PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwired - Nov 11, 2014) - VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced that Jonathan Chadwick, VMware's chief financial officer, chief operating officer and executive vice president will present as a keynote speaker at the UBS Global Technology Conference in Sausalito, CA on Tuesday, November 18th, 2014 at 4:15 p.m. PT/ 7:15 p.m. ET.

A live webcast will be available on VMware's Investor Relations page at http://ir.vmware.com. The replay of the webcast will be available for two months.

About VMware

VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they build, deliver and consume Information Technology resources in a manner that is evolutionary and based on their specific needs. With 2013 revenues of $5.21 billion, VMware has more than 500,000 customers and 75,000 partners. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.

Veeam® Software, the innovative provider of solutions that deliver Availability for the Modern Data Center™, today released highlights of its Q3 2014 results, reporting total revenue bookings growth of 65 percent compared to the same period last year. The third quarter of 2014 marks Veeam’s 27th consecutive quarter in which total revenue bookings has experienced double-digit percentage growth over the same quarter during the previous year.

“IT has been forced to become strategic now that businesses require 24x7 availability for all applications and data,” said Ratmir Timashev, CEO at Veeam. “To deliver that level of availability, IT is transforming the modern data center by bringing together virtualization, the cloud, and storage technologies so they can provision services and devices faster, strengthen security and control, and reduce operational costs. Veeam’s continued growth illustrates this, and we are seeing steady demand across all geographies and verticals as businesses strive to deliver the application availability users demand.

“I am delighted that Veeam Availability Suite™ v8 is now generally available, as this addition to Veeam’s award-winning portfolio addresses said business continuity requirements and enables the Always-On Business™. This new release further extends Veeam’s leading position in the new market of Availability for the Modern Data Center and introduces more than 200 new features and enhancements, including Veeam Cloud Connect, integration with NetApp and major enhancements in replication and disaster recovery. Its release will help accelerate Veeam’s global and enterprise expansion to meet both market share and revenue goals as we close out 2014.”

Additional highlights of Q3 2014 include:

Veeam Cloud Provider (VCP) Program
Extraordinary growth: The VCP program grew revenues by 159 percent in Q3 2014 over Q3 2013. The program also surpassed the 6,000 partner mark.
Veeam Cloud Connect support: Veeam collaborated with 21 launch partners to provide “Day One” support for the Veeam Cloud Connect functionality in Veeam Availability Suite v8.
VCP alliances: Veeam released a beta version of a new plug-in for Veeam integration with LabTech. Veeam also added Westcon Group (New Zealand) as a new VCP rental aggregator, and formed a technology alliance with NEXTDC in Australia.

Customer Growth
More than 3,000 new customers each month: Veeam acquired approximately 10,000 new customers in Q3, with total paid Veeam customers now surpassing 121,500.
VeeamON: Veeam’s first flagship event, VeeamON: The World’s Premier Data Center Availability Event, took place in Las Vegas, NV, in early October. It was a huge success, with more than 1,200 customers, partners, press and analysts in attendance. Plans are already underway for VeeamON 2015.

Enterprise Strength
Large footprint: 45 percent of the 2014 Global 2000 are Veeam customers.
Rapid growth: The number of new enterprise customers grew 108 percent year-over-year, while revenue from enterprise customers grew 140 percent over that same period.

Barcelona, Spain: TechEd Europe 2014, Stand 203; October 28, 2014: Veeam® Software, provider of solutions that deliver Availability for the Modern Data Center™, today announced the availability of Veeam Cloud Connect within the Azure Marketplace. Veeam Cloud Connect is available as a pre-configured Microsoft Azure Certified for Virtual Machines solution, which service providers can use with Microsoft Azure to offer cloud repositories for Veeam availability solutions and services. With just a few clicks, service providers have an Azure-based solution for managing and moving backups off site to the cloud.

“This collaboration brings together solutions that deliver Availability for the Modern Data Center™ with a world-class cloud infrastructure,” said Ratmir Timashev, CEO of Veeam. “It’s yet another demonstration of Veeam’s commitment to enabling its partners to deliver the next-generation cloud services customers are demanding. As an Azure Certified solution, Veeam Cloud Connect provides the thousands of Veeam and Microsoft partners with a fast path to expand their cloud-based services.

Veeam Cloud Connect will also support Azure for Veeam partners who are building Veeam availability services on their own and need the on-demand scalability and capacity that Azure offers to grow their business.

“Both customers and service providers are looking for cloud infrastructure and solutions they can trust,” said Garth Fort, General Manager of Enterprise Partners, Microsoft. “Veeam Cloud Connect and its availability from the Azure Marketplace gives service providers the ability to provide Veeam backup hosting services seamlessly, allowing private networks and the public cloud to work as one.”

Veeam Cloud Connect, part of the new Veeam Availability Suite™ v8, gives Veeam customers a fully integrated, secure and efficient means to move backups to an offsite backup repository managed by the service provider of their choice, which enables them to avoid an upfront capital investment in their own offsite infrastructure. Service providers get a simple, powerful platform to deliver fast and secure backup to the cloud for over 111,500 Veeam customers. In fact, Veeam Cloud Connect is so simple to set up that a service provider can offer offsite backup services to customers in less than 10 minutes using the service provider’s own cloud infrastructure or public clouds.

BEIJING, CHINA and PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwired - Oct 28, 2014) - VMware Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced VMware Labs Asia has been established. Under this new framework, VMware aims to expand and diversify technology innovation through joint solution development. Initiated in China, VMware aims to deepen its reach into the technology ecosystem with the purpose of collaborating with academia, developer, open technology and partner communities in the country. The first project under VMware Labs Asia is a Linux-based VDI solution that will address the unique market opportunity for open technologies in China.

In addition, as part of its strategic effort in the country, VMware plans a US$1billion investment over the next five years to be dedicated to market development and innovation specifically in China.

"China is an innovation epicenter that presents VMware with a unique opportunity to participate in an expanded and more diverse joint solution development cycle under the VMware Labs Asia framework," said Sanjay Mirchandani, senior vice president and general manager, Asia Pacific and Japan, VMware. "VMware Labs Asia will embrace new innovation models together with ecosystem partners with the aim of delivering breakthrough innovation initially in China and beyond," Mirchandani added.

The VMware Labs Asia program will operate under VMware's Asia Pacific and Japan organization and be led by Dr. Ying Li, managing director, VMware Labs Asia. Ying Li recently led EMC China's Center of Excellence and will report to Sanjay Mirchandani. He will work within the framework of VMware Labs Asia with engineering resources to support customers and partners in close collaboration with the global office of the VMware CTO as well as VMware China's sales and R&D leadership. VMware's R&D Center in China will continue to be led by Alan Ren, managing director, China R&D, VMware.

"By developing technology solutions in close coordination with the broader ecosystem, VMware will address market-specific requirements together with partners and other communities to rapidly develop and ship new innovation for the China market and beyond," said Ying Li. "VMware Labs Asia will give VMware an advantage as we assemble and combine the expertise of multiple stakeholders to embrace the new era of technology development," Li added.

According to IDC, China will continue to be one of the world's fastest-growing cloud markets, evidenced by a 2014-2017 growth rate of 25%. China's total public cloud market is expected to grow from US$1.659b in 2014 to US$3.053b in 2017, representing a CAGR of 23%, according to IDC1.

About VMware

VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they build, deliver and consume Information Technology resources in a manner that is evolutionary and based on their specific needs. With 2013 revenues of $5.21 billion, VMware has more than 500,000 customers and 75,000 partners. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.

Baar, Switzerland: October 15, 2014: Veeam® Software, the innovative provider of solutions that deliver Availability for the Modern Data Center™, today announced that it is collaborating with Microsoft and VMware to help partners extend their availability offerings to the cloud. Specifically, Veeam is working closely with both Microsoft and VMware to ensure that Veeam Cloud Providers (VCPs) will be able to seamlessly deploy Veeam Cloud Connect in Microsoft Azure and VMware vCloud Air.

As the largest subsegment of the storage management software market, the backup/recovery software market grew 6.8% in 2013 to $4.7 billion, which was slower when compared with 2012's growth of 8.1%. The growth was, in part, a result of the demand for integrated solutions for cloud-enabled backup/recovery and the increased need for information management. As businesses look to extend their operations into the cloud—public or hybrid—data protection is an ideal candidate. Through its close partnerships with Microsoft and VMware, Veeam continues to lead the market in delivering a robust solution to meet customer needs.

“Across the globe, customers and resellers alike are looking to the cloud to grow their businesses,” commented Ratmir Timashev, president and CEO of Veeam. “Placing critical assets outside your ‘walls’ is a leap of faith, but with Microsoft Azure and VMware vCloud Air, resellers and service providers have two offerings that help them take the cost, complexity and concern out of data center design and deployment. Veeam has long-standing partnerships with both Microsoft and VMware, and our teams are tightly integrated to ensure that together, we are able to provision the Always-On Business™.”

Veeam recommends that IT organizations follow the 3-2-1 rule: Three copies of data on two different kinds of media, one of which is off site. Veeam enables IT to satisfy the offsite requirement without having to invest in offsite infrastructure or management, since cloud resources are available on demand.

As part of its commitment to deliver robust cloud-based availability, Veeam recently announced Veeam Cloud Provider (VCP) partners that will provide support for cloud backup with Veeam Cloud Connect on the first day of Veeam Availability Suite™ v8 general availability, eliminating the need for customers to deploy costly off-premises infrastructure.

Integration of Veeam Cloud Connect with Azure and vCloud Air will be of particular interest to existing and new members of the Veeam ProPartner network who want to become service providers and offer availability in the cloud, without investing in their own cloud infrastructure.

