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Vmware - 4/22/2013

ViaWest Accelerates Customer Adoption of Cloud Services with VMware Network Virtualization

VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced colocation and cloud service provider ViaWest is 
using VMware network virtualization to enable faster service provisioning, simplified management and greater flexibility and choice in service options for 
customers. VMware network virtualization provides ViaWest with a more efficient way of deploying cloud services than traditional hardware-defined networking 
approaches, leading to lower overall costs and a more consistent customer experience.

“Our customers are embracing the business advantages of cloud services, and our networking infrastructure must keep up with rapidly changing cloud 
requirements,” said Jason Carolan, Chief Technology Officer at ViaWest. “We’ve found it’s impossible to effectively run new cloud services based solely on old, 
hardware-focused networking technologies. The dynamic nature of our cloud services requires the agility and automation made possible by VMware network 
virtualization.”

ViaWest is one of the largest privately-held data center, cloud computing and managed service providers in North America. VMware network virtualization 
enables ViaWest to dynamically create virtual networks that are completely decoupled and independent from the physical network hardware. This provides 
ViaWest with operational simplicity to support new and existing applications in a non-disruptive way, without modification to the underlying network hardware. 
Network virtualization reduces the time it takes ViaWest to roll out new services, or upgrade an existing customer’s specific service offering, from days or weeks 
to hours. ViaWest has reduced both operational and capital costs by making more efficient use of network resources such as IP addresses, and by no longer 
being locked in to any single vendor’s networking hardware.

“Applications are the engine driving the pace of innovation, and the network is one of the last barriers preventing the delivery of applications and services with 
the speed at which companies operate,” said Hatem Naguib, vice president of Cloud Networking and Security at VMware. “ViaWest is helping networking catch 
up to the 21st Century and helping to reduce cost and complexity with network virtualization. Leading cloud service providers recognize that the software-
defined data center is a powerful platform for developing innovative and differentiated services, and ViaWest is delivering this value to customers.”

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Vmware - 4/16/2013

Canonical and VMware Collaborate to Enable OpenStack Clouds with VMware Technologies

Canonical and VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced a collaboration that will enable 
organizations to deploy VMware technologies, including VMware vSphere® and Nicira NVP, with Canonical’s OpenStack distribution. Canonical’s Ubuntu Cloud 
Infrastructure, the most widely used OpenStack distribution, will now include the plugins required to use OpenStack with vSphere and NVP. Canonical will 
provide commercial support for OpenStack and will collaborate with VMware on issues related to vSphere or NVP running with OpenStack. In addition, VMware 
reaffirms its support of Ubuntu as a fully supported guest operating system (OS) on vSphere. This agreement will enable customers the flexibility to deploy and 
reliably run OpenStack clouds with Ubuntu Cloud Infrastructure on VMware vSphere while receiving commercial support.

“By fulfilling our promise to deliver VMware vSphere® support in OpenStack, and teaming with Canonical to serve our collective customers, we’re delivering 
customer choice by providing a powerful platform for those interested in OpenStack clouds,” Joshua Goodman, vice president, Product Management, vSphere, 
VMware. “Canonical’s Ubuntu technology is widely used by those deploying OpenStack, and joint customers will be able leverage the familiar and proven 
capabilities of the vSphere infrastructure in which they’ve already invested.”

As part of the OpenStack “Grizzly” release on April 4, 2013, VMware contributed code to add vSphere support to the OpenStack Compute project (codenamed 
“Nova”). These contributions were built on VMware’s existing leadership in the OpenStack Networking project (codenamed “Quantum”), which focused on Nicira 
NVP. Canonical and VMware will collaborate on software testing, deployment automation, customer support and reference designs. Additionally, VMware’s 
continued support of Ubuntu as a guest OS on vSphere enables customers to run production workloads at the highest virtual machine densities on the world’s 
most battle-tested hypervisor platform.

“Customers in both enterprise and carrier markets are eager to deploy OpenStack in conjunction with their existing VMware vSphere® infrastructure,” said Chris 
Kenyon, senior vice president, Sales and Business Development, Canonical. “This joint offering will be a fully supported and certified solution for OpenStack 
cloud infrastructure that uses VMware hypervisors for compute, combining existing vSphere real estate with Ubuntu's category-leading OpenStack distribution.”

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Vmware - 3/20/2013

VMware Horizon View™ Transforms Legacy Desktops Into A Service At Sutherland Global Services

VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced that Sutherland Global Services, a US-based global 
provider of Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) and Technology Enabled services has deployed 10,000 seats of VMware Horizon® View™ Business Process 
Desktop to create a private cloud to service their global workforce. With more than 30,000 employees across 30 cities and 10 countries, virtualizing desktops 
has enabled Sutherland Global Services to transform their legacy desktops into a service to attain high availability, data security and a flexible desktop 
infrastructure for growth and change.

“With a global workforce in hyper-growth mode, operating in a seamless and continuously productive manner is absolutely crucial to our business,” said Deepak 
Batheja, CTO, Sutherland Global Services. “We have accomplished this by fully embracing a desktop as a service approach leveraging VMware’s desktop 
virtualization software as a core enabler. Sutherland's next-gen desktop as a service solution creatively addresses multi-fold requirements ranging from 
geographic expansion, business continuity, meeting unpredictable demands and enabling a unique integrated BPO proposition while continually reducing costs 
and increasing efficiency.”  

At Sutherland, success as a BPO basically comes down to flawless and efficient execution by leveraging three capabilities: people, technology, and processes. 
The company deployed virtualization and private cloud technologies as an enabler for all three of these core capabilities allowing the IT organization to manage 
a highly scalable and geographically dispersed infrastructure with a single optimized and centralized team. The vision was to reduce time-to-revenue for 
Sutherland and their clients by quickly deploying Sutherland consultants - with all of the tools necessary to perform their jobs - anywhere in the world and assure 
revenue by enabling highly reliable and continuously available business platforms.

Sutherland’s virtualized infrastructure is orchestrated for scalability, seasonality, workload mobility, recovery security, compliance, and geographic expansions. All 
of this while keeping the IT infrastructure and team streamlined and nimble. The benefits can be summarized by revenue growth, cost optimization, and platform 
availability and resiliency. 

“Sutherland Global Services, one of the world’s largest companies specializing in BPO and optimization solutions, has creatively engineered one of the largest 
VMware-enabled private clouds to service its global employees,” said Erik Frieberg, senior director, product marketing, End-User Computing, VMware. 
“Sutherland is a prime example of using thought leadership and technology innovation to introduce a more efficient way to work to make things easier for IT and 
end-users by removing the limitations of a physical PC.”

Moving Desktops to the Cloud 
As part of the VMware Horizon™ Suite, VMware® Horizon View™ transforms traditional physical PCs into centralized managed IT services and delivers elastic 
desktop services as a virtual workspace for ultimate control and flexibility for user experience, administration and service. IT gains greater control in conjunction 
with the flexibility to embrace new technologies and simplify management of the end-user environment, while still being able to access desktop services from 
every device while in the office, remote and on the road.

Built on VMware vSphere®, the industry’s most widely deployed virtualization platform, VMware Horizon View enables the industry’s best end-user experience 
while simplifying IT management for large-scale deployments and reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) associated with VDI.

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Vmware - 2/28/2013

VMware Accelerates Healthcare Reform with New vCloud Solution

VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today introduced the VMware vCloud® for Healthcare solution supporting the IT care 
environment – from point-of-care to the most critical patient-care systems. Leveraging VMware’s extensive portfolio of products, services and healthcare industry 
expertise, vCloud for Healthcare enables healthcare organizations to move more confidently into the cloud, help achieve Stage 2 Meaningful Use and improve 
patient outcomes.

“As critical healthcare reform requirements evolve, healthcare providers need more practical, lower-cost ways to improve quality-of-care services, increase 
clinician productivity and improve business agility,” said Frank Nydam, director, business development healthcare office of the CTO, VMware. “The new vCloud 
for Healthcare supports old and new IT systems and allows healthcare IT customers to use a common cloud infrastructure to securely deliver patient care and 
share information – inside and outside the hospital.”

The vCloud for Healthcare solution helps transform the cost, quality and delivery of patient care while providing the necessary control and transparency for 
regulated organizations to meet and maintain compliance mandates. To provide a true end-to-end care cloud platform for customers, vCloud for Healthcare 
brings together the capabilities of products within VMware Horizon Suite and VMware vCloud Suite that healthcare customers need to architect an agile, 
reliable, private and hybrid cloud.  The vCloud for Healthcare solution enables healthcare customers to:

Increase clinician mobility and satisfaction by creating fast and reliable end-user access to the resources needed to treat patients, including: 

Clinical Point of Care – Save time and improve workflows with secure authentication (e.g., the touch of a finger or tap of a badge) to clinical workspaces and 
patient-care applications with VMware AlwaysOn Point of Care™. 

Application Management and Catalog Services – Streamline processes with efficient self-service access and management of approved end-user applications 
with Horizon Workspace. 

Mobility and Collaboration – Improve connected care with access to patient-care applications, including EMRs and CPOE systems, from any device, anywhere, 
with Horizon Workspace.

Extend the benefits of virtualization, automated operations, security and disaster recovery to address specific healthcare IT needs: 

Care Systems Analytics – Reduce downtime of critical patient-care applications and remediate issues before they affect end users with VMware vCenter™ 
Operations Management Suite™. 

Industry Security Compliance– Enable integrated and proactive regulatory compliance for the cloud and deliver dynamic clinical IT services in a trusted 
infrastructure with vCloud Networking and Security™ and vCenter Configuration Manager™, including VMware HIPAA Compliance Checker for Windows and 
Linux. 

Care Systems Continuity – Keep systems up and running with VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager™. 

Care Systems Automation – Improve efficiency by simplifying and automating IT operations with VMware vCloud Automation Center™. 

VMware vCloud Connector™ for Healthcare – Helps ensure regulated workloads can be safely moved to public clouds via a hybrid model. 

Care Systems Application Manager – Deploy, monitor and scale multitier healthcare applications with VMware vFabric™ Application Director.

“As Stage 2 and 3 Meaningful Use rules emerge, health information exchange without borders continues to improve patient engagement and care collaboration 
across the continuum of healthcare,” said Scott Lundstrom, group vice president, IDC Health Insights. “We believe that products that define the healthcare 
cloud will help address and simplify the journey healthcare organizations take to transform business and qualify for payment incentives.”

“VMware AlwaysOn Point of Care helped us increase CPOE adoption and attain Stage 1 Meaningful Use,” said Jon Russell, CIO of Kettering Health Network. 
“Now with VMware vCloud for Healthcare, we are looking toward achieving the next milestone in healthcare reform: Stage 2 Meaningful Use.”

VMware is a diamond sponsor at HIMSS 2013 in New Orleans, LA, March 3-8, and will hold demonstrations in booth 851.

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Vmware - 2/27/2013

Dell and VMware Deliver Converged Infrastructure Solution Optimized for Desktop Virtualization

On the heels of its announcement to help customers deploy workloads with confidence, Dell with VMware today unveiled a pre-integrated system specifically 
designed for VMware-based virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) workloads, the Dell DVS Enterprise – Active System 800 with VMware Horizon View 5.2. 
According to a recent study conducted by the Enterprise Strategy Group, one-third of midmarket and enterprise organizations surveyed currently have some form 
of desktop virtualization technology deployed, and of these users, more than half leverage VDI. To help channel partners meet the customer demand for VDI 
workloads, Dell will use Active System as the foundation for its Desktop Virtualization Solutions (DVS) portfolio to enable organizations to rapidly deploy and 
provision VDI workloads and improve efficiencies through resource optimization and heightened security.

Delivering desktop virtualization via converged infrastructure 
Dell DVS Enterprise - Active System 800 with VMware Horizon View 5.2 combines Dell server, storage, networking, thin clients and infrastructure management 
software into a pre-integrated system to provide general purpose virtualized resource pools for virtual desktops. In addition, a full suite of consulting, deployment 
and support services are available to ease integration and ensure robust operation of the system once deployed.

With organic innovation and expertise gained through the Gale Technologies acquisition, Dell DVS Enterprise – Active System 800 with VMware Horizon View 
can streamline administration and improve performance of virtual environments, increase user productivity, and reduce the costs of running virtual workloads, all 
while allowing increased flexibility in the deployment of desktop virtualization. 

A key component and differentiator of the intuitive and comprehensive solution is the integrated Dell Active System Manager 7.0, designed to extend the 
management capabilities of Active System beyond the physical infrastructure to the virtualized infrastructure and workloads. The solution also integrates 
simplified chassis networking and modular infrastructure to enable organizations to:

Rapidly respond to dynamic business demands with template based infrastructure and workload provisioning and pre-integrated platform options 
Simplify the complex matrix of technologiesrequired to deploy virtual desktops to support a dynamic virtual workforce 
Accelerate time-to-valueby simplifying deployment and management for desktop virtualization and initiatives 
Maximize efficiency with centralized management, modular power-efficient infrastructure, and a converged fabric 
Improve IT service quality with automated deployment, integration, and management models 
Drive efficiency and lower riskwith pre-engineered, reliable infrastructure to reduce deployment time and costs

Dell DVS Enterprise – Active System 800 with VMware Horizon View is the latest addition to the growing portfolio of purpose-built VDI solutions developed jointly 
by Dell and VMware. Other offerings include Dell – VMware AlwaysOn Desktop and Dell – VMware Mobile Secure Desktop reference architectures, now 
updated with Active System 800 and Horizon View 5.2, and Dell Wyse P25 and P45 zero clients designed for VMware View. 

Investing in the success of Dell and VMware Channel Partners 
Dell and VMware are committed to creating new joint initiatives, targeted rewards and tools focused on the Dell PartnerDirect and VMware solution providers 
who sell joint Dell–VMware desktop virtualization solutions. Examples include:

End-to-end solution reference architecture to accelerate configuring and ordering: aimed at helping channel partners streamline processes for configuring, 
ordering, deploying and supporting Dell and VMware solutions for desktop virtualization powered by the Dell Active System 800 converged infrastructure and 
VMware Horizon View 5.2. 

Dell Cloud Client Computing Solution Advisor Tool: guides and automates configuring and quoting Dell Cloud Client Computing and VMware solutions for 
desktop virtualization. This tool configures a customized, end-to-end desktop virtualization solution for 50 to 50,000 users, with the right servers, storage, 
software, networking, cables, thin clients and services for cloud client computing environments. 

Dell PartnerDirect Desktop Virtualization Solutions Competency: align Dell’s channel partner’s sales, business and technical requirements with training and 
resources to ensure that they get the highest level of Dell support and take advantage of discounts, deal registration, and incentive programs.

In addition to Dell PartnerDirect, Dell channel partners will also be able to procure solutions through their regular distribution channels, and VMware components 
can count toward VMware Partner Network program quota, incentives and promotions Solution Providers can purchase end-to-end Dell solutions that include 
VMware solutions directly from Dell, and still have the benefits of the VMware Partner Network program.

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Vmware - 2/27/2013

Dell and VMware Deliver Converged Infrastructure Solution Optimized for Desktop Virtualization

On the heels of its announcement to help customers deploy workloads with confidence, Dell with VMware today unveiled a pre-integrated system specifically 
designed for VMware-based virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) workloads, the Dell DVS Enterprise – Active System 800 with VMware Horizon View 5.2. 
According to a recent study conducted by the Enterprise Strategy Group, one-third of midmarket and enterprise organizations surveyed currently have some form 
of desktop virtualization technology deployed, and of these users, more than half leverage VDI. To help channel partners meet the customer demand for VDI 
workloads, Dell will use Active System as the foundation for its Desktop Virtualization Solutions (DVS) portfolio to enable organizations to rapidly deploy and 
provision VDI workloads and improve efficiencies through resource optimization and heightened security.

Delivering desktop virtualization via converged infrastructure 
Dell DVS Enterprise - Active System 800 with VMware Horizon View 5.2 combines Dell server, storage, networking, thin clients and infrastructure management 
software into a pre-integrated system to provide general purpose virtualized resource pools for virtual desktops. In addition, a full suite of consulting, deployment 
and support services are available to ease integration and ensure robust operation of the system once deployed.

