VMware vSphere 4 is the industry’s first operating system for building the internal cloud, enabling the delivery of efficient, flexible and reliable IT as a service. With a wide range of groundbreaking new capabilities, VMware vSphere 4 brings cloud computing to enterprises in an evolutionary, non-disruptive way – delivering uncompromising control with greater efficiency while preserving customer choice. This enables VMware's robust partner ecosystem to develop product integrations, services and programs that help bring VMware vSphere 4 to customers of all sizes.
Application ISV
" API Healthcare embraces virtualization as both a high performance and economic lever for our client community. We support VMware vSphere as it extends the streak of rock solid support for critical systems deployment while delivering superior leverage of existing, as well as new IT investments."
— Rodney Coombs, Chief Architect, API Healthcare
" Cloud computing allows facilities of all sizes to shift their IT focus from building and maintaining infrastructure to supporting business innovation with BayScribe. We support VMware vSphere because it offers an evolutionary, non-disruptive path to cloud computing- giving our customers the power to meet their Dictation & Transcription SLAs today and to integrate Speech Recognition quickly and affordably in the future."
— Steve Bonney, VP of Business Development, Bayscribe
" Cast Iron Systems is a leading Saas and Cloud integration company with thousands of customer integrations connecting cloud-based applications with the rest of the enterprise. We support VMWare's next generation vSphere 4 platform because it allows our customers to efficiently add Cast Iron virtual appliances running on VSphere 4 to their existing IT infrastructure and integrate their on-premise and cloud-based applications in just days."
— Chandar Pattabhiram, VP of Product Marketing, Cast Iron Systems Inc.
" The next few years will see a rapid increase of cloud-enabling technologies and a corresponding growth in customers who take advantage of them, whether it be through an internal data center or via external cloud. When Edifecs Solution is deployed on VMware vSphere, we know our customers can optimize cost, availability, and performance levels while choosing the service delivery model that works best for them. Edifecs supports vSphere as the most mature, feature-rich technology to empower customers to leverage the benefits of cloud computing."
— Virendra Prasad, Director of Engineering, Edifecs
" Enterprise imaging and information systems need to bring together multiple facilities, each with disparate systems and yet be scalable over a wide spectrum of users. The Synapse architecture, when deployed with VMware virtualization technologies, accomplishes this goal within dramatically smaller, cost-effective system configurations."
— Jim Morgan, Director of Marketing, Network Systems FUJIFILM Medical Systems USA, Inc.
" Virtualization improves the efficiency and availability of computing resources, and in doing so reduces energy consumption and IT costs, helping make this world a smarter planet. It is great when you can help IT departments improve their operations, while also having a beneficial impact on the environment. IBM Data Management, which includes the DB2 and Informix database software, is excited to provide optimum database software for VMware vSphere 4 environments and to provide a reliable base for the VMware vCenter database needs."
— Boris Bialek, Program Director, Data Management Solutions, IBM
" We're seeing firsthand how virtualization is improving the way our clients implement, control and monitor their software infrastructure, VMware vSphere 4 provides a scalable, easy-to-manage environment for critical business and data management solutions such as IntApp Integration Builder."
— Neal Vora, Head of IntApp's Integration Practice
" Itron supports customers running Itron Enterprise Edition (IEE) Meter Data Management, Field Collection System (FCS), and Service-Link on supported Operating Systems in a VMware virtual machine environment. Itron recognizes that virtualization is a game-changing technology for the industry. We support VMware vSphere 4 because it helps our customers rapidly and reliably deliver the critical business services that our solutions provide, while it lowers their IT costs."
— Julie Steury, Managing Director, Software Products, Itron
" N-able recognizes that virtualization is a game-changing technology for the industry. We support VMware vSphere 4 because it helps our customers rapidly and reliably deliver the critical business services that our solutions provide, while it lowers their IT costs."
