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VMware—The Proven, Trusted Choice

VMware is the proven choice for virtualization from the desktop to the datacenter. More than 120,000 customers of all sizes, including all of the Fortune 100, trust VMware as their virtualization infrastructure platform. VMware customers report rapid return on investment (ROI)—typically within 6-9 months. More than 85% of VMware Infrastructure customers use it in production environments. Our successful customers “prove” that we’re providing a proven solution, not some vision or a version 1.0 product that will take several generations to mature.

See hundreds of VMware customer success stories at the VMware Customer page.

The Most Successful Companies in the World Run VMware

Across all industries, VMware has been adopted by the world’s leading companies, from the desktop to the datacenters, around the world.

87% of the Fortune Global 500 are VMware customers, including:

  • 25 out of top 25 Banks: Commercial & Savings
  • 9 out of the top 10 Aerospace and Defense Companies
  • 7 out of the 7 Global Airlines
  • 5 of the top 5 Chemical Companies
  • 4 of the top 4 Diversified Financial Companies
  • 4 of the top 5 Energy Companies
  • 5 of the top 5 Entertainment Companies
  • 12 out of the 12 Pharmaceutical Companies
  • 5 of the top 5 Securities Companies

Johnson Controls, Inc.

"Our whole objective is to drive up our system utilization, and the beauty of VMware virtual infrastructure is that it allows us to do this—without performance degradation."

—Philip Cramer, Windows Team Supervisor, Johnson Controls, Inc., Johnson Controls, Inc.
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AstraZeneca

"VMware Infrastructure is proving to have a lot of benefits for us. For example, we are already using VMotion to achieve high availability and 24/7 uptime. Because we can use templates for the virtual machines, documentation is easier and server certification can be done in less time. We are confident that the production virtual machines will give us at least the same performance as the old physical machines did—perhaps better."

—Askin Karatepe, Server and Database Administrator, AstraZeneca
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Cardinal Health

"When you’re consolidating into brand-new facilities with no IT expertise onsite, you need an extremely high availability solution. The only way to make it happen with our set of requirements, without having hundreds of IT technicians onsite to re-image these things continually, is with VMware technology.”

—Justin Hooper, Director of Windows System Engineering and Implementation, Cardinal Health
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Small and Medium-Sized Businesses Run VMware

Small and medium-sized businesses run on VMware. In many cases, they have evaluated other offerings in the marketplace, but ultimately chose VMware.

HelioVolt Corporation

"VMware is the clear and obvious leader in virtualization products. We tried both the Microsoft and Oracle virtualization products and found them lacking in features and performance compared to the VMware product."

—David Greer, Director of Information Services, HelioVolt Corporation
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Boise Inc.

"We use VMware software all over our company, and it has saved each individual area time, money and resources. It has helped us consolidate our Windows Servers and strengthen our disaster-avoidance and disaster-recovery plans. We run our production system and key Microsoft applications like Exchange and SQL on virtual machines. They run smoothly while using less CPU, less disk space, and a lot less memory than when they’re run on physical machines. Having seen other virtualization technologies, we know that no competitive product comes even close to the value that VMware delivers to our organization every day."

—Bill Frost, Senior IS Engineer, Boise Inc.
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ViaHealth / Rochester General Hospital

"I wouldn’t put my mission-critical systems on a virtualization solution like Microsoft Hyper-V, which is dependent on an operating system. We all know the track record of operating systems with patches and vulnerabilities. And other virtualization products lack the complete toolset that you get from VMware, including capabilities like live migration. The tools that VMware offers allow us to be more productive, as well as offer higher SLAs to our application owners. We couldn’t do without it."

—Tom Gibaud, Manager of Information Technology, ViaHealth / Rochester General Hospital
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University of Plymouth

"The university has virtualized 50,000 Exchange 2007 mailboxes on VMware Infrastructure. We not only have a more manageable and flexible Exchange environment, but we have replaced Microsoft clustering with VMware’s built-in high availability solutions such as HA and VMotion. We couldn’t be happier with the uptime and performance of our Exchange implementation on VMware. VMware technology works for small companies all the way up to massive financial institutions. And clearly, it has worked for us."

—Adrian Jane, Infrastructure and Operations Manager, University of Plymouth
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