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VMware Announces New Services to Help IT Leaders Drive Business Value Through IT Transformation
PALO ALTO, CA, Apr 16, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) --
VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and
cloud infrastructure, today announced the formation of VMware
Accelerate Advisory Services, a group of former Chief Information
Officers (CIOs), Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) and industry
consultants, dedicated to enabling senior enterprise business and IT
executives to deepen their understanding of how cloud computing can
deliver business value across an organization.
Leveraging VMware's thought leadership, market experience and
resources, Accelerate addresses the increasing role IT organizations
play in the overall effectiveness of business outcomes. These new
services, the result from years of work with hundreds of clients,
provide for the first time custom methods to help accelerate IT and
business transformation in areas such as:
-- Meaningful measurement. Accelerate empowers CIOs and other IT leaders
to determine what Key Performance Indexes (KPIs) are required to
quantify, measure and analyze the organizations journey to
virtualization and cloud implementation, and combines that with a body
of data to help benchmark performance relative to peers and industry
bests.
-- Market perspective. Informed by direct learning gained from VMware
technology deployments across the globe, as well as a deep ecosystem
of more than 50,000 partners, Accelerate provides context and helps
define how and why IT is leading the way in defining this type of
business transformation.
-- Actionable strategy. As analysts point to a need for CIO's and other
IT leaders to focus more on business issues rather than technical
matters, Accelerate connects the critical points needed to guide IT
toward truly affect business value across an entire organization.
"IT's most important mission is creating business value, and having the
right IT strategy is already determining winners and losers in many
industries," said Carl Eschenbach, VMware chief operating officer and
co-president. "VMware Accelerate helps IT leadership measure, define
and guide the transition from technology steward to business partner,
so IT can most effectively help business serve customers and create
competitive advantage."
Built upon VMware's rich virtualization benchmark data and
understanding of the current and best-in-class IT transformation
performance indicators, a key element of Accelerate will be providing
IT executives with a strong, fact-based approach for assessing their
progress toward achieving a cloud infrastructure and shaping the
overall business.
In addition, today VMware announced it has acquired certain assets of
Virginia-based Info Tech Health Check (iTHC), which will enhance
Accelerate's already robust benchmarking service. Specific key
benefits will include:
-- The addition of 3,500 metrics, building a view that includes multiple
perspectives which enable an exercise that is relevant and focused.
-- The inclusion of 20 industries, providing insight into a broader set
of comparisons across organizations and functional peers.
-- Data covering four key geographies, giving an all-important
perspective of international business operations and challenges.
The benchmarking capabilities brought together by VMware and iTHC will
also align and complement VMware's overall services strategy and
partner community investments. For example, VMware will be working
with select consulting and integration partners on extending their
cloud advisory service capabilities and leveraging the iTHC assets
and Accelerate. Additionally, a broader set of IT Business Management
(ITBM) services and products will be offered to partners with
established ITBM and IT Strategy practices.
"In today's market environment, business and technology strategies
have become inextricably intertwined, especially with the expanded
role IT is being asked to play in managing increasingly complex
enterprise resource planning systems," said Peter Blatman, principal,
Deloitte Consulting LLP. "Successful IT leadership, then, means
gathering and leveraging the best, most comprehensive information to
drive the right balance between capabilities and costs in a way that
ultimately creates more business value."
The Accelerate services are the result of a knowledge base derived
from years of delivering VMware services and technology to hundreds
of clients. These close partnerships underscored the need for a more
targeted look at the transition CIOs and other IT leaders are
experiencing, as a result of IT moving toward an infrastructure
defined by virtualization and cloud computing, as well as how IT
teams are managing services more closely aligned with business
strategy.
"Historically, enterprise IT organizations have been the builders and
managers of the physical IT infrastructure supporting business
processes," said Paul Lewis, vice president of Technology,
Architecture and Security at the financial services solutions
provider Davis + Henderson Corporation. "What we've worked with
VMware and the Accelerate team on, is how I can look to shift my
team's view of metrics from things like availability and uptime, and
more toward IT's contribution to business growth; the ability to
speed innovation; improving customer satisfaction; and lowering risk
and cost."
Availability
VMware Accelerate Advisory Services are
immediately available in North America, the United Kingdom, France
and Germany, as well as China, Australia, Japan and across Southeast
Asia. These services also will be available more broadly in Europe
and Asia during the second half of 2012. For more information, visit
www.vmware.com/go/accelerate.
About VMware
VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud
infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the
Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way
they build, deliver and consume Information Technology resources in a
manner that is evolutionary and based on their specific needs. With
2011 revenues of $3.77 billion, VMware has more than 350,000
customers and 50,000 partners. The company is headquartered in
Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found
online at www.vmware.com.
VMware, VMware Accelerate Advisory Services, iTHC and VMware IT
Business Manager are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of
VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. All
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.
Forward-looking statements
This press release contains
forward-looking statements including, among other things, statements
regarding the expected availability of VMware Accelerate Advisory
Services in Europe and Asia, the expected role of VMware and iTHC
benchmarking capabilities in IT transformation roadmaps and their
prospective benefits to our customers. These forward-looking
statements are subject to the safe harbor provisions created by the
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results
could differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking
statements as a result of certain risk factors, including but not
limited to (i) our ability to integrate iTHC capabilities into our
benchmarking services; (ii) adverse changes in general economic or
market conditions; (iii) priorities, delays or reductions in
information technology spending; (iv) competitive factors, including
but not limited to pricing pressures, industry consolidation, entry
of new competitors into the virtualization and cloud computing
markets, and new product and marketing initiatives by our
competitors; (v) our customers' ability to develop, and to transition
to, new products and computing strategies such as cloud computing and
desktop virtualization; (vi) the uncertainty of customer acceptance
of emerging technology; (vii) rapid technological and market changes
in virtualization software and platforms for cloud and desktop
computing; (viii) changes to product development timelines; (ix)
VMware's ability to protect its proprietary technology; and (x)
VMware's ability to attract and retain highly qualified employees..
These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations
and are subject to uncertainties and changes in condition,
significance, value and effect as well as other risks detailed in
documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission,
including our most recent reports on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q and
current reports on Form 8-K that we may file from time to time, which
could cause actual results to vary from expectations. VMware assumes
no obligation to, and does not currently intend to, update any such
forward-looking statements after the date of this release.
Contacts
Jason Stolarczyk
VMware Global Communications
jstolarczyk@vmware.com
(650) 427-4119
Hana Mandapat
The OutCast Agency for VMware
vmware@theoutcastagency.com
(415) 345-4702
SOURCE: VMware, Inc.
mailto:jstolarczyk@vmware.com
mailto:vmware@theoutcastagency.com
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