— Derik Belair, V.P. Business Development, N-able
" Reflexis Systems, the pioneer and leader in Retail Execution Management solutions, is pleased to announce its support for VMWare VSphere. Reflexis is partnering with VMWare because its virtualization solutions enable our customers -- some of the biggest and best-known retailers in the world -- to increase application availability, improve performance, and consolidate IT resources to reduce costs."
— Sundar Ranganathan, Chief Technology Officer, Reflexis Systems
" SAP believes that being able to deliver services rapidly in response to evolving business needs is critical for our customer . The dynamic, flexible, responsive infrastructure provided by VMware vSphere is key to allowing the kind of continuous innovation that SAP envisions. In addition, SAP is committed to helping our customers achieve higher levels of sustainability, and VMware vSphere is a fundamental enabler of a more sustainable IT environment."
— Roland Wartenberg, Enterprise Virtualization Strategist, SAP
" Virtualization technology is already the keystone of the data centre. VMware's vSphere continues to build upon the traditional hardware consolidation benefits of virtualization, extending in to simplified operational management, high availability and ultimately componentisation of applications and systems to enable cloud based service delivery. Sophos are excited to support this transformational technology and continuing development of new security solutions to operate with the future computing models."
— Dr. James Lyne, Technology Office, Sophos Plc.
" The time has come to accelerate the enterprise Java application lifecycle and virtualization plays a foundational role. VMware vSphere 4 offers a state of the art virtualized runtime environment that delivers the higher productivity, reduced complexity, and IT flexibility that SpringSource customers require to build, run, and manage their business critical Web applications."
— Shaun Connolly, Vice President of Product Management, SpringSource
" StrongMail is pleased to support essential cloud-enabling technologies like virtualization. By supporting VMware vSphere 4, we provide our customers with a fast and flexible deployment option with all the benefits of virtualization, including reduced capital and operating expenses."
— Tim McQuillen, CIO and Founder, StrongMail Systems
" VMware is the vanguard of virtualization, a crucial technology that has transformed the way enterprises build, deploy, and manage mission critical applications. Terracotta supports VMware vSphere 4 because the enterprise Java market needs lower administrative complexity, reduced infrastructure costs, and less operational risk, and we have seen VMware vSphere 4 deliver these benefits for our customers."
— Ari Zilka, CTO and co-founder of Terracotta, Inc.
Cloud
" Enterprise private clouds are allowing IT to reduce their application delivery lead times while maintaining control. VMwares vSphere offering is a major milestone for private cloud computing. VMware vSpheres vStorage support for automated thin-provisioning, integration with the Cisco Nexus 1000V and fault tolerance in the industrys leading server virtualization platform, coupled with Elastras cloud application resource planning and service orchestration technology, provides enterprises with unparalleled capabilities, allowing them to realize their long sought-after IT service delivery goals -- today -- with private clouds. Together, VMware and Elastra are ultimately changing the cost structure and improving the operational efficiencies of IT while providing policy-based control."
— Stuart Charlton, chief software architect, Elastra Corporation
" Savvis is a leading provider of IT infrastructure services for enterprises running mission-critical applications. We harness the latest advances in technology like VMware virtualization and are excited about VMware vSphere's ability to enable enterprise-ready cloud computing giving our customers greater flexibility and control over their IT operations."
— Bryan Doerr, Chief Technology Officer, Savvis
" Our Enterprise Cloud service combines the agility and scalability of cloud computing with world-class infrastructure. We leverage the power of VMware's technology to enhance the enterprise-level performance and reliability we offer our customers. As a VMware vCloud service provider, we are excited about the new capabilities in VMware vSphere which will help us to further enhance the value we offer to customers who rely on our cloud for their mission-critical applications."
— Randy Rowland, General Manager of Terremark's Hosting Services, Terremark
Infrastructure ISV
" Akorri has supported VMware since the initial release of BalancePoint, and we know that integrating BalancePoint with the VMware vCenterTM management product portfolio will help our customers to reduce their costs, improve efficiency, migrate risks, as well as optimize performance levels. Akorri supports VMware vSphere as the most mature, feature-rich technology to empower customers to leverage the benefits of virtualization."