Veeam Cloud Connect, part of the new Veeam Availability Suite v8, gives Veeam customers a fully integrated, secure and efficient means to move backups to an offsite backup repository managed by the service provider of their choice; thus avoiding the upfront capital investment of their own offsite infrastructure. Service providers get a simple, powerful platform to deliver fast and secure backup to the cloud for over 111,500 Veeam customers. In fact, Veeam Cloud Connect is so simple to set up that any Veeam ProPartner can become a service provider and offer offsite backup services to customers in less than 10 minutes using the service provider’s own cloud infrastructure or VMware vCloud Air or Microsoft Azure.

Baar, Switzerland: October 7, 2014: Veeam® Software, the innovative provider of solutions that deliver Availability for the Modern Data Center™, today announced the appointment of Jim Tedesco to the position of Senior Vice President, North America Sales. In this role, Mr. Tedesco will be responsible for the strategic direction of Veeam’s local operations, helping to position the company as the availability provider of choice to the world’s data centers. Mr. Tedesco will report directly to Veeam’s Senior Vice President Strategic Operations and Planning, Anton Antich.

In his new role, Mr. Tedesco will be instrumental in driving Veeam’s regional sales and go-to-market strategies, focusing on sales execution to grow the company’s market share while expanding the partner ecosystem to enable Veeam to penetrate new markets in the region. These initiatives will align and support the company’s global strategy for growth built on Veeam Availability for the Modern Data Center, enabling the Always-On Business™, which provides customers a new kind of availability solution that delivers recovery time and point objectives (RTPO™) of less than 15 minutes for all applications and data.

“The data center must transform to meet the IT demands of the modern era that are driven by cloud, virtualization and mobility,” said Ratmir Timashev, CEO at Veeam. “With our focus and world-class innovation, Veeam is uniquely qualified to help customers through this important transformation, one to an Always-On Business. Jim’s experience stellar reputation in the industry are ideal to help propel Veeam forward in the North American marketplace, and to drive demand for our next-generation availability solutions.”

With more than 20 years of experience in the high-tech industry, Mr. Tedesco has held a number of senior sales leadership positions at software and other high tech companies. Most recently at Kony Inc., a cloud-based mobile application development platform (MADP) provider, he served as Executive Vice President, Corporate Sales & Business Development, and was tasked with developing and executing the company’s business strategy to drive revenue across several industry sectors. Prior to that, Mr. Tedesco held a number of senior executive roles at CA Technologies, Infor and Quest Software, creating and building both direct and channel sales organizations.

“As user demands evolve and data centers become highly virtualized, the way companies protect their applications and data has changed,” added Tedesco. “Veeam is uniquely positioned as the new market leader in delivering availability solutions for the modern data center, helping businesses ensure that all applications and data are available for users 24/7. In the world of the always-on business, Veeam is paving the way and I am excited to be part of the team and relish the opportunity to help the company grow even further.”

PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwired - Oct 7, 2014) - VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, plans to announce third quarter 2014 financial results after market close on Tuesday, October 21, 2014. The company will host a conference call at 2:00 p.m. PT/ 5:00 p.m. ET that day to review financial results and business outlook. A live web broadcast of the event will be available on the VMware Investor Relations website at ir.vmware.com. The replay of the webcast will be available for two months.

About VMware

VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they build, deliver and consume Information Technology resources in a manner that is evolutionary and based on their specific needs. With 2013 revenues of $5.21 billion, VMware has more than 500,000 customers and 75,000 partners. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.

VeeamON – Las Vegas, NV: October 6, 2014: Veeam® Software, the innovative provider of solutions that deliver Availability for the Modern Data Center™, today announced Veeam Cloud Provider (VCP) partners that will support Veeam Cloud Connect on the same day new Veeam Availability Suite™ v8 becomes generally available, planned for later this quarter.

Global data center systems spending will reach $140 billion this year, we believe driven by the customer demand for virtualization and cloud. As organizations modernize their infrastructures to deliver the Always-On Business™, IT managers are increasingly looking to service providers for help, particularly in getting a copy of their data off site. Cloud backup is already a large market, and it’s growing. According to a recent report from Storage Magazine, 31 percent of organizations are planning to use cloud services for disaster recovery and business continuity, as part of an overall availability plan.

Veeam Cloud Connect, part of the new Veeam Availability Suite v8, gives Veeam customers a fully integrated, secure and efficient means to move backups to an offsite backup repository managed by the service provider of their choice, avoiding the upfront capital investment of their own offsite infrastructure. Service providers get a simple, powerful platform to deliver fast and secure backup to the cloud for over 111,500 Veeam customers. In fact, Veeam Cloud Connect is so simple to set up, any Veeam ProPartner can become a service provider and offer offsite backup repository services to their customers in under 10 minutes.

“Veeam’s approach to the cloud is to enable VCP partners to provision services that address customers’ needs while also enabling partners to extend their own business offerings. It is not to build our [Veeam’s] own cloud as so many legacy backup vendors have attempted to do,” said Ratmir Timashev, CEO of Veeam. “Our partners are closer to our customers and have built deep relationships as trusted advisors. Veeam’s role is to empower partners to deliver the highest quality off-site backup services, and with the new Veeam Availability Suite v8 and Veeam Cloud Connect, they have access to a market-leading portfolio which helps them do just that.”

“It’s impossible to talk about IT modernization without talking about the cloud, especially when it comes to data protection and disaster recovery,” said Jason Buffington, senior analyst at ESG. “Increasingly, the cloud is becoming an integral part of enterprise and SMB data protection and disaster recovery strategies. It’s imperative that at least one copy of a backup live off site and the cloud fulfills that requirement.”

Veeam recommends that IT organizations follow the 3-2-1 rule: three copies of data on two different kinds of media, one of which is off site. Veeam Cloud Connect enables IT to satisfy the offsite requirement without having to invest in offsite infrastructure or management, since cloud resources are available on demand.

Both current VCP partners and new Veeam service providers have the opportunity to leverage Veeam Cloud Connect to grow their customer base and recurring revenue streams. Basic setup is simple and takes less than 10 minutes, providing all the infrastructure management capabilities a service provider needs to offer an offsite backup repository service to customers. Moreover, an innovative combination of storage and compute makes it possible to efficiently store even large backups in the cloud. Veeam also gives VCP partners the ability to offer fully managed D2D2C (disk-to-disk-to-cloud) backup solutions, which back up to local disk first before sending the backup offsite to the cloud. Many of these VCP partners also offer disaster recovery planning, testing and recovery services.

PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwired - Sep 15, 2014) - VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced the general availability of VMware NSX™ 6.1, VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager™ 5.8, VMware vCloud® Suite® 5.8, VMware vRealize™ Operations Insight™, VMware vRealize™ Suite 6, and VMware vSphere® Data Protection™ Advanced 5.8 to help organizations build, manage and protect their software-defined data center environments. Additionally, VMware is announcing the availability of VMware vSphere® Remote Office Branch™ Office.

Featuring the industry's most complete product portfolio for implementing and operating a software-defined data center, VMware today has advanced the capabilities of:
VMware NSX 6.1 helps improve the security, scalability and performance of the software-defined data center and hybrid cloud. The new release includes several additions such as further advancement of network micro-segmentation capabilities, scale-out NSX Edge™ (equal cost multi-path routing), enhancements to VMware vCloud® Automation Center™ 6.1 integration, and improved hybrid cloud connectivity. With VMware NSX, customers can enable use cases for self-service IT and also have an economically and operationally feasible way to deploy network micro-segmentation to transform data center security architecture.

VMware vCloud Suite 5.8 is the new release of the integrated offering for building and managing vSphere private clouds based on a software-defined data center architecture to enable organizations to achieve critical IT outcomes around efficiency, control and agility. The suite introduces new policy-based provisioning capabilities and integrations that enable organizations to add disaster recovery services via VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager 5.8 as well as enhanced networking and security services to their applications and infrastructure.

VMware vRealize Operations Insight is a new integrated offering that delivers performance management, capacity optimization, and real-time log analytics as an add-on solution to VMware vSphere with Operations Management.

VMware vRealize Suite 6 is a new cloud management platform that combines the capabilities of VMware's existing cloud automation, cloud operations and cloud business management solutions into a single offering. The comprehensive platform is purpose-built to manage heterogeneous environments and hybrid clouds, and enables IT to deliver infrastructure and applications at the speed of business but with the control IT requires. Enhancements to the suite include additional features for extending custom-built automation capabilities, simplified deployment and management of multi-tier applications, and an improved user experience.

VMware vSphere Data Protection Advanced 5.8 introduces enhanced support for business-critical applications, augmented replication capabilities as well as customizable proxies and backup work streams to protect VMware vSphere environments.

VMware vSphere Remote Office Branch Office is a new solution using VMware vSphere 5.5 Update 2 that enables organizations with multiple sites seeking to take advantage of virtualization to rapidly provision servers, minimize of host configuration drift, and enhance visibility into regulatory compliance.

About VMware

VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they build, deliver and consume Information Technology resources in a manner that is evolutionary and based on their specific needs. With 2013 revenues of $5.21 billion, VMware has more than 500,000 customers and 75,000 partners. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.

The alliance is part of a strategic initiative between Veeam and NEXTDC to drive and promote the services of Veeam’s Cloud Provider Program (VCP) partner base to end customers’ resellers, MSPs and service providers. The VCP program supports a more than 5,000-strong global network of service providers who use Veeam Software to provide such services as offsite backups, standby replica VMs, and warm DR (disaster recovery) sites, as well as service offerings including Backup-as-a-Service and Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service.

