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Follow UsVmware introduced
new
vSphere 4.1 solutions for small and mid-sized businesses.
Its platform offers SMBs the most advanced capabilities for
virtualized environments that can be rapidly deployed at very
affordable price points. VMware also
announced the availability of VMware vSphere 4.1, with key
performance and efficiency enhancements for virtualization and cloud
computing environments.
According to an
independent survey of North American and European SMB x86 server
virtualization decision-makers, conducted by Forrester Research, 74
percent of the virtualized environments utilize VMware technologies. In
the same survey, 60 percent of SMBs rated standardizing on
virtualization for server deployment, disaster recovery, business
continuity capabilities, and infrastructure consolidation as a high
or critical priority.
Small and
mid-sizes businesses represent the fastest growing segment of
VMware's customer base. In the last two years alone, VMware has
tripled the number of customers in the SMB segment by introducing
solutions and services aimed specifically at this market. VMware
vSphere delivers the most complete virtualization offering for
businesses of all sizes. "VMware high
availability, fault tolerance and data recovery give us peace of mind
because we know that our critical applications and data are protected
and always available on demand-even during hardware failure,”
said Max Herring, Senior System Administrator, Campbell Clinic. “With
VMware vSphere, we can easily build an enterprise quality disaster
recovery environment at a price point we can afford," he added.
“Small and
mid-size businesses face similar IT challenges as large enterprises,”
said Bogomil Balkansky, VP-Product Marketing, Virtualization and
Cloud Platforms, VMware. “Solving these challenges requires
innovative technologies that deliver cloud-like IT services, such as
high availability, effective disaster recovery and simplified
management. But unlike large enterprises, SMBs have less legacy and
organizational complexity, giving them the freedom to adopt emerging
technologies more rapidly and quickly achieve significant benefits.
By combining more than a decade of proven virtualization expertise
with pricing and packaging appropriate for SMBs, VMware delivers a
unique set of solutions that helps SMBs to accelerate the journey to
IT as a service, delivering enterprise-class functionality while
enabling the scalability needed to support the needs of a growing
business,” said Balkansky.