What is Virtualization?

Virtualization is the process of creating a software-based (or virtual) representation of something rather than a physical one. Virtualization can apply to applications, servers, storage and networks and is the single most effective way to reduce IT expenses while boosting efficiency and agility for all businesses of all sizes.

Benefits of Virtualization

Virtualization can increase IT agility, flexibility and scalability while creating significant cost savings. Workloads get deployed faster, performance and availability increase, and operations become automated, resulting in IT that is simpler to manage and less costly to own and operate. Additional benefits include:

• reduce capital and operating costs
• minimize or eliminate downtime
• increase IT productivity, efficiency, agility and responsiveness
• provision applications and resources faster
• enable business continuity and disaster recovery
• simplify data center management
• build a true Software-Defined Data Center

VMware IT Academy

The VMware IT Academy program is a global network of approved colleges and universities that provide students access to high-quality educational content, certification potential, and experience with VMware technologies used by 97 percent of the Fortune Global 500 companies and 500,000+ customers.

VMware provides selected academic institutions with teaching and learning materials developed by VMware, creating a collaborative environment where students can obtain VMware certification and organizations can find skilled workers for the many in-demand and high-paying IT jobs available today.

Virtualization is Key to IT as a Service

Datacenters:

• 69 percent server virtualization increasing to 84 percent by 2015
• 24 percent growth expected in servers running VMware
• 76 percent installed hypervisors are VMware. All workload types are migrating to VMware, including mission critical and databases.

Virtualized applications:

• Of existing VMware users, ~97 percent expect to virtualize mission critical applications.
• In Test/Dev, EndUser, Web Apps, Collaboration and BI applications, VMware used in +50 percent more sites.