(Whoa, check out this funky old template. This is a sooper sekrit page, so I guess it doesn’t matter.)
Ahem… Hi There.
For those of you that came by the briefing this morning, thanks.
For everybody, this material on our new Cost Per Application Calculator is embargoed until Monday morning, when you’ll see a press release and a new page on vmware.com. Also, please don’t pass along any of these files or links.
I hope that this material will give you enough background on what we’re doing. I know that usually anything titled “Methodology and Assumptions” is a real insomnia cure, so hope it helps you get enough sleep this weekend.
If you are a VMUG leader, I believe the competitive team was also going to give us an HTML template if you wanted to send out a note to the folks in your VMUG, but I don’t have it yet.
The powerpoint presentation from today:
Download Server Virtualization Acquisition Cost – methodology and results 19Mar2009
A recording of the 30 minute WebEx presentation is here.
A report from Forrester Research:
Download Why_Isnt_Server_Virtualization_Saving_Us_More
This is a link to the calculator. As of Friday, this is NOT the final version, and he final version will get pushed out this weekend. I’ve been told it has some bugs, although I don’t know (1) the nature of said bugs; (2) when it will be updated; or (3) how to tell if you have the new version or the old — sorry. My suggestion is to run any numbers again on Monday before you hit ‘publish’ on your blog. Luckily, one of their design goals for this calculator was that it didn’t have complicated inputs. The final version has now been published (and a typo in the URL corrected):
http://www.vmware.com/go/costperappcalc
The methodology & assumptions pdf for the calculator
Download VMware Cost Per Application Calculator – Methodology and Assumptions
Thanks —
Any questions or feedback, feel free to email me.
Have a great weekend,
John
jtroyer@vmware.com
