VMware Global Alliances Blog

Posted by Michelle Hodges
Director, WW System
Integrators/System
Outsourcers

Organizations of all sizes—from large enterprises to small and midsize businesses (SMBs)—invest in VMware solutions to gain efficiency and cost benefits. While some of our customers have internal experts, others need assistance designing, planning, integrating and deploying sophisticated virtual infrastructure to meet demanding business needs.

VMware consulting and integration partners can give your organization the competitive edge it needs to excel. For example, one partner helped a large multi-national food distributor implement a private cloud solution for their mission critical applications, reducing the time needed to open a new distribution center from 3-5 months, to a few weeks.  Another partner helped a large multi-national telecommunications company implement the IT infrastructure needed to launch a new business model into the European market. Finally, a third partner will be helping a large governmental agency to implement an electronic medical records system, running on a private cloud, for hundreds of thousands of clients, that will improve patient and doctor access to vital medical history information. 

The breadth and depth of our VMware Partner Network ensures that we have consulting and integration partners that offer a variety of services. These services range from cooperative virtualization design, build and deployment to dedicated (onsite or off-site) infrastructure hosting to supporting cloud computing, a foundation enabled by virtualization. Both SMBs and enterprises benefit from expertise that can shorten delivery dates using proven methodologies and trained specialists.

To learn more about our consulting and integration partners please visit VMware.com or connect with your VMware sales representative or preferred SI partner today.

Posted by Zack Towner
Service Provider Business
Development, VMware
Applications

The Challenge
While Email and Collaboration remain among the most important applications for businesses today, it can certainly be a burden, time consuming and costly for IT departments.

It’s difficult to keep up with things like browser and OS support not to mention supporting the myriad of devices employees use to check their email. The ever-increasing mass of attachments and documents leads to greater storage requirements and additional costs.

All of these challenges are motivating businesses to seek more flexible, lower cost alternative solutions for email and collaboration. One model that helps businesses address these challenges — IT as a Service. 

Research suggests that businesses are making the shift to IT as a Service initially with hosted email solutions.  Not surprisingly, reducing IT costs is the primary driver for this transition.

The Solution
Service providers, such as CSC, can help businesses make this shift to IT as a Service and change the role of their IT department from a cost center to a center of strategic value.

CSC has partnered with VMware to offer CSC Cloudmail: VMware Zimbra. CSC CloudMail for VMware Zimbra

This solution combines VMware Zimbra’s next-generation collaboration software with CSC managed services and Trusted Cloud data center deployment to provide Messaging as a Service. VMware Zimbra is scalable and secure, and CSC provides the choice of on- or off-premises deployment and as-a-service pricing.

Watch this video to learn more about how your business can save money, increase user productivity managed by CSC and backed by service level agreements.

To learn more about the business benefits of transitioning to cloud based email, collaboration services and key features differentiating email platforms in the cloud, check out the Business Opportunity for Cloud Mail and Collaboration Whitepaper.

Posted by Phil Grove, CSC
Global Director of End User Services

Workforce agility is a priority for both private and public sector companies globally. CSC commissioned  a Cloud Index to survey 4000 IT decision makers on three continents and 33% of respondents identified access to enterprise information from disparate devices like smartphones, tablets (Apple iPad, Lenovo ThinkPad, and others), laptops, netbooks or thin clients located anywhere in the world as the number one driver for cloud adoption.  Virtual desktop, in both a hosted and cloud delivery vector, will enable organizations to enjoy seamless access to familiar business applications, files and settings.  

CSC is leading the way for end user computing by basing CSC Dynamic Desktop (hosted) and CSC CloudDesktop on VMware View. CSC customers gain a complete, well managed virtualized desktop on several delivery vectors which will enhance the agility of their user population and increases security by moving data away from end-user devices back into the datacenter. Organizations also benefit from solutions that are cost effective and more efficient to provision and manage.

Customers sensitive to compliance, business continuity and disaster recovery choose Dynamic Desktop. By combining virtualization and secure access technologies CSC is able to deliver highly flexible personal computing environments that are accessible from many end user devices. The partnership with VMware is accelerating our ability to bring SmartWorkPlace^SM to more enterprises faster. SmartWorkPlace is the CSC strategy aimed at enabling the agile enterprise to improve the productivity of the knowledge worker.

Listen to this clip to hear why View 5 is an ideal option for customers: