Vizioncore Inc., the market leader in server virtualization management, today announced that it enjoyed continued annual growth during 2008 and increased its customer base to over 15,000 worldwide. As part of its overall growth, the company increased headcount in 2008 to 250, an increase of over 100% from 2007, including over 100 developers at core sites worldwide. Vizioncore also doubled its global channel partner network to 2,200 during the year.
“At a time when the world is undergoing economic turbulence, companies are still strongly pursuing virtualization strategies to reduce operational costs and ensure that they have a resilient and flexible infrastructure capable of responding to any demand,” explained Chris Akerberg, Vizioncore’s President and Chief Operating Officer. “We see that customers need reliable real-world solutions that are affordable and deliver significant functionality to get the most out of their virtualized environments. Our strategy for 2009 will be to continue to improve our product set and expand it with new solutions that address the day-to-day concerns of supervising and optimizing virtual environments.”
As businesses turn to server virtualization to reduce costs, Vizioncore’s flagship backup and restore solution, vRanger Pro, continues to see positive demand in the marketplace alongside the vEssentials bundle, which has experienced equally-high levels of demand. 2008 also saw the introduction of a number of new market-innovations from Vizioncore, including vFoglight, vConverter and the recently announced vOptimizer Pro, which enables businesses to reclaim significant amounts of vital storage space. The Vizioncore set of products continue to offer an attractive price/performance value proposition to customers who find that they can enhance their productivity and ROI with cost-effective products.
From a geographical perspective, Vizioncore has continued to drive growth around the world and the company has expanded its staff in EMEA, Latin America and APAC to meet this growing demand.
A Butler Group survey, conducted over the past 18 months looking at the adoption rates of server virtualization, has shown that while the production use of server virtualization is around the 15% mark, a greater proportion of projects are presently in the test-and-development stage. Roy Illsley, Senior Research Analyst at Butler Group, explained, "We anticipate that many projects that are currently in the test-and-development stage will be moving on to production projects in the next 12-24 months. The delay in moving these projects has been caused by the lack of capability in managing the physical and virtual environments in organization’s existing systems-management tools. This has led to an increase in sales for those vendors with solutions that enable the management of heterogeneous estates from a single pane of glass."