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A New Era in IT
During the past 40 years, information technology has undergone many
revolutions in how applications and data have been delivered to users.
Mainframes provided a centralized computation facility where end users
consumed resources on a shared basis. Client-server architectures offered
flexibility and lowered computing costs while bringing more power to the
desktop. Mobile computing introduced the notion of anytime, anywhere
application access from a laptop or handheld device. Now cloud computing
offers a new approach that will enable you to deliver IT services on demand.
Yet the challenges with IT revolutions and the technology vendors leading
them are always the same. They require you to throw away working
infrastructure to pursue new initiatives—until now. Until VMware.
Why Cloud Computing? Why Now?
Business stakeholder demands on IT are increasing. Every business decision
impacts IT, and accelerating market forces reward first movers. Yet most
enterprise applications and services are built on top of tightly coupled
technology stacks that are challenging to change and costly to manage.
Provisioning a new email server or business intelligence engine, for example,
can require months of waiting just for hardware purchases and system
image configurations.
Caught between shrinking resources and growing business needs, organizations
are looking to cloud computing to provide a more efficient, flexible and
cost-effective model for computing—one that allows IT to operate much more
efficiently and respond faster to business opportunities. The goal is to enable IT
as a Service, and cloud computing provides the technical architecture to deliver it.
Why VMware?
VMware is the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure. Today,
more than 190,000 customers and 25,000 partners rely on VMware solutions
to achieve their business goals. VMware offers a unique, evolutionary path to
cloud computing that reduces IT complexity, significantly lowers costs and
enables more flexible, agile service delivery.
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