Select Technologies ties up with VMWare

Bangalore

May 16, 2008

Select Technologies, a division of WeP Solutions, has entered into a
distribution tie-up with VMWare. VMware offers virtualization platform IT
infrastructure, enabling higher level of protection for business critical
systems and data for small and medium business enterprises. The tie-up will be
mutually beneficial as Select Technologies also primarily focuses on the SMB
segment.

Virtualization is a proven software technology that is rapidly transforming
the IT landscape and fundamentally changing the way that people compute. The x86
computer hardware that was initially designed to run only a single operating
system and single application, now runs multiple operating systems and multiple
applications, increasing the utilization and flexibility of hardware.

However, virtualizing a single physical computer is just the beginning.
VMware offers a virtualization platform that can scale across hundreds of
interconnected physical computers and storage devices to form an entire virtual
infrastructure.

One of the advantages of virtualization is that it helps eliminate planned
downtime for machine maintenance and also helps recover quickly from unplanned
outages with the ability to securely backup and migrate entire virtual
environments with no interruption in service.

It also offers a new way of managing IT infrastructure and can help IT
administrators spend less time on repetitive tasks such as provisioning,
configuration, monitoring and maintenance. This also helps to achieve
significantly higher resource utilization by pooling common infrastructure
resources and breaking the legacy 'one application to one server' model.