Frost & Sullivan names VMware India as ‘Market Share Leader in Virtualization’ for 2009
Bangalore, India, December 10, 2009 — VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud, today received the Frost & Sullivan Market Share Leadership award for virtualization in India for the financial year 2009. Winners were announced during an award ceremony held in New Delhi on December 10, 2009.
The Frost & Sullivan Market Share Leadership Award recognizes companies for making an outstanding contribution to their respective industries or achieving a competitive or customer-based leading position in the market. Through this award, Frost & Sullivan’s team of industry experts recognize the diligence and innovation required to implement a successful business plan and excel in the increasingly competitive global marketplace. Using interviews with all market participants and extensive secondary research of proprietary data, Frost & Sullivan analysts track competitor revenue and market share within the industry. The competitors are then compared and ranked. Specific criteria are used to ascertain the final competitor ranking in each industry.
Girish Trivedi, Frost & Sullivan’s Deputy Director - South Asia Middle East, Information & Communication Technology Practice, said, "VMware has become a preferred vendor for virtualization with a wide product portfolio, technology focus and strong channel strategy across various segments, especially in the enterprise segment. Virtualization is shaping up to be one of the major trends that would influence the end-to-end infrastructure of an enterprises and VMware has been a forerunner in this space."
“Our success stems from addressing the most fundamental needs of businesses for greater efficiency improved agility, business continuity and security, and in essence, the ability to ‘do more with less’,” said T. Srinivasan, Managing Director, VMware India & SAARC. “Moving forward, we are building on our value proposition with new initiatives around our core products to drive ‘business infrastructure virtualization’ adoption in India. We are proud of our industry and innovation leadership, and along with our partner ecosystem, we remain focused on delivering transformative value to our customers.”
As the global leader in virtualization, VMware has been at the forefront in helping Indian organizations realise the business benefits of virtualization, to drive sustained growth and success. According to industry analysts, virtualization technology will remain one of the fastest growing and evolving sectors within the IT industry in 2010.
VMware has more than 600 customers in India today, including Atrenta India, Bajaj Auto, Chitale Dairy, Dewan Housing Finance Corporation, Essel Propack, Forbes Marshall, Future Businesstech, i2 Technologies, Macawber Beekay, Mahindra & Mahindra, Persistent Systems, Reliance General Insurance and Religare among others. VMware has established a network of more than 230 partners to support its business expansion across the country.
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For more details on VMware and business infrastructure virtualization, please visit: www.vmware.com/energize-and-save/
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 2008 revenues of $1.9 billion, more than 150,000 customers and 22,000 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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