VMware enables you to simultaneously save up to 50% in costs and increase the responsiveness of your data center to business needs.

VMware unleashes your IT environment's hidden potential to save costs by:

• Simplifying your infrastructure. Centrally manage all your IT resources, provisioning new capacity in minutes versus days.
• Optimizing resources. Pool and share resources and consolidate the number of servers by as much as 10 times. Now and in the future.
• Delivering high availability. With auto-failover protection, disaster-recovery is fast and predictable and scheduled maintenance downtime is truly zero.
• Enabling real-time response. Dynamically allocate resources based on business priorities for increased flexibility and responsiveness.

Consolidate Excess Hardware & Increase Server Utilization

VMware is the recognized expert in virtualization technology solutions and offers the most robust software suite in the industry for server consolidation - VMware Infrastructure 3. By consolidating your server hardware with VMware Infrastructure 3, your organization can:

• Increase utilization of existing hardware from 10-15% up to 80%
• Reduce hardware requirements by a 10:1 ratio or better

VMware Professional Services team can help you assess your IT environment to identify consolidation candidates and to calculate the potential savings from using virtualization.

Reduce IT Costs While Improving Flexibility & Responsiveness

Don't let server sprawl and platform dependencies prevent your organization from achieving its goals. Take control of your IT infrastructure and help it reach its full potential by using virtual infrastructure solutions from VMware to:

• Reduce hardware and operating costs by as much as 50%
• Reduce the time it takes to provision new servers by up to 70%
• Save more than $3,000 per year for every server workload virtualized

Automate your Virtual Infrastructure to Ensure Peak Performance

With VMware, your IT organization can deliver levels of performance, scalability and availability that are not possible with a physical infrastructure. Using VMware VirtualCenter in combination with our VMware VMotion and VMware DRS products, your organization will be able to:

• Avoid planned downtime with live migration of virtual machines
• Enable dynamic policy-based allocation of IT resources with automated load balancing
• Eliminate many repetitive configuration and maintenance tasks

VMware Professional Services can help your organization leverage these unique capabilities as part of an ongoing strategy.