With organic innovation and expertise gained through the Gale Technologies acquisition, Dell DVS Enterprise – Active System 800 with VMware Horizon View 
can streamline administration and improve performance of virtual environments, increase user productivity, and reduce the costs of running virtual workloads, all 
while allowing increased flexibility in the deployment of desktop virtualization. 

A key component and differentiator of the intuitive and comprehensive solution is the integrated Dell Active System Manager 7.0, designed to extend the 
management capabilities of Active System beyond the physical infrastructure to the virtualized infrastructure and workloads. The solution also integrates 
simplified chassis networking and modular infrastructure to enable organizations to:

Rapidly respond to dynamic business demands with template based infrastructure and workload provisioning and pre-integrated platform options 
Simplify the complex matrix of technologiesrequired to deploy virtual desktops to support a dynamic virtual workforce 
Accelerate time-to-valueby simplifying deployment and management for desktop virtualization and initiatives 
Maximize efficiency with centralized management, modular power-efficient infrastructure, and a converged fabric 
Improve IT service quality with automated deployment, integration, and management models 
Drive efficiency and lower riskwith pre-engineered, reliable infrastructure to reduce deployment time and costs

Dell DVS Enterprise – Active System 800 with VMware Horizon View is the latest addition to the growing portfolio of purpose-built VDI solutions developed jointly 
by Dell and VMware. Other offerings include Dell – VMware AlwaysOn Desktop and Dell – VMware Mobile Secure Desktop reference architectures, now 
updated with Active System 800 and Horizon View 5.2, and Dell Wyse P25 and P45 zero clients designed for VMware View. 

Investing in the success of Dell and VMware Channel Partners 
Dell and VMware are committed to creating new joint initiatives, targeted rewards and tools focused on the Dell PartnerDirect and VMware solution providers 
who sell joint Dell–VMware desktop virtualization solutions. Examples include:

End-to-end solution reference architecture to accelerate configuring and ordering: aimed at helping channel partners streamline processes for configuring, 
ordering, deploying and supporting Dell and VMware solutions for desktop virtualization powered by the Dell Active System 800 converged infrastructure and 
VMware Horizon View 5.2. 

Dell Cloud Client Computing Solution Advisor Tool: guides and automates configuring and quoting Dell Cloud Client Computing and VMware solutions for 
desktop virtualization. This tool configures a customized, end-to-end desktop virtualization solution for 50 to 50,000 users, with the right servers, storage, 
software, networking, cables, thin clients and services for cloud client computing environments. 

Dell PartnerDirect Desktop Virtualization Solutions Competency: align Dell’s channel partner’s sales, business and technical requirements with training and 
resources to ensure that they get the highest level of Dell support and take advantage of discounts, deal registration, and incentive programs.

In addition to Dell PartnerDirect, Dell channel partners will also be able to procure solutions through their regular distribution channels, and VMware components 
can count toward VMware Partner Network program quota, incentives and promotions Solution Providers can purchase end-to-end Dell solutions that include 
VMware solutions directly from Dell, and still have the benefits of the VMware Partner Network program.

Availability 
Dell DVS Enterprise – Active System 800 with VMware Horizon View is expected to be available in the US in March 2013 and will roll out to the rest of the world 
beginning Summer 2013.

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Vmware - 2/27/2013

Members of VMware Partner Community Awarded at VMware Partner Exchange 2013

Today at VMware Partner Exchange 2013, VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, recognized its partner 
community for their demonstrated excellence in 2012. This year's VMware Partner Network global awards were announced during the VMware Partner 
Exchange Awards Banquet.

"Global partners of all sizes come to VMware Partner Exchange to network and further their knowledge of VMware solutions as customers are realizing the 
benefits of the software-defined datacenter," said Colleen Kapase, senior director, Partner Readiness, VMware. "We are proud to acknowledge the 
achievements made in 2012 by VMware partners, and look forward to our mutual success in 2013."

Partner award recipients from around the world were acknowledged by VMware in 19 categories for their excellence in performance and distinctive 
achievements during 2012:

Application ISV Partner of the Year 
Global Winner: SAP AG 
Regional Winners: Infosys Technologies (APJ) 
Business Continuity Competency Partner of the Year 
Global Winner: Varrow 
Regional Winners: Varrow (Americas), Computacenter (EMEA), Veeras Infotek Pvt Limited (APJ) 
Cloud Infrastructure as a Service Competency Partner of the Year 
Global Winner: Ahead, LLC 
Regional Winners: Ahead LLC (Americas), Colt Technology Services (EMEA), Shanghai Ingeek Information Technology Co, Ltd (APJ) 
Consulting and Integration Partner of the Year 
Global Winner: Xerox 
Regional Winners: Xerox (Americas), T-Systems (EMEA), Accenture (APJ) 
Desktop Competency Partner of the Year 
Global Winner: Insight 
Regional Winners: Insight (Americas), Phoenix Software Ltd. (EMEA), GoodMorning Information Technology Co., Ltd. (APJ) 
Distributor of the Year 
Global Winner: Ingram Micro 
Regional Winners: Officer Distribuidora (Americas), Tech Data GmbH & Co. OHG (AZLAN) (EMEA), Ingram Micro Australia (APJ) 
Emerging Market Partner of the Year 
Global Winner: Aptronics 
Regional Winners: Soluciones Informaticas Integrales (Americas), Aptronics (EMEA), PT Mitra Integrasi Informatika (APJ) 
Infrastructure Virtualization Competency Partner of the Year 
Global Winner: Bechtle 
Regional Winners: CDW (Americas), Bechtle (EMEA), FUJITSU FSAS INC. (APJ) 
Management Competency Partner of the Year 
Global Winner: International Integrated Solutions, Ltd. 
Regional Winners: International Integrated Solutions, Ltd. (Americas), Comdivision (EMEA), CTC/ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corp. (APJ) 
Public Sector Partner of the Year 
Global Winner: ePlus Technology Inc. 
Regional Winners: ePlus Technology Inc. (Americas), Trustmarque (EMEA), ILGEUN Infra Inc. (APJ) 
Renewals Partner of the Year 
Global Winner: ATEA 
Regional Winners:SHI International Corp. (Americas), ATEA (EMEA), Dell (APJ) 
SMB Partner of the Year 
Global Winner: Whizz-Work Pte. Ltd. 
Regional Winners: SHI International Corp. (Americas), Assyrus Srl (EMEA), Whizz-Work Pte. Ltd. (APJ) 
Solution Provider of the Year 
Global Winner: Presidio Networked Solutions 
Regional Winners: Presidio Networked Solutions (Americas), Kelway (EMEA), NetOne Systems (APJ) 
Technology Innovator Partner of the Year 
Global Winner: Liquidware Labs 
Regional Winner: Fujian Centerm Information CO., Ltd. (APJ) 
Training (VATC) Partner of the Year 
Global Winner: ECS Technology (China) Limited 
Regional Winners: Global Knowledge (Americas), QA Ltd. (EMEA), ECS Technology (China) Limited (APJ) 
vFabric® Competency Partner of the Year 
Global Winner: Canopy 
Regional Winners: Logicalis, Inc. (Americas), Canopy (EMEA), XML Asia Ltd. (APJ) 
Virtualization of Business Critical Applications (VBCA) Competency Partner of the Year 
Global Winner: GreenPages 
Regional Winners: GreenPages (Americas), AddOn Systemhaus GmbH (EMEA) 
VMware Service Provider Partner of the Year 
Global Winner: OVH 
Regional Winners: Savvis (Americas), OVH (EMEA), Datacom (APJ) 
Most Valuable Partner Executive of the Year 
Global Winner: Joe Koenig, Worldwide Technology, Inc 
Regional Winners: Joe Koenig, Worldwide Technology, Inc (Americas), Sam Routledge, Softcat Ltd. (EMEA), Wang Hong Li, Inspur (APJ)
About VMware Partner Exchange 2013 

VMware Partner Exchange 2013 is the leading global event for virtualization and cloud partners, bringing thousands of members from the VMware partner 
ecosystem together to discuss the future of the industry. With more than 200 sessions, including boot camps, breakouts, and workshops, as well as an 
extensive exhibitor pavilion, partners gain valuable insight on how to leverage new technologies to deliver the software-defined datacenter to customers.

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Vmware - 2/20/2013

VMware Unveils VMware Horizon Suite, Industry’s Most Comprehensive Platform for Workforce Mobility

 VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today unveiled the VMware® Horizon Suite™, a comprehensive platform 
for workforce mobility that will connect end users to their data, applications and desktops on any device without sacrificing IT security and control. With updates 
to VMware Horizon View™ and VMware Horizon Mirage™, as well as a new product, VMware Horizon Workspace™, the VMware Horizon Suite will enable IT 
organizations to empower users with a secure, easy-to-manage virtual workspace that delivers a consistent, compelling experience across devices. 

“Our customers are looking for a comprehensive, enterprise-class solution to empower workers in a world where the proliferation of devices and consumer cloud 
services have changed user expectations, while putting IT security and governance at risk,” said Boaz Chalamish, senior vice president and general manager, 
End-User Computing, VMware. “VMware virtualization has helped hundreds of thousands of customers change what is possible in the datacenter, and we 
believe it can have the same transformative impact in end-user computing. The VMware® Horizon™ Suite will help our customers accelerate their journeys from 
the PC Era to the Multi-Device Era.”  

A report by Forrester Research Inc. finds the use of personal devices outside of IT control alarming — with 67 percent of employees using personally selected 
smartphones and 46 percent using personally selected laptops – none of which were approved or issued by the company . And, a recent survey by VMware 
found that 83 percent of IT administrators wanted to prevent the use of consumer online storage and collaboration applications . The VMware Horizon Suite is 
designed to solve the security and governance challenges these consumer-ready applications and devices bring to enterprises, enabling IT to meet the 
demands of their users with a virtual workspace that is secure, compliant and easy to manage.

“Instead of treating remote work styles as an exception, success at Jaguar Land Rover will mean designing systems and policies assuming that everyone is 
mobile, using multiple personal devices connecting over both local and global networks,” said Gordon McMullan, acting chief technology officer, Chief 
Information Technology Office, Jaguar Land Rover Automotive. “VMware's Horizon Suite is at the heart of this capability. This will dramatically improve 
collaboration and productivity of our global workforce.”

Single, Unified Platform for End-User Computing 
The VMware Horizon Suite will bring together VMware’s industry-leading desktop virtualization solution and technologies VMware has built from the ground up to 
support a mobile, collaborative workforce, including Project Octopus, Project AppBlast, Project AppShift, VMware ThinApp®, VMware Horizon Application 
Manager™ and VMware Horizon Mobile™ into a single, unified solution. An integrated platform to support the mobile workforce, the VMware Horizon Suite is 
designed to transform technology silos of data, applications and desktops into centralized IT services that can be easily provisioned, managed and delivered to 
end-users.  It includes:

VMware Horizon Workspace – The New Virtual Workspace 
Today, VMware introduced Horizon Workspace, a new product that will simplify the end-user experience and reduce IT costs by combining data, applications 
and desktops into a single aggregated workspace, that can be securely delivered on any device.

With VMware Horizon Workspace, IT administrators will be able to allocate data, applications or desktops to end users or groups instead of their devices, and 
end users will be able to self-provision corporate applications and services to reduce the burden on IT. This enables a quick and responsive IT department that 
can deliver the right data, application or desktop to any device, on the fly. Horizon Workspace will also enable organizations to easily add new devices, users or 
applications without having to reconfigure the devices or endpoints. In addition, centralized management simplifies the enforcement and management of user 
policies so the entire solution will enhance safety and security. 

VMware Horizon View 5.2 – Easy-to-Use and Simple-to-Manage VDI 
Transforming traditional physical PCs into centralized managed IT services, VMware Horizon View 5.2 will deliver elastic desktop services as a virtual workspace 
for ultimate control and flexibility for user experience, administration and service. New simplified access to remote Horizon View desktops using any HTML 5 
capable browser will enable end users to conveniently access their virtual desktop and applications on any device without having to install burdensome client 
software ahead of time. Support for hardware-accelerated 3-D graphics will enable the most graphically intensive applications to run inside virtual desktops, 
opening new industries such as CAD (computer assisted design) and CAM (computer assisted manufacturing) to VDI. Lastly, Horizon View 5.2 with Unity will 
offer a new intuitive, gesture-oriented interface to transform your Windows mobile environment into a tablet-friendly user experience. 

VMware Horizon Mirage 4 – A Better Physical Desktop 
VMware Horizon Mirage 4 will provide an optimal end-user experience for both online and offline productivity while lowering IT costs with zero-touch 
management of desktop services. Horizon Mirage is a layered image management solution that separates the PC into logical layers owned and managed by 
either IT or the end user. Horizon Mirage 4 will give IT the ability to update individual layers without disruption to other layers, thus enabling end-user data and 
applications to be up to date. In addition, integration with VMware ThinApp application virtualization streamlines application packaging, which can enable 
smoother OS migrations and provide “roll-back” capabilities in case of failure or disaster. VMware Horizon Mirage 4 also extends support for virtual Windows 
on Macs with a free bundle of VMware Fusion® Professional, improving end user productivity. 

Moving From the PC Era to the Multi-Device Era with VMware Professional Services 
VMware Professional Services can help customers accelerate their move to the multi-device era with consulting services for VMware Horizon Suite. VMware 
Professional Services Consultants bring the expertise and know-how to customers to efficiently design and implement the solution to deliver business results. 

Pricing and Availability 
VMware Horizon Suite is expected to be available in Q1 2013 and customers will have the option to leverage the entire platform of integrated products or 
purchase and deploy specific capabilities of the platform depending on their organizational needs.

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Vmware - 1/12/2013

VMware Introduces VMware vSphere® with Operations Management™ and VMware vSphere Data Protection™ Advanced

New Offerings Help Organizations Achieve Greater Value from their VMware vSphere Environments

VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today introduced two new offerings to help customers further leverage 
their investments in VMware vSphere - VMware vSphere with Operations Management and VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced.

“Increasingly, customers have standardized on VMware vSphere® as the core of their data centers,” said Mike Clayville, vice president, product marketing, 
cloud infrastructure, VMware.  “To help maximize the value of their investments in VMware vSphere, customers require purpose-built, integrated solutions to more
efficiently manage, optimize and protect their virtualized environments. We’ve made it convenient for new and existing customers of VMware vSphere to 
enhance the core capabilities of their virtual infrastructure with vCenter™ Operations Management Suite™ and VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced™.”

Today, VMware is announcing a new VMware vSphere product line that combines the industry-leading virtualization platform with the award-winning VMware 
vCenter Operations Management Suite. In addition, VMware is introducing a new edition of VMware vSphere Data Protection, the backup and recovery solution 
first introduced as part of VMware vSphere 5.1 in August 2012. With these new offerings, customers can:

    Reduce Capex costs by up to 30 percent; (1)

    Optimize capacity, improving utilization by up to 40 percent and consolidation ratios by 37 percent; (2)

    Improve application availability and performance, cutting downtime by more than a third and reducing the time it takes to find and resolve problems by up to 
26 percent; (2) and,

    Reduce backup storage capacity by up to 95 percent and backup on network traffic by up to 99 percent. (3)

New Offerings Enhance Management, Backup Capabilities of VMware vSphere

VMware vSphere with Operations Management – Improve performance, health and utilization of virtualized environments
VMware vSphere with Operations Management unites the leading virtualization platform for all applications, including business-critical and low-latency 
applications, with patented analytic capabilities to provide insight into the performance, health and efficiency of virtualized environments. By providing a simple, 
visual and holistic view of the entire environment, VMware vSphere with Operations Management allows customers to proactively monitor and maintain 
performance and improve availability while optimizing the virtual environment through integrated capacity planning. The VMware vCenter Operations 
Management Suite helps customers nearly double the operational savings they receive from VMware vSphere. Learn more about VMware vSphere with 
Operations Management

VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced – Proven, efficient and simple backup solution built for VMware vSphere
Developed for mid-sized VMware vSphere environments, VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced offers increased scalability and new backup and 
recovery capabilities for business critical applications specifically Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SQL Server. Based on EMC Avamar, VMware vSphere 
Data Protection delivers the most efficient backup solution with industry-leading deduplication, full support of Changed Block Tracking and single-step restores. 
Tight integration with VMware vSphere enables administrators to manage their virtual infrastructure, including back and recovery, from a single console. Learn 
more about VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced

“VMware selected EMC Avamar software to provide the underlying technology for the introduction of VMware vSphere Data Protection,” said Shane Jackson, 
vice president of marketing, EMC Backup Recovery Systems division.  “Customers have enthusiastically adopted this solution, and they expect that we will 
continue to leverage the technology collaboration between EMC and VMware to deliver enhanced backup and recovery capabilities for customers.  The 
introduction of VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced does just that by incorporating EMC Avamar features that can extend the value proposition for 
VMware customers.  As a result, they gain an easy path to more scalability and additional support for business critical applications which are in demand in rapidly 
growing virtual environments.”

