VMware Center Of Excellence in Bangalore will provide first-hand experience of virtualization and cloud computing
Center will help companies in India accelerate their journey to the cloud
BANGALORE, March 2, 2010 — VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter to the cloud, today announced launch of the VMware Center of Excellence (CoE) in Bangalore. This will provide organizations of all sizes with a simulated experience of rich virtualization and cloud computing benefits, thereby accelerating the exploratory stage of their inevitable journey to a new era of IT. The center will be equipped with labs and replicas of infrastructure, enabling customers and partners to see VMware solutions at work in true-to-life business scenarios.
The CoE will be an extension to the VMware R&D center in Bangalore, which has been playing a research-and-development role that contributes to the company’s entire portfolio of solutions. In addition, the center will showcase new and prototype VMware virtualization and cloud offerings, enabling customers to plan their IT architecture to best effect.
VMware has already empowered more than 600 companies in India to reduce capital expenditure and operational costs, while improving levels of efficiency and flexibility. Customers include Atrenta India, Bajaj Auto, Chitale Dairy, Dewan Housing Finance Corporation Ltd, Essel Propack, i2 Technologies, Mahindra & Mahindra and Reliance General Insurance.
After officiating at the CoE opening ceremony, Dr Stephen Herrod, VMware’s Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of R&D, said: “At VMware, we are driven by a fundamental customer need – to do more with less. This approach has paved the way to eliciting an incredible response to our various offerings from businesses around the world. We are proud of our leadership in innovation and are dedicated to delivering increasingly transformative value to our customers on their journey to cloud technology. This proof-of-concept center is a step in that direction and will accelerate the delivery of quality, user-friendly and innovative offerings by VMware and our partners in India.”
VMware India & SAARC Managing Director T Srinivasan said: “According to various industry analysts, virtualization technology and cloud computing will represent one of the fastest growing and evolving sectors within the IT industry in 2010. The introduction of this center will provide impetus to the adoption of virtualization by delivering time-proven, next-generation VMware solutions that are easy to implement, operate and grow.”
Working with partners, such as Cisco Systems, Dell, EMC, HP, IBM, NetApp and Wyse Technology, VMware engineers at the CoE will provide customers with first-hand experience of virtualization and cloud infrastructure.
Dell India’s Enterprise Solutions Senior Director, Mr Sathyaseelan PA, said: “VMware virtual infrastructure software fuels Dell’s Efficient Enterprise strategy, which has been designed to simplify operations, improve utilization and facilitate cost-effective scaling. Dell and VMware work jointly on many platforms, while offering comprehensive professional services to support implementation of VMware virtualization. The VMware CoE represents a big step in taking this country into the virtual era.”
Mr B Raghavendran, Cisco India’s Vice President, Channel Operations and Commercial Strategy, said: “VMware and Cisco share a long-held vision of the value of virtualization to IT organizations. Both companies propagate virtualization as part of a long-term strategy to improve return on assets, reduce operational complexity and increase agility of infrastructure. We look forward to the VMware CoE accelerating cloud and virtualization adoption throughout Indian businesses.”
VMware India recently announced new initiatives around core products – VMware View™, the VMware vCenter™ Product Family and VMware vSphere™ – to drive adoption of business infrastructure virtualization in India. VMware vSphere™ and the VMware vCenter™ Product Family reduce the day-to-day costs of running IT, while enabling IT resources and budgets to be shifted from tactical maintenance to strategic projects that will create more value for a business. VMware vSphere 4 is the industry’s most widely-deployed virtualization platform, while VMware vSphere delivers the most comprehensive set of capabilities for high availability, security, optimization of resource and business continuity, making it the infrastructure and applications platform of choice for companies of any size.
Bringing continued focus to bear on engagement programs that maximize a partner’s expertise and profitability, the company plans to align with key systems integrators holding VMware product skills, after having already established a network of more than 230 significant relationships to support business expansion in India.
About VMware
VMware delivers solutions for business infrastructure virtualization that enable IT organizations to energize businesses of all sizes. With the industry leading virtualization platform – VMware vSphere™ – customers rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, improve agility, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green. With 2009 revenues of $2 billion, more than 170,000 customers and 25,000 partners, VMware is the leader in virtualization which consistently ranks as a top priority among CIOs. VMware is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com/ap/.
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