— Rich Corley, Founder and CTO, Akorri
" Virtualizing unified threat management (UTM) security solutions with VMware vSphere 4 saves money and management time, as administrators can perform both workstation/server tasks and corresponding security and filtering tasks from within a single environment."
— Angelo Comazzetto, ASG Product Line Manager, Astaro
" VMware and BMC share a commitment to help our mutual customers transform their IT from a cost center to a business enabler. As our legacy of providing world-class Business Service Management solutions for mainframe and distributed environments extends to the cloud, we look forward to continuing our relationship with VMware to deliver full datacenter management to customers running VMware vSphere4."
— Kia Behnia, CTO, BMC Software
" Virtualization is transforming the enterprise data center and how customers can experience its benefits through the cloud. CA is collaborating with VMware on VMware vSphere to speed cloud service adoption and reduce the management barriers that often inhibit cloud service sales."
— Stephen Elliot, vice president of business unit strategy, CA
" Since the introduction of its aCelera Virtual Appliance for Application Acceleration software, Certeon has been a certified VMware partner and we are delighted to announce support for VMware vSphere 4. By supporting VMware we are able to provide a more than 95% reduction in application response time, enabling distributed enterprises to quickly and cost-effectively scale their virtualized application environments out to an expanding number of remote users. Certeon, the first and ONLY provider of a VMware certified virtual appliance for application acceleration, is helping to deliver unprecedented performance, scalability, and significant business benefits to VMware installations including lower capital and operating expenses, business continuity, strengthened security and reduced energy consumption."
— Peter Dougherty, co-founder and CEO, Certeon Inc.
" VMware vSphere 4 changes the rules of the game creating exciting possibilities to dramatically reduce operating costs by introducing flexibility and customer responsiveness previously unimaginable. Organizations who take full advantage of vSphere 4 will realize enormous savings and improved responsiveness coupled with the ability to effectively address their compliance and security needs. Configuresoft is proud to announce our configuration audit and change management support for VMware vSphere 4 and we feel fortunate to be a partner in VMware's solution offerings."
— Jason Cowie, Vice President of Product Management, Configuresoft
" Our eGInnovations VM Monitor(TM) has supported all previous versions of VI so we are delighted to announce support for the next-generation VMware vSphere 4. The widespread adoption of virtualization places paramount importance on monitoring and managing the virtual IT infrastructure to achieve optimum performance of applications and business services. The eG VM Monitor is a comprehensive end-to-end solution that allows customers to quickly pinpoint the precise root cause of problems, even in the most complex multi-tier IT environments. The eG VM Monitor not only helps ensure business continuity but it allows IT staff to work more productively by automating much of the monitoring functions."
— Srinivas Ramanathan, founder, president and CEO, eG Innovations
" Embotics has supported VMware virtual infrastructure since the first introduction of V-Commander(tm), and we are delighted to announce support for VMware vSphere 4 as well. Award winning V-Commander(tm), effectively leverages VMware vSphere 4 to prevent virtual sprawl by managing and controlling virtual machines throughout their lifecycle, saving real costs and minimizing risks in the datacenter. Using a unique combination of enterprise level insight, control, automation and integration V-Commander provides the governance necessary to allow customers to rapidly accelerate the adoption of server virtualization without creating sprawl, adding unnecessary resources, or adding staff."
— Jay Litkey president and CEO, Embotics Corporation
" FastScale is delighted to support the next-generation VMware vSphere 4 as customers further expand their IT infrastructure into cloud-based computing."
— Lynn LeBlanc, CEO, FastScale Technology
" LUMEDX understands that virtualization is fundamentally - and significantly -- transforming the delivery and economics of IT services. We support VMware vSphere 4 because it enables our customers to rapidly and reliably deliver the critical business services that our solutions provide, while it lowers their total cost of ownership."
