VMware vSphere 4.1 Delivers Most Advanced Virtualization Solutions for SMBs Effectively at $83 per Processor, Enabling SMBs to improve infrastructure efficiency a nd business continuity
VMware introduced new VMware vSphere™ 4.1 solutions for small and midsize businesses (SMBs) with prices starting at $83 per processor. VMware's award-winning platform offers SMBs the most advanced capabilities for virtualized environments that can be rapidly deployed at very affordable price points.
VMware also announced today the availability of VMware vSphere 4.1, with key performance and efficiency enhancements for virtualization and cloud computing environments.
According to an independent survey of North American and European SMB x86 server virtualization decision-makers conducted by Forrester Research, Inc. 74% of the virtualized environments in those SMBs surveyed utilize VMware technologies. In the same survey, "60% of SMBs rated standardizing on virtualization for server deployment, disaster recovery, business continuity capabilities, and infrastructure consolidation as a high or critical priority."
Small and midsize businesses represent the fastest growing segment of VMware's customer base. In the last two years alone, VMware has tripled the number of customers in the SMB segment by introducing solutions and services aimed specifically at this market. VMware vSphere delivers the most complete virtualization offering for businesses of all sizes. Today's announcement expands VMware's portfolio of SMB solutions, bringing the most advanced virtualization capabilities to the broadest range of customers.
"VMware High Availability, Fault Tolerance and Data Recovery give us peace of mind because we know that our critical applications and data are protected and always available on demand—even during hardware failure," said Max Herring, senior system administrator, Campbell Clinic. "With VMware vSphere ™, we can easily build an enterprise quality disaster recovery environment at a price point we can afford."
"Small and midsize businesses face similar IT challenges as large enterprises," said Bogomil Balkansky, vice president, product marketing, Virtualization and Cloud Platforms, VMware. "Solving these challenges requires innovative technologies that deliver cloud-like IT services such as high availability, effective disaster recovery and simplified management. But unlike large enterprises, SMBs have less legacy and organizational complexity, giving them the freedom to adopt emerging technologies more rapidly and quickly achieve significant benefits. By combining more than a decade of proven virtualization expertise with pricing and packaging appropriate for SMBs, VMware delivers a unique set of solutions that helps SMBs accelerate the journey to IT as a Service - delivering enterprise-class functionality while enabling the scalability needed to support the needs of a growing business."