VMware software is used throughout the enterprise – from the desktop to the data center – to minimise total cost of ownership (TCO) of computing infrastructure by maximising its manageability, flexibility, and efficiency. By running services in virtual machines spread across one or more servers, VMware software helps businesses save money while gaining greater flexibility and control over their computing resources.

Production Server Consolidation
Server consolidation with VMware provides a solution for the challenge of costly server sprawl. By consolidating physical systems in the data center onto servers with VMware virtual infrastructure, enterprises experience lower hardware acquisition and maintenance costs, consolidation of idle system resources, increased operational efficiency, and cost-effective and consistent production environments.

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Software Development Optimisation
Migrating enterprise application development and testing environments to virtual infrastructure results in immediate improvement in time to market and lower defect levels. VMware software encapsulates complete test platform applications and data into files, which can be easily stored, suspended, resumed, and transported between physical servers.

Business Continuity
Using virtual infrastructure, IT managers can improve all aspects of business continuity. Disaster recovery is faster and less expensive due to hardware independence between
primary and failover servers. Scheduled hardware downtime is eliminated, and complete machines can be encapsulated into files for capture and recovery.

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