— Bill Gazda, Vice President, Client Services & Shared Services, LUMEDX
" ManageIQ is pleased to announce its support for VMware vSphere 4 with its Enterprise Virtualization Manager (EVM) suite of products. "We are excited to provide our customers with the continuous insight, real-time policy-based control and model-driven automation solutions for their virtual infrastructures. Enterprises are leveraging VMware's virtualization technology to fundamentally transform the way they deliver services and take advantage of emerging computing models, building internal clouds and moving towards federation with external clouds. EVM enables enterprises to manage these dynamic virtual infrastructures and emerging cloud environments with advanced automation, role-based delegation and self-service capabilities delivering significant cost savings through improved reliability, availability, security and increased agility."
— Joe Fitzgerald, CEO, ManageIQ
" Proactive management of hybrid physical-virtual environments is critical to ensuring application availability, flexible reporting and superior end user experience. NetIQ continues to work closely with VMware through the release of VMware vSphere 4 to optimize and support this new platform - enabling our joint customers to extend the depth of management capabilities as they look to complement datacenter operations with cloud computing."
— Chris Pick, vice president, Products and Marketing, NetIQ
" Netuitive SI software self-learns the behavior of virtual infrastructures to automate monitoring administration, forecast performance and isolate root-causes. We're proud to support VMware VSphere 4, the most powerful virtualization platform in the industry."
— Daniel Heimlich, Vice President of Marketing, Netuitive
" We look forward to working with VMware to provide our mutual customers with increased business benefits with our support of VMware vSphere 4. Our customers view VMware virtualization as a strategic investment and a proven way to reduce costs and increase resiliency. "We have a long history of supporting VI and are delighted to support the next-generation VMware vSphere 4, which now provides customers the increased ability to transform IT infrastructure into an internal cloud, enabling further capital and operational cost reduction while delivering adaptive and reliable IT services." The combination of VMware and Neverfail technology provides a powerful platform to deliver reliable and resilient business services across physical and virtual deployments and increase the adoption of virtualization."
— Nick Harmer, VP Strategic Alliances, NeverFail
" Deploying application solutions on virtualized infrastructure can deliver substantial cost savings and operational benefits when a highly dynamic environment like VMware vSphere 4 is coupled with the cost-effective, scalable Nimsoft monitoring solution. Nimsoft, a VMware Ready partner, already supports VMware vSphere 4 so customers can accelerate virtualization and cloud computing initiatives with confidence that they have the right tools. With years of proven integration success and hundreds of customers monitoring virtualized infrastructure, the Nimsoft Monitoring Solution for VMware allows customers to deliver the service levels and cost savings they expect to realize by speeding monitoring configuration through templates and advanced services discovery."
— Gary Read, CEO, Nimsoft
" Nortel recognizes that partnering with industry leaders like VMware is the most effective way to deliver best-in-class resiliency and efficiency in the Data Center. We support VMware vSphere because it helps our customers rapidly and reliably deliver the critical business services that their users demand, all while lowering IT costs."
— Rami Rammaha, Marketing Manager, Nortel
" Opalis helps customers succeed by integrating, orchestrating and automating the power of VMware vSphere 4 with their existing production management systems. The result is a dynamic management fabric for physical, virtual and cloud resources."
— Yale Tankus, SVP, Opalis Software
" As a VMware customer, Enterasys experiences six figure annual savings with tremendous flexibility to adapt in real-time to changing business requirements through our use of VMware vSphere 4 virtualization. As a VMware partner, Enterasys networking products uniquely prioritize and secure VMware virtualization environments through easy to deploy role-based access controls that automate compliance, optimize operations, lower costs, and reduce risks."
— Chris Crowell, Enterasys EVP and General Manager, Siemens Enterprise Communications Group
" VMware vSphere is a great advance for our customers as they evolve toward the cloud operating system. We look forward to continuing to help organizations safeguard their investment in the VMware platform by providing innovative systems management software designed to reduce costs, increase productivity and mitigate risk."
