VMware vSphere

Offer the highest levels of availability and responsiveness for all applications and services with VMware vSphere, the industry’s most reliable platform for virtualization in the most demanding datacenters around the world. Create resource pools so you can deliver the highest levels of application service agreements with the lowest total cost per application workload. Decouple your business-critical applications from the underlying hardware for unprecedented flexibility and reliability.

Gain Elasticity and Flexibility through Public and Private Clouds

Build a private cloud and bridge on-demand to a public cloud from VMware’s broad ecosystem of leading cloud service providers for on-demand pay-as-you-go infrastructure. Gain visibility into pooled resources and the elasticity you need to react to changing business requirements, as you deliver IT as a Service (ITaaS) with policy-driven automation.

Reduce your capital and operating costs and increase control over IT infrastructures while preserving the flexibility to choose any OS, application and hardware with VMware vSphere.

• Let your IT staff shift their energies towards creating transformative business solutions instead of routine maintenance of hardware and software
• Get more from your existing IT assets and reduce capital expenses of the datacenter by up to 60%
• Significantly lower power, cooling and real estate needs and cut your energy costs by up to 80%

Make full use of your existing IT resources as you deploy new applications, improve availability and ensure business continuity. Dramatically reduce your capital and operating costs while increasing IT staff efficiency with VMware vSphere, the most trusted and reliable virtualization platform in the industry. VMware vSphere delivers Always On IT to small businesses, bringing the high availability, performance and reliability of the VMware platform together with cost-effective packages designed for small IT environments.

Enabling Always On IT

Small businesses face many of the same IT challenges as larger businesses but often place even greater emphasis on cost savingscost savings and business continuity. Shrinking IT staff and budgets make it more important than ever to make sure your staff can maintain day-to-day business operations while still having time to invest in new strategic projects that can yield longer-term efficiencies to help the business grow. Read this VMware white paper and see the benefits of virtualization for small and medium businesses.

VMware vSphere for small business is the most cost effective way to enable Always On IT – the high availability, reliability, and manageability of enterprise-class operations optimized for small and midsized businesses.

Slash Capital and Operational Costs

Begin slashing capital and operational costs by consolidating servers and limiting additional hardware spend. Virtualization lets you get more out of your existing servers and limit the physical resources you need to manage, power, store, and buy, directly impacting your bottom line immediately. Many small businesses increase their utilization rates for x86 servers from 5-15% up to 60-80% after introducing VMware virtualization. Consolidation ratios of more than 15:1 are achieved by consolidating existing workloads then leveraging remaining servers for the deployment of new applications and business continuity solutions.

Free your IT staff from menial tasks with VMware vSphere’s management automation capabilities, enabling them to take a more strategic role in supporting business needs. VMware vSphere solutions are easy to deploy, use, and manage. Imagine being able to provision new applications in minutes, not weeks, and accelerate change request response times from hours or days to just minutes.

Keep your business up and running with automated back up, application availability and disaster recovery across physical sites.

VMware vSphere helps you protect the critical data and applications that keep your business running with zero-downtime hardware maintenance. Test and deploy more applications by optimizing pre-production staging environments, reducing downtime for the applications that run and drive the business.

Find the Edition that Fits your Needs
Whatever Your Size and Budget

• VMware vSphere Essentials provides an all-in-one solution for small offices to consolidate and manage many application workloads while reducing hardware and operating costs with a low up-front investment.
• VMware vSphere Essentials Plus adds high application availability and data protection for a complete server consolidation and business continuity solution for the small office IT environment.

Leverage the power of a virtualization platform to build and deploy a private cloud, increase control through service-level automation and pool resources so you can deliver IT as a Service (ITaaS). VMware vSphere, the industry's most reliable virtualization platform, dramatically reduces capital and operating costs and maximizes IT efficiency while giving you agility through automation and the freedom to choose applications, OS and hardware.

Bring the Flexibility and Efficiency of Cloud Computing to Your Datacenter

Transform your IT infrastructure into a private cloud, then bridge on-demand to public clouds, delivering IT infrastructure as an easily accessible service. VMware vSphere delivers uncompromised control over all IT resources with the highest efficiency and choice in the industry. Find out why VMware is the leader in virtualization.

Reduce Costs and Maximize IT Efficiency

Dramatically reduce capital and operational expenses, while minimizing any potential lost revenue associated with downtime, outages and failures.VMware vSphere reduces capital and operational expenses per application by more than 50 percent through virtualization of server, storage, and networking resources, reducing capital and operational expenses per application by more than 50 percent.

Organizations can achieve consolidation ratios of more than 15:1, while increasing efficiency through management automation and the dynamic allocation of resources to enterprise applications across private cloud and public cloud infrastructures.

Increase Application Availability and Control Through Service-Level Automation

Automate the enforcement of service-level agreements to ensure the availability, security and scalability of enterprise applications. Shield application owners from the complexity of servers, storage and network infrastructure so they can focus on delivering business value. Define your resource pools and business rules for service levels so your business users will always have the performance and availability they need. A cloud computing infrastructure responds rapidly and automatically to changing business requirements so IT can drive innovation and support your company's growth.

Empower Your IT Department with Choice

Deliver business services on-demand with the freedom to choose the right industry standard hardware, application architecture, operating system, and private or public cloud infrastructure to suit your business. With VMware vSphere, your IT environment can readily adapt to changing requirements, even moving applications out onto the public cloud and back to the private one as needed. Your flexibility in choosing hardware, OS, applications and providers will leave you confident about deploying today’s and future applications in a private, public or hybrid cloud.

Find the Edition that Fits your Needs

• VMware vSphere Standard offers basic consolidation of applications to slash hardware costs while accelerating application deployment.
• VMware vSphere Advanced protects business-critical applications against planned and unplanned downtime to provide superior application availability.
• VMware vSphere Enterprise minimizes downtime, protects data, and automates resource management.
• VMware vSphere Enterprise Plus delivers the benefits of VMware vSphere and transforms your IT infrastructure into the next generation of flexible, reliable IT services.