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Submission Builds on VMware Commitment to Open Standards and Customer Choice

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., September 1, 2009 — Today at VMworld 2009, VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to the cloud, announced the submission of its vCloud API to the Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) to enable consistent mobility, provisioning, management, and service assurance of applications running in internal and external clouds. The submission is part of the VMware vCloud™ Initiative – created to enable customers to work closely with VMware cloud partners who provide reliable, enterprise-ready cloud services without the lock-in associated with some cloud solutions available today. (See related press release also announced today: “World’s Leading Service Providers Build New Cloud Services on the VMware Platform.”)

As customers turn to cloud computing for its benefits – convenient, on-demand access to a shared pool of computing resources – there is often a concern about vendor lock-in and huge investments in proprietary tools, formats and infrastructure. Earlier this year, VMware released its vCloud API to partners to work with them to develop and deploy interoperable cloud services. With the availability of this API, customers can choose cloud services that will enable the on-demand flexibility that they require, and the ability to move their applications in and out of internal or external clouds with the high availability, manageability and security that customers have grown to rely on from VMware.

We need to continue developing open standards to create new opportunities for end users and vendors alike, in terms of functionality in the virtualization platform as well as system provisioning and management. We’ll need to see what product developments these bring, the more we discuss the standards, the more we can meet end user needs, and create new opportunities for products and services in and around the cloud and virtualization.

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