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SMB Success Stories – Myron Steves and Company Slashes Disaster Recover Costs with VMware

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VMware Brandon Sweeney 2009Hi, for those of you that don’t know me, I’m Brandon Sweeney and I lead VMware’s U.S. Mid-Market & Small Business Customer Segment.  I joined VMware 8 years ago and most recently have been running our Americas Partners Organization, serving all our Partner RTMs and Customer Segments.  With our Partner Led model in SMB, leading the Mid-Market and Small Business Segment is a natural extension of my experience and a business for which I am very passionate. 

While we already have tens hundreds of thousands of SMB customers today, we’re building the SMB Business Unit to deliver even greater focus on the needs of Small and Mid-Size Businesses.  Our goal is simple – we want to provide solutions that drive Real Advantage for our Customers by simplifying their IT environments and making IT a competitive advantage for their business.

When I talk with customers, I am always impressed with their stories and wanted to share one with you.  Myron F. Steves and Company is a Houston-based insurance wholesaler that deployed virtualization and cloud solutions from VMware to help ensure the company’s 200 employees can respond to customers should disaster strike.  Myron Steves serves more than 3,000 independent insurance agencies and as  you can imagine, they cannot afford the risk of being incapacitated in the event of a disaster. With the virtualized architecture enabled by VMware, Myron Steves is able to fail over to backup servers within hours instead of days – server failover is now a reliable process and the company has reduced IT costs significantly. 

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VMware to Growing Businesses: Let Virtualization Solutions Simplify Your Life

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According to a recent VMware blog post on the topic of our SMB focus this year, Julie Eades, VMware VP of SMB Marketing, reveals why a growing number of small and midsize businesses are finding IT solace with VMware.  “Whether a large organization or a growing startup, companies of all sizes are looking to lower costs, increase IT flexibility and grow without complexity while ensuring that their IT environments and businesses run without any downtime, even when disaster strikes. ” 

In 2012, VMware’s increased investment and focus on serving SMB customers is a result of much work with our customers and partners to further define the IT needs and characteristics of SMBs and to create, package and deliver the right solutions for their business.

“Our ultimate vision is to make IT more easily consumable so that SMBs can concentrate on growing their businesses instead of worrying about how IT works!” Eades says.

Learning from our customers: Real World IT challenges

Another benefit of listening to our customers and building solutions tailored to their needs, is that their challenges, their stories, begin to manifest themselves within VMware—beyond just product engineering. Based on these stories, we’re introducing VMware’s Real World Advantage—an SMB IT professional’s source for information and resources on the VMware SMB portfolio of virtualization, disaster recovery, management and desktop solutions.

This site highlights several “Real World” IT scenarios that small and mid-size businesses face, whether it’s limited budgets, demanding users, manual upgrade processes or system downtime—and how VMware can help.

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What’s Your Story?

Whether you’re a long-time customer or just beginning to research virtualization, we’re interested in hearing your story.

Tell us in 100 words or less some of the challenges you face as an SMB IT professional trying to keep your users happy. Share in two steps:

  • Just visit our SMB Facebook page  and “Like us” (if you haven’t already)
  • Post your (most humorous, aggravating or career propelling/limiting) experience. Bonus points if you can prove how you solved that challenge with VMware!

 

 

 

 

Think Virtualization Is Too Much for Your SMB? Think Again…

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Posted by Frances Fortanely
Americas HP Alliance Marketing

Virtually There is a new learning environment designed to help Small and Midsize Businesses (SMBs) leverage the power of virtualization for competitive advantage. Created jointly by HP and VMware, the site features a host of valuable tools—from white papers and solution briefs to an ROI calculator and self assessment—that enable SMBs to evaluate how to implement virtualization at a low cost.

SMBs that think virtualization may be too much will be particularly interested in registering for three on-demand webinars:

This final webinar was recorded live, in front of an SMB audience, in Austin.

Review the data sheets showcasing SMB solutions from HP and VMware. Enter information into the ROI calculator to determine your potential savings from server consolidation using VMware vSphere®.  Answer a brief questionnaire and receive a smart paper that consolidates multiple sources of information into an executive summary based on your input.

Affordable, enterprise-level virtualization solutions are available for your SMB. Visit Virtually There to learn more.

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