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Control and manage remote servers and desktops from a central location

Remote sites such as regional offices, retail stores and bank branches present unique challenges for IT organizations. Management complexity, inadequate infrastructure and a lack of administrative resources can make it difficult for companies to deliver consistent and scalable IT services to their remote offices in a timely manner. Virtualization is a great way to address these issues, and VMware offers solutions for remote and branch office management that will help you:

  • Simplify IT management and accelerate provisioning of remote systems
  • Ensure always-on availability and recover quickly from disasters
  • Reduce IT hardware and operating costs for servers and desktops

For more information, download the Solution Brief or submit an online Solutions Request today.

There is a vSphere Edition Tailored for your Environment

Increase IT control through service level automation, dramatically reducing capital and operating costs and maximizing IT efficiency

Leverage the power of virtualization to transform your IT infrastructure into private clouds built on VMware vSphere—enabling IT to increase control through service-level automation. VMware vSphere, the industry's most reliable virtualization platform, dramatically reduces capital and operating costs and maximizes IT efficiency—with the freedom to choose any application, OS, or hardware.

For customers requiring advanced availability features, improved management and automation, and the most scalable platform across remote sites, VMware offers four editions:

  • VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus delivers the full range of VMware vSphere features, transforming datacenters into dramatically simplified environments, offering the next generation of flexible, reliable IT services.
  • VMware vSphere Enterprise includes key features for minimizing downtime, protecting data, and automating resource management.
  • VMware vSphere Standard offers an entry solution for basic consolidation of applications, reducing hardware costs while accelerating application deployment.

Visit VMware vSphere for enterprise businesses to learn more about these editions.

Get the high availability, performance and reliability of VMware with cost-effective packages designed for smaller branch offices

Leverage the power of virtualization by fully utilizing existing IT resources to deploy new applications, improve availability and ensure business continuity. Dramatically reduce capital and operating costs while increasing IT staff efficiency with VMware vSphere, the most trusted and reliable virtualization platform in the industry. VMware vSphere delivers Always On IT to small businesses, bringing the high availability, performance and reliability of the VMware platform together with cost-effective packages designed for small IT environments.

VMware offers two new VMware vSphere™ editions tailored for enterprises interested in virtualizing smaller remote sites to offer low-cost deployment with central management:

  • VMware vSphere Essentials for Retail and Branch Offices offers a package solution for each of your branch offices to scale agility, security, and efficiency across your organization.
  • VMware vSphere Essentials Plus for Retail and Branch Offices provides a turnkey solution for complete business agility and continuity at all of your locations by adding high availability and data protection.

These editions offer the familiar functionality and price point of our vSphere Essentials bundles, but are better tailored for enterprise ROBO deployments. Both include VMware vCenter™ Server for Essentials, and support central management from VMware vCenter Server Standard (purchased separately). For both, we offer our premier Gold and Platinum Support and Subscription (SnS) packages for these bundles.

Customers virtualizing a large number of branch offices will be eligible for discounts through the VMware Purchase Program (VPP). SnS is sold separately, and a minimum of one year is required. There is a maximum of three virtualized hosts per site, and a minimum initial order quantity of 10 packages.

Manage Remote Office Desktops from your Datacenter

Transform desktop management and energize remote users

Deliver rich, personalized virtual desktops as a managed service from a virtualization platform built to deliver the entire desktop, not just applications. Consolidate virtual desktops on datacenter servers and manage operating systems, applications and data independently for greater business agility while providing a great desktop experience for end users with VMware View 5.

  • Reduce costs and gain better reliability, efficiency and security
  • Virtualize your desktops and applications
  • Accelerate provisioning to remote and branch offices while retaining control

Deploy and run applications easily and without conflict

Simplify application deployments by eliminating application conflicts through application virtualization. Package an entire application and its settings into a single executable that is isolated from the OS. Plug VMware ThinApp into your existing management infrastructure and accelerate your application development and desktop deployment. Deliver and deploy applications more efficiently, more securely, and more cost-effectively.

  • Run applications from any media without needing admin privileges for secure mobile computing
  • Maximize uptime during application migration and updates

See our Desktop Solutions for more information about desktop virtualization.