The initiative will look to benefit both end customers and the channel in the following way:
For end customers, understanding what services are available in the same data centre ecosystem allows businesses to be agile, flexible to new technology requirements and deploy quickly by leveraging hosted services via low cost, low latency cross connects or utilise existing carrier networks between NEXTDC facilities.
For MSPs and traditional resellers, the ecosystem will not just look to promote the services of partners to end customers, but also promote new go to market offerings through add on or white labelling services that partners can leverage to meet customer needs.

“Veeam and NEXTDC are similar in that we are both young, innovative and disruptive to the traditional landscape,” said Don Williams, Vice President for Asia Pacific of Veeam. “We are both 100 per cent committed to the channel and promoting NEXTDC’s ecosystem for partners and customers to connect and realise the benefits of a cloud marketplace. With Veeam Availability Suite™ v8 (available in early Q4 2014) and Cloud Connect functionality being released later this year, this announcement is timely to promote the services of our shared partner community.”

“This partnership between NEXTDC and Veeam is bringing new value to both companies' end customer base,” said NEXTDC CEO Craig Scroggie. “We are directly supporting Veeam's industry-leading monthly rental model cloud services program with the introduction of a quarter-rack product that makes it easier for Veeam service providers to wset up and operate a Cloud Connect service for their customers, especially those wanting to trial a cloud service.”

The alliance will begin with a range of activities aimed at promoting the services of shared Veeam and NEXTDC partners, along with business and technical forums educating the marketplace on the benefits of such services as Backup and Disaster Recovery.

VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced that Sanjay Poonen, VMware's executive vice president & general manager, end user computing, Alan Dabbiere, AirWatch's chairman, and Anthony Luscri, senior manager investor relations, will conduct a conference call for investors and financial analysts providing an overview of VMware's AirWatch business and the AirWatch Connect conference on Thursday, September 11th, 2014 at 7:00 a.m. PT/ 10:00 a.m. ET. Nehal Chokshi, analyst at Technology Insights Research, will co-host the call, with participation to include Gordon Smith, supervisor, client hardware engineering & mobile team at Intermountain Healthcare, a VMware customer. The call will broadcast live at http://ir.vmware.com or you may dial in: 1-888-831-6086 or 1-312-470-0068, password: VMware. Slides will accompany the web broadcast and questions will be taken from investors and financial analysts via telephone and email. The replay of the webcast and slides will be available on the website for two months.

About VMware

VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they build, deliver and consume Information Technology resources in a manner that is evolutionary and based on their specific needs. With 2013 revenues of $5.21 billion, VMware has more than 500,000 customers and 75,000 partners. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.

VMwareParis, 9 September 2014 – Capgemini, one of the world’s foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services and VMware (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced a strategic partnership in the area of Enterprise Managed Mobility / End-User Computing. This partnership will combine Capgemini’s mobility consulting, application development and system integration expertise with VMware’s industry-leading end-user computing software, including AirWatch Enterprise Mobility Management (EMM) solutions. AirWatch by VMware will provide organizations with an industry-optimized EMM solution to manage virtually all mobile devices, across all major mobile platforms and for all deployment types – helping to navigate the complexities of securely protecting and segregating data and associated user support for enterprises. It will provide workers with a centralized console to easily access content and applications from any device underpinned by business-aligned mobile and Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) strategies. Readily implemented, the solution will have the ability to innovate, scale and aid customers to move quickly to a productive mobile enterprise. Capgemini will provide enterprises with end-to-end services including mobile strategy, mobile development, and managed mobility, which can be tailored to specific industry sectors. Capgemini will also enable organizations to build and deploy applications while also leveraging existing investments in systems of record. Base services will include: AirWatch system administration, helpdesk support, mobile platform implementation, mobile application administration and AirWatch deployment. Extended services will include BYOD (including best practices and training), managed mobility strategy (as-a-service per device per month), MDM migrations, customer application development and data analytics. Offered as part of the Capgemini Mobile Solutions portfolio, the client will select an as-a-service package, to align to their specific digital transformation strategy and needs. Fernando Alvarez, Senior Vice President and Head of the Mobile Solutions Global Service Line at Capgemini said: “We are proud to announce this partnership with VMware. The End-User Computing market is rapidly growing, and enterprise mobility use and concerns around secure content and data management are increasing, as users have access to an ever increasing number of applications and content on their devices. The Capgemini Managed Mobile Services offering powered by VMware, addresses an important demand from CXOs and digital leaders as mobility moves increasingly higher up in terms of technology priorities.” Sanjay Poonen, Executive Vice President and General Manager, End-User Computing, VMware said: “Enterprises worldwide are looking for innovative ways to enable their users to be able to work at the speed of life – across all devices. We’re excited about our partnership with Capgemini, with their leading brand and presence in the market, they will help us reach enterprise infrastructure customers and scale resources worldwide, but also setup and associated managed services across our Workspace Suite, so that companies can better focus on their core business needs.” The partnership is an extension of the existing global strategic agreement between Capgemini and VMware. The two companies will collaborate by bundling market leading AirWatch EMM software with Capgemini Mobile Solutions services with industry-ready accelerators to uniquely match client’s business needs including a single monthly capital or operating expense across a multi-year term. The initial go-to-market focus will be on cloud solution models offered as off-premise hosted options or on-premise cloud models for global companies across North America, EMEA, Latin America and APAC. Capgemini will provide enterprise mobility and organizational change management with vertical industry expertise, such as in consumer products, retail, healthcare, utilities and financial services, while VMware/AirWatch will bring its EMM market leading knowledge and capability.

About VMware

VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they build, deliver and consume Information Technology resources in a manner that is evolutionary and based on their specific needs. With 2013 revenues of $5.21 billion, VMware has more than 500,000 customers and 75,000 partners. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.

Today at VMworld® 2014, VMware, NVIDIA and Google announced a collaborative effort to deliver high-performance virtual desktops and workstation-class graphics to Google Chromebooks. Showcased as a technology preview, the solution demonstrates the next generation of VMware Blast Performance and NVIDIA GRID™ vGPU™ technology to satisfy customers' most demanding visual computing needs. The joint effort is expected to expand the hardware options for high-performance virtual desktops, enabling customers to select their system of choice without compromise. "We are breaking down traditional barriers to adopting virtual desktops and offering new economics for the delivery of graphics-intensive applications through the power of the cloud," said Sanjay Poonen, executive vice president and general manager, End-User Computing, VMware. "Organizations of all industries and requirements will soon be able to embrace the mobile-cloud using a solution that offers a new way to work from three proven industry leaders." The joint solution optimizes the performance of virtual graphics applications at scale. NVIDIA GRID vGPU is the industry's most advanced technology for sharing GPU acceleration between multiple virtual desktops. Combined with VMware Horizon in the data center, the solution will optimize graphics and CPU utilization to allow more desktops and applications to be deployed on a single server. VMware BLAST Performance technology in the data center and in firmware residing on Chromebooks will deliver a great end-user experience, graphics-rich applications with high fidelity, and extended battery life by up to 50 percent using exclusive NVIDIA® Tegra® decode technologiesi. This makes graphically demanding applications, such as Adobe Illustrator CC, Autodesk AutoCAD® and productivity applications like Microsoft Office completely fluid. NVIDIA Tegra K1-powered Chromebooks will be among the first Chromebooks to take advantage of this future technology. "This collaboration will offer customers all the performance, stability and compatibility of NVIDIA hardware-accelerated graphics, with the added flexibility, mobility and security of a virtual environment," said Jeff Brown, vice president and general manager, Professional Solutions Business, NVIDIA. "Chromebooks were designed to bring a new approach to many of the problems with traditional computers," said Caesar Sengupta, vice president of product management, Google. "We're excited about what this collaboration means for our customers and what it can enable them to do. Imagine manufacturers designing complex 3D models and sharing them with engineers around the globe, or physicians taking medical imaging out into the community, rather than being tethered to high end workstations."

Highlighting the conference theme of "No Limits," VMworld 2014 U.S. -- which kicks off on Aug. 24 -- will feature more than 350 unique breakout sessions from VMware and its community of partners and customers on innovative tools and technologies that can redefine IT with software. With more than 23,000 expected attendees, this year's conference is supported by 250+ sponsors and exhibitors, including Global Diamond Sponsors Cisco, Dell, EMC, HP and NetApp.

Availability

Customers who would like to experience VMware products with NVIDIA GRID vGPU can register for an early access program today at www.nvidia.com/grid-vmware-vgpu. The program will be available for select NVIDIA and VMware customers in Q4 2014.

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About VMware

VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they build, deliver and consume Information Technology resources in a manner that is evolutionary and based on their specific needs. With 2013 revenues of $5.21 billion, VMware has more than 500,000 customers and 75,000 partners. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.

New customers can take advantage of the free, self-paced training with vSphere with Operations Management Enterprise or Enterprise Plus Acceleration Kits until September 15, 2014. Existing customers can reap the benefits of more management functionality by taking advantage of the promotional per-CPU pricing (valid until December 15, 2014) and move up to the vCenter Operations Management Suite 5.8 Advanced edition. Learn More

Auckland, NZ, 19 August 2014 – Westcon Group, a value-added distributor of category-leading unified communications, network infrastructure, data center and security solutions with a global network of specialty resellers, today announced that they have joined the Veeam Cloud Provider program in New Zealand and are pleased to offer Veeam’s award-winning software to service providers on a monthly rental basis. Veeam® Software is an innovative provider of solutions that deliver Availability for the Modern Data Center™. Veeam is used by more than 111,500 organizations and 5,000 service providers around the world to protect more than 6.5 million virtual machines (VMs). The Veeam Cloud Provider (VCP) program offers flexible licensing to meet the needs of hosting, managed service and cloud service providers.

