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VMware View Customer Momentum Accelerates Across Industries with More than 1 Million Seats and Over 7,000 Customers Worldwide

SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. – September 2, 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 broad customer adoption of VMware View™, the leading desktop virtualization solution.  With more than 1 million seats estimated across 7,000 customers, VMware View is establishing itself as the standard of choice to centralize desktop management, lower costs and deliver rich, personalized user experiences.  VMware View™ has been widely adopted across industries – including financial services, healthcare, education, manufacturing, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications and the public sector.  In addition, organizations are accelerating large scale deployments across broader use cases as they may realize strong total cost of ownership (TCO) savings of $600 or more per end user in less than six months.

“We have deployed 600 desktops and are planning to deploy about 6,000 in the next 18 months to meet the needs of our employees across our 700 branches,” said Phil Sinquefield, deployment service manager at Woodforest National Bank.  “VMware View provides us with a solution to support end user mobility within the branch while cost-effectively addressing complex compliance and security requirements to restrict data access based on user and device.”

“VMware View has helped us improve the efficiency of desktop provisioning, management and support so we can best serve our employees,” said Chris Renter, manager, IT architecture at TELUS. “VMware View centralizes our desktop management enabling us to protect corporate assets while delivering effective personalized desktops to TELUS teams wherever they are working. Traditional solutions couldn’t offer the same level of data protection and application performance while streamlining desktop management.”

An article illustrating how virtualization of the desktop is helping empower businesses to not only improve end user mobility and functionality, but reduce their support costs, being able to offer a more dynamic platform for provisioning and hosting the desktop.

Virtualization of the desktop is the next target as we complete the first phase of infrastructure or server virtualization. As we abstract the end user from the server and the desktop, we’re only a few steps away from application and infrastructure virtualization where the user is platform and infrastructure independent of the application, may it continue, it might not happen overnight, but exciting times are forecast me thinks. Watch this space.

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