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March 27, 2009 |

VMware Virtualization Offers Highest Consolidation Ratios, Says Analyst Firm

The company has also introduced a cost-per-application calculator for quantifying cost savings and comparing virtualization solutions.

VMware Virtualization Offers Highest Consolidation Ratios, Says Analyst Firm

The company has also introduced a cost-per-application calculator for quantifying cost savings and comparing virtualization solutions.

Palo Alto, Calif.-based VMware, Inc., a provider of virtualization solutions for the desktop and data center, announced that VMware Infrastructure 3 offers the highest server consolidation ratios in the industry, resulting in a lower cost solution, according to industry analyst firm Taneja Group.

“Taneja Group is closely studying how VMware infrastructure scales in comparison to other offerings in the market”, says Jeff Boles, senior analyst and director of technology validation services at Taneja Group. “VMware’s technological superiority is very clear. We’ve validated in a number of tests that VMware virtualized servers can run twice as many applications than other hypervisors at equal or even greater performance levels. In our view, customers should be assessing virtualization on a “cost per application” basis.†† VM density has a significant impact on cost per application because it is tied to server equipment, software licensing, and management infrastructure complexity.†When looking at all of these factors that contribute to total upfront solution cost, VMware’s advanced technology actually makes it less expensive.”

To help companies evaluate the overall value of their server virtualization technology, VMware also unveiled its VMware Cost-Per-Application Calculator. The online calculator enables an organization to estimate cost savings from VMware solutions and compare their savings to other offerings. As the calculator details the costs to virtualize a set number of applications, a user is able to clearly see the savings enabled by virtualizing more applications per physical server.

“Now more than ever, it is crucial for customers to get the most value out of their virtualization solutions,” says Raghu Raghuram, vice president, server business unit, VMware. “Our unique features allow customers to achieve significantly higher consolidation ratios than any other offering in the industry. As such, VMware solutions generate more value for our customers than what other vendors might market as “free” offerings. Today, we are releasing a tool that enables customers to fully evaluate their options.”

Following the lead of analysts and customers, VMware has adopted “cost per application” as a more accurate metric to compare costs between virtualization solutions. Going beyond a license price comparison, evaluating cost per application takes into consideration the number of virtual machines that can be run on a single server, or the “virtual machine density” enabled by a specific virtualization solution. The higher the virtual machine density enabled, the higher the server consolidation ratio. The higher the consolidation ratio, the more an organization can reduce its infrastructure costs (including costs for servers, networking. storage, power, and data center space), and software costs, (including guest operating system and virtualization software licenses). Following this logic, the solution that provides the higher consolidation of servers–without an impact to performance–also provides the most value to customers.

To view the Taneja Group report The True Cost of Virtual Server Solutions, visit http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/technology/True_Cost_Virtual_Server_Solutions.pdf.†

The VMware Cost-Per-Application Calculator is available at http://www.vmware.com/go/costperappcalc.

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