vSphere 4

Leverage the power of virtualization to transform your IT infrastructure into private clouds built on VMware vSphere—enabling IT to increase control through service-level automation. VMware vSphere, the industry's most reliable virtualization platform, dramatically reduces capital and operating costs and maximizes IT efficiency—with the freedom to choose any application, OS, or hardware.

• Optimize your IT infrastructure through server consolidation, automation, and high availability
• Decrease downtime and improve reliability with business continuity and disaster recovery
• Increase energy efficiency by running fewer servers and dynamically powering down unused servers with our green IT solutions

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 is proven to comprehensively virtualize 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. VMware vSphere shields application owners from the complexity of servers, storage and network infrastructure—enabling them to focus on delivering business value. The result is an automated, controlled and resilient IT environment that that responds rapidly to changing business requirements.

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 in-house or external infrastructure to suit your business. With VMware vSphere, your IT environment is future-proofed and ready to adapt to changing requirements. You retain flexibility of choice—independent of hardware, OS, applications or providers—so you can feel confident about deploying today’s and future applications in the private or public cloud.

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