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Company Overview AT A GLANCE

VMware, the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure,
delivers customer-proven solutions that significantly reduce IT Founded: 1998
complexity and enable more flexible, agile service delivery. Leveraging URL: www.vmware.com
VMware vSphere™, the most widely deployed foundation for cloud
Headquarters: 3401 Hillview Ave.
computing, VMware accelerates the transition to a cloud computing Palo Alto, CA 94304
approach while preserving existing investments and improving security
Stock Symbol: VMW (NYSE)
and control. With VMware vCloud™ solutions and services, VMware
enables private, public and hybrid cloud deployment models that ensure Employees: More than 8,200
application mobility and portability. With more than 190,000 customers 2009 Revenue: $2 billion, 5th largest
and 25,000 partners, VMware helps organizations of all sizes lower infrastructure software
company
costs, preserve freedom of choice and energize business through IT
while saving energy – financial, human and the Earth’s. Market Category: Virtualization and
cloud infrastructure
VMware’s innovation and excellence has been recognized by strategic Customers: More than 190,000
research firms and more than 260 industry awards, including: 97% of the Fortune 1000
94% of the Fortune Global 500
• VMware placed in the leaders quadrant of Gartner, Inc.’s Magic
Partners: 25,000+
Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure1, Thomas J.
Bittman, Philip Dawson, George J. Weiss, 26 May 2010. Certified 51,000
Professionals:
• 2010 InfoWorld Technology of the Year award for VMware vSphere 4.0 vCloud Service 2,600+
Providers:
• Cloud Computing World Forum winner of the Cloud Computing World
Series Awards 2010 for the Best Virtualization Product or Service VMware Over 1 Million
Community
• Windows IT Pro Best of TechEd 2010 awards in the virtualization Members:
category for VMware vSphere 4 VMware VMware vSphere™
Product Lines: VMware vCloud™
VMware vShield™
The Problems We Solve VMware vCenter™
VMware vFabric™
Business stakeholders pressure IT to be more responsive and flexible, VMware View™
while IT is continually challenged to do more with less. Today, IT
organizations spend more than 70 percent of resources on
maintenance, leaving less than 30 percent for value-added and How We Help
strategic projects, according to Forrester Research.
VMware delivers customer-proven virtualization and cloud
IT teams are burdened by the complexity of their IT environments. They infrastructure solutions that reduce IT complexity and enable the
need to move to a more efficient, agile service delivery model that transition to a more efficient and flexible service delivery model,
supports business demands and provides security and control. They referred to as IT as a Service. We offer an evolutionary and pragmatic
want to take advantage of the flexibility and low cost of cloud path to the cloud while preserving existing investments. VMware
computing while preserving existing investments and still maintaining solutions help IT achieve lower total cost of ownership (TCO) by
the security, control, compliance and quality of service on which their minimizing unnecessary IT infrastructure investments, providing
business depend. IT teams are also challenged by constantly emerging efficient management and maintenance tools, and preventing
and more complex end-user computing environments, applications and technology lock-in. VMware solutions also enable IT to adopt a more
devices which consume a significant portion of their operational cost-effective, self-managed, dynamically optimized environment for
capacity and add to their control and manageability concerns. the most efficient delivery of IT services.

Intense competitive pressure has also driven the need for rapid
application development and deployment. However, most application
platforms lack the flexibility and scalability modern applications require
and do not provide the manageability internal IT teams need to
maintain control and ensure compliance with business policies. New
competition for internal IT teams is also coming from the availability of
on-demand, inexpensive, self-service compute capacity via public
clouds, resulting in business stakeholders seeking out accessible,
low-cost computing alternatives outside the enterprise.
By enabling easy, self-service access, our solutions dramatically simplify
provisioning and deployment, allowing IT to more quickly respond to
business requests. At the same time, they allow organizations to
implement policies consistent with business and governance
requirements, giving IT staff the control it needs to minimize business
and regulatory risk. Our products accelerate the delivery of IT services
by enabling the creation of standardized IT services on shared, secure
infrastructure through a Web-based catalog. They also ensure secure,
managed, application portability between internal datacenters and
external VMware vCloud service providers.

