VMware helps gain competitiveness with virtualization

MUMBAI, INDIA: At its Virtualization Forum 2008 event in India, VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter has showcased the success of Indian businesses that have implemented its virtualization solutions to achieve significant cost savings, faster response and enhanced security, with enhanced manageability.

VMware has in India today more than 550 customers and more than 230 partners to support its business expansion across the country.

VMware solutions are today deployed across businesses of every size and all major industry sectors, including government. VMware continues to gain momentum in the Indian market as customers increasingly opt for VMware’s industry-leading, innovative and comprehensive virtualization platform over other vendor offerings. VMware and its partners are focused on helping companies successfully implement virtualization solutions to achieve their specific business goals.

Virtualization Forum 2008 in Mumbai is India’s largest virtualization event and is aimed at driving virtualization adoption in India. The event has attracted more than 1000 delegates representing companies across key industries and has more than 15 sponsors and exhibiting companies. This strong support reflects VMware’s leadership and momentum amongst the Indian business community.

The accelerating rate of business change, non-negotiable requirements for 24X7 business resiliency, and inexorable pressure to reduce costs are increasing the need for companies across various industries to adopt virtualization. VMware, with its proven track record of delivering high quality products and business benefits, today offers the broadest portfolio of virtualization solutions that span the desktop to the datacenter.

VMware’s customers in India include Atrenta India, BPCL, Chitale Dairy, i2 Technologies, Macawber Beekay and Religare.

Among the customers presenting at Virtualization Forum 2008 is Firstsource - one of India’s leading Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) service providers. Firstsource has benefitted from deploying VMware virtualization technology in its datacenter. VMware has helped Firstsource improve data security, ease the burden of desktop administration, and reduce the cost associated with owning and operating thousands of desktop systems. Firstsource has implemented desktop virtualization for about 400 desktops in the initial phase, and nearly 500 servers virtualizing their application server farms, including Oracle 8/9i, Apache Tomcat, SAP, CRM and variety of other business applications.

Prashanth MG, senior vice president, technology for Firstsource said, “As a BPO Company, our success is largely incumbent on adopting and deploying the right technology to leverage the necessary operational efficiencies and deliver timely solutions to customers. Scaling the IT infrastructure at the desired speed was just not possible with the traditional physical server-based systems and desktops. VMware Infrastructure has helped us make much better use of our datacenter space, power savings, improve application availability and strengthen our disaster-recovery capability.”

Raghu Raghuram, VMware vice president, product & solutions marketing, said “Given today’s economic conditions, companies are telling us that virtualization continues to be a top priority as they seek IT solutions that deliver significant business results quickly. VMware is strongly positioned as a strategic IT partner as we offer the industry’s most complete and simple-to-use virtualization platform and solution portfolio. Customers across key industries are achieving clear business benefits, including cost savings from consolidating more servers, reducing power and cooling requirements and Green IT; at the same time, they gain new capabilities for their systems to run their business, including enhanced security, business continuity, disaster recovery, and high availability.”

At Virtualization Forum 2008 in Mumbai, VMware shared its vision, next-generation virtualization capabilities and groundbreaking new products that expand its flagship VMware Virtual Infrastructure suite into a Virtual Datacenter Operating System (VDC-OS), as well its vCloud and vClient initiatives.

Virtualization Forum 2008, India’s largest virtualization road show, is part of a series being held across 6 cities – Sydney, Singapore, Seoul, Beijing, Mumbai and Tokyo – in October and November.