VMware Recognized for Excellence by Redmond Magazine with 2008 Readers' Choice Award By VSM News Staff published: Monday, November 17 2008
VMware Server and VMware Workstation Honored as Triple Crown-ISV
Winners.
PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
VMware, Inc. (NYSE:VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions
from the desktop to the datacenter, today announced that Redmond magazine
readers have named VMware Workstation the best virtual PC product and
VMware Server the best server virtualization product, marking the
fifth-consecutive year that VMware products have been honored by Redmond. Past
recognition by Redmond includes the ‘Best of the Best', Editors'
Choice, Most Valuable Product, "Products We Love!" and Readers' Choice
Awards.
"We're honored to be recognized by the readers of Redmond for
five years running," said Dan Chu, vice president of emerging products
and markets at VMware. "It's a testament to the quality, usability and
innovation of VMware Server and VMware Workstation that they earn
prestigious awards year in and year out. Our success stems from
addressing a fundamental need of both business and government to do more
with less. VMware virtualization has become a strategic platform for
over 120,000 customers by reducing hardware, operational and
environmental costs and increasing efficiency, flexibility and
effectiveness. Moving forward, we are building on our value proposition
by broadening our platform into a virtual datacenter operating system
for an enterprise cloud that is highly elastic, self-managing and
self-healing. We are proud of our market and innovation leadership, and
dedicated to continuing to deliver increasingly transformative value to
our customers."
VMware Server provides a superior introductory experience to
virtualization with a stable, easy-to-use hosted virtualization platform
that supports a broad range of operating systems and hardware. VMware
Server includes a new intuitive Web-based management interface to
provide a consistent management experience for Windows® and Linux users,
supporting over 30 flavors of guest operating systems. Leveraging
VMware's industry-leading proven and stable virtualization technology,
VMware Server provides an entry point to VMware's broader Virtual
Datacenter Operating System platform, VMware Infrastructure. More than 3
million copies of VMware Server have been downloaded since it was
released in 2006. VMware Server is downloadable for free at www.vmware.com/download/server/.
VMware Workstation 6.5 is the gold standard virtualization tool for
technical professionals and is the most advanced and robust desktop
virtualization solution for creating and running multiple operating
systems locally on a single physical PC. With unparalleled advanced
features like VM Record and Replay and Integrated Virtual Debugger for
Visual Studio, Workstation provides software developers a revolutionary
debugging experience with the benefit of deterministic replay and
simulation of reverse execution. VMware Workstation is an indispensable
tool in any serious software professional's toolkit. VMware Workstation
30-day free evaluations are available from www.vmware.com/products/ws.
"The most exciting aspect of the Readers' Choice awards is the fact that
users of the products choose the winners," said Lee Pender, executive
editor of Redmond, who coordinated the 2008 awards process. "Our
readers are people in the trenches who use the products every day and
know what works and what doesn't. They're the ultimate panel of judges,
and year after year, they consistently vote VMware Workstation and
VMware Servers as best products."
More information about the Redmond magazine Readers' Choice
Awards is available at: http://redmondmag.com/features/article.aspx?editorialsid=2573.
About Redmond Magazine
Redmond magazine provides cutting-edge product, business and
how-to information to network professionals, IT managers and IT
directors working on the Microsoft Windows platform. The monthly
publication reaches 120,000 qualified subscribers. For more information,
visit http://redmondmag.com.
About VMware
VMware (NYSE:VMW) is the global leader in virtualization solutions from
the desktop to the datacenter. Customers of all sizes rely on VMware to
reduce capital and operating expenses, ensure business continuity,
strengthen security and go green. With 2007 revenues of $1.3 billion,
more than 120,000 customers and more than 20,000 partners, VMware is one
of the fastest growing public software companies. Headquartered in Palo
Alto, California, VMware is majority-owned by EMC Corporation
(NYSE:EMC). For more information, visit www.vmware.com.
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