The VCP program enables service providers to deliver offsite backups, standby replica VMs, and warm DR (disaster recovery) sites, as well as powering a full range of service offerings, including Backup-as-a-Service and Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service. Veeam service provider partners have the ability to drive both top-line and bottom-line revenue growth through increased client retention with the peace of mind that comes from Veeam-powered availability solutions.

“We are pleased that Westcon Group NZ has joined the Veeam Cloud Provider program at such an exciting time,” said Don Williams, APAC Vice President for Veeam. “We recently announced Veeam Cloud Connect, coming with new Veeam Availability Suite™ v8 (available in early Q4 2014), that gives service providers a direct pipeline to benefit from the Veeam ecosystem. We are confident that our data center availability solutions combined with Westcon Group’s ecosystem in New Zealand will enable the company to acquire new customers, resulting in additional growth of their overall profitability and value.”

Mark Baker, Sales and Marketing Director at Westcon Group NZ, added, “With today’s announcement, we can now extend to NZ service providers a flexible ‘pay-as-they-consume’ option of Veeam products for hosted environments as part of Westcon Cloud Solutions. This expands our Veeam offering of traditional ‘on premise’ licensing, and complements other existing service provider models we have.”

About Veeam Software

Veeam® enables the Always-On Business™ by providing solutions that deliver Availability for the Modern Data Center™, which provides recovery time and point objectives (RTPO™) of less than 15 minutes for all applications and data. Veeam recognizes the challenges in keeping a business up and running at all times and addresses them with solutions that provide high-speed recovery, data loss avoidance, verified protection, leveraged data and complete visibility. Veeam Backup & Replication™ leverages technologies that enable the modern data center, including VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, NetApp storage, and HP 3PAR StoreServ and StoreVirtual Storage, to help organizations meet RTPOs, save time, mitigate risks, and dramatically reduce capital and operational costs. Veeam Availability Suite™ provides all of the benefits and features of Veeam Backup & Replication along with advanced monitoring, reporting and capacity planning for the backup infrastructure. Veeam Management Pack™ for System Center is the most comprehensive, intuitive and intelligent extension for app-to-metal management of Hyper-V and vSphere infrastructures, and includes monitoring and reporting for Veeam Backup & Replication. The Veeam Cloud Provider Program (VCP) offers flexible monthly and perpetual licensing to meet the needs of hosting, managed service and cloud service providers. VCP currently has more than 4,500 service provider partners worldwide. Monthly rental is available in more than 70 countries from more than 50 Veeam aggregators.

Founded in 2006, Veeam currently has 25,000 ProPartners and more than 101,000 customers worldwide. Veeam’s global headquarters are located in Baar, Switzerland, and the company has offices throughout the world.

VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today unveiled the speaker lineup and sponsorship list for VMworld® 2014 U.S., the leading virtualization and cloud infrastructure event of the year.

Highlighting the conference theme of "No Limits," VMworld 2014 U.S. -- which kicks off on Aug. 24 -- will feature more than 350 unique breakout sessions from VMware and its community of partners and customers on innovative tools and technologies that can redefine IT with software. With more than 23,000 expected attendees, this year's conference is supported by 250+ sponsors and exhibitors, including Global Diamond Sponsors Cisco, Dell, EMC, HP and NetApp.

VMware executives will lead two general session presentations during the event
- On Monday, Aug. 25, 2014 at 9 a.m. PDT, the event will kick off with a keynote presentation featuring VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger. Gelsinger will discuss strategies for competing and winning in today's dynamic business environment -- as old, rigid structures melt away and increasingly liquid businesses use technology in new and innovative ways to gain competitive advantage. The keynote presentation will include key announcements, discussions and demonstrations of VMware's software-defined approach and the combined power of its solution portfolio. The keynote webcast will be available live and on-demand at VMware Now, the online destination for breaking news, product announcements, videos and demos: http://vmware.com/go/now.

- On Tuesday, Aug. 26, 2014, starting at 9 a.m. PDT, VMware CTO Ben Fathi and a group of senior execs from various VMware business units will showcase the latest end-user computing, software-defined data center and hybrid cloud software solutions that are already making IT more capable, more accessible, more reliable -- and delivering real results for VMware customers. The keynote webcast will be available at VMware Now: http://vmware.com/go/now.

Financial Analyst Day

VMware will host its Financial Analyst Day on Monday, Aug. 25. This will be an informative and in-depth program for the investment community with presentations about company strategy and product direction. This event will be available live via webcast at: ir.vmware.com.

Destination Give Back

New at VMworld 2014, the VMware Foundation will invite attendees to have some fun and give back with "Destination Give Back," located in the Hang Space in Hall E, Moscone. Attendees will be able to learn more about causes selected by VMware employees and test their ingenuity to make giving take flight with the VMware Foundation. VMworld Europe 2014 will take place in Barcelona, Spain Oct. 15 to 17, 2014. For more information and registration, please visit: http://www.vmworld.com/community/conference/europe

VMworld 2014 Online Resources

For a list of VMworld 2014 U.S. exhibitors and sponsors, please visit: http://www.vmworld.com/community/conference/us/sponsors
The VMworld 2014 U.S. agenda is available at: http://www.vmworld.com/community/conference/us/learn/agenda
To register to attend VMworld 2014, please visit: www.vmworld.com

Additional Resources

- Attend Arista CTO Ken Duda's presentation at VMworld, "Physical Networks in a Virtual World," Session ID: NET1875
- Read VMware's Network Virtualization Blog
- Read Jayshree Ullal's blog on Software Driven Networking

About Arista Networks

Arista Networks was founded to deliver software-driven cloud networking solutions for large data center and computing environments. Arista's award-winning 10/40/100 GbE switches redefine scalability, robustness, and price-performance, with over 2,700 customers and more than two million cloud networking ports deployed worldwide. At the core of Arista's platform is EOS, an advanced network operating system. Arista Networks products are available worldwide through distribution partners, systems integrators and resellers. Additional information and resources can be found at: http://www.arista.com

About VMware

VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they build, deliver and consume Information Technology resources in a manner that is evolutionary and based on their specific needs. With 2013 revenues of $5.21 billion, VMware has more than 500,000 customers and 75,000 partners. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.

Arista Networks, Inc. (NYSE: ANET), a leader in software driven cloud networking, and VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW) today announced a strategic relationship to enable customers to accelerate adoption of network virtualization in the software-defined data center (SDDC). This new collaboration agreement builds on the companies' four year relationship in developing innovative, integrated SDDC solutions, and focuses on development and joint marketing of the generally available Arista and VMware integrated networking solution for VMware NSX™.

Arista and VMware are continuing to partner in areas that will optimize the software-defined data center for the hybrid cloud. Building on previous work around VMware vSphere®, VMware vCloud Director™, and VXLAN support, the companies are working together to drive greater interoperability across the broader VMware SDDC portfolio.

Arista's network programmable underlay, utilizing Arista Extensible Operating System, EOS®, network APIs and hardware enabled VXLAN Tunnel Endpoints (VTEPS) and the VMware NSX network virtualization platform, support a software-defined data center for both enterprise and service provider customers. The Arista and VMware integrated networking solution combines award-winning network infrastructure with a complete network virtualization platform enabled to simplify management and provisioning, speed service delivery, reduce costs and create opportunities for competitive differentiation. The tools provided by Arista and VMware put control and visibility back in the hands of the network and systems administrators.

This is the third phase of an ongoing collaboration between the two companies:
- Phase 1 2010+: ESX and vSphere/VMware vCloud Integration
- Phase 2 2012+: VXLAN specification and interoperability across physical/virtual networks
- Phase 3 2014+: VMware NSX integration and Arista Networks support for VMware vCenter™ Operations Management Suite and VMware vCenter™ Log Insight™
"With multiple years of joint engineering and customer deployments, this announcement highlights our growing relationship with VMware. Arista is committed to working with VMware products and architectures to optimally combine the VMware network virtualization platform and Arista programmable physical networks for the best network-wide virtualization deployments."
- Jayshree Ullal, President and CEO, Arista Networks

"VMware and Arista are challenging the status quo in networking today, driving innovative, agile and cost-effective solutions that are changing the operations and economics of data centers. Through our shared vision for the software-defined data center, we are empowering customers to integrate Arista EOS-based network infrastructure with VMware NSX™ to enable the same operational model to be used for both virtual and physical workloads, resulting in increased efficiency and agility for the data center operator."
- Raghu Raghuram, Executive Vice President of Cloud Infrastructure and Management, VMware

"The excitement around SDN and network virtualization is that -- for the first time -- networking is becoming more software orientated, so we're able to dynamically orchestrate service modification and activation in real-time. Network connectivity can now keep up when virtual machines and associated compute and storage change or are moved within distributed data centers. This means that servers, storage and now the network are in synch so that we can meet the specific needs of our customers in a timescale they demand. As a result of deploying a new network architecture based on Arista and VMware networking technologies, the time for Colt to add, change or modify services now takes minutes rather than days, and enables Colt to onboard customers faster and expand its service portfolio quicker."

