"The ability to integrate mail, calendar and new applications will be the biggest increase in productivity we will have."

"For me virtualization is a no brainer, really, any company that has an IT department has an IT budget, and it is an absolute shame to waste any part of that budget which is what will happen if virtualization is not considered."

"We’re excited, as a university and as an IT department, to give students a consistent experience and really level the playing field. We’re breaking down barriers and making resources more accessible. We’re excited that we can bring everything together in a very intuitive and easy-to-use package."

“It’s important that Comair offer our customers a website experience that is out of this world while at the same time providing a cost saving to stakeholders. That is why we began investigating an offsite virtual solution to support this vision.”

“We needed a platform that would allow our technical team to quickly respond to sudden traffic increases, such as on government’s budget day, when the traffic on www.moneyweb.co.za has been known to triple or quadruple.”

"VMware vRealize Operations was key to deploying our hybrid cloud offering, and is core to our ability to maintain SLAs for customers. With vRealize Operations we can give customers the resources they need, and also ensure that they don’t run out of resources as their needs grow.”

“vSAN provides a compelling combination of low total cost of ownership and high performance. vSAN's broad support for hardware enabled us to tailor a hyper-converged solution exactly suited to our needs. We have standardized on vSAN to power our core business systems from point of sale to customer loyalty to …

“The vSAN platform has given us greater control of our infrastructure stack as well as improved management of our VMware environment. It has also provided greater performance and simplification of the SAN infrastructure, afforded us freedom when scaling as well as flexibility in our choice of hardware.”

“With vSAN we’ve reduced complexity, simplified management and enabled our ability to grow modular storage on demand – that’s good for both us and our customers. As soon as a customer sees that fewer physical components are needed, it becomes clear that the solution requires reduced administration, less space, and …

“With even a “simple” vSAN - hybrid and not stretched cluster - the data is protected in a way that can be put somewhere in between one external SAN storage with two controllers and two external SAN storages with synchronous replication. With the parameter “failures to tolerate” this property of …

“vRealize Operations has not only automated the identification and remediation of potential performance, capacity and configuration issues, it’s simplified reporting and given us visibility across applications and infrastructure in a single console.”

“VMware Horizon Suite will save us more than £2 million on hardware over the next three years through zero clients and lower powered machines; plus £160,000 in software rationalisation; and £560,000 in saved technician time for our Windows XP migration, and critically freeing our IT staff for more strategic work …

“We were able to define the best possible infrastructure that would give us the means to provide robust and flexible services and to foster a flexible growth.”

“Our concept is based on simplicity and functionality - the customer will appreciate this added value of clarity and transparency. All of our partnerships, whether financial, operational or technological, have been concluded with companies that not only share our dynamism and innovative entrepreneurial vision, but are also the undisputed experts …

“With VMware, we were able to build firewalls around each virtual machine with a mouse click - this elegant solution saved our schedule and thus the turnover of the Christmas season.”