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New Technologies Reduce Storage Costs, Improve User Experience, and Enable IT to Rapidly Provision and Update Thousands of Desktops from a Single Image

PALO ALTO, Calif., December 2, 2008 – VMware Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, today announced the general availability of VMware View 3, a major advance in virtual desktop computing. With VMware View 3, IT organizations can “decouple” a desktop from specific physical devices or locations to create a personalized view of a user’s desktop, applications, and data – called “myView” – that is securely accessible from almost any device, at any time. By hosting these virtual desktop images in the datacenter using the industry-leading virtualization and management platform, VMware Infrastructure 3, VMware View 3 enables IT personnel to provision and manage thousands of virtual desktops simply, securely, and with substantially lower operating costs.

VMware View 3 is a major step in VMware’s vClient Initiative, announced at VMworld 2008 in September, to solve the “desktop dilemma.” As described by VMware President and CEO Paul Maritz, the desktop dilemma is the business choice of whether to provide thick or thin clients for employees. Thick clients, or fully loaded PCs, give employees a rich set of applications in their desktop environment, but are a management nightmare because applications can be distributed across thousands of PCs that must be provisioned, updated, patched and secured individually. Thin clients are cheaper, more secure, and more cost-effective to manage, but traditionally have not been able to deliver the richness, flexibility, or compatibility of a thick client. Most businesses provide thin clients only for employees such as call center staff who can be productive in a more stripped-down environment. VMware View 3 solves this dilemma by combining the benefits of both approaches – delivering rich, personalized virtual desktops to any device (whether thick or thin), while simplifying management and securing endpoints with virtual desktops hosted in the datacenter.

Simply the act of abstracting the user from their pc, the underlying hardware can transform your ability to support and enable your user community. That a component failure might mean an outage of minutes rather than the best part of the day migrating a user to their new pc, getting their profile, their applications and settings working on a ‘hot spare pc’. At the same time, using virtual desktop technologies can empower people’s ability to access the applications they need, the functionality they need at that point in time, to have the information on demand, that I can be component independent. That IT can move the end users around the building in line with the business needs without having to arrange physical moves of computer screens and desktops. The enhancements that VMware have announced do sound very cool, it will be interesting to see how organizations realize these opportunities.

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