“One of the unique things about vCloud Air is their willingness to setup SLAs or guaranteed ability of that system for the ones that are running in the vCloud Air environment. That’s critical to us. It’s hugely critical to our customers. Many of them will walk away from cloud options …

“Ultimately, it’s not as much about the cost savings, but more about stability, high availability, and the ability to burst and then scale down easily, while delivering the best possible experiences to our customers.”

"After five years of successful datacenter virtualization, we knew that virtualizing our upgrade to Microsoft SharePoint 2010 would deliver high availability, lower cost and greater business agility."

"At McDonald's we focus on what we do best - we are not in the IT business. We needed a Rational solution for development that was flexible and elastic; on that could manage the peak times, and the valleys where we do little development. By using CloudOne's Rational SaaS (Software …

"We were quick to recognize that Medical Grade ftServer systems offered the reliability, simple operation and VMware support necessary to underpin a private cloud model for EHRs."

"Consona’s need to be flexible and nimble is immense. VMware technology and BlueLock Virtual Datacenters in the public cloud enable fast deployment, management ease, and the ability to expand and shrink capacity as needed."

"With Hyperic, we expected to deploy a robust, easy to use management solution capable of scaling on demand. What we got was all that and more. When you are in as highly competitive a space as we are in, the ability to add additional value to your customers can make …

"VMware is critical to our disaster recovery. It saves us many, many hours. At my previous place of employment, it took us about 12 to 14 hours to get a domain controller up in a disaster recovery test. With VMware, we're able to stand up our domain controller in about …

"What I see in VMware is a very coherent vision for the software-defined data center, a very good understanding of how the technology landscape will continue to evolve. And supporting that vision is a tremendous amount of intellectual capital to be able to recognize and realize that vision and actually …

"We broke our application out into stacked vertical tiers and put it on the cloud platform for flexible allocation of resources that can scale quickly to meet user and business demands."

"The fact that we virtualized our mission-critical emergency room application shows the confidence we have in VMware technology."

"We’re a technology-driven company. Having a robust infrastructure platform to run all of our processes, while not needing to manage the IT resources, people and costs ourselves was extremely important."

"Cost containment, agile service delivery and high availability are now a reality for this mission-critical organization."

"One of the big changes in the transformation with our teams, is with the Software-Defined Data Center, this is now enabling cross technology. Before, you would have a pool of people that were storage. Or you would have a pool of people that were network. Or you would have a …

"I never dreamed just two of us could handle 500 end users dispersed through a wide geographic area. We can do it thanks to desktop virtualization with VMware View."