Recent news from VMware: VMware Announces General Availability of VMware vSphere(R) 5

VMware Announces General Availability of VMware vSphere® 5

Latest Version of Industry Leading Virtualization Platform Helps
Customers Accelerate Toward More Efficient and Automated Cloud
Infrastructure

PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 25, 2011 - VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global
leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced the
general availability of VMware vSphere® 5, delivering nearly 200 new and
enhanced capabilities to help customers transform IT by driving greater
efficiency from existing investments and improving operational agility.

“With the release of VMware vSphere 5, VMware is helping customers
accelerate their journey toward a more efficient and automated cloud
infrastructure,” said Bogomil Balkansky, senior vice president, cloud
infrastructure products, VMware. “The enhancements and new innovations
we’ve introduced in VMware vSphere 5 provide a robust, reliable
platform for any business application, enabling customers to effectively
respond to the growing needs of their business and giving them
confidence in their IT transformation.”

The foundation of VMware’s cloud infrastructure suite, VMware vSphere
5, includes new features and enhancements to deliver better application
performance and availability for all business-critical applications. It
also introduces advanced automation capabilities to free IT from manual
processes and allow it to be more responsive to changing business
requirements.

VMware vSphere 5 supports virtual machines (VMs) that are up to four
times more powerful than previous versions -- VMs can now be configured
with up to 1 terabyte of memory and 32 virtual CPUs. When combined with
VMware vSphere 5’s enhanced High Availability, these gains in VM
scalability and performance enable customers to virtualize any
business-critical applications with confidence in the application’s
continued performance and availability. (Please see
http://www.vmware.com/products/high-availability/overview.html.)

VMware vSphere 5 also introduces three key new flagship features --
Auto-Deploy, Profile-Driven Storage
(http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vsphere/profile-driven-storage/overview.html)
and Storage DRS
(http://www.vmware.com/products/datacenter-virtualization/vsphere/vsphere-storage-drs/features.html)
-- that extend the platform’s unique datacentre resource management
capabilities, delivering intelligent policy management to support an
automated “set it and forget it” approach to managing datacentre
resources, including server deployment and storage management. Customers
can define policies and establish the operating parameters, and VMware
vSphere 5 does the rest.

VMware vSphere 5 and the cloud infrastructure suite are supported by
more than 25,000 partners, including technology partners, independent
software vendors (ISVs), solution providers, service providers, and
systems integrators, as well as every major global hardware
manufacturer. VMware's partner community continues to mature as the
company consistently sets the bar for innovation in virtualization and
cloud technologies. Read more about ecosystem support for VMware vSphere
5:
http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmw-cloud-infrastructure-partner-quotes-071211.html#vSphere5.

Pricing and Availability
VMware vSphere 5 is currently available in packages and prices that
address the widest range of customer requirements, starting at US$83 per
processor.  Visit the VMware vSphere Upgrade Center
(http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/upgrade-center/overview.html)
for more information on licensing and editions.

Additional Resources
- Learn more about VMware vSphere 5:
http://www.vmware.com/products/vsphere/overview.html
- Learn more about what’s new in VMware vSphere 5:
http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/press-kit/vmw-vsphere-cloud-infrastructure.pdf
- Read wh
at partners are saying about VMware vSphere 5:
http://www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/vmw-cloud-infrastructure-partner-quotes-071211.html
- Visit the VMware vSphere blog: http://blogs.vmware.com/vsphere/
- Get product graphics, datasheets and videos:
http://www.vmware.com/company/mediaresource/cloud-infrastructure-press-kit.html
- Read “VMware Unveils VMware vSphere 5 and Cloud Infrastructure
Suite” blog post by VMware CTO, Steve Herrod:
http://blogs.vmware.com/console/2011/07/vmware-unveils-vsphere-5-and-the-cloud-infrastructure-suite.html
- Read “VMware Building the Foundation for the Cloud Era” blog post
by VMware senior vice president of product marketing, Bogomil Balkansky:
http://blogs.vmware.com/rethinkit/2011/07/vmware-building-the-foundation-for-the-cloud-era-with-the-launch-of-vsphere-5-and-the-cloud-infrastr.html

About VMware
VMware delivers virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that
enable IT organizations to energize businesses of all sizes. With the
industry leading virtualization platform -- VMware vSphere® -- customers
rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, improve
agility, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green.
With 2010 revenues of US$2.9 billion, more than 250,000 customers and
25,000 partners, VMware is the leader in virtualization which
consistently ranks as a top priority among CIOs. VMware is headquartered
in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found
online at www.vmware.com. VMware Canada is headquartered in Burlington,
Ontario, and can be found online at www.vmware.ca.

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other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their
respective companies. The use of the word "partner" or "partnership"
does not imply a legal partnership relationship between VMware and any
other company.

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