VMware expands virtualization usage

VMware expands virtualization usage

It plans to expand virtualization to disaster recovery, data security and desktop management

Monday, March 23, 2009

BANGALORE, INDIA: VMware, Inc., a provider in virtualization solutions, recently announced the expanding use of virtualization to disaster recovery, data security and desktop management.

Lowe’s companies, a provider in retail home-improvement products, is one such VMware customer, said a press release.

It is working to virtualize much of its infrastructure and is in the process of deploying VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager to automate its backup and restore processes, which helps ensure that business can continue uninterrupted regardless of technical glitches that inevitably occur in every datacenter, the release added.

Another major VMware customer, ICICI Bank of India, is supporting its aggressive expansion plans by leveraging VMware Infrastructure 3 to build out an IT infrastructure that can help improve IT service delivery and reduce costs, added the release.

“Customers view virtualization as both a strategic investment and a proven way to reduce costs. Customers understand that virtualization is about much more than just consolidation. It’s about manageability, flexibility and being smart about how they run their businesses,” said Tod Nielsen, chief operating officer, VMware.

He added that rather than looking simply at hypervisors, customers want a complete tool-set that would compliment and extend their hypervisors to provide a new compute layer that yields capital expense savings as well as operational expense savings.

Some of the recent customers to select VMware’s management and automation solutions include Accenture (India), Bamrungrad Hospital Company Limited (Thailand), Behringer Holdings (Singapore) and China Life Insurance.

An increasing number of VMware customers are using virtualization for centralized desktop management, said the release.

With the range of uses for virtualization expanding, customers are looking for comprehensive virtualization solutions that offer robust tool-sets, extreme scalability, ultra-high availability, and the flexibility to virtualize servers, PCs and other devices, the release added.

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