Pricing and Availability
VMware vSphere with Operations Management is expected to be available in Q1 2013, and will be offered in three editions: Standard, Enterprise and Enterprise 
Plus.  Pricing starts at $1,745 per processer with no core, vRAM or number of VM limits. Go to VMware vSphere Pricing/Buy page. For a limited time, existing 
VMware vSphere edition customers will be able to upgrade to VMware vSphere with Operations Management editions or Acceleration Kits at 15 percent off the 
list price. New customers will be able to purchase VMware vSphere with Operations Management Acceleration Kits at 15 percent off the list price.

VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced is expected to be available in Q1 2013, and will be priced at $1,095 per processor with no restrictions on number 
of protected VMs per license. VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced is a separate, standalone solution that will be available for purchase a-la-carte and 
included with VMware vSphere with Operations Management Acceleration Kits (Enterprise and Enterprise Plus Editions).

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Vmware - 12/17/2012

VMware Network Virtualization Paves the Way for Next Generation Cloud Services at iland

VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced another example of the adoption of network 
virtualization in the market.  iland, a global cloud infrastructure provider and the VMware Service Provider Partner of the Year Global 2012, has taken advantage 
of VMware network virtualization to reduce operational costs and increase service velocity.

“As we explored building and delivering new, value-added cloud services, we realized the tremendous flexibility, operational efficiency and time-to-market 
benefits to be gained through network virtualization,” said Justin Giardina, CTO of iland Internet Solutions. “Just as server virtualization changed the way we 
delivered compute resources, network virtualization has transformed the way we deliver network services by removing the challenges we faced when bound to 
the physical network.”

Network virtualization addresses one of the final barriers to achieving the agility of cloud computing – the network – by enabling the dynamic creation of virtual 
networks that are completely decoupled and independent from the physical network hardware. Much like server virtualization decouples virtual machines (VMs) 
from the underlying x86 server hardware to transform the operational model of compute, network virtualization decouples software-based virtual networks from 
the underlying network hardware to enable a new operational model for networking. Deployed non-disruptively on any existing network without change, network 
virtualization transforms the physical network into a pool of capacity that can be consumed and repurposed on demand.

“iland is at the forefront of our customers’ transformation to software-defined datacenters,” said Hatem Naguib, vice president, Cloud Networking and Security, 
VMware. “iland demonstrates that clouds built to leverage the operational model of virtualization across all datacenter assets – compute, storage and network – 
can deliver agility and operational efficiency not previously possible.”

VMware network virtualization solutions include the VMware vCloud® Suite, which incorporates VMware’s leading virtualization, cloud infrastructure and 
management portfolio into a single SKU, and the Nicira Network Virtualization Platform (NVP) which delivers network virtualization in multi-hypervisor 
environments. Both are key components of VMware’s software-defined datacenter architecture which enables pooling of industry-standard hardware through 
virtualization to help organizations achieve the agility, efficiency and intelligent operations management of cloud computing.

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Vmware - 12/3/2012

VMware Announces General Availability of Latest Releases

VMware Announces General Availability of VMware vCenter™ Operations Management Suite™ 5.6 and VMware vFabric™ Application Director™ 5.0

Latest Releases Extend Operations Management and Service Provisioning Capabilities of VMware vCloud Suite; New Marketplace Supports Rapid Deployment 
of Multi-Tier Applications to Multiple Clouds

VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced the general availability of VMware vCenter™ Operations 
Management Suite™ 5.6 and VMware vFabric™ Application Director™ 5.0, featuring new and enhanced capabilities for simplifying and automating the management 
of clouds and applications. Both new releases are included in the VMware vCloud® Suite 5.1, a comprehensive solution that integrates VMware’s leading 
virtualization, cloud infrastructure and management portfolio into a single SKU. 

“In the cloud era, customers must think holistically about how they manage their multi-cloud, multi-platform and multi-vendor resources,” said Ramin Sayar, vice 
president and general manager, Cloud Infrastructure and Management, VMware. “With the VMware vCloud® Suite, VMware brings together what customers 
need to build and manage a cloud infrastructure as well as new and existing applications by automating infrastructure operations to help IT evolve into a broker 
of services to the business.”

VMware Cloud Management™ solutions help deliver the software-defined datacenter by simplifying and automating management while empowering IT to govern 
services across multiple, heterogeneous clouds. Today, VMware is advancing its operations and application management capabilities with:

VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite 5.6 applies patented analytics to integrated performance, capacity and configuration management for cloud 
infrastructure. Enhancements to VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite 5.6 include new compliance dashboards, customizable group-based views and 
application-level monitoring through integration with VMware vFabric Hyperic®. In addition, VMware now includes the performance management capabilities of 
the VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite ( as a separate download) with all editions of VMware vSphere®. 

VMware vFabric Application Director 5.0 accelerates the deployment of multi-tier applications to any cloud through easy-to-create application blueprints featuring 
standardized, pre-approved OS and middleware components. This release supports the deployment of applications across multiple virtual and hybrid cloud 
infrastructures, including Amazon EC2.  VMware vFabric Application Director 5.0 also includes expanded support for popular packaged applications, 
enhancements to simplify ongoing application maintenance and support for auto-scaling of applications to meet changing business needs.

In addition, VMware cloud service provider partners Bluelock, iLand, NTT America and Savvis are announcing their intent to deliver new cloud application 
provisioning and maintenance services based on VMware vFabric Application Director. 

Read service provider partner comments on VMware vFabric Application Director.

To help customers more effectively govern the provisioning of IT services across multiple, heterogeneous clouds, the VMware vCloud Suite will also include 
VMware vCloud Automation Center 5.1 and VMware vCloud Connector 2.0.  These products are expected to become generally available in Q4 2012.  

VMware Cloud Applications Marketplace Solutions Ease Application Provisioning 
Today, VMware also announced the launch of the VMware Cloud Applications Marketplace™, which offers vFabric Application Director 5.0 customers access to 
a broad range of solutions that will help them speed deployments of integrated multi-tier applications. The marketplace features 100-plus downloadable 
application blueprints, reference architectures, logical templates containing operating systems, middleware services and application components for custom or 
packaged applications. These solutions were developed by over 30 independent software vendors (ISVs), system integrators (SIs) and content providers as well 
as VMware. 

Read ISV and SI partner comments on the VMware Cloud Application Marketplace.

About the VMware vCloud Suite 
The VMware vCloud Suite 5.1 is a comprehensive solution that integrates VMware’s leading virtualization, cloud infrastructure and management portfolio into a 
single SKU, simplifying the adoption of cloud era technologies.  The VMware vCloud Suite enables the software-defined datacenter, which delivers on the 
promise of cloud computing for agile, elastic, efficient, and reliable IT services by extending the benefits of virtualization to every domain in the datacenter – 
compute, storage, networking, and the associated availability and security services. The software-defined datacenter architecture abstracts all hardware 
resources and pools them into aggregate capacity, enabling automation to safely and efficiently dole it out as needed for applications.

Pricing and Availability 
The VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite 5.6 and VMware vFabric Application Director 5.0 are now generally available.

Both products are included in the VMware vCloud Suite, which is licensed per processer with no core, vRAM or number of VM limits with prices starting at 
$4,995 per processor. They are also available a la carte, priced per VM.  

Go to VMware vCloud Suite 5.1 Editions/Buy page 

Go to VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite 5.6 Editions/Buy page 

Go to VMware vFabric Application Director 5.0 Editions/Buy page 

VMware vCenter Operations Suite Foundation is available as a free, separate download to all VMware vSphere customers with active support. 
vmware.com/go/download-vsphere. 

For a limited time, VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus customers will be able to upgrade to VMware vCloud Suite 5.1 Standard for free or upgrade to vCloud Suite 
5.1 Enterprise at 35 percent off the list price. Learn more about this promotion.

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Vmware - 11/16/2012

Hitachi and VMware Expand Strategic Partnership

Hitachi to join VMware vCloud Datacenter Services program; collaboration aims to provide reliable and trusted hybrid cloud solutions

Today Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501, “Hitachi”) and VMware (NYSE: VMW) announced the expansion of their strategic partnership to accelerate the deployment of
reliable and trusted hybrid cloud solutions. As part of this partnership expansion, Hitachi plans to join the VMware vCloud® Datacenter Services program.

Hitachi will join the VMware vCloud® Datacenter Services program. VMware vCloud Datacenter Services offer enterprise-class hybrid cloud services to multiple
countries around the world. Hitachi plans to offer VMware vCloud Datacenter Services as a part of the Hitachi cloud solution in fiscal year 2013.

Hitachi’s social innovation business initiative seeks to provide social infrastructure to support customers with highly efficient and highly reliable information and
telecommunications system technologies. As one of its high-priority initiatives, Hitachi is seeking to provide reliable and trusted hybrid cloud solutions on a global
scale.

Hitachi will open a VMware Competency Center in December 2012 in Yokohama City, Kanagawa. The center aims to accelerate the development of hybrid
cloud services based on VMware vCloud Datacenter Services, as well as IT platform products and services that support cloud computing. In parallel, the
companies will jointly market and sell in the cloud services market.

VMware solutions will be supported as a premium level of Hitachi Support services.

Under the technical partnership with VMware, Hitachi will add VMware solutions to its premium level of support services. This enables customers to secure
support for their business-critical cloud environments.

Hitachi is expanding its enterprise license agreements with VMware solutions globally, and will use them across the company’s global IT systems of the Hitachi
Group.

Evolution of Hitachi and VMware Partnership
Hitachi and VMware have had a strategic alliance in the storage business since 2004. Since then, the companies have promoted collaboration in a variety of
fields such as the development of IT platform products, cloud, and utilization of big data.

In October 2012, Hitachi Data Systems introduced new converged infrastructure offerings with servers, network and storage solutions based on VMware cloud
infrastructure. These solutions enable customers to construct and operate cloud environments quickly and easily. Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Pro for
VMware vSphere® is a pre-configured converged infrastructure solution that enables integrated infrastructure management from VMware vCenter™ Server to
perform orchestration of the underlying physical infrastructure in addition to virtual servers. Hitachi Unified Compute Platform Select for VMware View® is a pre-
validated solution with flexible servers and storage options to meet the specific needs of the customer.

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Vmware - 10/30/2012

VMware Announces VMware vFabric™ GemFire 7.0

Cutting-edge in-memory data grid addresses enterprise demand for lightning fast, highly available and scalable data access for modern applications

VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced the availability of VMware vFabric™ GemFire® 7.0, the 
premier in-memory data platform delivering speed and dynamic scalability, together with the reliability and data management capabilities of a traditional database. 
Faster and more flexible than ever before, this latest release enables users to process massive quantities of data and scale within the cloud to suit the needs of 
the user, while providing new tools to simplify monitoring and management. Also included in this version is native support for JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) 
documents. Popular with mobile and other web developers, vFabric GemFire brings high performance, scale-out, transactional support and other enterprise-
grade features to JSON not available from competing data offerings.

“The monolithic database of the past cannot meet the needs of modern applications,” said Jerry Chen, Vice President, Cloud and Application Services, VMware. 
“Proven through nearly a decade of production deployments in some of the most high-availability low-latency applications, VMware vFabric™ GemFire® 7.0 solves 
difficult data challenges presented by modern, highly distributed web-oriented applications.”

With this release, vFabric GemFire enables speed with scalability in the cloud, supporting terabytes of data in-memory and enabling high-performance within 
enterprise production deployments. Engineered for low latency, vFabric GemFire provides lightning fast, highly available and scalable data access for highly 
transactional modern applications, allowing businesses to run applications significantly faster than a traditional database.

What’s New in VMware vFabric GemFire 7.0: 

Cloud scale at the speed of business – With enhanced caching and wide area network (WAN) capabilities, vFabric GemFire was engineered to support low-
latency applications that can scale to support terabytes of data and hundreds of thousands of users. New, high-speed parallel WAN processing allows 
customers to scale vFabric GemFire across global sites without sacrificing speed or performance. 

Simplified monitoring and management – vFabric GemFire includes new graphical dashboard and performance monitoring capabilities that give customers visibility 
across distributed vFabric GemFire environments through a single console.  A simplified command line interface (CLI) and new “DataBrowser” functionality allow 
customers to easily view data, make queries and control all aspects of the vFabric GemFire environment. 

Increased developer productivity – vFabric GemFire’s modern APIs and integration with the Spring framework speed and simplify development. Now, vFabric 
GemFire includes integration with the Spring Data GemFire project, including documentation and code samples to make it even easier to develop and support 
scalable, transactional enterprise applications. Further, applications using Memcached can transition smoothly to vFabric GemFire with minimal to zero developer 
impact since vFabric GemFire 7.0 supports the Memcached client protocol. 

JSON document support – vFabric GemFire 7.0 natively supports storing and querying of JSON documents. vFabric GemFire brings enterprise-grade capabilities 
to a JSON store including very low latency, horizontal scale-out, transaction support, security and continuous query. It supports the ability to query between 
multiple JSON documents as well as across JSON documents and key/value objects. With this new capability, vFabric GemFire can be effectively used as a 
production-ready backend document store for REST and mobile applications.

Leading global 1,000 companies utilize vFabric GemFire including those in the financial services industry, online retail, travel and many others.

VMware vFabric GemFire 7.0 is currently available.

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Vmware - 10/15/2012

SpringOne 2GX 2012 - Tackling Today’s Biggest Enterprise Development Challenges with Spring, Groovy and Grails

Annual Conference Will Focus on Big Data, Cloud Computing, Integration, NoSQL, REST and more

VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced the start of SpringOne 2GX 2012, a one-of-a-kind 
conference created for application developers, solution architects, web operations and IT teams who develop business applications, create multi-device aware 
web applications, design cloud architectures, and manage high performance infrastructure.

Considered the premier Spring, Groovy and Grails event, SpringOne will take place October 15-18 at the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C. Presented by 
SpringSource and No Fluff Just Stuff, the show is one of this year’s premier Java events with over 1,000 people in attendance and more than 100 sessions 
specifically tailored for developers using open source Spring technologies, Groovy & Grails, and Tomcat.

Attendees will receive straightforward technical training designed for software architects, programmers, developers and technical managers. In addition to 
featuring leading industry experts who share their practical and real-world experiences, extensive speaker interaction time is offered during and between 
sessions. Topics include: Spring Framework 3.2, Going Async with Push Notifications, A Client-Side UI Smackdown, Decomposing Applications for Deployability 
and Scalability, How to Build Big Data Pipelines for Hadoop using OSS and much more.

SpringOne 2GX 2012 presenters are not simply vendor representatives, but industry recognized subject matter experts and published authors who write the 
software developers use on a daily basis. Technical sessions will cover the latest in Spring, Grails and Groovy-related technologies and also analyze “New 
Application Architectures", highlighting:

Intelligent Data: performing fast queries against large and unstructured data 

Intelligent Clouds: Push to Cloud models, Quality of Service, Elasticity, Scalability 

Intelligent Clients: support for HTML5, REST and HATEOAS driven user interface 

Architecture Evolution: from server side apps toward “Applications and Services”

“Spring has always offered deployment flexibility,” said Adrian Colyer, CTO, Cloud Application Services, VMware. “In the early days this meant a choice of 
application servers, but now this extends to a choice of cloud platforms including our own Cloud Foundry™, Amazon, Google, Heroku and others. New Spring 
projects make developing for enterprise data simple: this once meant a choice of approaches for accessing a relational database, but today Spring extends to a 
range of NoSQL stores, Hadoop/Batch data processing, in-memory data grid capabilities, and even built-in Application Integration.”

"The SpringOne 2GX event is an ideal venue to share and discuss the creative approaches being used to solve some of today¹s most complex issues," said 
Bryan Landerman, VP of Engineering, Dealer.com. "We are excited to share some of our own developments where we have leveraged advanced technologies 
with unconventional approaches in order to keep ourselves, and our customers, competitive and inspired."