- Mirko Voltolini, VP Technology and Architecture at Colt

Software Driven Networking for today's Data Center Requirements

Arista Networks and VMware recognize that today's data centers require automation, self-service provisioning, and linear scaling of both performance and data center economics. Arista's award-winning data center switching products combined with VMware NSX will be able to deliver next-generation network virtualization, custom programmability and simplified architectures, with a single point of management. VMware and Arista Networks help unlock the full potential of the software-defined data center, allowing IT organizations to:
- Automate delivery of next-generation network services
- Enable end-to-end network virtualization and deliver application workload mobility by preserving IP addressing within and between data centers
- Simplified troubleshooting by offering complete physical and virtual network visibility
- Accelerate deployment of business critical applications through transparent network provisioning
- Seamless Integration without performance impact of non virtualized applications or servers

Additional Resources

- Attend Arista CTO Ken Duda's presentation at VMworld, "Physical Networks in a Virtual World," Session ID: NET1875
- Read VMware's Network Virtualization Blog
- Read Jayshree Ullal's blog on Software Driven Networking

About Arista Networks

Arista Networks was founded to deliver software-driven cloud networking solutions for large data center and computing environments. Arista's award-winning 10/40/100 GbE switches redefine scalability, robustness, and price-performance, with over 2,700 customers and more than two million cloud networking ports deployed worldwide. At the core of Arista's platform is EOS, an advanced network operating system. Arista Networks products are available worldwide through distribution partners, systems integrators and resellers. Additional information and resources can be found at: http://www.arista.com

About VMware

VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they build, deliver and consume Information Technology resources in a manner that is evolutionary and based on their specific needs. With 2013 revenues of $5.21 billion, VMware has more than 500,000 customers and 75,000 partners. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.

The global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced that its Board of Directors has authorized the purchase of up to $1.0 billion of its Class A common stock through the end of 2016. Stock will be purchased from time to time, in the open market or through private transactions, subject to market conditions. The Company expects the equity purchase program to help partially offset dilution from its equity programs.

The new stock repurchase authorization is in addition to the Company's ongoing $700 million stock repurchase program, originally announced August 7, 2013.

Forward-Looking Statements

This press release contains forward-looking statements including, among other things, statements regarding the value of shares repurchased through our stock repurchase programs and the duration of such programs. Actual results could differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of certain risk factors, including but not limited to: (i) fluctuations and volatility in our stock price; (ii) the impact of macroeconomic conditions on customer demand, (iii) changes in our financial condition, (iv) changes in business opportunities and priorities that could cause us to consider alternative uses of cash, (v) fluctuations in the level of cash held in the United States that is available for stock repurchases and (vi) the level of proceeds from employee stock option exercises and our employee stock purchase plan. These forward-looking statements are based on current expectations and are subject to uncertainties and changes in condition, significance, value and effect as well as other risks detailed in documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including our most recent reports on Form 10-K and Form 10-Q and current reports on Form 8-K that we may file from time to time, which could cause actual results to vary from expectations. VMware assumes no obligation to, and does not currently intend to, update any such forward-looking statements after the date of this release.

About VMware

VMware is the leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they build, deliver and consume Information Technology resources in a manner that is evolutionary and based on their specific needs. With 2013 revenues of $5.21 billion, VMware has more than 500,000 customers and 75,000 partners. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.

In an effort to drive profitability and value for our partners, we’ve selected four key solutions and aligned and increased our partner incentives, education, marketing and sales resources. The 4 Power Plays solutions for 2H2014 are: vSphere with Operations Management, Virtual SAN, vCloud Hybrid Service – Disaster Recovery, and Horizon 6.

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- Best-in-class qualified leads through Renewals and Install Base data
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These new videos will help you easily show your customers the value of vCloud Automation Center. For example, video #1 has a general sales focus that covers what’s new in Version 6.0, video #2 has a technical presales focus that covers resource automation and reclamation, managing infrastructure fabric, etc., and video #3 has a post sales focus that covers configuring infrastructure single machine blueprints among other topics.

Leading provider of availability solutions continues to leverage growing enterprise demand for the Always-On Business™, Surpasses 111,500 Customers in Q2 and Announces New Veeam Availability Suite™ v8. Veeam® Software, innovative provider of solutions that deliver Availability for the Modern Data Center™, today released Q2 2014 results, reporting overall growth of 30 percent for the first half of 2014 over the corresponding period last year. The second quarter of 2014 marks Veeam’s 26th consecutive quarter in which quarterly total bookings revenue has experienced double-digit percentage growth over the same period during the previous year. With more than 111,500 customers, Veeam now protects over 6.5 million virtual machines around the world.

“Enterprise IT's growing demand for 24/7 business operations continues to fuel Veeam’s growth and increased market share,” said Ratmir Timashev, CEO of Veeam. “The second quarter capped a solid first half of the year for Veeam with strong revenue growth, several new product announcements, and consistent growth of our partner ecosystem. As we enter the second half of 2014, we anticipate a continued growth trajectory as a result of the general availability of the new Veeam Availability Suite v8 and our ability to continuously innovate and execute in response to the new era of data center challenges our customers are facing. In conjunction with virtualization, the cloud and other enabling technologies, the new Veeam Availability Suite will further enhance the ability of our customers to achieve a complete modern data center and ensure their critical applications remain always on from any place, at any time, on any device.”

Additional highlights of Q2 2014 include:

Veeam Cloud Provider (VCP) Program:

Experienced 112 percent growth in 1H 2014, compared to 1H 2013. Veeam Cloud Connect, part of the new Veeam Availability Suite v8, was announced in Q2. Veeam Cloud Connect gives service providers a direct pipeline to benefit from the Veeam ecosystem. Veeam customers receive a fully integrated, secure and efficient means to move backups to an offsite backup repository managed by the service provider of their choice, but without the upfront capital investment of an offsite infrastructure. Veeam added two new VCP rental aggregators in Q2: Licencias OnLine (LATAM) and MONT (CIS and Russia).

New Product Announcements:

Veeam Management Pack™ (MP) v7 for System Center is now generally available. Veeam MP v7 adds Microsoft Hyper-V support, providing full app-to-metal visibility within Microsoft System Center for both the Hyper-V and VMware vSphere layers to proactively monitor and alert IT of issues before they affect operations.

Veeam Availability Suite (available Q4 2014) ensures all applications and data are accessible at any time and from anywhere. In this way, Veeam is pioneering a new solution category that does what legacy data protection and backup systems could never do: provide recovery time and point objectives (RTPO™) of less than 15 minutes for all applications and data, enabling the Always-On Business.

Customer Growth:

More than 11,000 new customers were added in Q2, with total paid Veeam customers now surpassing 111,500. This customer momentum has also led to Veeam’s first flagship event, VeeamON: The World’s Premier Data Center Availability Event, taking place October 6–8, 2014 at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, NV. Veeam will bring together industry-leading experts, Veeam customers and partners who will learn about enabling the Always-On Business. Registration is now open.

Veeam received more than 10 prestigious industry honors during Q2 2014, including the following:

2014 Storage Magazine/SearchStorage.com Quality Awards:

Veeam Backup & Replication™ racked up stellar scores among midrange products in Storage Magazine’s ninth annual Quality Awards when the readers selected Veeam as the top application. The Storage Magazine/SearchStorage.com Quality Awards are designed to identify and recognize products that have proven their quality and reliability in actual use.

NetworkWorld Asia’s (NWA) Information Management Awards:

Veeam was voted the Most Promising Data Management Solution at this years’ NetworkWorld Asia’s (NWA) Information Management Awards in Singapore. This annual awards program acknowledges industry leaders in Asia for significant advancements made in Information Security, Storage and Data Management.

2014 European Gold ‘Rising Star’ Award from the Global Technology Distribution Council:

Veeam was named a 2014 Gold Rising Star Award winner in Europe by the Global Technology Distribution Council (GTDC). Recognized during the GTDC European Vendor Summit, the awards cite outstanding sales growth of corresponding companies through their GTDC member distributors.

2014 VirtualizationAdmin.com Readers' Choice Awards:

Veeam Backup & Replication was selected the winner in the Backup & Recovery category of the VirtualizationAdmin.com Readers' Choice Awards. Veeam received 35 percent of the overall vote, with the closest competitor finishing with just 17 percent.

Veeam also received industry recognition from Gartner in Q2 2014:

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup Software and Integrated Appliances:

For the second consecutive year, Veeam was positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the “Visionaries” quadrant of the Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup Software and Integrated Appliances.

About Veeam Software

Veeam® enables the Always-On Business™ by providing solutions that deliver Availability for the Modern Data Center™, which provides recovery time and point objectives (RTPO™) of less than 15 minutes for all applications and data. Veeam recognizes the challenges in keeping a business up and running at all times and addresses them with solutions that provide high-speed recovery, data loss avoidance, verified protection, leveraged data and complete visibility. Veeam Backup & Replication™ leverages technologies that enable the modern data center, including VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, NetApp storage, and HP 3PAR StoreServ and StoreVirtual Storage, to help organizations meet RTPOs, save time, mitigate risks, and dramatically reduce capital and operational costs. Veeam Availability Suite™ provides all of the benefits and features of Veeam Backup & Replication along with advanced monitoring, reporting and capacity planning for the backup infrastructure. Veeam Management Pack™ for System Center is the most comprehensive, intuitive and intelligent extension for app-to-metal management of Hyper-V and vSphere infrastructures, and includes monitoring and reporting for Veeam Backup & Replication. The Veeam Cloud Provider Program (VCP) offers flexible monthly and perpetual licensing to meet the needs of hosting, managed service and cloud service providers. VCP currently has more than 4,500 service provider partners worldwide. Monthly rental is available in more than 70 countries from more than 50 Veeam aggregators.

