"Running applications on ESX ensures their reliability, which is the number-one reason we began adopting it across the board in our datacenter. So many of our applications and systems are absolutely vital to staff and patients. So making sure they’re available whenever they’re needed is our paramount concern."

“Leveraging VMware’s solutions to virtualize data centers across multiple locations increased our efficiency and improved resource utilization. They helped us consolidate our physical infrastructure, giving our IT operations a flexible, scalable, secure, and highly available platform. We could rollout new applications at a faster pace, maintain the infrastructure, and reduce …

“From looking at VMware, virtualization is the standard. If you don’t take it on, then you really won’t be able to respond to business needs. When the official IT organization becomes obsolete, there are going to be ad-hoc IT organizations and those would become the norm. If you want to …

"With the help of Esri, VMware and BlueLock, we’re leveraging cloud technology to help our members increase the visibility of their activities and advocate more effectively for the causes they support."

"VMware Fault Tolerance gives us the zero downtime we need for SQL Server and Exchange without using dedicated physical servers. The savings in software licenses next year will pay back half of our investment in VMware."

"We had 44 to 50,000 customers without power because of Hurricane Irene. So our systems were up and running, and our users were happy. Performance was great. People in our districts were getting the resources from our systems that they needed."

"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."

"We saw VMware and Intel technology as the ideal infrastructure to help grow our business. Without it, we would not have been able to expand as smoothly as we have."

"Virtualization has really worked out for us—we saw immediate benefits from VMware solutions. Today we are 60-70% virtualized, with vSphere in our main data center. For our small offices, with very limited resources, we have deployed VMware ESX servers."

"Our primary datacenter is now 100 percent virtualized on vSphere 4. The upgrade went very smoothly and we are already beginning to take advantage of some of the exciting new features such as Fault Tolerance, vShield Zones, vStorage Thin Provisioning and Host Profiles. We are especially excited about Fault Tolerance …

"VMware ThinApp has helped us keep our legacy applications functioning and move forward with new technologies even when we are faced by budget constraints."

"With the help of House of Brick and VMware Professional Services, we have been able to virtualize our most demanding Oracle Databases on x86 servers. Where initially we believed that these databases would be too demanding for a virtual machine, we now have the confidence that vSphere can handle our …

"Reliability and availability of our critical systems; lower cost; simplified management: Those are the key benefits we get from our hosted cloud solution. If I were starting a new company today, I wouldn’t build a physical datacenter. I’d call someone like Virtacore, and leverage virtualization solutions from VMware."

"After upgrading to vSphere 4.0, we measured a 30 percent increase in performance in our test and production environments. We’ve also improved our consolidation ratios. In production, we’re currently running about 40 virtual servers on each host, but we feel perfectly comfortable bumping up our consolidation thresholds to 50 to …

"Offering real-time insurance rate quotes from 15 companies to 46 states requires our computer systems to be up 99.99% of the year. Meeting those requirements takes a lot of discipline; VMware virtualization simplifies that."