Spring is the most popular application development framework for enterprise Java™. Zero Turnaround’s Developer Productivity Report 2012, which garnered 
over 1,800 respondents providing their take on “the developer life” via 1,100 Java-focused surveys, names Spring MVC (Model, View, Controller) as the leading 
Java web framework at 30% adoption. For example:

SpringSource offers two of the three top application frameworks in the survey: Spring is used by 56% of respondents, followed by hibernate at 54%, and Spring 
AspectJ at 13% 

Java Persistence API (JPA) adoption leads the standards adoption race at 44%, propelling a solid market for Spring Data technology 

Apache Tomcat dominates the survey results with 59% of respondents choosing this Application Server / Container. SpringSource committers contribute to 
Apache Tomcat, and Spring vFabric™ are built entirely on Tomcat 6+. 

SpringSource’s Groovy language also tops the list of Alternative JVM Languages at 17% adoption

SpringOne 2GX Sponsors 

Platinum sponsors include: Cloud Foundry. Gold sponsors include: 10gen, Azul Systems, C24 Technologies, EMC Corporation, Neo Technology, Splunk, 
Typesafe and vFabric by VMware. Silver sponsors are AppDynamics, Gradleware and Rivet Logic, with Manning Publications and O’Reilly as media sponsors.

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Vmware - 10/9/2012

VMware Extends Cloud Management Capabilities with vCloud Suite™ Updates

New Approach Simplifies and Automates Management of the Software-defined Datacentre; Extends Multi-Platform, Multi-Cloud Management

VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today unveiled an updated cloud management portfolio, including 
significant enhancements to the management products in the recently released VMware vCloud® Suite. VMware is also introducing a new product to the suite, 
VMware vCloud Automation Center™ 5.1, and is updating the VMware IT Business Management Suite™ to further simplify and automate management while 
empowering IT to govern services across multiple, heterogeneous clouds.

“Businesses of all sizes are leveraging a decade of virtualization investments to transform IT through the software-defined datacentre,” said Raghu Raghuram, 
executive vice president, cloud infrastructure and management, VMware. “VMware’s cloud management offerings fundamentally recast management for the 
cloud era, allowing customers to operate at cloud scale and begin to act as brokers of IT services to the business.”

VMware Cloud Management™ solutions help deliver the software-defined datacentre, allowing customers to achieve the efficiency and agility of cloud computing. 
VMware’s approach to managing hybrid and heterogeneous clouds addresses three critical areas:

    Cloud Service Provisioning: Automate the provisioning and governance of infrastructure, applications and desktops as a service according to business and IT 
policies.

    Cloud Operations Management:Leverage analytics and intelligence to help ensure the performance, compliance and efficiency of cloud infrastructure.

    Cloud Business Management: Govern and manage cloud services as a critical element of running IT like a business.

“The flexibility and scalability enabled by our VMware-powered private cloud helps us address business needs by accelerating the delivery of business critical 
applications and services,” said Fred Pond, vice president and CIO, Columbia Sportswear. “Our investment in VMware cloud management helps us simplify and 
automate the management of our cloud. This powerful combination means that Columbia Sportswear is able to respond to business and market opportunities 
faster than ever before.”

VMware vCloud Suite Gets Enhanced Service Provisioning and Operations Management
Introduced in August 2012, the VMware vCloud Suite brings together the components customers need to build, operate and manage cloud infrastructure. Today 
VMware is introducing significant advancements to the management components of the VMware vCloud Suite:

    vCloud Automation Center™ 5.1 – Multi-cloud infrastructure and desktop provisioning
    To help customers better govern the provisioning of IT services, VMware is introducing VMware vCloud Automation Center 5.1, a new addition to the VMware 
vCloud Suite. Based on DynamicOps, which VMware acquired in July 2012, VMware vCloud Automation Center 5.1 acts as a service governor, enabling policy-
based provisioning across VMware-based private and public clouds, physical infrastructure, multiple hypervisors and Amazon Web Services.

Through a self-service portal – essentially a cross-cloud storefront – vCloud Automation Center will allow authorized administrators, developers or business users 
to request new IT services or manage existing resources. VMware vCloud Automation Center 5.1 will now be integrated with VMware vCloud Director to allow 
 to leverage virtual datacentres comprised of VMware vCloud Suite’s software-defined services. vCloud Automation Center 5.1 will also integrate with vCenter 
Orchestrator to automate IT process workflows across both VMware and customers’ existing management tools and processes. Learn more about vCloud 
Automation Center 5.1

    vFabric™ Application Director™ 5.0 – Provision applications on any cloud

    vFabric Application Director standardizes and accelerates how customers model and deploy multi-tier applications to any cloud through easy-to-create 
blueprints with standardized, pre-approved OS and middleware components. While optimized for VMware vCloud Suite-based clouds, vFabric Application 
Director 5.0 will make it possible for customers to use the same blueprints to deploy applications across multiple virtual and hybrid cloud infrastructures, including 
Amazon EC2.

With this release, VMware will continue to expand vFabric Application Director application support to include all Microsoft packaged applications (Exchange, 
SQL Server, SharePoint) as well as custom applications (Java,.Net, Ruby on Rails). VMware vFabric Application Director will also help simplify ongoing 
application maintenance tasks such as code and configuration, and it will support auto-scaling of applications in response to changing business needs.

Learn more about what’s new in vFabric Application Director 5.0

    vCenter Operations Management Suite™ 5.6 – Embedded, integrated cloud operations management
    The vCenter Operations Management Suite applies patented analytics to integrated performance, capacity and configuration management, providing the 
intelligence customers need to proactively enable service levels in hybrid cloud environments. The VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite can double 
the operational savings customers receive from VMware vSphere®. With this release, VMware will include the performance management capabilities of the 
VMware vCenter Operations Suite in all versions of VMware vSphere.

Enhancements to the VMware vCenter Operations Suite 5.6 continue to deliver on VMware’s strategy to converge management disciplines, incorporating new 
compliance views into the operations dashboard to help customers proactively enforce compliance with IT policies, security guidelines and regulatory 
requirements. New, customizable, group-based views will enable IT operations to more closely align with business priorities. VMware vCenter Operations 
Management Suite 5.6 will also include VMware vFabric Hyperic application-level monitoring to help customers proactively manage the health of business-critical 
applications, including Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange, SharePoint, Windows OS as well as Oracle Database and custom Java applications.

Learn more about what’s new in the vCenter Operations Management Suite 5.6

    vCloud Connector™ 2.0 – Hybrid cloud portability
    VMware is introducing significant enhancements to VMware vCloud Connector, a bridge that enables customers to transfer VMs and applications across 
vSphere and vCloud Director private cloud environments as well as public clouds from VMware vCloud Service Providers.

vCloud Connector 2.0 will help make it possible to extend both networks and workload catalogues across hybrid cloud environments – in effect, extending the 
logical boundaries of the datacentre – without the need for reconfiguring networks or settings when moving workloads. Also, distributed teams will be able to 
coordinate their development efforts by ensuring that everyone has a single, synchronized workload catalogue that spans across the cloud environment. Learn 
more about what’s new in vCloud Connector 2.0

According to Gartner, “Cloud computing is accentuating the role of IT as a service broker. Success in implementing a cloud computing strategy requires IT 
infrastructure and operations to become proactive in creating pre-defined policies, service levels and actions that take place automatically in the runtime 
environment.”

VMware IT Business Management Suite™ 7.5 Enables Cloud Business Management
As the strategic importance of cloud computing grows, IT needs solutions to manage the business of cloud effectively by measuring the performance and cost 
across all cloud services – infrastructure, application and end-user computing. The VMware IT Business Management Suite gives customers transparency into 
the cost, quality and value of cloud services, providing a business context for IT activities and enabling fact-based decisions aligned with business goals and 
ultimately transform to become a broker of IT services.

Today, VMware is introducing VMware IT Business Management Suite 7.5 with a new IT benchmarking module that includes more than 3,500 metrics across 18 
domains, allowing IT organizations to compare their performance with industry and functional peers. VMware IT Business Management Suite 7.5 also includes 
enhancements to its IT Finance Manager capabilities that will further automate and streamline the budgeting process.

Read industry comments on VMware’s Cloud Management solutions.

VMware Cloud Ops Services and IP – A New Operating Model for the Cloud Era
These advancements to VMware’s management portfolio are part of a complete solution approach to cloud computing, including new Cloud Ops Intellectual 
Property (IP) and advisory, transformation and education services announced in August 2012. Based on VMware’s experience working with hundreds of 
successful cloud implementations worldwide, Cloud Ops helps customers build, operate, staff and measure the impact of cloud computing. Specifically, VMware 
announced new cloud operations services, new and updated technology consulting services, new education offerings and certifications and VMware 

Architecture Toolkit (vCAT) 3.0.
Read the Press Release: VMware Defines New Operating Model for the Cloud Era

Pricing & Availability
VMware’s updated Cloud Management Solutions are expected to be available in Q4 2012.

    VMware vCloud Automation Center 5.1, VMware vCloud Connector 2.0, VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite 5.6 and vFabric Application Director 
5.0 will be included in the VMware vCloud Suite, which is licensed per processor with no core, vRAM or number of VM limits. Prices start at US$4,995 per 
processor.

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Vmware - 10/8/2012

VMware Introduces Enterprise Purchasing Program

Token-based Program Designed to Offer Customers and Partners Greater Flexibility and Value for Purchasing VMware Software Licenses

VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced a new VMware Enterprise Purchasing Program (EPP).
Expanding on the current VMware Volume Purchasing Program (VPP), VMware EPP enables customers globally to purchase software licenses in volume rapidly
while benefiting from cost savings, ease-of-procurement and deployment flexibility. VMware EPP is available to customers through authorized VMware partners.

VMware EPP is a token-based program that offers customers a variety of incentives beginning with significant deployment flexibility, access to latest product
releases and value on VMware products and services. The program also offers customers the ability to mix and match products and purchase at any time (within
a three-year term) allowing them to adjust their deployment strategy based on business and project needs. In addition, customers have the option of centralized
or de-centralized management enabling them to grant tokens to support different departments or projects as needed. For partners, VMware EPP provides an
extended incentive model, facilitates longer-term customer relationships, and helps grow their businesses.

“With VMware EPP, we are making it easier, faster and more advantageous for customers seeking to purchase VMware products and services,” said Ryan
Knauss, vice president, Pricing and Licensing, VMware. “This new program offers customers cost savings, flexibility and ease of management to help them
efficiently acquire the products and services required to support their business needs. VMware partners will benefit from a deeper engagement with customers by
assisting with product deployment and through increased transaction velocity.”

Getting Started with VMware EPP
Customers may enroll for VMware EPP via the VMware Purchasing Programs page. Once enrolled, customers can use the EPP Configurator to estimate their
need for VMware products over a three year period and the associated number of tokens. To purchase tokens, customers engage VMware authorized EPP
partners. Customers can then view and manage their tokens as well as redeem their tokens for licenses and production Support and Subscription via My
VMware.

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Vmware - 10/8/2012

VMware Introduces Enterprise Purchasing Program

Token-based Program Designed to Offer Customers and Partners Greater Flexibility and Value for Purchasing VMware Software Licenses

VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced a new VMware Enterprise Purchasing Program (EPP). Expanding on
the current VMware Volume Purchasing Program (VPP), VMware EPP enables customers globally to purchase software licenses in volume rapidly while
benefiting from cost savings, ease-of-procurement and deployment flexibility. VMware EPP is available to customers through authorized VMware partners.

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Vmware - 9/19/2012

VMware Introduces the Socialcast Integration Engine

VMware Introduces the Socialcast Integration Engine to Enable Deep Social Integrations that Connect People, Apps, Systems and Data to Drive Business 
Value

Integration Capabilities Offer A New Way To Transform Business with Socialcast

VMware, Inc. (NYSE:VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced the availability of the Socialcast® Integration 
Engine™,an advanced set of integration capabilities to enable people and systems to connect to their enterprise network and use social technology to drive 
business results. The Socialcast Integration Engine combines Socialcast Reach® Version 3, the new Community App Manager and a rich set of developer APIs 
to securely enable systems to become actors in the activity stream, extending the benefits of social to apps and machines to drive better and more efficient 
business decisions.

“Most people are looking at enterprise social adoption upside-down,” said Chuck Dietrich, VP and general manager of social applications, VMware. “The primary 
goal of adding social to your enterprise is to drive business value, which starts with connecting people and should quickly extend to enhancing your mission-
critical business processes. This means social can’t be a parallel process, to realize the full value of enterprise social it needs to permeate the organization and 
integrate with key systems where business information lives.”

With the Socialcast Integration Engine, people and systems can now connect using a natural and user-friendly interface that brings the benefits of social 
collaboration to business systems like CRM, inventory management and HR applications. By enabling systems in the social stream, highly relevant and timely 
information is shared and can be acted upon by both employees and other systems, taking advantage of how social is changing the business communications 
paradigm.

The Importance of Custom Apps In The Enterprise 

Enterprise organizations have invested in developing custom applications. According to Gartner, Inc, 79 percent of enterprise companies have custom built 
applications as part of their application portfolio. For 37 percent of these companies custom developed applications make up most or all of their applications.*

Recognizing the importance of custom developed software in the enterprise, the Socialcast Integration Engine is designed to socially enable integrations with 
custom build apps. By providing an extensible platform to develop secure, powerful apps, Socialcast is able to help enterprise companies add a social layer 
across their application portfolio without being limited to point solutions with packaged software products. This opens up the potential to add social to all the key 
business workflows and drive more productivity and better business outcomes.

Socialcast Integration Engine 

Reach Version 3: 
Socialcast Reach features an intuitive setup wizard to walk users through setting up extensions to enable integrations with any business system that accepts a 
HTML/Javascript snippet like SharePoint, CRM, ERP, PLM, HCM, Intranets and wikis. Data is updated between Socialcast and the business system for real-
time information sharing. Today, we’re introducing Reach Version 3, which adds:

New extension types such as a customizable community trend extension, social recognition tool and new embeddable buttons 
Deeper, richer integrations that dynamically pull data from their host page to intelligently display content 
Improved user experience around sharing and the ability to share into a specific Socialcast group

Community App Manager 
The Community App Manager gives developers an efficient and secure way to build apps on the Socialcast platform and enables IT to securely manage these 
apps with control over access, publishing and promotion of apps built for their community. For developers and IT departments, the Community App Manager 
includes:

The latest OAuth 2.0 security protocol to enable apps to securely pass data between the developer’s app and the Socialcast platform. 
Fine-grain control for IT to manage access to apps by individual users or app. 
An internal app store to promote custom built apps to the community and drive usage of individual apps

Socialcast REST API 
The robust REST API available in Socialcast provides programmatic access to the same, full functionality available via a community’s Socialcast website, 
enabling companies to create even deeper social integrations with business systems, including custom developed business systems.

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Vmware - 9/11/2012

VMware Announces General Availability of VMware vCloud Suite 5.1

Comprehensive Cloud Infrastructure and Management Solution Delivers the Software-Defined Datacenter 

VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced the general availability of the new VMware vCloud 
Suite 5.1, a complete, integrated cloud infrastructure solution that integrates VMware’s leading virtualization, cloud infrastructure and management portfolio into 
a single SKU, simplifying the adoption of cloud era technologies. 

“The VMware vCloud® Suite 5.1 is the first and most comprehensive solution for delivering the software-defined datacenter,” said Mike Clayville, vice president, 
product marketing, cloud infrastructure products, VMware. “By bringing together everything customers may need to build and manage agile, reliable cloud 
infrastructure, the VMware vCloud Suite simplifies and automates IT operations and delivers on the promise of cloud computing.”

The VMware vCloud Suite 5.1 extends the benefits of virtualization to every domain in the datacenter – compute, storage, networking, and the associated 
availability and security services.  It includes industry leading virtualization, software-defined datacenter services, policy-based provisioning, disaster recovery, 
and application and operations management capabilities delivered by:

VMware vSphere® 5.1 – With more than 100 enhancements and new features, VMware’s virtualization platformis the proven foundation for the software-defined 
datacenter, delivering the highest service levels for all applications, including business-critical workloads and low-latency, I/O-sensitive applications. 