Founded in 2006, Veeam currently has 25,000 ProPartners and more than 101,000 customers worldwide. Veeam’s global headquarters are located in Baar, Switzerland, and the company has offices throughout the world.

VMware, the global leader in virtualisation and cloud infrastructure, has announced financial results for the second quarter of 2014.

Revenues for the second quarter were $1,46-billion, an increase of 17% from the second quarter of 2013. Excluding revenues attributable to Pivotal and all divestitures that occurred in 2013, revenues for the second quarter increased 18% from the second quarter of 2013.1

Operating income for the second quarter was $200-million, a decrease of 26% from the second quarter of 2013, reflecting the impact of the AirWatch acquisition. Non-GAAP operating income for the second quarter was $428-million, an increase of 3% from the second quarter of 2013, also reflecting the impact of the AirWatch acquisition.

Net income for the second quarter was $167-million, or $0.38 per diluted share, down 32% per diluted share compared to $245-million, or $0.57 per diluted share, for the second quarter of 2013. Non-GAAP net income for the quarter was $351-million, or $0.81 per diluted share, up 2% per diluted share compared to $343-million, or $0.79 per diluted share, for the second quarter of 2013.

Both GAAP and Non-GAAP results on a year-over-year basis primarily reflect the acquisition of Airwatch, completed in the first quarter of 2014.

Cash, cash equivalents and short-term investments were $6.64-billion, and unearned revenues were $4.39-billion as of June 30, 2014.

“We continue to see strong performance across our business, further evidence that VMware is uniquely positioned as IT transitions from client server computing to the mobile cloud era,” said Pat Gelsinger, chief executive officer, VMware. “Across the board, customers are turning to VMware solutions to help chart an efficient path to the future without sacrificing the vital needs for security, availability and compliance required by all businesses.”

“Our comparable second-quarter revenue grew 18%, reflecting strong customer adoption of our products and services,” says Jonathan Chadwick, chief financial officer, VMware. “We are extremely pleased by the performance of our growth businesses, which made significant progress in accelerating our growth and delivering against our long-term strategy.”

Last week, VMware announced the expansion of its hybrid cloud service into Asia-Pacific with two new partnerships in Japan and China. In Japan, VMware announced a joint venture with SoftBank which launches our first vCloud Hybrid Service in Asia. This service is available now as a private beta and will become generally available in Q4 of this year.

In China, the company announced plans with China Telecom for China Telecom to build a world-class hybrid cloud service in Beijing leveraging VMware’s technology. By the end of the year, VMware operated clouds are expected to be available in over 75% of the world’s cloud market. With approximately 4000 service provider partners, a VMware solution will be available in essentially every market on the planet.

In April, VMware announced VMware vCloud Hybrid Service – Disaster Recovery, a new cloud-based disaster recovery (DR) service that provides a continuously available recovery site for VMware virtualised data centres. This service is simple to set up, can be self-managed and is a fraction of the cost and complexity of traditional DR solutions.

VMware and SAP AG announced availability of the SAP HANA platform on VMware vSphere 5.5. By combining the power of SAP HANA with VMware vSphere 5.5, a foundational component of VMware vCloud Suite, customers can innovate and simplify their data centres by achieving faster time-to-value, higher service levels and lower total cost of ownership (TCO). SAP HANA support of VMware vSphere 5.5’s virtualised environment will help further simplify and streamline data centre operation for customers implementing a data centre virtualisation strategy.

VMware announced VMware Horizon 6, an integrated solution that delivers published applications and desktops on a single platform. Horizon 6 is the industry’s most comprehensive desktop solution, with centralised management of any type of enterprise application and desktop, including physical desktops and laptops, virtual desktops and applications and employee-owned PCs.
In the second quarter, VMware received further industry recognition from Gartner:
* For the fifth consecutive year Gartner named VMware a leader in the 2014 x86 Server Virtualisation Infrastructure Magic Quadrant (MQ).
* In June, AirWatch by VMware was positioned as a leader in the Enterprise Mobility Management MQ, and for the second year in a row has been placed highest on the ability to execute axis. * In April, VMware appeared in their Data Centre Networking MQ for the first time as a Visionary, with Gartner positioning us furthest on the completeness of vision axis in this space.

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Veeam Software innovative provider of solutions that deliver Availability for the Modern Data Center™, today announced that the new Veeam Management Pack (MP) version 7 for System Center is now generally available. Veeam MP v7 adds Microsoft Hyper-V support, providing full app-to-metal visibility within Microsoft System Center for both the Hyper-V and VMware vSphere layers to proactively monitor and alert IT of issues before they affect operations. Veeam has also introduced the full-featured Enterprise Plus and the Enterprise edition to meet the different IT management needs and budgets of System Center users.

Veeam MP v7 extends System Center Operations Manager’s features to deliver complete visibility of virtual and physical infrastructures and their dependencies. IT managers receive the monitoring, analysis and planning tools needed to quickly resolve issues, make informed decisions and meet the 24/7 availability needs of today’s business.

New features in Veeam MP v7 include:

Real-time Hyper-V performance metrics: Gives Hyper-V administrators detailed real-time insight into what is happening in their environment. Veeam Task Manager for Hyper-V displays real-time memory CPU consumption for the host and each associated VM.

Capacity planning for hybrid cloud: Takes the time and guesswork out of planning hybrid cloud environments. Veeam MP v7 analyzes on-premises virtual workloads and recommends the appropriate Microsoft Azure or VMware vCloud Hybrid Service resources so that IT can efficiently plan and budget for a hybrid cloud strategy.

vSphere host security profile reporting: Provides IT with visibility into vSphere security settings for firewalls and services including changes, when changes occurred, who changed the setting and other critical details needed to track security configuration.

Enhanced Veeam MP deployment automation: Reduces the time and effort needed to deploy Veeam MP to support the largest VMware environments by automatically deploying collection components.

“By fully integrating Microsoft Hyper-V with Veeam MP v7 we now provide the rapidly growing Hyper-V user base with the same powerful management and monitoring tools that vSphere administrators have long enjoyed,” said Ratmir Timashev, President and CEO of Veeam. “This includes complete visibility of their critical virtual systems, risk mitigation, and proactive monitoring of Hyper-V from Microsoft’s System Center Operations Manager console.”

"We are pleased to see Veeam support System Center with the Veeam Management Pack™ v7,” said Chris Van Wesep, Director, Product Marketing, Cloud & Enterprise at Microsoft. “With this latest release, Veeam Management Pack builds on Microsoft System Center’s unified approach to management for virtual and physical infrastructure across on-premises and service provider environments.”

“Business continuity in today’s complex mix of virtual and physical resources requires solutions that understand the entire environment,” said Iain Mobberley, Technical Director at OCSL, a UK-based system integrator and gold Veeam Partner. “Our customers depend on the Veeam Management Pack integrated with Microsoft System Center for critical visibility, monitoring and analysis views to reduce IT risks and deliver on SLA commitments.”

Product Editions

Two licensing options are now offered with Veeam MP v7: the Enterprise Plus edition and Enterprise edition.

The Enterprise Plus edition provides full features for strategic visibility of the app-to-metal stack and analysis tools needed for critical decision making, planning, optimization and right-sizing dynamic virtual environments. For example, IT could use Veeam MP to provide real-time forecasting analysis of a cluster’s capacity and determine the number of days until computing resources will be completely consumed, enabling administrators to react before a problem occurs. Current Veeam MP v6.5 customers with active maintenance can upgrade to Enterprise Plus edition free of charge.

The Enterprise edition is designed to handle tactical management tasks and includes monitoring and alert management, report templates, and sophisticated dashboards, along with a subset of the management features offered in previous versions of Veeam MP.

Introductory Offer for Veeam MP v7 Enterprise Edition for Hyper-V

Now through Dec. 31, 2014, Veeam provides up to 100 full-production licenses of Veeam MP Enterprise edition for Hyper-V, plus one year of maintenance per customer free of charge. These free licenses are eligible for upgrade to the full-featured Enterprise Plus.

Pricing

Veeam Management Pack v7 is available now. In North America the Enterprise Plus edition is priced at $450 per Hyper-V or vSphere CPU socket. The Enterprise edition is $250 per socket and can be upgraded to Enterprise Plus for $200 per socket. In other regions, Veeam Management Pack v7 is available at local pricing. Visit www.veeam.com/mp for additional product and pricing details and to register for free Veeam MP Enterprise edition licenses for Hyper-V.

Veeam will showcase its availability solutions at VeeamON: The World’s Premier Data Center Availability Event, taking place October 6–9, 2014 at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, NV. Veeam will bring together industry-leading experts, Veeam customers and partners who will learn about enabling the Always-On Business™. Registration is now open.

About Veeam Software

Veeam® enables the Always-On Business™ by providing solutions that deliver Availability for the Modern Data Center™, which provides recovery time and point objectives (RTPO™) of less than 15 minutes for all applications and data. Veeam recognizes the challenges in keeping a business up and running at all times and addresses them with solutions that provide high-speed recovery, data loss avoidance, verified protection, leveraged data and complete visibility. Veeam Backup & Replication™ leverages technologies that enable the modern data center, including VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, NetApp storage, and HP 3PAR StoreServ and StoreVirtual Storage, to help organizations meet RTPOs, save time, mitigate risks, and dramatically reduce capital and operational costs. Veeam Availability Suite™ provides all of the benefits and features of Veeam Backup & Replication along with advanced monitoring, reporting and capacity planning for the backup infrastructure. Veeam Management Pack™ for System Center is the most comprehensive, intuitive and intelligent extension for app-to-metal management of Hyper-V and vSphere infrastructures, and includes monitoring and reporting for Veeam Backup & Replication. The Veeam Cloud Provider Program (VCP) offers flexible monthly and perpetual licensing to meet the needs of hosting, managed service and cloud service providers. VCP currently has more than 4,500 service provider partners worldwide. Monthly rental is available in more than 70 countries from more than 50 Veeam aggregators.

