VMware, Inc.,
the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today
announced that VMware is positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of Gartner,
Inc.'s 2014 Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure
for the fifth year in a row.
According to Gartner, "The x86 server virtualization
infrastructure market is the foundation for two extremely important
market trends that relate and overlap: infrastructure modernization and
cloud computing."
"Customers of all sizes rely on VMware's virtualization
software at the core of their data centers and as a key building block
in their hybrid cloud environments," said John Gilmartin, vice president
and general manager, SDDC Suite Business Unit, VMware. "We believe
VMware's placement in the Leader's Quadrant for five consecutive years
highlights the impact our vision, strategy and offerings are having
within modern IT environments. Importantly, we continue to innovate and
extend virtualization beyond compute to network virtualization and
software-defined storage to help our customers dramatically increase IT
efficiency, agility and flexibility across data center domains."
Industry Momentum and Recognition
VMware vSphere, the underlying platform of vSphere with Operations Management and the VMware vCloud Suite,
is broadly utilized by enterprises, small and midsize businesses
(SMBs), hybrid and public cloud service providers, and as a foundation
for the growing virtual desktop (VDI) market.
- VMware's customer base is more than 500,000 customers worldwide including 100 percent of the Fortune 100.
- Built on VMware vSphere, VMware vCloud Hybrid Service
enables organizations to quickly and seamlessly extend their data
center into the cloud using the tools and processes they know and rely
on.
- There are now more than 272 VMware vCloud public clouds across 42 countries.
- More than 4,500 applications are supported on VMware vSphere, including new workloads such as the SAP HANA platform certified on VMware vSphere 5.5 for production use.
The 2014 Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure is available for review at: http://www.gartner.com/reprints/vmware-vol5?id=1-1WR7CAC&ct=140703&st=sb