— Ratmir Timashev, president and CEO, Veeam Software
" Vyatta is leading the way in network appliance virtualization. We have many customers deploying Vyatta inside VMware in data centers, branch offices, and throughout the enterprise network. VMware vSphere 4 will continue to accelerate the move to virtual networking. By virtualizing with Vyatta and VMware's vSphere 4, customers can jettison the limitations imposed by proprietary networking hardware and instead connect, secure, and optimize enterprise networks in the virtual domain."
— Dave Roberts, Vice President of Strategy, Vyatta
" We are seeing an explosion in the adoption of Cloud Computing and related technologies. When ZXTM VA is deployed on VMWares vSphere, we know that our customers get a Web Application Traffic Manager in-the-cloud that is optimized, highly performant, and works out of the box. Zeus supports vSphere as a feature rich product that makes deploying and managing applications in the cloud a snap. Zeus software enables our customers to create, manage and deliver exceptional online services in the physical, Virtual and Cloud environments."
— David Day, CTO, Zeus Technology
Networking
" VMware vSphere promises to deliver uncompromising control with greater efficiency required for high-performance virtual environments. While virtualization provides significant business benefits such as reduced capital and operating expenses, improved business continuity, and strengthened security, customers also need to determine how they preserve their existing investments while designing their virtualized environment of the future. As the leader in both data center and local area networking solutions, Brocade enables data-intensive businesses to optimize information connectivity and maximize their infrastructure investments. Brocade is uniquely positioned to pair both the VMware and Brocade products with the deep skills and expertise required, via the Brocade Data Center Virtualization Service offering, to best architect and utilize highly virtualized environments."
— Marc Randall, Senior Vice President of Products and Offerings, Brocade
" Cisco's VN-Link technologies, as implemented by the Cisco Nexus 1000v virtual switch and the Cisco Unified Computing System, provide a deep integration of networking features into VMware's Virtual Data Center Operating System. This will allow Cisco and VMware customers to take full advantage of all of the innovations of VMware vSphere 4 in conjunction with the rich security, policy enforcement, performance, monitoring and diagnostics features of Cisco's Nexus and UCS platforms."
— Ed Bugnion, chief technology officer, Server Access and Virtualization Group, Cisco Systems
" We're excited to see the arrival of VMware vSphere as a key component of the Virtual Datacenter OS. VMware vSphere delivers significant innovations enhancing the performance, manageability, and availability of virtualized computing resources. Integrating VMware vSpheres advanced approach to virtualization with F5s unified application, network, and data optimization capabilities enables customers to significantly improve their IT agility and efficiency."
— Erik Giesa, VP of Product Management and Product Marketing, F5 Networks
" The introduction of VMware vSphere brings new levels of virtualization to the data center. The combination of vSpehere and the latest multicore processors will increase server i/o performance to new levels; 10GbE has become the server connectivity option of choice. This increase in network traffic mandates a reliable, scalable network infrastructure that can provide the performance and reliability needed to support mission critical applications. Force10 is excited to partner with VMware to deliver the next generation data center."
— Stephen Garrison, VP Marketing, Force10 Networks
" Virtualized platforms, multicore processors and high-performance networking form the basis of next generation datacenters. Using VMware vSphere 4.0 in combination with NetXen's Quad Gigabit and 10GbE Intelligent NIC products brings significant business benefits to customers. We provide advanced I/O management features for virtualized platforms, enabling customers to deploy more VMs per system, and scale to meet the needs of heavier workloads, while lowering operating expenses."
— Sanjeev Jorapur, vice president of technology, NetXen
" QLogic has successfully co-developed storage and data networking solutions with VMware to enable the convergence of networks with intelligent converged fabric technologies. VMware's vSphere 4 portfolio combined with QLogic's products, empowers our customers to optimize cost, availability, and performance. QLogic embraces VMware vSphere 4 as a key enabler of FCoE convergence solutions and advances in cloud computing."