Founded in 2006, Veeam currently has 25,000 ProPartners and more than 101,000 customers worldwide. Veeam’s global headquarters are located in Baar, Switzerland, and the company has offices throughout the world.

VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today announced that VMworld® 2014 U.S. makes its return to San Francisco Aug. 24-28 at Moscone Center in San Francisco, celebrating the 11th annual event in the United States. VMworld 2014 Europe will be held Oct. 14-16 at Fira Barcelona Gran Via in Barcelona. With more than 31,000 attendees expected worldwide, VMworld 2014 will spotlight VMware and the industry's commitment to helping customers succeed in the mobile-cloud era.

With the theme of "No Limits," VMworld attendees will access cutting-edge hands-on labs, informative, high-impact breakout sessions, plus gain opportunities to network with a broad set of technology and cloud partners who are shaping the new era of IT. Attendees will be able to share and acquire practical knowledge around virtualization best practices, the business impact of the software-defined data center, leveraging the hybrid cloud and enabling enterprise mobility and more.

Engineered for business, the new Latitude family delivers a secure, reliable and easily manageable platform all your customers will want.

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Simplified for IT, the new Latitude family features the latest Intel® processors and vPro™ combined with Dell’s unique out-of-band BIOS technology to make the Latitude 7000 and 5000 Series the world’s most manageable laptops.

Plus, users love the reliability that comes from the new Latitude’s accelerated life testing, Latitude e-family compatibility on the 7000 and 5000 Series, and all models that can be backed by Dell’s state-of-the-art services for the entire laptop lifecycle.

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The world’s most secure* Ultrabook™ in a thin, light, and sleek design. • Featuring up to the latest Intel Core i7 processor with Intel vPro • Available with Windows 8 Pro • Optional touch display version features durable Corning® Gorilla® Glass NBT™		Workforce workhorse, the most manageable mainstream notebook. • Featuring up to the latest Intel Core i7 processor with Intel vPro • Available with Windows 8 Pro • Touch-enabled option available • Optional discrete graphics with up to 2GB memory for graphics-intensive applications*		Essential mobility with durable quality and rich features at an affordable price. • Featuring 4th-generation Intel Core processors • Available with Windows 8 Pro • Touch-enabled option available • Durable chassis that’s undergone highly accelerated life testing

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Veeam® Software, innovative provider of solutions that deliver Availability for the Modern Data Center™, today announced that the company has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the “Visionaries” quadrant of the June 16, 2014, Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup Software and Integrated Appliances.

“We consider our positioning in the “Visionaries” quadrant by Gartner confirmation of our ability to provide data center availability solutions that enable customers to access data 24/7 from anywhere,” said Ratmir Timashev, president and CEO of Veeam. “With the upcoming launch of the Veeam Availability Suite™ v8 later this year, IT organizations will be able deploy a new enabling technology that transforms the Always-On Business™ from a capability reserved for only a few operations at the world’s largest organizations into a reality for everyone.”

According to Gartner, the Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup Software and Integrated Appliances “describes the evolution of backup, which incorporates new products, solutions and techniques for protecting, backing up and recovering physical server and virtual server files, applications, system images and remote offices and endpoint devices. These backup products provide features such as traditional backup to tape, backup to conventional disk or virtual tape library (VTL), data reduction, snapshot, heterogeneous replication, and continuous data protection (CDP). These solutions may be provided as software only, or as an integrated appliance that contains all or substantial components of the backup application, such as backup management server or a media server.”

“Organizations worldwide are seeking ways to easily, quickly and cost-effectively ensure that their data is appropriately protected,” writes Dave Russell, Vice President and Distinguished Analyst, and Pushan Rinnen, Research Director, in this year’s Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Backup Software and Integrated Appliances. “Organizations are also voicing the opinion that backup needs to improve a lot, not just a little. The rising frustration with backup implies that the data protection approaches of the past may no longer suffice in meeting current — much less future — recovery requirements.”

Veeam will showcase its availability solutions at VeeamON: The World’s Premier Data Center Availability Event, taking place October 6–9, 2014, at the Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, NV. Veeam will bring together industry-leading experts, Veeam customers and partners who will learn about enabling the Always-On Business. Registration is now open.

About Veeam Software
Veeam® enables the Always-On Business™ by providing solutions that deliver Availability for the Modern Data Centre™, which provides recovery time and point objectives (RTPO™) of less than 15 minutes for all applications and data. Veeam recognises the challenges in keeping a business up and running at all times and addresses them with solutions that provide high-speed recovery, data loss avoidance, verified protection, risk mitigation and complete visibility. Veeam Backup & Replication™ leverages technologies that enable the modern data centre, including VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, NetApp storage, and HP 3PAR StoreServ and StoreVirtual Storage, to help organisations meet RTPOs, save time, mitigate risks, and dramatically reduce capital and operational costs. Veeam Availability Suite™ provides all of the benefits and features of Veeam Backup & Replication along with advanced monitoring, reporting and capacity planning for the backup infrastructure. Veeam Management Pack™ extends Microsoft System Centre monitoring to enterprise vSphere environments and also offers monitoring, reporting and capacity planning for the Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructure. The Veeam Cloud Provider Program (VCP) offers flexible monthly and perpetual licensing to meet the needs of hosting, managed service and cloud service providers. VCP currently has more than 4,500 service provider partners worldwide. Monthly rental is available in more than 70 countries from more than 50 Veeam aggregators.

Founded in 2006, Veeam currently has 25,000 ProPartners and more than 101,000 customers worldwide. Veeam’s global headquarters are located in Baar, Switzerland, and the company has offices throughout the world.

Veeam garners most number of votes to clinch top spot in NetworkWorld Asia’s third Information Management Awards

Singapore – 23 June, 2014 - Veeam® Software, innovative provider of solutions that deliver Availability for the Modern Data Centre™, announced today that the company was voted the Most Promising Data Management Solution at this years’ NetworkWorld Asia’s (NWA) Information Management Awards in Singapore. This annual awards programme acknowledges industry leaders in Asia for significant advancements made in Information Security, Storage and Data Management.

“Veeam is delighted and honoured to be recognised as the Most Promising Data Management Solution provider for 2014. This is testament to our consistent improvement in building solutions to enable the Always-On Business,” said Don Williams, Regional Director APAC of Veeam Software. “We are dedicated to providing a new category of solutions to help businesses avoid data loss, extended downtime and lengthy recovery time and point objectives. Being voted for this award by key industry stakeholders shows that we are meeting market demand by enabling Availability for the Modern Data Centre.”

The annual NWA Information Management Awards is the only regional Editors’ Choice Awards in the field of information management. Backed by leading Asian publications and portals such as Networks Asia, Security Asia and Storage Asia, the finalists are carefully chosen by experienced editors with broad industry knowledge, as well as publishers, conference producers, marketers and a panel of CIO advisers with domain expertise and deep insights in Information Management.

“The volume, velocity and variety of data are straining network bandwidth, storage capacity, and uninterrupted availability of data centre resources for business-critical applications,” said Victor Ng, South-East Asia Bureau Chief of NetworkWorld Asia. “But solution providers like Veeam have once again proven their understanding of industry needs and market demands in the Asia Pacific region with their innovative technologies and applications.”

The winners for each of the 30 categories were selected based on their industry reputation, product features and unique selling points (USP), users’ feedback on the solution, durability, scalability, quality of service and whether there was widespread acceptance of the technology or brand. Finalists were short listed by NetworkWorld Asia’s editors and put up for online voting with 100 regional CIOs and IT leaders invited to vote.

About Veeam Software
Veeam® enables the Always-On Business™ by providing solutions that deliver Availability for the Modern Data Centre™, which provides recovery time and point objectives (RTPO™) of less than 15 minutes for all applications and data. Veeam recognises the challenges in keeping a business up and running at all times and addresses them with solutions that provide high-speed recovery, data loss avoidance, verified protection, risk mitigation and complete visibility. Veeam Backup & Replication™ leverages technologies that enable the modern data centre, including VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, NetApp storage, and HP 3PAR StoreServ and StoreVirtual Storage, to help organisations meet RTPOs, save time, mitigate risks, and dramatically reduce capital and operational costs. Veeam Availability Suite™ provides all of the benefits and features of Veeam Backup & Replication along with advanced monitoring, reporting and capacity planning for the backup infrastructure. Veeam Management Pack™ extends Microsoft System Centre monitoring to enterprise vSphere environments and also offers monitoring, reporting and capacity planning for the Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructure. The Veeam Cloud Provider Program (VCP) offers flexible monthly and perpetual licensing to meet the needs of hosting, managed service and cloud service providers. VCP currently has more than 4,500 service provider partners worldwide. Monthly rental is available in more than 70 countries from more than 50 Veeam aggregators.

Founded in 2006, Veeam currently has 25,000 ProPartners and more than 101,000 customers worldwide. Veeam’s global headquarters are located in Baar, Switzerland, and the company has offices throughout the world.

VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today expanded its portfolio of validated desktop solutions for vertical industries to address challenges experienced by individual business sectors. The solutions meet specific performance, availability and security needs of vertical industries such as education, financial services, healthcare, government and manufacturing using the advanced technology found in VMware Horizon™.

