Power of Partnership

While many people consider VMware to be a company that services the enterprise, the majority of our business, as much as 80 percent, comes from the SMB market and you, our partners, are the key driver into this important segment. As virtualization adoption continues to expand rapidly in the SMB space, VMware has taken steps to ensure partners servicing the SMBs have lucrative opportunities in a big growth market.

The SMB market is perhaps the most exciting and opportunistic in virtualization today, as the sector constantly looks for cost-saving solutions and VMware continues to provide virtualization packages that are affordable and robust. More and more SMBs are looking to the scalability and affordability of cloud, but may not realize that virtualization provides them with the best path to the cloud along with added benefits like consolidation, management, and automation of routine, time consuming tasks. We are also seeing that after the recession, more SMBs are considering the lifecycle savings of virtualization and see adoption and implementation of virtualization as a strategic business objective.

To build on VMware’s SMB offerings, we are excited to announce today a new promotion for SMBs looking for the most cost-effective and comprehensive virtualization solution on the market – the new vSphere Essentials Plus with vMotion.  For SMBs with less than 20 servers, vSphere Essentials Plus provides a proven, reliable, industry leading virtualization solution. With vMotion, SMBs can now migrate VMs between physical servers with no impact to end-users – ensuring that applications have higher availability and the testing and deployment of apps is safe and seamless.

VMware Essentials continues to be offered at $495 + subscription. For further information on VMware SMB solutions please visit: http://www.vmware.com/solutions/smb/scalable_solutions.html.