— Amit Vashi, Vice President of Marketing, QLogic Host Solutions Group
" We look forward to working closely with VMware to help bring the benefits of VMware vSphere 4 to organizations worldwide. Riverbed enhances VMware vSphere 4 environments in several ways. First, Riverbed accelerates backup and disaster recovery processes and allows organizations to better meet their RPOs/RTOs. Second, Riverbed improves the user experience for virtual desktops over the WAN while at the same time reducing WAN bandwidth consumption. Finally, Riverbed provides acceleration and reduction of VMware vCloud-based traffic over the network thereby enabling enterprises to rapidly deploy, migrate and protect VMware vCloud-based workloads over the WAN."
— Venugopal Pai, vice president of global alliances, Riverbed
Operating System
" Cloud computing allows users to shift their IT focus from building and maintaining infrastructure to supporting business innovation. We will fully support VMware vSphere 4 because it helps Asianux Linux OS solution provides a seamless, flexible, efficient and low cost solution for our customers."
— Jaykay Kim,COO, Asianux Corporation Ltd
" The next few years will see a rapid increase of cloud-enabling technologies and a corresponding growth in customers who take advantage of them, whether it be through an internal data center or via external clou . SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 has been designed for physical, virtual, appliance and cloud deployments. When a customer runs SUSE Linux Enterprise as a guest operating system in any VMware environment, they get a solution designed for mission-critical computing that helps them reduce cost, complexity and risk."
— Markus Rex, Senior Vice President & General Manager, Open Platform Solutions, Novell
Security
" The VMsafe APIs provide the perfect, non-intrusive vantage point for a virtual firewall to be in the path of every packet to the protected virtual machine. With VMsafe, Altor VF integrates with the hypervisor to deliver granular, per-VM, inter-VM security with unparalleled performance. The VMsafe APIs were obviously designed and implemented by exceptional engineers at VMware with tight cooperation with the security industry. This has resulted in concepts and APIs that enables us to innovate a security product that bridges network and host security solutions. We are also very thankful to the VMware team for their quick and effective responses through out the development process."
— Gilad Benjamini, principal engineer, Altor Networks
" Catbird applauds the significant advancements that VMware vSphere 4 brings to securing virtual infrastructure and cloud-based computing. We look forward to continuing our partnership to ensure that virtualized infrastructure is even more secure than traditional computing."
— Edmundo Costa, COO, Catbird
" Customers of Fortinet's security virtualization solutions have also viewed VMware virtualization as a strategic investment and a proven way to reduce costs. We look forward to providing market-leading security virtualization to customers who are supporting VMware vSphere 4 in their data centers."
— Michael Rivers, vice president, corporate business development & strategic alliances, Fortinet
" VMware has enabled us to develop kernel-level integration features in Reflex VMC for VMware vSphere through APIs made available in their exclusive VMSafe program. This partnership provides our joint customers with seamless management, security, and dynamic policy enforcement across VMware installations in datacenters and external cloud environments."
— Pete Privateer, CEO and president, Reflex Systems
" Symantec has a long history of close collaboration with VMware to develop state of the art protection technologies for VMware environments. We will continue working with VMware on vSphere 4 to further enhance our industry-leading functionality for virtualized environments across our broad product portfolio. VMware vSphere 4 offers Symantec the features and functionality to develop high-value solutions that meet the needs of our mutual customers."
— John Magee, vice president, Product Marketing, Symantec
Server
" VMware's vSphere software technology running on AMD Opteron(tm) processor-based systems work together to provide an optimal computing platform for businesses looking for a new way to take advantage of the cloud. Features like VMware's Fault Tolerance help deliver maximum availability and aid in disaster recovery, while I/O virtualization will drive new levels of performance. As AMD and VMware continue to help define the future of business computing, this is the kind of advanced technology that addresses the overall efficiency in the datacenter that customers need today."
— Margaret Lewis, director, Commercial Solutions, AMD
" VMware vSphere 4 brings a new level of flexibility and scalability that customers need in order to break free from traditional computing. Dell EqualLogic is at the forefront with VMware to deliver on VMware vStorage APIs for multipathing, an integration that will dramatically simplify and optimize the performance and availability of VMware vSphere 4."
