"CIOs will have the best results if they give their staff the ability to come back with the toolsets that will serve them best. My team took me seriously when I asked them to find the best. They found VMware."

"If email is a strategic asset, you need to have control over it. Zimbra has allowed us to control it."

“At one point we were considering implementing some third-party log analytics solutions. However, with VMware vCloud Suite we have not only streamlined our operations management but through its associated product vRealize, our log analysis requirement has also been addressed. This deployment has laid a strong foundation for our roadmap to …

"What this cloud ecosystem has delivered for us is our ability to say 'yes', and get more done faster, better, cheaper. The correlating effect of that is we ... deliver projects for the business, because that’s really what business alignment is. I do what they want and I give them …

"We used VMware on the server side and our experience with it was great – which persuaded us to try it for desktops. VMware partnered with us and met our most important consideration in choosing a partner - understanding our best interests as a school district. VMware has proven that …

"If you’ve already designed your systems to be as highly available as possible—which is precisely the capability that VMware Infrastructure 3 brings to our tier one applications—you don’t need to spend as much time and energy worrying about a recovery strategy."

"With VMware, we achieved a reliable, scalable, adaptable IT infrastructure. As a result, we’re not only running our own applications more efficiently, but now have a more robust and flexible environment for hosting applications for our partner hospitals."

"Our business proposition to our clients is very strong. We've grown over the last 10 years and will continue to grow. The only way we can keep up on the technology side is to put tools like this in place so we're much more flexible, agile, and quicker to respond …

"The Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery project is the most important thing we’ve done in technology in 10 years. In addition to providing the capability to run in the event of disaster, it’s moved us to a much more policy- and procedure driven technology environment."

"Our students need training that is not only academically rigorous, but also technologically advanced. Lawyers can’t practice today without using technology to research and manage their cases. With the virtual environment we’ve put in place using VMware, we can deliver a technology experience that truly helps prepare the future generation …

"Two prime examples of organizations that have gleaned huge benefits from high degrees of virtualization and aggressive cloud computing adoption."

"The TAM program gives us access to an expert on VMware products that we can sit down and go through strategy and roadmap discussion with. Whenever we need a resource within VMware he is able to pull these resources from VMware quickly to help us answer questions."

"We wanted to find a solution that didn't require us to stay on that three-year refresh cycle to keep up with student technologies and student application needs."

"Then there's vCloud Director. Five, six years ago, the cloud was a buzzword that everybody feared. The fact is it allows you to control the resources that you spend a lot of money on without having any possible negative impact on your customers."

"VMWare is important to us because it allows us to get to market quickly with products like vFabric Application Director. This allows us to not only design tools that work, but are maintainable at the service provider level."