT Department with Choice
Deliver business services on-demand with the freedom to choose the right industry standard hardware, application architecture, operating system, and in-house or external infrastructure to suit your business. With VMware vSphere, your IT environment is future-proofed and ready to adapt to changing requirements. You retain flexibility of choice—independent of hardware, OS, applications or providers—so you can feel confident about deploying today’s and future applications in the internal or external cloud.
Which Version Do I Need?
There are several versions of VMware vSpehere 4, each with their own set of features and functionality. In addition to these versions, VMware also have two SME products - Essentials and Essentials Plus. To download the details of the available products click here or click on the graphic below.
VMware vSphere Standard
- offers basic consolidation of applications to slash hardware costs while accelerating application deployment.
- VMware vSphere Advanced
- protects business-critical applications against planned and unplanned downtime to provide superior application availability.
- VMware vSphere Enterprise
- minimizes downtime, protects data, and automates resource management.
- VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus
- delivers the benefits of VMware vSphere and transforms your IT infrastructure into the next generation of flexible, reliable IT services.
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.