— Darren Thomas, vice president, Enterprise Product Group, Dell
" Fujitsu welcomes the announcement of VMware vSphere 4.0. This is an optimal solution for datacenters designed to meet the requirements of the cloud computing age, said . When combined with industry-standard Fujitsu PRIMERGY servers, ETERNUS storage systems and Resource Coordinator IT resource management software, VMware vSphere 4.0 will deliver cost reductions as well as enable prompt and agile service offerings."
— Akira Yamanaka, corporate vice president, Fujitsu Limited
" Customers who want to divert more resources toward increasing revenue and away from maintenance, can rely on HP product and services with VMware vSphere 4 to deliver a truly business-ready technology infrastructure. HP has worked extensively with VMware to develop solutions that help customers realize the full business value of their virtualization technologies from desktop to datacenter."
— Paul Miller, vice president, marketing, Enterprise Storage and Servers, HP
" Together, IBM and VMware have enabled unique virtualization capabilities. IBM continues to deliver x86 hardware purpose-built for virtualization with the only server available today that can exploit all of the new scalability features of VMware vSphere 4. The IBM System x3950 M2—the reference architecture for VMware vSphere 4 scalability—scales to 96 cores and one terabyte of memory, offering users the kind of reliability and flexibility that can substantially cut costs."
— Robert Zuber, an executive with IBM’s System x server line
" The combination of VMware vSphere and Intel Xeon 5500 yielded up to 150 percent improvement in VM Mark performance. Simply spectacular results."
— Pat Gelsinger, Sr. VP, GM DEG, Intel Corporation
" NEC’s dynamic IT infrastructure—a solution that includes servers, storage, virtual desktop solutions, and system software which are smart, flexible, resilient, and future-evolving—is ideal for virtualization with VMware. With the VMware vSphere 4 platform and NEC’s dynamic IT infrastructure, organizations can move forward confidently and meet changing and growing business needs in an efficient manner."
— Karen Dutch, vice president, IT Platform and Solutions, NEC Corporation of America
" Unisys believes that VMware vSphere 4 has significant value in helping us deploy scalable, cost-efficient IT infrastructures for our clients. VMware vSphere's 64-core scalability extends the capabilities of our Intel Xeon processor-based Unisys ES7000 Enterprise Servers. Our assessments show that this combination of strengths creates a powerful engine for cloud computing and can help Unisys provide clients with scalable virtualization solutions at half the cost of scale-out alternatives."
— Colin Lacey, vice president, Systems and Storage, Unisys Systems and Technology
Storage
" In today's economy, virtualization is an essential tool for cutting infrastructure costs and remaining competitive and server virtualization demands highly virtualized storage. The combination of 3PAR Utility Storage and VMware vSphere 4.0 enables organizations to increase infrastructure efficiency, ease management, and gain agility through virtual computing deployments."
— Craig Nunes, VP of marketing, 3PAR
" Enterprises continue to enjoy the benefits of reducing operational costs and complexity in their datacenters by implementing VMware vSphere solutions to consolidate their servers, storage and IT operations. CommVault Simpana 8 leverages VMware vSphere for improved unified data management across both virtual and physical environments from a single console. Together, VMware and CommVault are helping customers transform their IT infrastructures to increase productivity and better respond to changing business needs."
— Mark Eastman, Director of alliances, CommVault Systems
" VMware vSphere 4 offers a great opportunity to look at IT infrastructure differently as virtual information infrastructure. Customers want to drive the value of virtualization in to every application, use case, and throughout their datacenter. EMC is committed to integrating our broad portfolio of information infrastructure products and solutions with vSphere 4 to help accelerate customers' journeys to achieving important efficiency gains and take advantage of next-generation levels of IT choice, control and flexibility."