VMware vCloud Director® 5.1 – With scalability improvements that support “elastic” virtual datacenters spanning multiple VMware vSphere clusters and up to 
30,000 VMs, VMware vCloud Director 5.1 allows customers to provision complete virtual datacenter services in minutes. 

VMware vCloud Networking and Security 5.1 –Providing a full set of software-defined networking capabilities, the new VMware vCloud Networking and 
Securityenables the dynamic creation of virtual networks and services that are completely decoupled and independent from the physical network hardware. 

VMware vCenter™ Site Recovery Manager™ 5.1– To enhance the availability and rapid recovery of applications running in the software-defined datacenter, 
vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.1 simplifies and automates disaster recovery planning, testing and execution. 

To help customers simplify and automate management and operations of their cloud environments, the VMware vCloud Suite also includes vFabric Application 
Director™, vCenter Operations Management Suite™ and vCloud Connector™ to speed application provisioning, move workloads between clouds, and bring 
intelligent automation to capacity planning, performance and compliance management.

Pricing and Availability 
The VMware vCloud Suite 5.1 is now generally available in three editions – Standard, Advanced and Enterprise – and includes the following products: VMware 
vSphere Enterprise Plus, VMware vCloud Director, VMware vCloud Connector, VMware vCloud Networking and Security, VMware vFabric Application Director, 
VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite and VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager.  The VMware vCloud Suite is licensed per processer with no 
core, vRAM or number of VM limits with prices starting at $4,995 per processor.

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Vmware - 8/30/2012

VMware Attracts a Record 21,000 Registered Attendees to VMworld 2012

VMware Attracts a Record 21,000 Registered Attendees to VMworld 2012, Introduces Industry’s Most Comprehensive Cloud Infrastructure and Management 
Solution

Key announcements, discussions and demonstrations of the solutions at the heart of the software-defined datacenter 

VMware, Inc. (NYSE:VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced the conclusion of its ninth annual VMworld? 
conference, which was held from August 26-30 at Moscone Center in San Francisco. VMworld 2012 attracted a record 21,000 customers, partners, press and 
analysts, and 250 sponsors and exhibitors signifying major interest from the IT industry in cloud computing and the next generation of IT.

With the theme of, “Right Here, Right Now” VMworld 2012 featured more than 330 unique breakout sessions across ten tracks from companies and customers 
driving innovation in the virtualization and cloud industry. 

VMware executives led two general session keynote presentations during the event detailing how VMware is helping customers and partners thrive in the cloud 
era. Replays of the keynote presentations are available at vmworld.com/community/conference/us/learn/generalsessions.

Key highlights and announcements made during the event include:

VMware vCloud® Suite: The first solution for the software-defined datacenter, the VMware vCloud Suite 5.1 brings together the components customers need to 
build, operate and manage cloud infrastructure: 

VMware vSphere® 5.1 – The proven platform for any application: The foundation of the VMware vCloud Suite is an updated version of the world’s most widely 
deployed virtualization platform, VMware vSphere 5.1, which includes more than 100 enhancements and new features to deliver the highest service levels for all 
applications. 

VMware vCloud Director® 5.1 – Provision virtual datacenters in minutes: VMware vCloud Directororchestrates the provisioning of software-defined datacenter 
services to deliver complete virtual datacenters (VDCs) that can be ready for consumption in minutes. 

VMware vCloud Networking and Security 5.1 – Redefine the network: VMware vCloud Networking and Securitywill enable the dynamic creation of virtual 
networks and services that are completely decoupled and independent from the physical network hardware. 

VMware vCenterTM Site Recovery Manager™ 5.1 – Automate disaster recovery for all applications: vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.1 simplifies disaster 
recovery planning and ensures predictable recovery through automated testing and plan execution.

Cloud Ops: New operating model for the cloud era featuring education, transformation and advisory services help unleash value of cloud through people, 
process and measurement. 

Cloud OpsForum: A group of consulting and integration partners that will collaborate on further definition of the new cloud operating model. Launch members of 
the Cloud Ops Forum include Canopy, Capgemini, CGI, CSC, Dell, Deloitte, EMC, HP, Infosys, T-Systems and VMware. 

First Look at VMware Horizon TM: an integrated platform for the Mobile Workforce: Onstage at VMworld, VMware demonstrated the alpha version of the 
VMware Horizon Suite, showcasing how it will help customers deliver the multi-device workspace and give end-users secure access to applications and data 
anywhere.

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Vmware - 8/28/2012

Dell, VMware ‘Double Down’ on Desktop Virtualization

New Dell vStart for VDI, with VMware View® bundles, cloud client devices and channel programs designed to deliver simplified success 

Joint offerings help channel partners deliver VDI to growing small and midsize business segment

Today at VMworld 2012, Dell and VMware announced the expansion of the companies’ joint efforts to simplify the delivery of world-class desktop virtualization 
solutions. 

As part of the companies’ expanded strategic relationship, Dell and VMware will deliver new, turnkey virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) bundles based on 
VMware View.  The joint solutions will provide customers and channel partners with tested and validated hardware configurations and vertically optimized 
reference architectures, along with new fulfillment mechanisms and enhanced incentives for joint channel partners.

Organizations are looking to implement trusted VDI solutions, which can scale with them as they grow. According to the results of the recent “Trends around 
Desktop Virtualization for Small and Midsized Organizations” study conducted by Spiceworks (April 2012), more than 60 percent of customers are planning to roll 
out or evaluate desktop virtualization in 2012. As a result, channel partners are seeking ways to respond to customer demand with solutions that work 
seamlessly and offer the ability to scale, delivering value to customers and their businesses.

Cloud client computing in combination with desktop virtualization enables organizations of all sizes to offer anytime, anywhere access to the applications, data 
and services people want while simplifying IT management and security. The combination of Dell and VMware technology can help customers and channel 
partners deliver more effective desktop virtualization solutions faster to drive business advantages, embrace bring your own device (BYOD) and mobility 
challenges and reduce total cost of ownership (TCO).

Dell vStart for VDI, with VMware View – Delivering VDI Success 
Core to the joint initiative is the new Dell vStart for VDI, with VMware View bundle, a combination of Dell vStart preconfigured and tested server, storage and 
networking hardware that has been validated and optimized by VMware for optimum performance and scalability with VMware View.  The solution also includes 
Dell Wysecloud clients designed for VMware View. These bundles come with validated reference architectures.

This offering will provide channel partners flexibility to offer a wide range of solutions, from turnkey “View-in-a-box,” to a la carte components needed to expand
existing VMware View installations. Moreover, solutions will be available in configurations optimized for healthcare, education and government organizations, as 
well as for the specific BYOD and mobility needs of private businesses.

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Vmware - 8/22/2012

VMware Expands VMware Ready™ Program to Networking and Security Partners

New Program Enables Partners to Integrate, Test and Certify Networking and Security Solutions with VMware Cloud Infrastructure

VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced the expansion of its VMware Ready™ Program to its networking and 
security partners. The new program will enable customers of all sizes to continue utilizing their existing investments in networking and security products, while 
realizing the efficiency and agility benefits of VMware cloud infrastructure through validated joint solutions.

“The VMware Ready™ for Networking and Security Program will enable our robust partner community to easily integrate their products with VMware cloud 
infrastructure, including VMware vSphere® and the VMware vCloud® product family, to deliver validated joint solutions,” said Hatem Naguib, vice president, 
Networking and Security, VMware. “This new program will enable customers to lower operational costs, meet compliance requirements, and accelerate time-to-
market by helping them quickly locate certified solutions that combine trusted networking and security technologies from our partners with the flexibility and 
security of VMware cloud infrastructure.”

The VMware Ready for Networking and Security Program will incorporate a comprehensive set of partner enablement tools, from reference architectures to 
hands-on training courses for partners. Partner solutions that pass formal testing criteria will receive the VMware Ready certification and logo, signifying to 
customers that they have met specific VMware integration and interoperability standards and are optimized to work effectively with VMware cloud infrastructure.

Software development kits (SDKs) will be available in October, and final certification for partners will occur in mid-2013.

The VMware Ready designation indicates that after a detailed validation process a partner has received VMware’s highest level of endorsement and will have 
its solution listed in the VMware Solution Exchange.

The VMware Ready program is a co-branding benefit of the Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program that makes it easy for customers to identify partner 
products that are certified to work seamlessly with VMware solutions. Customers can leverage these products and solutions to lower project risk and realize cost 
savings over custom-built solutions.  With thousands of members worldwide, the VMware TAP program includes best-of-breed technology partners with the 
shared commitment to bring the best expertise and business solution to each unique customer need.

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Vmware - 8/22/2012

Customers Transform IT with VMware vCloud

VMware and Service Providers Enable Customers Across Industries to Successfully Accelerate Delivery of Reliable, High-Performance Secure Clouds

VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced continued momentum of its customers deploying public
and hybrid clouds based on VMware cloud solutions. VMware vCloud® technologies and cloud services enable customers to achieve a wide range of business 
benefits such as reduced IT costs, improved security and increased flexibility.

"VMware customers are looking to deploy reliable, high-performance, secure clouds that are compatible with their existing applications and datacenter 
operations. VMware and its partners are uniquely positioned to deliver this,” said Mathew Lodge, vice president, cloud services, VMware. “Today VMware has 
the broadest cloud ecosystem and the rapid adoption of vCloud services  by customers – triple digit growth in year-over-year VSPP bookings in 2011 and 2012 to
date -- is a true testament to the value that the vCloud ecosystem delivers.”

VMware and its service providers cater to a variety of use cases ranging from compute resources for pre-production environments to seasonal and transient 
workloads to disaster recovery in the cloud. VMware customers who have recently adopted cloud computing to transform their IT environments include 
Columbia Sportswear Company, eMix (Electronic Medical Information Exchange), Star Alliance and Subaru of America, Inc.

Columbia Sportswear Company 
Based in Portland, Oregon, Columbia Sportswear is the worldwide leader in outerwear, sportswear apparel and accessories and has over 4,000 employees and 
50 locations. Nearly 100 percent virtualized, Columbia Sportswear first looked to the public cloud to have the option of moving workloads outside the facility to 
prevent downtime during disasters or datacenter moves. They wanted the flexibility to move workloads seamlessly from their private cloud to their vCloud-based 
ecosystem provider. 

Two real-life scenarios that Columbia experienced reinforced the need for a cloud model centered on the Japanese tsunami in 2011, which caused continuous 
power outages to their Tokyo-based facility. First, had a cloud model been in place, the ability to move the data out of the region temporarily would have 
improved operations and allowed for local staff to access their data remotely. Second, office and datacenter moves shouldn’t necessarily affect access to data 
and therefore, the need to temporarily park workloads somewhere else without disruption would have allowed for greater productivity. Columbia Sportswear now 
moves workloads seamlessly from their private cloud to their vCloud provider, having control of where workloads live.

“We are very pleased with how easy it has been to deploy VMware vCloud to meet our rapidly growing business requirements, allowing us to scale instantly and 
reduce infrastructure costs,” said Michael Leeper, senior manager, global IT engineering, Columbia Sportswear Company.

eMix 
Tasked with providing a highly available, secure platform for hospital providers to share medical information, eMix is replacing the need for CDs, DVDs and VPN 
connections, bringing healthcare communications into the 21st century on the foundation of VMware vCloud.  eMix collaborated with iLand, 2012 “Global 
Service Provider Partner of the Year,” to build a public cloud solution that provides massive scalability as well as a holistic approach to security when 
exchanging medical imaging data between proprietary IT systems. One eMix customer reported an average savings of $14,000- $18,000 per emergency room 
visit as a result of the cloud.

“The importance of having VMware compatibility and the need to partner with a service provider that can address HIPAA compliancy was a priority when 
considering a cloud solution,” said Florent Saint-Clair, vice president, corporate development, DR Systems and general manager, eMix (division of DR Systems). 
“With VMware’s vCloud solution the adoption curve has been accelerating tremendously, and we expect that the growth over the past two years, which was 
from zero to five hundred customers, will accelerate even further.”

VMware customers to share their cloud stories at VMworld 
IT executives from Fortune 1000 and mid-market companies using VMware vCloud will gather on stage at VMworld in San Francisco, Calif. on Aug. 27, 2012 at 
2:30 PM to discuss why they chose a hybrid cloud solution and share their use cases and deployment outcomes, including infrastructure, security, provider 
selection, and results. The session, “Industry Leaders Share the Impact of Their Cloud Deployments (session CSM2258),” will be moderated by Paul Strong, 
CTO, global customer and field initiatives, VMware and will be open to audience questions. Register here to attend this session at VMworld San Francisco.

VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP) and vCloud Services 
The VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP) is for partners offering cloud computing and hosted IT services built on VMware cloud infrastructure. There are 
over 8,500 partners in the program to date.

VMware vCloud Services offer a broad array of VMware-compatible infrastructure clouds built on a secure platform and delivered by vCloud service providers, 
enabling customers to easily extend, manage and scale their datacenter workloads to a public cloud. With more than 150 certified VMware vCloud Services in 
29 countries, VMware and VSPP partners together form the number two public cloud ecosystem in the world.

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Vmware - 8/15/2012

VMware Offers vCloud “Test-Drive” with New Evaluation Service

VMware vCloud® Service Evaluation Demonstrates Enterprise-Class Cloud, Offers Easy On-Ramp to vCloud Services

VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced the vCloud Service Evaluation, an online service for 
customers to test-drive a cloud built on the VMware vCloud platform. The vCloud Service Evaluation will provide a quick and easy way for users to learn about 
the advantages of a vCloud through hands-on testing and experimentation. It also will provide a simple way to see VMware vCloud Director® software in action 
and prepare customers to make the journey to the public cloud through the world’s largest network of service providers.

“VMware and its vCloud service providers have created a broad ecosystem of cloud services to meet the needs of any business, and now we’re going to give 
customers an easy way to see the power of a vCloud for themselves,” said Mathew Lodge, vice president, cloud services, VMware. “With the VMware vCloud 
Service Evaluation, customers will have a quick, simple and low-cost way to evaluate a vCloud so they can understand the value of working with a vCloud 
service provider and be prepared to make an informed decision on which public cloud best suits them.”


The vCloud Service Evaluation will be available at vcloud.vmware.com, an online destination where customers can find vCloud service providers and learn 
about their capabilities and coverage. vCloud Service Evaluation customers will be able to register with a credit card and receive access within minutes to their 
own vCloud Director-based cloud environment. They can then deploy pre-built operating system and application templates and use vCloud Connector to move 
workloads from their private cloud or VMware vSphere environment. Once they are finished evaluating, customers can use vCloud Connector to easily migrate 
to a vCloud service provider for production vCloud services.

VMware will also be enhancing the vcloud.vmware.com experience with new, interactive community capabilities to provide a platform for cloud consumers to 
ask questions and share experiences as well as to offer rich educational resources such as how-to guides to help with getting started in the public cloud. As the 
gateway to the world’s largest network of certified compatible public cloud services, vcloud.vmware.com will include more than 145 vClouds in 28 countries.

VMware vCloud Service Provider Comments on the vCloud Service Evaluation 
“VMware’s offer is great for us because customers will have the opportunity to see first-hand the differentiating benefits and value of our network-based cloud 
services,” said John Potter, vice president, hosting, applications and cloud solutions, AT&T Business Solutions. 

“Giving customers an evaluation of vCloud-IaaS before deploying production workloads through a production provider is a positive step in making the journey to 
the cloud as easy as possible,” said Clive Grayson, director of service strategy, Attenda. “Customers will be able to quickly realize the benefits and want to 
capitalize on them with best-in-class SLAs supporting them. Attenda seamlessly migrates from evaluation to production with a full suite of cloud service options to
choose from.” 

“We’re excited that VMware will be offering such an easy way to test out the capabilities of vCloud-based virtual datacenters with the introduction of their trial 
program,” said Pat O’Day, CTO, Bluelock. “We are confident that these evaluations will help even more people experience the same effectiveness and 
numerous efficiencies of the vCloud that our enterprise customers have come to enjoy and rely on for their own applications.” 

