Cloud computing, virtualisation on the rise, says Vmware

MUMBAI: Virtualisation solutions company Vmware said that it has continued to grow throughout 2008 and has reshaped the computing landscape by eliminating the decades-long bond that tied applications to physical hosts.  The sea change is reflected in the thousands of IT organizations around the world that have selected the VMware platform to solve longstanding business problems, such as data security and disaster preparedness, while collectively saving their organizations millions of dollars, states a press release. 

“Customers view virtualization as both a strategic investment and a proven way to reduce costs,” said Tod Nielsen, chief operating officer at VMware.  “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.  Rather than looking simply at hypervisors, customers want a complete toolset that complements and extends their hypervisors to provide a new compute layer that yields capital expense savings as well as operational expense savings.  This is why we’ve seen such aggressive adoption of the VMware platform over the past quarter.”

Cloud Computing and Manageability

Cloud computing is one of fastest-growing uses of virtualization.  bmi, the second-largest airline at London’s Heathrow Airport, has started moving up to 90 percent of its IT infrastructure to a VMware vCloud platform hosted by service provider Attenda, said the company.

Other customers are using the VMware platform to improve management and automation, including Canterbury Christ Church University, the City of Pittsburgh, Peet’s Coffee and Tea, Portaal and Post Danmark. 

Some recent customers across APAC include Accenture (India), Bamrungrad Hospital Company Limited (Thailand), Behringer Holdings (Singapore) and China Life Insurance. Hap Seng Consolidated Berhad is using VMware Infrastructure 3 as the foundation for its disaster recovery (DR) plan, while the University of Auckland is implementing a DR plan with VMware Site Recovery Manager. 

The press release also stated that an increasing number of VMware customers are using virtualization for centralized desktop management indicated by the demand for VMware View, which enables IT organizations to deliver personalized virtual desktops to any device.