2007: The year virtualization went mainstream
For the past decade, VMware has consistently delivered industry-leading and award-winning products to customers. 2007 marked a major inflection point for VMware and the entire virtualization industry, as both were catapulted into the mainstream.
During the Fourth quarter of 2007, VMware:
- announced support from SAP of VMware ESX Server in production environments.
- began shipping new innovations to VMware’s flagship product, VMware Infrastructure 3, which includes new features such as Storage VMotion, enabling the live migration of virtual machine disks from one data storage system to another with little to no disruption or downtime; and Distributed Power Management which reduces power consumption in the data center through intelligent and automated workload balancing.
- delivered VMware Server 2, the next generation of the company’s easy-to-use, free-of-charge virtualization product that lets customers quickly provision new server capacity by partitioning a physical server into multiple virtual machines.
- continued to build VMware’s ecosystem of technology partners, announcing that more than 60 organizations have joined VMware’s co-development programs, actively building virtualization offerings for customers.
- announced that the US Marine Corps (USMC) used VMware to increase the availability and continuity of desktop and server resources while decreasing event recovery time.
- InfoWorld named VMware customers Defense Contract Management Agency, Gaston County Government, Nationwide Insurance, Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General, Purdue University, Stonebridge Bank and Transplace to the InfoWorld 100 for their Virtualization projects.
- CRN named VMware Infrastructure with VMware Lab Manager the Best Virtualization Product of the Year.
- Redmond Magazine gave VMware ESX Server its Editors’ Choice award for being the Most Reliable product of the year.
During 2007, VMware:
- grew to 5,000+ full-time people, 10,000+ partners and 100,000+ customers.
- announced key customer wins from the US Marines, NSA, IXIS and Defense Contract Management Agency. To date, more than 100,000 customers have deployed VMware’s virtualization solutions.
- opened the doors to a new campus in Palo Alto, California.
- hosted the fourth annual VMworld conference in September, bringing more than 10,800 attendees together in San Francisco to discuss and share ideas on the future of the virtualization industry.
- conducted an IPO in August, marking a major milestone for the entire virtualization industry.
- acquired Propero, Determina, Dunes Technology , and Sciant.
- continued to deepen relationships with key industry partners and received investments from Cisco Systems and Intel Capital .
- introduced VMware ESX Server 3i , the industry’s next generation thin hypervisor which will be integrated in server hardware from Dell, Fujitsu, Fujitsu Siemens Computers, HP, IBM, NEC and others. Building virtualization into the server hardware simplifies the deployment and management of virtual infrastructure for customers.
- continued to deliver management and automation solutions, including VMware Site Recovery Manager to help customers simplify and automate the disaster recovery process.
- delivered new innovations across VMware’s entire desktop product line, including Workstation 6 and VMware ACE 2 featuring Pocket ACE which allows users to put an entire desktop on a portable storage device such as a USB key.
- continued to build on the company’s end-to-end virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) solution with the introduction of VMware Virtual Desktop Manager 2 , a next generation connection broker that lets customers deliver enterprise-class virtual desktop management while providing end users with a familiar desktop experience.
- delivered VMware Fusion , VMware’s market-leading desktop virtualization technology to the Mac, enabling Mac users to simultaneously run Mac OS X, Windows and other PC-based applications on a single physical Mac computer.
- VMware people and products won approximately 50 awards.