“As a vCloud Powered enterprise partner, we are pleased to be part of VMware’s vCloud Evaluation Service which will help to drive widespread awareness of 
the benefits of a cloud-based IT solution,” said Mona Abutaleb, president, mindSHIFT Technologies. “Many businesses are caught between limited technical 
resources, shrinking budgets and increased demands on their IT staff to help grow the bottom line. This solution will help them realize the benefits of business 
agility and versatility that the cloud provides. VMware’s vCloud Powered service, combined with mindSHIFT’s technical expertise and commitment to 
outstanding customer satisfaction, enable us to provide a highly secure and scalable IT environment in which clients can quickly adapt to changing market 
demands and technology needs.” 

“We’re pleased to see VMware invest in educating customers on the power of vCloud to maximize an organization’s available computing resources while 
providing additional resources on-demand, and to help shorten sales cycles for vCloud Powered Service Providers like NTT America,” said Doug McMaster, 
vice president, data center services, NTT America. “VMware’s vCloud ‘Test-Drive’ gives NTT America the opportunity to showcase our differentiation in 
providing access to a single virtualized global data center for scalable and seamless services, and drive awareness into a well-educated community.” 

“The vCloud Service Evaluation will allow users to quickly experience the enterprise capabilities of the public cloud with VMware,” said George Naspo, CEO, 
Virtacore. “We believe the education, content and community provided will help incubate customers until they are ready to graduate to a production environment 
offered by one of the vCloud Service Providers like Virtacore.” 

“The vCloud Service evaluation will allow a larger universe of customers who already trust VMware products to experience the power of enterprise-class cloud in 
a secure, ‘frictionless’ environment supported by a service-focused ecosystem,” said Peter B. Bitz, president, Xtium, Inc. “This will accelerate the customers’ 
journey to buy into the secure enterprise public cloud by practically educating the market and producing a more intelligent customer, bolstering our efforts with 
enterprise Cloud IQ.” 

Pricing and Availability 
Customers can register for VMware vCloud Service Evaluation today, and beta invites will be sent out starting August 27, 2012. Prices start at $0.04 an hour for 
a Linux VM with 1GB of RAM.

The vCloud Service Evaluation is operated on behalf of VMware by a VMware vCloud Service Provider.

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Vmware - 8/9/2012

VMware Announces Keynote Speakers for VMworld 2012

VMware Announces Keynote Speakers for VMworld 2012 in San Francisco, the Leading Virtualization and Cloud Infrastructure Industry Event

VMware to Host Financial Analyst Day
PALO ALTO, Calif., Aug. 9, 2012 – VMware, Inc. (NYSE:VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today unveiled the speaker lineup and
sponsorship list for the leading virtualization and cloud infrastructure event of the year, VMworld 2012.

Underscoring the conference theme, “Right Here, Right Now,” VMworld 2012 in San Francisco will feature more than 230 unique breakout sessions from
VMware and its community of partners and customers that are driving innovation in the virtualization and cloud computing industry. More than 250 sponsors and
exhibitors are supporting the conference including Global Diamond Sponsors Cisco, Dell, EMC, HP and NetApp.

VMware executives will lead two general session presentations during the event:
On Monday, Aug. 27, 2012 at 8:30 a.m. PDT the event will kick off with a keynote presentation featuring VMware CEO Paul Maritz, incoming VMware CEO Pat
Gelsinger and VMware CTO Steve Herrod detailing how VMware is helping customers and partners thrive in the cloud era with key announcements, discussions
and demonstrations of the solutions at the heart of the software-defined datacenter. The Aug. 27 keynote webcast will be available live and on-demand at
VMware Now, the new online destination for breaking news, product announcements, videos and demos: vmware.com/go/now.

On Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2012 at 8:30 a.m. PDT VMware CTO Steve Herrod and several VMware partners will take the stage to demonstrate the state-of-the-art
technology that is transforming IT and enabling the mobile workforce. The presentations will be available via webcast at
vmworld.com/community/conference/us/learn/generalsessions.

Also on Aug. 27 at 10:30 a.m. PDT, VMware will host its Financial Analyst Day, an informative and in-depth program for the investment community with
presentations about company strategy and product direction. This event will be available via webcast at: ir.vmware.com.

VMworld Europe 2012 will take place in Barcelona, Spain Oct. 9-11, 2012.

VMworld 2012 Online Resources
For a list of VMworld 2012 U.S. exhibitors and sponsors, please visit: vmworld.com/community/conference/us/sponsors
The VMworld 2012 U.S. agenda is available at: vmworld.com/community/conference/us/learn/agenda
To register to attend VMworld 2012, please visit: vmworld.com

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Vmware - 7/23/2012

VMware Reports Second Quarter 2012 Results

- Year-over-Year Revenue Growth of 22% to $1.12 Billion

- Operating Margin of 18.9%; Non-GAAP Operating Margin of 31.9%

- Trailing Twelve Months Operating Cash Flows Growth of 33% to $2.05 Billion; Free Cash Flows Growth of 29% to $2.01 Billion

Supplemental Financial Tables

Non-GAAP Financial Measures

VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced financial results for the second quarter of 2012:

Revenues for the second quarter were $1.12 billion, an increase of 22% from the second quarter of 2011, and 23% measured in constant currency.

Operating income for the second quarter was $212 million, an increase of 13% from the second quarter of 2011. Non-GAAP operating income for the second
quarter was $358 million, an increase of 23% from the second quarter of 2011.

Net income for the second quarter was $192 million, or $0.44 per diluted share, compared to $220 million, or $0.51 per diluted share, for the second quarter of
2011. Non-GAAP net income for the quarter was $296 million, or $0.68 per diluted share, compared to $235 million, or $0.55 per diluted share, for the second
quarter of 2011.

Trailing twelve months operating cash flows were $2.05 billion, an increase of 33%. Trailing twelve months free cash flows were $2.01 billion, an increase of
29%.

Cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments were $5.3 billion and unearned revenue was $2.9 billion as of June 30, 2012.

U.S. revenues for the second quarter of 2012 grew 22% to $551 million from 2011. International revenues grew 22% to $572 million from 2011.

License revenues for the second quarter of 2012 were $517 million, an increase of 11% from 2011. Service revenues, which include software maintenance and
professional services, were $606 million for 2012, an increase of 33% from 2011.

“The quarter’s strong performance reflects the continued confidence customers have in our solutions,” said Paul Maritz, chief executive officer, VMware. “Our
products, amplified by the recent acquisitions, including Nicira, are providing the means for our customers to transform IT as we move into the Cloud Era.”

“We are very pleased with our second quarter results,” said Carl Eschenbach, chief operating officer, VMware. “Despite the tough market conditions, we
achieved record quarterly results in total revenue, license revenue, and non-GAAP operating income. Third quarter 2012 revenues are expected to be in the
range of $1.11 and $1.15 billion. Annual 2012 revenues are expected to be in the range of $4.540 and $4.635 billion, an increase of 20.5% to 23.0% from
2011. Annual license revenues are expected to grow between 11% and 15%.”

Recent Highlights & Strategic Announcements
Today, July 23, 2012 VMware announced the acquisition of Nicira, Inc., a pioneer in software-defined networking and a leader in network virtualization for open
source initiatives. VMware will acquire Nicira for approximately $1.05 billion in cash plus approximately $210 million of assumed unvested equity awards. The
acquisition is a key part of VMware’s vision for delivering the software-defined datacenter.

In June 2012, VMware announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders Quadrant of the 2012 Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization
Infrastructure. According to Gartner*, “The x86 server virtualization infrastructure market is the foundation for two extremely important market trends that relate
and overlap: infrastructure modernization and cloud computing. …Virtualization is a fundamental enabler to IaaS, and will be used to establish private cloud
services, public cloud services and interoperable hybrid cloud services.”

Recent product announcements included: VMware vFabric™ Suite 5.1, featuring new capabilities that automate the deployment and management of complex
applications on VMware cloud infrastructure and the introduction of an in-memory distributed SQL database. VMware View™ 5.1 and an updated portfolio of end-
user computing solutions, including Horizon Application Manager™ 1.5 and VMware Project Octopus Beta, that will help IT organizations empower a more agile,
productive and connected enterprise.

Recently, VMware closed two acquisitions: DynamicOps, a provider of cloud automation solutions that enable provisioning and management of IT services
across heterogeneous environments including VMware-based private and public clouds, physical infrastructures, multiple hypervisors and Amazon Web
Services, and Wanova, a leading provider of physical desktop management solutions. With Wanova, VMware now offers leading solutions for centralized image
management of both physical and virtual desktops.

VMware plans to host a conference call today to review its second quarter 2012 results and to discuss its financial outlook. The call is scheduled to begin at
2:00 p.m. PT/ 5:00 p.m. ET and can be accessed via the Web at ir.vmware.com. The webcast will be available live, and a replay will be available following
completion of the live broadcast for approximately 60 days.

*Gartner, Inc., Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure, Thomas J. Bittman, et al, June 11, 2012. Gartner does not endorse any vendor,
product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings. Gartner
research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all
warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

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Vmware - 7/23/2012

VMware to Acquire Nicira

Acquisition expands VMware’s networking portfolio to revolutionize networking for the cloud and provide a full suite of capabilities for any cloud environment.

VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Nicira, 
Inc., a pioneer in software-defined networking (SDN) and a leader in network virtualization for open source initiatives.

“VMware has led the server virtualization revolution, and we have the opportunity to do the same in datacenter and cloud networking,” said Paul Maritz, chief 
executive officer, VMware.  “The acquisition of Nicira adds to our portfolio of networking assets and positions VMware to be the industry leader in software-
defined networking.”

VMware will acquire Nicira for approximately $1.05 billion in cash plus approximately $210 million of assumed unvested equity awards. The acquisition is subject 
to regulatory approvals and other customary closing conditions.  The parties expect the acquisition to close during the second half of 2012.  The acquisition has 
been approved by the boards of directors of both VMware and Nicira and the stockholders of Nicira.

The Software-Defined Datacenter – The Foundation of Cloud Computing 
Cloud computing is about agile, elastic, efficient, and reliable services, and it is achieved through sophisticated software that abstracts hardware resources, 
pools it into aggregate capacity, enabling automation to safely and efficiently dole it out as needed for applications. Tenants or customers utilizing the software-
defined datacenter can have their own virtual datacenter with an isolated collection of all the compute, storage, networking, and security resources that they are 
used to. Furthermore, this virtual datacenter can grow and shrink to efficiently utilize physical resources.  This is what the software-defined datacenter is all 
about, and it is the architecture for the cloud.

Managing networks and network services to support cloud architectures is complex, time consuming and limits the achievement of full application mobility across 
clouds.  Nicira is at the forefront of software-defined networking, which enables the dynamic creation of virtual network infrastructure and services that are 
completely decoupled and independent from the physical network hardware.  Many industry leaders, including AT&T, DreamHost, eBay, Fidelity Investments, 
NTT and Rackspace are using the Nicira Network Virtualization Platform (NVP) to accelerate service delivery from weeks to minutes and dramatically reduce 
complexity and cost.  

“Nicira helps customers dramatically improve business velocity and efficiency by transforming how networking works in the Cloud era,” said Steve Mullaney, chief 
executive officer, Nicira.  “I’m thrilled to be joining forces with VMware to help build the software-defined datacenter.” 

“The value we bring to customers lies in our open approach and the richness of capabilities in network virtualization,” said Martin Casado, co-founder and chief 
technology officer, Nicira.  “The combination of Nicira and VMware brings together two pioneering teams, and gives customers the industry leading SDN solution 
for any cloud environment, on any hypervisor in the enterprise and with Service Providers.”

VMware plans to continue to support the open principles and technologies that have made Nicira solutions successful, including the Open vSwitch to connect 
physical networks and multiple hypervisors and the open extensibility framework to implement business-level policies from any cloud management system.  This 
will allow enterprises and service providers to create the most flexible network topologies that seamlessly span any cloud environment.  VMware is committed to 
maintaining Nicira’s openness and bringing additional value and choices to heterogeneous environments and the OpenStack, CloudStack and other cloud 
related communities.

This acquisition expands VMware’s networking portfolio, which includes the VMware vSphere® virtual switching, VMware vCloud® Director™ networking, 
vShield™ Network and Security software defined services, and the VXLAN protocol to provide a full suite of software-defined networking capabilities  and a 
comprehensive solution lineup for virtualizing the network – from virtual switching to virtualized layer 3-7 services.  This will allow customers to create a pool of 
network capacity on top of any network infrastructure from which they can easily support tens of thousands of isolated virtual networks with the simplicity and 
operational ease of creating and managing virtual machines.

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Vmware - 7/12/2012

VMware Announces VMware vFabric Data Director 2.0, Adds Support for Oracle to Enterprise Database as a Service Platform

Database-aware Virtualization on VMware vSphere, and Self-Service Lifecycle Management Reduce Database Costs and Accelerate Application Development

–VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced VMware® vFabricTM Data Director 2.0 with support 
for virtualization of Oracle databases on VMware vSphere®.vFabric Data Director 2.0 simplifies and automates database lifecycle management, allowing IT to 
deliver Database as a Service in order to increase developer agility while reducing total cost of ownership for databases. 
  
“The journey to cloud computing is all about reducing complexity for developers and IT operations in order to be able to more effectively meet the demands of 
today’s application realities – faster development cycles, more data and higher expectations for IT responsiveness,” said Jerry Chen, vice president, Cloud and 
Application Services, VMware. “VMware vFabric™ Data Director leverages the benefits of virtualization at the database tier to reduce database complexity and 
cost through policy-based automation and a self-service management model.”

Today, enterprises and service providers are rapidly implementing self-service cloud platforms that enable IT to quickly provision virtual machines and other core 
infrastructure components. Now, users are looking for their IT providers to deliver similar benefits from the most critical software solutions, including databases. 
VMware vFabric Data Director’s database virtualization makes this possible while addressing some of the challenges customers face managing a growing, 
heterogeneous database infrastructure—long lead times for developers, overworked DBAs and excessive operational costs.

Self-Service Database Lifecycle Management 
vFabric Data Director 2.0 automates deployment, management and governance of heterogeneous databases and enables IT to securely automate and 
delegate routine database management tasks, including provisioning, backup, cloning and patching. This means application teams can provision or refresh a 
database in minutes rather than days and IT can offer developers self-service database access while maintaining control and compliance through policy.

New and expanded capabilities in vFabric Data Director 2.0 include: 

Expanded database support – vFabric Data Director 2.0 now supports Oracle 10gR2, Oracle 11gR2 as well as vFabric Postgres 9.1 (a VMware optimized 
relational database based on PostgreSQL). 

Automated physical-to-virtual migration – To further simplify database virtualization, vFabric Data Director 2.0 now automates the process of migrating a physical 
database into a virtual environment. This enables enterprises to consolidate existing databases on VMware vSphere, achieving further cost savings and agility. 

Integration with cloud infrastructure and big data solutions – APIs for integration with other products such as vCloud® Director™, vFabric Application Director™,the 
Cloud Foundry™ open source project, EMC Data Domain, and Greenplum Chorus. Enterprises using these products can now leverage Data Director for database
provisioning and management for an integrated experience.

"One of the primary obstacles to infrastructure migration, be it to virtualized environments or to the cloud, is the complexity and risk associated with the 
database," said Stephen O'Grady, Principal Analyst at RedMonk. "Now, with support for Oracle as well as PostgreSQL, VMware is offering customers a more 
seamless transition of database assets."

vFabric Data Director is part of the VMware vFabric family of products which includes GemFire®, SQLFire and runtime products optimized for Spring, a Java 
development framework, plus a complete set of services to build, run and manage modern applications in distributed cloud environments.

Pricing and Availability 
vFabric Data Director 2.0 is currently available and is licensed per VM of managed database at $750 per VM up to two vCPUs.

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Vmware - 7/11/2012

VMware Simplifies Journey to The Cloud With Zimbra 8.0

New Zimbra Collaboration Server 8.0 offers email, address book, calendar and integrated unified communications built for the Post-PC era

VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced Zimbra® Collaboration Server™ 8.0. For many 
organizations interested in cloud-based email, Zimbra 8.0 offers a clear path for moving messaging and collaboration to the cloud. Easily deployed in private or 
public clouds, Zimbra is flexible enough to deliver the solution that best fits an organization’s needs - both now and in the future. As part of this announcement, 
VMware is making Zimbra 8.0 Betaavailable for download to organizations worldwide.