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VMware is committed to supporting an open ecosystem: customers WHY VMWARE

have a choice of infrastructure hardware, operating systems, cloud
service providers and an open platform that provides application
portability. With its commitment to open source development and open The world’s most trusted solutions for significantly
reducing IT complexity and enabling flexible, agile IT
standards, VMware ensures customer flexibility and freedom of choice. service delivery through virtualization and cloud
We also enable end users to choose IT services from traditional infrastructure.
applications, on-premise cloud applications, software-as-a-service • More than 190,000 customers, including 97% of the
applications or external VMware vCloud service providers, allowing Fortune 1000 and 94% of the Fortune Global 500.
rapid access to data anytime, and applications from anywhere.
• Leading solutions provider to both businesses and
service providers, paving a path to secure,
VMware Solutions manageable interoperability between clouds.
VMware enables IT as a Service and addresses the compounding • The broadest, most innovative partner ecosystem
problems of IT cost and complexity. guaranteeing application interoperability.
Customers have experienced unmatched results with
Cloud Infrastructure and Management Solutions VMware solutions, energizing business through IT,
Effective IT infrastructure reduces business risk and allows IT to operate in while saving energy.
a more efficient and business-like way. VMware cloud infrastructure and • Financial: 50-60 percent CapEx savings.
management solutions enable organizations to deliver IT as a Service, • Human: Average of 33 percent cumulative time
transforming their IT environments without disrupting existing workloads, savings for day-to-day administrative activities.
sacrificing control or creating technology lock-in. Built on VMware
• Energy: Up to 80 percent, leveraging consolidation
vSphere, the most trusted foundation for cloud infrastructure, VMware and distributed power management.
vCloud solutions and services provide a cost-effective and secure
platform for building cloud infrastructure and deploying cloud-ready Provides the only evolutionary and pragmatic path to
cloud computing that leverages existing investments
applications and services. They make hybrid cloud computing a reliable,
secure reality for both enterprises and public cloud providers. By • Based on the customer-proven platform—VMware
vSphere.
leveraging a common management and security model, VMware vCloud
solutions ensure portable and compatible applications across VMware • With VMware vCloud solutions and services, ensures
enabled public, private and hybrid clouds. With VMware cloud infrastructure portable and compatible applications across public,
private and hybrid clouds.
and management solutions, customers achieve unparalleled levels of
security, manageability, quality of service and compliance. • With VMware vFabric, provides an open development
platform, ensuring new applications are cloud-scale,
self-managed and portable.
Cloud Application Platform Solutions
Competitive environments demand the speedy delivery of business • Leverages virtualization to modernize desktops so
they can be managed independently in the cloud.
applications. VMware vFabric™ cloud application platform solutions
provide the best foundation to build, run and manage modern virtual
applications. They accelerate the delivery of both today’s on-premise
applications and tomorrow’s cloud applications. Today, more than 2
Services and Support
million developers worldwide rely on VMware vFabric cloud application The goal of every IT purchase is rapid return on investment. VMware
platform to create rich applications that are portable, dynamic, scalable Services and Support, including consulting account management,
and optimized for cloud-scale deployment, including delivery via training, certification and technical support, accelerate an organization’s
popular public cloud offerings such as VMforce and Google App Engine. return on virtualization and cloud infrastructure investments while
mitigating risk. VMware vCloud Consulting Services provide industry-
leading expertise to help customers architect, design and validate their
End-User Computing Solutions
cloud strategies and assist with transforming customer IT
The rapidly changing end-user computing landscape—with a workforce infrastructures to integrate cloud computing capabilities. VMware
that depends on a varied range of end-user devices and form factors—has Global Support Services are available in nearly 40 countries and
challenged IT to securely manage users and applications from traditional provide customers with access to the world’s largest team and most
desktop productivity tools to cloud-based solutions. VMware end-user experienced staff supporting critical applications in cloud computing
computing solutions leverage virtualization to modernize desktops so they and virtualized environments.
can be managed independently in the cloud. Users get secure access to
their applications, data and services from any computing device, including
PCs, Macs, thin clients or mobile devices. IT gets the flexibility, cost 1. The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted 2010 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission.
efficiency and control required to adopt cloud-ready applications, while The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific
time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria
streamlining the management of legacy applications. VMware also delivers for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor,
virtualized application suites, such as messaging, email, calendaring and product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users
to select only those vendors placed in the “Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is
collaboration, with modular architectures enabling distributed access to intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action.
data and storage that can be deployed and managed across clouds. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research,
including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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