— Chad Sakac, vice president, VMware technology alliance, EMC
" Channel partners and small and mid-sized businesses can turn to HP for a complete virtualization solution designed to save them money and reduce the risks associated with implementing a new infrastructure. As a leader in providing technology solutions to small and midsized businesses, HP has collaborated with VMware to create solution blocks specifying appropriate servers, storage, networking and services with the new VMware vSphere Essentials offerings. These offerings simplify deployment and accelerate time to results. For customers needing always-on IT infrastructures, these include our HP LeftHand Virtual SAN Appliance Software and entry iSCSI SAN systems that provide cost effective yet highly available shared storage."
— Scott Farrand, vice president, Industry Standard Server Software, HP
" Virtualization is a strategic technology at LSI because it enables organizations to optimize IT resource utilization . As a major provider of storage virtualization, networked storage, DAS, iSCSI and the entire storage ecosystem, LSI is working with VMware and the VMware vSphere 4 product to ensure the underlying IT infrastructure supports this game-changing technology."
— Vic Mahadevan, vice president of marketing and product management, Engenio Storage Group, LSI Corp.
" VMwares efforts to tie all the diverse cloud components together into a single managed entity is directly aligned with our vision of how the data center is evolving. Just as VMware vSphere is the foundation for cloud computing, we believe NetApp provides customers with the best storage platform for delivering the next-generation of IT services. Were excited about the positive benefit VMware vSphere is going to have for our customers. Together, NetApp and VMware provide our joint customers a solid path to cloud computing to better manage the complexities of their data centers."
— Jay Kidd, Chief Marketing Officer, NetApp
" We understand that virtualization is every bit as important as open storage for improving the ease of use and economics of the storage industry. We support VMware vSphere because it helps our customers rapidly and reliably deliver enterprise class storage via vSphere, the IT industry's most comprehensive and powerful set of IT optimization and management solutions. Customers such as Coltex, the leading European retailer with over 380 stores, use NexentaStor with our VM Data Center plug-in plus VMware's vSphere to reduce their capital expenditures and their hardware footprint in hundreds of sites while improving the resilience and manageability of their storage and their overall IT environment."
— Evan Powell, CEO, Nexenta Systems
" Were very pleased to certify our pioneering IP SANs with VMware vSphere. As organizations begin to consolidate and take advantage of on-demand infrastructure, theyll find that our iSCSI storage platform is ideal to support a range of critical applications, from primary storage to business continuity to archiving. Our internal teams are prepared and looking forward to helping customers immediately benefit from the new VMware vSphere platform."
— Bahman Jalali, director of product management, StoneFly
Thin Client
" IGEL Technology recognizes that desktop virtualization is playing a major role in the area of server based computing. We support Next Generation VMware Infrastructure because it gives customers revolutionary benefits when deploying virtual desktops. We are constantly focused on providing support and certification for the latest VMware View versions in order to offer customers the perfect endpoint for desktop virtualization."
— Florian Spatz, Product Marketing Manager, IGEL Technology
" LISCON recognizes that virtualization is a game-changing technology for the industry . We support VMware vSphere because it helps our customers rapidly and reliably deliver the critical business services that our solutions provide, while it lowers their IT costs."
— Emanuel Pirker, Managing Director, LISCON Information Technology
" NEC is pleased with the announcement of the release of VMware vSphere 4. VMware vSphere 4 is significant to NEC for a couple of reasons. First, for virtual PC type thin client systems in which NEC is a market leader, the features of VMware vSphere 4 are ideal for the configuration of a large scale thin client system and turning it into a service. This includes the enhancement of interaction among systems for cloud computing. In addition to manufacturing and specializing in comprehensive IT platforms including servers and storage, NEC also has extensive experience in managing physical and virtual environments. Thus, the combination of NEC's knowledge and products along with VMware vSphere 4 will allow us to provide powerful solutions with significant value."
— Masato Yamamoto, Associate Senior Vice President, NEC Corporation
" Virtualization will forever change the face of desktop computing, and the growing base of VMware partners and users are at the vanguard of that change. VMwares continuing evolution and enhancement of VMware vSphere provides the stable, mature platform we need for our purpose-built zero-client solution for virtual Windows desktops."
— Bryan Cox, Executive Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations, Pano Logic