The newest version of Zimbra is built on the strength of VMware’s cloud expertise, offering all organizations from enterprise companies to small business the 
option to deploy a browser-based email solution in a private or public cloud, while delivering the advanced features and enterprise functionality that users 
demand. Further simplifying the IT experience, Zimbra 8.0 is available as a virtual software appliance that can be deployed in as little as ten minutes and requires 
minimal ongoing management. 

"We’re witnessing a fundamental shift in the way people work, and in turn a new set of demands that are put on IT infrastructure and applications like email and 
integration communications," said John Robb senior director at VMware. “Zimbra 8 is designed to make end users more efficient by connecting them with their 
data while providing IT departments a simple way to manage the transition to a public or private cloud and help deliver the benefits promised by the post-PC 
era." 

Zimbra 8.0 connects users to their personal cloud with a redesigned interface and a smarter mailbox that helps manage the flow of information through their 
email, calendar, voice and social channels. New to Zimbra 8.0, VMware has partnered with Cisco and Mitel to offer unified communications capabilities 
embedded within Zimbra. These deep integration capabilities allow users to connect their voice and message systems in a unified inbox, enabling Click2Call, 
voicemail, presence, and chat all from within the Zimbra Web app. Zimbra 8.0 features a user interface and the integration options to connect users to their 
cloud and enables a new way to work in the post-PC era.

"In the post-PC era employees are collaborating in innovative new ways.  More than ever, our customers are asking for cloud-based collaboration services that 
deliver compelling, integrated, productivity enhancing user experiences," said Laurent Philonenko, vice president, Cisco Unified Communications.  "Cisco works 
with innovative partners like VMware to integrate collaboration applications such as Cisco Jabber and Cisco WebEx — that bring together presence, instant 
messaging, voice and video, voice messaging, desktop sharing and conferencing into a consistent experience across PCs, Macs, tablets and smart phones."

“Mitel and VMware have delivered virtualized voice apps to more than 2,000 Mitel clients of all sizes,” said Alan Zurakowski, director of business development 
and strategic alliances for Mitel. “By offering an out-of-the-box integration with Zimbra, we’re extending the benefits of virtualized voice apps by providing end 
users with a great, streamlined unified communications experience, while simplifying usability, deployment, maintenance and upgrades for both Zimbra and Mitel 
apps."

Key Features of Zimbra 8.0 

Integrated Unified Communications 

Now unified communications are built into Zimbra with an all-new voice application that features out-of-the-box integration with Cisco and Mitel UC solutions 
accessible through the main user interface. This integration also features:

Click-to-Call any phone number with call routing to device or soft phone 
Visual Voicemail with inline playback, management, and MWI status update 
Presence indication and launch of Click-to-Chat with Cisco Jabber integration 
Cisco WebEx integration to schedule and launch Cisco WebEx sessions directly from Zimbra 
Call history with placed, received, and missed calls visible within Zimbra 
Ability to extend or integrate other 3rd party UC solutions

Connecting the Personal Cloud 
As part of the transition to the post-PC user experience, Zimbra has been updated to provide leading browser-based functionality featuring a smarter mailbox that 
helps users manage the flow of information through their email, voice and social channels. This functionality includes:

Updated browser-based user interface featuring social conversation view 
Auto-filtering of bulk and distribution lists 
Expanded search capabilities, end-user managed distribution lists, shared tagging 
Enterprise Calendar – scheduling suggestions for complex meetings, smart views for managing multiple calendars
Managing ITaaS in the Cloud Era 

Zimbra Collaboration Server 8.0 offers a consolidated collaboration service for messaging, calendar and contacts with enterprise IT security controls built to be 
delivered as a service as a private or public cloud solution. Zimbra 8 offers simplified IT management features such as:

New Virtual Software Appliance that is feature complete and available for any size deployments 
Simplified upgrades and migrations with less than 60 seconds of mailbox downtime when moving to the new version of Zimbra 
SaaS administration and self-service experience to minimize end-user demands on IT 
End-user distribution list management from the web client. A delegated DL manager can create and manage subscriptions to distribution lists based on IT 
defined policies 
End-users can search and recover deleted items across Mail, Calendar, Contacts, and tasks based on IT defined recovery retention policies

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Vmware - 7/2/2012

VMware to Acquire DynamicOps, Inc.

Customers Standardized on VMware Cloud Solutions Can Now Extend to Additional Virtual, Physical and Multi-Cloud Environments

VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire 
DynamicOps, Inc., a provider of cloud automation solutions that enable provisioning and management of IT services across heterogeneous environments – 
VMware-based private and public clouds, physical infrastructures, multiple hypervisors and Amazon Web Services. Terms of the acquisition were not 
announced. The acquisition is scheduled to close in Q3 2012 subject to customary closing conditions.

“As IT organizations evolve from builders to brokers of services many seek to provide access to diverse cloud resources in a controlled, managed fashion,” said 
Ramin Sayar, vice president and general manager, Virtualization and Cloud Management, VMware.  “DynamicOps’ multi-cloud and multi-platform capabilities help 
to strengthen VMware’s position as the infrastructure and management vendor of choice for cloud computing.”

VMware believes that customers will benefit most by a standardized architecture, but will build solutions that make it easy for customers to choose the model that 
best works for their needs, including heterogeneous environments/management.  Customers that have standardized their private and public clouds on VMware 
vSphere® can continue to rely on VMware vCloud Director™ to enable aggregation and management of virtual and cloud resources.

For customers whose requirements for managing and provisioning resources extend beyond VMware-only environments, DynamicOps builds on the capabilities 
of vCloud Director by enabling customers to consume multi-cloud resources (e.g., physical environments, Hyper-V- and Xen-based hypervisors, and Amazon 
EC2). DynamicOps’ policy-based service governor capabilities automate and control how applications and users are provisioned across physical and 
heterogeneous cloud infrastructure resources.

“VMware and DynamicOps share a common vision for dramatically simplifying the management and provisioning of IT resources in the Cloud era,” said Rich 
Krueger, CEO, DynamicOps.  “I’m excited about DynamicOps joining VMware, and expect our customers to benefit from increased investment and support in the 
solutions they rely on to optimize their delivery of IT-as-a-service.”

DynamicOps, Inc. originated as a spinoff of Credit Suisse’s IT unit.

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Vmware - 6/13/2012

VMware Announces Open Source Project to Enable Apache Hadoop to Run on Private and Public Clouds

Project ‘Serengeti’ and New Apache Hadoop Contributions Make VMware vSphere® the Best Platform for Elastic, Highly Available Enterprise Hadoop

VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced a new open source project, Serengeti, to enable enterprises to 
quickly deploy, manage and scale Apache Hadoop in virtual and cloud environments.  In addition, VMware is working with the Apache Hadoop community to 
contribute extensions that will make key components “virtualization-aware” to support elastic scaling and further improve Hadoop performance in virtual 
environments.

"Apache Hadoop has the potential to transform business by allowing enterprises to harness very large amounts of data for competitive advantage," said Jerry 
Chen, vice president, Cloud and Application Services, VMware. "It represents one dimension of a sweeping change that is taking place in applications, and 
enterprises are looking for ways to incorporate these new technologies into their portfolios. VMware is working with the Apache Hadoop community to allow 
enterprise IT to deploy and manage Hadoop easily in their virtual and cloud environments.”

Apache Hadoop is emerging as the de facto standard for big data processing, however, deployment and operational complexity, the need for dedicated 
hardware, and concerns about security and service level assurance prevent many enterprises from leveraging the power of Hadoop. By decoupling Apache 
Hadoop nodes from the underlying physical infrastructure, VMware can bring the benefits of cloud infrastructure – rapid deployment, high-availability, optimal 
resource utilization, elasticity, and secure multi-tenancy – to Hadoop.

Available for free download under the Apache 2.0 license, Serengeti is a “one-click” deployment toolkit that allows enterprises to leverage the VMware 
vSphere® platform to deploy a highly available Apache Hadoop cluster in minutes, including common Hadoop components like Apache Pig and Apache Hive.  
By using Serengeti to run Hadoop on VMware vSphere, enterprises can easily leverage the high-availability, fault tolerance and live migration capabilities of the 
world’s most trusted, widely deployed virtualization platform to enable the availability and manageability of Hadoop clusters. 

“Hadoop must become friendly with the technologies and practices of enterprise IT if it is to become a first-class citizen within enterprise IT infrastructure. The 
resource-intensive nature of large Big Data clusters make virtualization an important piece that Hadoop must accommodate,” said Tony Baer, Principal Analyst at 
OVUM. “VMware’s involvement with the Apache Hadoop project and its new Serengeti Apache project are critical moves that could provide enterprises the 
flexibility that they will need when it comes to prototyping and deploying Hadoop.”

VMware is working with the leading Apache Hadoop distribution vendors, including Cloudera, Greenplum, Hortonworks, IBM and MapR to support a wide range 
of distributions.

Virtualization Extensions, Spring Updates Help Enterprises Build and Operate Big Data Applications 

To further simplify and speed enterprise use of Apache Hadoop, VMware is working with the Apache Hadoop community to contribute changes to the Hadoop 
Distributed File System (HDFS) and Hadoop MapReduce projects to make them “virtualization-aware,” so that data and compute jobs can be optimally 
distributed across a virtual infrastructure. These changes will enable enterprises to achieve a more elastic, secure and high available Hadoop cluster.

VMware is also announcing updates to Spring for Apache Hadoop, an open source project first launched in February of 2012 to make it easy for enterprise 
developers to build distributed processing solutions with Apache Hadoop. These updates allow Spring developers to easily build enterprise applications that 
integrate with the HBase database, the Cascading library, and Hadoop security. Spring for Apache Hadoop is free to downloadand available now under the 
open source Apache 2.0 license.

Together, these projects and contributions are designed to help accelerate Hadoop adoption and enable enterprises to leverage big data analytics applications, 
such as Cetas, to obtain real-time, intelligent insight into large quantities of data.

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Vmware - 6/6/2012

Socialcast By VMware Now Offers Free, Full-Featured Enterprise Social Networks

New enterprise social offering brings all the capabilities of the enterprise version to small businesses and departments with up to 50 users

Socialcast by VMware today announced full-featured Socialcast enterprise social networks will be free of charge1 for up to 50 users. This is the first enterprise 
social network to offer a free option for small businesses and departments that includes an award-winning user experience backed by enterprise-level security, 
compliance capabilities, administration tools, mobile access, and the ability to integrate with existing applications. With full access to features, organizations can 
completely implement an enterprise social network and experience how social connects people, information and applications to drive business results. 

“Limited products don’t deliver on the potential of enterprise social,” said Tim Young, vice president of Social, VMware. ”We don’t want people to have anything 
but the best experience with their communities. Now we're able to offer companies of all sizes enterprise social networks that employees will love to use, and 
the confidence their data is secure.”

Enterprise social networks are driving greater efficiencies, improved employee engagement and satisfaction for organizations of all sizes. The value of social 
networks surfaces as employees increase engagement and more work moves into a social space. Time limitations, feature metering or compromised security 
prohibit the full enterprise social experience. By offering a free solution VMware is investing in social so organizations can be confident they are deploying 
enterprise social networks that drive business results now and as their communities grow.

The new Socialcast free communities include:
Access for up to 50 members that can connect and collaborate in a secure, private social network 

Create a secure, shared online workspace for internal and external team members to work smarter and more efficiently 

Quickly create groups to organize communications and activities around a project, team, topic, or interest 

Integrate social capabilities to intranets, wikis, CRM solutions and other business applications across the company to create a more streamlined flow of work 

Manage employee usage and access, and monitor compliance with company policies and industry regulations with enterprise-class administrative capabilities 

Access your Socialcast community anytime, anywhere with Socialcast Mobile applications for Apple® iPad™, iPhone™, Blackberry®, and Android® mobile devices

Organizations can sign up today for a free Socialcast community atsocialcast.com/free50.

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Vmware - 5/30/2012

VMware vSphere 5.0 Earns Common Criteria EAL4+ Certification

Industry’s Most Trusted and Widely Deployed Virtualization Platform Achieves Highest-Level Security Certification

VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced that VMware vSphere™ 5.0 has achieved Common Criteria certification 
at Evaluation Assurance Level 4 (EAL4+) under the Common CriteriaEvaluation and Certification Scheme (CCS). Common Criteria is an international set of 
guidelines (ISO 15408) that provides a common framework for evaluating security features and capabilities of Information Technology (IT) security products, and 
EAL4+ is the highest assurance level that is recognized globally by all signatories under the Common Criteria Recognition Agreement (CCRA).

"Cloud computing is a top priority for CIOs of government IT organizations,” said Aileen Black, vice president, public sector, VMware. “With VMware vSphere 
5.0, government organizations can trust that they have a solid and reliable platform to achieve the benefits of cloud computing while maintaining the security, 
control and efficiency they require."

With VMware vSphere 5.0 achieving EAL4+ certification, this marks the completion of an intensive effort during which VMware vSphere 5.0 was examined, 
tested and certified at EAL4+, validating that VMware vSphere is one of the most proven platforms for modern IT infrastructure.

To facilitate the successful achievement of the Common Criteria certification, VMware worked with Corsec Security, Inc., and CGI’s accredited Common Criteria 
lab to complete the evaluation.

"VMware vSphere continues to lead virtualization and cloud computing solutions in its class and surpass security expectations by achieving Common Criteria at 
an EAL4+, " said Matthew Appler, CEO of Corsec Security. "VMware’s consistent certification strategy clearly demonstrates their commitment to security."

“CGI is pleased to support VMware’s continuing commitment to providing Common Criteria certified products for use worldwide” said Jason Lawlor, lab director at 
CGI’s IT Security Evaluation and Test Facility. “The growth of virtualized environments adds to the requirement for providing customers with certified solutions 
that have been tested to recognize industry standards like Common Criteria. VMware continues to be a leader in this regard.”

VMware has led the industry with the completion of the first Common Criteria certification for a virtualization product on x86 hardware with the certification of 
VMware ESX® Server 2.5 and VMware VirtualCenter™ in 2006.  Since then, VMware has maintained industry leadership with certifications of each subsequent 
release. The achievement of Common Criteria certification for vSphere 5.0 at EAL4+ continues to demonstrate VMware’s commitment to providing industry 
leading certified solutions.

Additional Resources
    Visit VMware’s Certifications webpage
    Read “VMware vSphere v5.0 Earns Common Criteria EAL4+ Certification” blog post by VMware Certifications Manager, Eric Betts
    Learn moreabout VMware vSphere 5

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Vmware - 5/22/2012

VMware To Acquire Wanova, Intelligent Desktop Solutions Provider

Addition of Wanova Mirage™ to Advance VMware End-User Computing Portfolio, Enabling Centralized Image Management and Persistent User Installed 
Applications for Both Physical and Virtual Desktops

VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Wanova 
Inc.,a leading provider of intelligent desktop solutions that centralize and simplify the management of physical desktop images while enabling users to take 
advantage of the native performance of a PC.

“The acquisition of Wanova will bring together industry leading solutions for centralized image management of both physical and virtual desktops,” said Jeff 
Jennings, vice president, Enterprise Desktop, VMware. “This combination has the potential to redefine the desktop virtualization landscape.  By blurring the 
boundaries of virtual vs. physical desktops, the benefits of central image management and persistent user installed applications can be extended to all systems 
within a business – physical, virtual, tethered desktops, or roaming Mac and PC laptops.”

“Business requirements are constantly evolving and in turn, IT teams also need to evolve from managing devices towards managing user workspaces and 
experience across multiple devices. The combination of VMware and Wanova addresses this evolution in a unique and innovative way,” said Sebastiano 
Tevarotto, Chairman and CEO, Wanova. “We're excited to join VMware in enabling a more intelligent desktop infrastructure by providing centralized image 
management, but enabling those images to run where it makes sense for the user:  in a VDI session, on a client hypervisor, or natively on a PC.”

A New Way to Work 
Enterprises are dealing with two fundamental client computing pain points – providing secure access to an increasingly mobile workforce; and managing the 
burgeoning diversity of data, applications and devices needed to run their business. These challenges result from the transformative nature of cloud computing 
and the post-PC era which require a new way to work.

The VMware end-user computing portfolio seeks to free employees and IT organizations from more than two decades of complex, device-centric computing, 
and delivers a more user-centric experience for the connected enterprise. In this new model, organizations leverage hybrid cloud resources – while maintaining a 
managed, secure environment – to provide new ways for employees to collaborate across applications and data from any device.

Centralized Image Management of Both Physical and Virtual Desktops 
The combination of VMware View™ and Wanova Mirage™ will enable IT organizations to offer a better user experience for employees and increased operational 
savings across all device types, by:

Deploying Centralized, Single Image Management for Both Physical and Virtual Desktops –IT organizations will be able to automatically synchronize PC image
updates/upgrades to all types of endpoints – physical virtual, tethered desktops, or roaming laptops (Mac and PC). 

Supporting Departmental and User Installed Applications – Advanced layering technology will enable the deployment of persistent departmental and/or user 
installed applications in centrally managed desktop images, providing every end user with a low cost personalized physical or virtual desktop. 

Gaining High Availability and Rapid Disaster Recovery  –Image-syncing technology efficiently stores all elements of a user’s desktop image in a company’s 
private cloud for complete management and backup, while desktop streaming and layering technology enables quick recovery and repair services for all types 
of endpoints, even over WAN. 

Delivering Universal Access – Image-syncing and layering technology can enable universal access that facilitates seamless transitions between all types of 
endpoints – physical, virtual, tethered desktops, or roaming laptops (Mac or PC).

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Vmware - 5/15/2012

VMware Advances Cloud Application Platform with VMware vFabric™ Suite 5.1

Automated Deployment, Enterprise Open Source Support, and SQLFire In-Memory Database Deliver “Cloud Ready” Environment for Modern Apps

VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced VMware vFabric™ Suite 5.1.  With new capabilities that 
automate the deployment and management of complex applications on VMware cloud infrastructure and the introduction of an in-memory distributed SQL 
database, VMware vFabric Suite 5.1 will provide the core application services required to build, run and manage Java Spring applications whether on-premise or 
in the cloud.

“The cloud era is driving a transformation in applications. Today, most are built with open source development frameworks, deployed on lightweight application 
containers, run on virtual infrastructure and are data intensive,” said Jerry Chen, vice president, Cloud and Application Services, VMware. “This is driving a real 
transition in the type of technologies our customers are using to build, run and manage these new applications. Since introducing the vFabric Suite a year ago 
we have seen remarkable adoption amongst our customers, helping our Cloud Application Platform business to nearly double in year over year growth in 2011.”

The VMware vFabric Suiteseeks to address the complexity and cost of traditional Java platforms, providing a simple, lightweight development and runtime 
optimized for VMware cloud infrastructure.  By combining the market-leading Spring development framework, the latest generation of vFabric application 
services and a per-VM licensing model, vFabric Suite 5.1 will provide the core application platform for building, deploying and running modern applications. 

“Delivering excellent customer service is a hallmark of Southwest, so it's important to us that our customers have a seamless shopping, booking, and travel 
experience. We have a number of strategic initiatives underway at Southwest Airlines, and a core component in supporting these critical operations is ensuring 
an agile, flexible delivery of technology to all parts of the company,” said Bob Young, Chief Technology Officer, Southwest Airlines. “By partnering with VMware, 
for example, we were able to streamline the way we deliver and deploy applications across platforms, without compromising our service-centered approach.”

Optimized for Spring, Optimized for VMware vSphere® 
The VMware vFabric Suite provides a complete set of runtime services to build, run and manage modern applications in distributed, cloud environments.  The 
new capabilities in vFabric Suite 5.1 will allow customers to:

Automate application deployment for operational efficiency –To drive greater efficiency and better performance, vFabric Suite will include vFabric Application 
Director™ and vFabric Application Performance Manager. vFabric Application Director automates the deployment of applications through easy-to-use blueprints 
with standardized templates, component libraries and workflows. vFabric Application Performance Manager provides comprehensive monitoring of end-user 
transactions, Java code, middleware servers, and VMware vSphere hosts, enabling customers to proactively manage application performance, find and fix 
problems quickly, and meet SLAs. 

Maximize data scalability – Many of today’s mobile and web-oriented applications must support highly variable access patterns, putting pressure on any database-
only approach to data management. To support this evolution, in-memory databases have emerged as a standard component of the core technology stack 
developers use today.  VMware vFabric SQLFireis an in-memory distributed SQL database built on the strength of vFabric GemFire®,which is used by many of 
the most demanding applications in the world. vFabric SQLFire delivers dynamic scalability and high performance for modern, data-intensive applications all 
accessible through a familiar SQL interface. 

By pooling memory, CPU and network resources across a cluster of machines, vFabric SQLFire eliminates the main performance bottleneck in traditional 
databases – disk access.  vFabric SQLFire can manage data across geographies, accelerating application performance, minimizing latency and increasing 
reliability. vFabric SQLFire Professional will be included in the vFabric Suite 5.1. 

Reduce database total cost of ownership –To reduce database costs and increase agility vFabric Suite 5.1 will include vFabric Postgres, a VMware-optimized 
relational SQL database. vFabric Postgres is fully compatible with open source PostgreSQL, enabling customers to leverage existing standard PostgreSQL tools. 
vFabric Postgres comes in a virtual appliance and has virtualization optimizations such as elastic database memory to share database memory pools and smart 
configuration to reduce tuning time after resizing virtual machines. 

Provide enterprise support for popular open source technologies – The VMware vFabric Suite 5.1 will include support for the open source runtime components 
most frequently used in production deployments of Spring applications, including Apache Tomcat, Apache HTTP Server and RabbitMQ® messaging. This 
greatly simplifies the adoption path of vFabric technologies for those organizations using these open source components today. 

"From the increasing number of programming languages used to the heterogeneous nature of today's hybrid infrastructures, application development is changing 
quickly," said Stephen O'Grady, principal analyst with RedMonk. "Faced with such diversity, enterprises are increasingly turning to lightweight application 
containers to ease the pains of deployment."

vFabric Suite 5.1 will also be uniquely packaged and licensed to allow enterprises to purchase application infrastructure software based on virtual machines, 
rather than physical hardware, and to pay only for the average number of licenses in use. This model eliminates the decades-old need for organizations to 
purchase excess software in anticipation of peak loads, incurring significant costs and allowing software licenses to sit dormant outside of peak periods.

Pricing and Availability 
VMware vFabric Suite 5.1 is expected to be available in Q2 2012.  It will be licensed per VM with prices starting at $1,500 per VM.

VMware vFabric SQLFire is currently available, and is licensed per VM with prices starting at $2,500 per VM, when purchased as part of VMware vFabric Suite 
Advanced.

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Vmware - 5/14/2012

VMware Cloud Infrastructure Validated by SAP for Virtualization of SAP’s Database Portfolio

Testing of SAP® Sybase® ASE Running on Virtual Machines Achieves High-Performance Results that Match Physical Infrastructure

VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced that SAP® Sybase® Adaptive Server® Enterprise 
(SAP Sybase ASE) running on VMware vSphere® has achieved high performance levels comparable to results of physical infrastructure. The data further 
validates the value of virtualizing business-critical applications, such as security, support for application availability and disaster recovery, and reduction in time-to-
market for deploying systems and applications.

With the successful testing of virtualizing SAP Sybase ASE, VMware will continue to collaborate with SAP to fully support the entire SAP database portfolio, 
including the SAP Sybase IQ server, SAP Sybase Replication Server and SQL Anywhere on VMware cloud infrastructure.

VMware, in cooperation with SAP, conducted testing across a range of configurations to compare the performance of SAP Sybase ASE running on a virtual 
machine versus directly on physical hardware. The results showed throughput on a high-transaction OLTP database running on virtual machines often matched 
that of an identical physical system 1.

Sybase has never asked its customers to reproduce on physical configurations, provided the virtual environment is certified by the operating system vendor and 
that operating system is certified by SAP/Sybase, which is unique within the virtualization industry. 

Sybase has offered the licensing of a Sybase product on a subset of the CPUs available on a physical machine (sub-capacity licensing) on VMware for Sybase 
ASE and Sybase IQ products since 2010, helping customers realize the cost effectiveness of virtualization. These test results present another strong step 
toward demonstrating the commitment to validating and optimizing these solutions to work together seamlessly.

Parag Patel, vice president, Global Strategic Alliances, VMware
“Virtualizing databases is a vital part of an organization’s journey to the cloud as they shift from running business-critical applications on physical infrastructure to 
full virtualization. We are pleased to continue to work with SAP to help ensure our customers have the confidence to successfully virtualize SAP’s portfolio of 
Sybase solutions to transform their businesses with high-performing, agile and cost-effective IT infrastructure."

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Vmware - 5/3/2012

Socialcast by VMware Announces Joint Integration with Lithium’s Social Customer Suite

Socialcast by VMware Announces Joint Integration with Lithium’s Social Customer Suite to Extend the Customer Voice Throughout the Enterprise

Integration aims to bring new levels of visibility into what drives a customer’s business

Socialcast by VMware today announced a joint integration of Socialcast’s enterprise social network with Lithium’s social customer suite, which can provide new 
levels of employee collaboration driven by direct customer engagement. Announced at the annual Lithium Network Conference (LiNC) 2012, the integration is 
expected to be available to Lithium customers by the third quarter of 2012.  
 
Socialcast’s rich set of APIs and Reach integration platform, conversations and customer interactions will be used in Lithium-powered communities, and will be 
able to be brought inside the Socialcast network so customer ideas and feedback can be discussed and refined. As part of a social enterprise platform, 
Socialcast enables real-time, in-context conversations and collaboration tools from enterprise applications into the activity stream, providing employees access to
the most relevant information regardless of location, and helping companies realize even greater value from their Lithium communities.

“While we see social technologies changing the way business is done, there’s a significant difference between internal and external networks,” said Tim Young, 
vice president, Social Enterprise, VMware. “By collaborating with Lithium, we’re able to intelligently integrate two best-of-breed solutions to provide a better 
connection between external communities and internal networks. Ultimately companies will be able to make better decisions based on this new way of working.”

“The balance of power has shifted in consumers’ favor, and Lithium is always looking for ways to transform business for success in this new reality,” said Rob 
Tarkoff, president and chief executive officer, Lithium. “Integrating with Socialcast gives our customers the ability to connect customer insight with internal 
and make business decisions faster, with better information pulled from across the organization.” 

The integration combines Lithium’s external social graph, which provides access to Twitter, Facebook and other customer communities, with the Socialcast 
internal social graph of employee groups and enterprise applications in a way that can dramatically advance the social enterprise and further define the future of 
work. Companies can become empowered to deliver an improved customer experience by unifying the insights, feedback and market influences captured by 
external communities with the internal data, discussion and expertise held within internal social networks.

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Vmware - 4/24/2012

SlideRocket by VMware Integrates with Google Drive to Make Better Presentations In the Cloud

SlideRocket by VMware today announced an integration of its online presentation toolswith Google Drive™, Google’s cloud storage and collaboration service.
SlideRocket, a full set of content authoring tools, now works with Google Drive to help people create, collaborate and share stunning, media-rich presentations
from their Google Drive.

“Together with Google, VMware is helping individuals and businesses embrace new technologies for collaboration in the cloud era,” said Chuck Dietrich, vice
president, SlideRocket by VMware. “People are turning to the cloud for a better way to collaborate and tell their stories. Google Drive and SlideRocket let users
upload, store and create presentations with dynamic content, analytics and seamless collaboration that takes advantage of this new way of working."

With SlideRocket, users can collaborate to create and deliver dynamic presentations to any type of audience. Incorporating real-time data from sources like
Google spreadsheets, Twitter live feeds, Flickr and YouTube, SlideRocket presentations update automatically and dynamically with the most current information
coming straight from the original sources.

"Giving Google Drive users the ability to build and collaborate on great presentations from anywhere using SlideRocket is a huge leap in productivity for our
users," said Scott Johnston, group product manager at Google. "We're excited to have SlideRocket as a Google Drive launch partner."

Google Drive users now have direct access to all SlideRocket features and applications. They can easily share presentations with other Google Drive users and
any audience at any time. Google Drive users can initiate presentation creation with SlideRocket through Google Drive and are automatically provisioned to use
SlideRocket whenever they are invited to collaborate on a presentation. From within a SlideRocket presentation, users can collaborate with Google Drive users
and manage presentations and applications from a single location to access documents and materials—presentations, spreadsheets, PDFs, photos, videos and
presentation resources on the web.

Additional Resources:
Users can install SlideRocket from the Chrome Web Store
Watch SlideRocket’s Presentation News Release
Read SlideRocket’s blog post announcement

About SlideRocket
SlideRocket by VMware (NYSE: VMW) reinvents presentations by bringing big ideas to life, engaging audiences and driving business. The platform promotes
influential story telling through interactive capabilities like audio, rich media and instant feedback that elevate meetings, regardless of time or location. In addition,
the measurement analytics provide dynamic sales tools and unmatched customer insight. With SlideRocket you can quickly and easily create and deliver
stunning presentationswith quantifiable results.

VMware is a registered trademark of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. The use of the word “partner” or “partnership” does not imply a
legal partnership relationship between VMware and any other company.

About Google Drive
Google Drive is a cloud storage and collaboration service from Google. Drive allows people to store their files online and access them from any device: in
desktop folders on Mac or PC computers, in mobile apps on Android or iOS devices, or from any web browser by visiting drive.google.com. Google Drive is
available with 5GB of storage for free, and additional storage may be purchased.

Google Drive also allows people to create, edit, and share files with one another. Google Drive applications are third-party applications that work seamlessly with
Drive. By integrating with the user account and file data stored in Drive, these web applications provide a simple way for people to open files from Drive, make
changes or edits in the application, and then save the updated file in Drive. Google Drive applications are available in the Chrome Web Store.

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Vmware - 4/16/2012

VMware Announces New Services to Help IT Leaders Drive Business Value through IT Transformation

VMware Accelerate Advisory Services will focus on partnering with customers to help measure, define and guide a successful IT course through the Cloud Era

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.

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Vmware - 3/14/2012

VMware Announces Spring 3.1 Release Compatibility, Open Source Framework More Popular than Ever

Spring Framework 3.1 Adds Key Innovations for Cloud, Big Data, and Mobile Applications

VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced all the major extensions to the Spring Framework are 
now compatible with Spring 3.1, the latest version of the popular open source Java development framework.  Spring Integration, Spring Security, Spring Batch, 
Spring Data, Spring Mobile and Spring for Android all now support Spring 3.1, making it easier and faster for enterprise developers to build the next generation of 
enterprise applications.

"Driving application development for today’s enterprises with powerful simplifying technology, Spring is the premier choice for developers looking for an 
extensible, portable and open source framework,” said Adrian Colyer, CTO Cloud and Application Services, VMware. "The latest release of the Spring 
Framework and its major extensions continue the tradition of taking care of the infrastructure so developers can focus on building applications that address 
today’s business requirements."

The Spring Framework makes it easy for enterprise developers to integrate security models, databases, web services and messaging systems into applications 
that can be deployed and thrive within any Java environment. Spring makes it simple to access enterprise information stored in traditional databases as well as 
new NoSQL data platforms and “big data” distributed processing solutions like Apache Hadoop™. With the addition of new REST enhancements, Java 
developers can use Spring to build the critical services to mobilize enterprise applications.

VMware reports that average monthly Spring downloads via Maven Central have grown 40% year to date and all community participation metrics for Spring are 
at the highest levels ever recorded. Recent research from Evans Data ("Spring Usage Study," Evans Data Corporation, September 2011) analyzes the ubiquity 
achieved by Spring:

    Spring is the framework of choice among expert Java developers

    Spring developers report productivity and speed of deployment as the top two reasons they use Spring:  70 percent of Spring users report at least a 50 
percent productivity gain by using Spring and 73 percent report that Spring allows them to deliver projects twice as fast 

    More than two thirds of Java developers are either using Spring today or plan to do so within the next two years

    More than half of Spring users expect to grow or significantly grow their use of Spring

    Spring users are more cloud ready; The Evans Data results show heavy Spring adopters are more likely to have already deployed applications to the cloud

    More than half of all Spring developers report that they plan to move Java applications to a lightweight server such as Apache Tomcat within one year.

Spring community members are invited to attend the SpringOne On the Roadevent in Europe in April and May to learn about the newest innovations for the 
framework. These special developer-focused one-day events will be co-hosted with the Cloud Foundry Open Tour.  

Availability
The Spring family of open source projects can be found on the Spring community Web site at www.springsource.org. Spring projects are available under the 
Apache 2.0 open-source, free software license.