"President Barack Obama recently issued a memo to all federal agencies mandating that they do a better job offering telework and flexible work schedules to employeesi," said Erik Frieberg, vice president, product marketing, End-User Computing, VMware. "VMware's Federal Secure Desktop solution for the Federal Government is just one example of how our broad portfolio of vertical solutions can help organizations achieve their mandate efficiently and securely. By working closely with customers across industries, we understand the various IT challenges they encounter every day, and can accelerate their desktop modernization initiatives using our tested and validated solutions."

Vertical Industry Solutions
VMware works closely with technology partners to create complete, tested and validated solutions for critical use cases within a particular vertical industry. VMware vertical solutions help accelerate the time to value and minimize risk for customers.

Focus verticals include:
Education - The updated VMware Secure Online Testing solution makes it easy for school districts to deliver state mandated online testing that complies with the Common Core State Standards Initiative with minimal IT resources and disruption. VMware has achieved qualification from Pearson TestNav and is currently working on certification with the American Institutes for Research to securely deliver their online test system.

Federal Government - Built specifically for strict Federal Government security requirements, the updated VMware Federal Secure Desktop solution allows agencies to easily comply with the Federal Telework Initiative and meet the demands of agencies requiring the highest level of data protection. The solution includes key cybersecurity components such as SIPRNet token integration, CAC and PIV card support, and multi-level security to provide the most rigid, yet flexible data protection.

Financial Services - VMware's new AlwaysOn Financial Workplace™ solution can give financial services organizations peace of mind by providing high availability of their critical systems and business continuity for disaster planning. The solution also enables a more mobile workforce while complying with regulations around data privacy by keeping client information in the data center, in case of lost or stolen devices.

Healthcare - The new VMware Care Systems Analytics can monitor the health and performance of the entire Electronic Medical Record (EMR) clinical system environment -- from the infrastructure to the point of care -- to maximize the EMR investment. Along with VMware AlwaysOn Point of Care™ -- a secure, mobile and highly available clinical desktop, VMware Care Systems Analytics can help healthcare organizations improve clinical workflow and patient outcomes by alerting IT of potential issues so they can be resolved before the clinician is affected.

Manufacturing - The new VMware High Performance Desktop with 3-D solution can deliver workstation level performance while enabling secure collaboration. Companies with designers or developers in geographically dispersed locations can get the 3-D graphics performance they need to construct models and designs while companies benefit from their intellectual properties being protected in the data center.

"I'm excited about the level of visibility VMware Care Systems Analytics gives us into our EMR systems and supporting infrastructure," said Jason Theis, lead systems engineer, University of Colorado Health. "The solution gives us the ability to create role-based dashboards as well as shared dashboards that enhance communication between our geographically dispersed teams. It also automatically detects anomalies from the normal behavior of our environment and gives us a head start in troubleshooting by providing a list of potential root causes."

"The government IT landscape is changing rapidly. Establishing a virtual desktop infrastructure can help agencies address the multiple challenges introduced not only by increased mobility but also by the rising demand for multilevel security needed to support both in-house and mobile workers," said Shawn McCarthy, Research Director, IDC Government Insights.

Veeam® Software, innovative provider of solutions that deliver Availability for the Modern Data Center™, today announced that the company has been named a 2014 Gold Rising Star Award winner in Europe by the Global Technology Distribution Council (GTDC). Recognized during the GTDC European Vendor Summit, the awards cite outstanding sales growth of corresponding companies through their GTDC member distributors. Each winning performance was honored from among hundreds of manufacturers and publishers who rely on GTDC members to support tech resellers and solution providers in the region.

Veeam was awarded a Gold “Rising Star” ranking in the €100 Million - €250 Million category. Gold, Silver and Bronze Rising Star Award winners were selected in five revenue categories based on sales growth over the past year, as tracked by the CONTEXT SalesWatch Distribution Panel.

“We are very proud to have won the gold ranking this year, our third consecutive year of being honored with the “Rising Star” award,” said Gilles Pommier, VP Channel EMEA at Veeam Software. “Veeam is 100 percent channel-engaged, so our own success depends on the success of our partners. Businesses now require 24/7 access and through our data center availability solutions, including Veeam Availability Suite v8 coming later this year, our partners are able to ensure their customers achieve the Always-On Business™ status.”

Rising Star Awards Methodology
To be eligible for a Rising Star award, vendors must have sold corresponding products through GTDC members for at least one year. Selections for Gold, Silver and Bronze winners in each revenue category are based on CONTEXT SalesWatch data from April 2013 – March 2014.

About Veeam Software
Veeam® enables the Always-On Business™ by providing solutions that deliver Availability for the Modern Data Center™, which provides recovery time and point objectives (RTPO™) of less than 15 minutes for all applications and data. Veeam recognizes the challenges in keeping a business up and running at all times and addresses them with solutions that provide high-speed recovery, data loss avoidance, verified protection, risk mitigation and complete visibility. Veeam Backup & Replication™ leverages technologies that enable the modern data center, including VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, NetApp storage, and HP 3PAR StoreServ and StoreVirtual Storage, to help organizations meet RTPOs, save time, mitigate risks, and dramatically reduce capital and operational costs. Veeam Availability Suite™ provides all of the benefits and features of Veeam Backup & Replication along with advanced monitoring, reporting and capacity planning for the backup infrastructure. Veeam Management Pack™ extends Microsoft System Center monitoring to enterprise vSphere environments and also offers monitoring, reporting and capacity planning for the Veeam Backup & Replication infrastructure. The Veeam Cloud Provider Program (VCP) offers flexible monthly and perpetual licensing to meet the needs of hosting, managed service and cloud service providers. VCP currently has more than 4,500 service provider partners worldwide. Monthly rental is available in more than 70 countries from more than 50 Veeam aggregators.

Security and compliance features, cost-savings and modernization were key factors in the county’s decision to deploy over 100,000 seats of Microsoft Office 365.

On Wednesday, Microsoft Corp. announced that more than 100,000 employees of the County of Los Angeles will move to Microsoft Office 365 for Government, including roughly 20,000 law enforcement personnel.

“The county is constantly looking at opportunities to manage cost and improve service,” said Richard Sanchez, chief information officer for Los Angeles County. “Office 365 enables us to best manage our licenses, provide greater services to all 30-plus departments and control cost. Each department is unique in its needs and requirements, but departmental CIOs saw that with Office 365, they would be able to better serve the needs of their departmental employees and of the constituents.”

The county views Office 365 as a means to increase collaboration, provide a unified platform and help realize cost savings. These cost savings come in multiple forms. First, the county was able to consolidate 15 department enterprise agreements into one countywide agreement that ensures each department has access to the same Microsoft cloud services. This consistency improves performance in an environment that previously had multiple agency systems, hampering collaboration and increasing cost. Second, the agreement ensures that the county pays for only those services in use by existing employees. This represents a savings since staffing levels across various departments fluctuate from year to year or through seasonal workers. Finally, by moving to a cloud-based service, the county was able to avoid the type of large upfront capital expense traditionally required to modernize and consolidate systems.

The county’s transition to Microsoft cloud services also provides a platform for the future.

“The county sees a strong movement toward mobility by its staff and in its services offerings to the public through Web services and smart apps,” Sanchez said. “Departments will be able to start realizing the benefits of mobility. Using mobile devices, sheriff deputies can access information from their patrol cars, case workers can access files during a foster home visit, and a food inspector can file a report directly from a remote location. This move will help make county employees’ jobs easier by enabling them to exchange information and focus on delivery of services to citizens.”

The county’s desire to maintain its stringent standards for security and privacy requirements, including the Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) standard and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), was another major factor in its decision to choose Office 365.

“Office 365 provides the level of security and built-in compliance for HIPAA and CJIS that we require,” said Dr. Robert Pittman, chief information security officer for Los Angeles County.

“Los Angeles is the most populous county in the U.S. and realizes the importance of the due diligence required to make a move to the cloud,” said Michael Donlan, vice president, U.S. state and local government at Microsoft. “This move will afford it not only tangible cost savings but help provide enhanced productivity to government employees and county citizens — all through a cloud solution it is familiar with and can trust.”

Los Angeles County joins a long list of state and local government entities across the U.S. that are selecting Office 365. This includes a large number of California cities and counties, including San Francisco City and County, the cities of Long Beach, San Jose, Oakland and Anaheim, as well as Santa Clara County, Ventura County, and the San Bernardino County and Orange County sheriffs’ departments. Working with Los Angeles County, Microsoft Consulting Services will begin the migration to Office 365 in July, and Microsoft partner En Pointe Technologies will manage the agreement.

Microsoft’s work with Los Angeles County is part of the company’s program to empower people — whether governments, citizens or businesses — to transform their cities and their future. Through CityNext, people can take advantage of a broad portfolio of products and technologies, a global network of partners, and a long track record of successful education and social programs.

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services, devices and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

Once a month on The Fire Hose, Jacqueline Beauchere, Chief Online Safety Officer at Microsoft, shares her point of view on topics related to the global consumer online safety landscape. Follow the conversation on Twitter using #MSFTCOSO.

A global approach to awareness-raising and consumer education about the do’s and don’ts of online safety and security was the focus of a recent meeting sponsored by the U.S. National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA) and APWG (formerly the Anti-Phishing Working Group). The meeting, hosted by Microsoft at our Paris office, brought together more than 40 individuals representing government, technology companies, non-governmental organizations and child advocacy agencies from 13 countries. The group assembled to share knowledge and explore ways to collaborate to better protect people as they live out their lives online.

“We’re trying to reach everyone across the globe because we're all connected to the same Internet and, unless we're all safer and more secure as individuals, we won't have a safer and more secure Internet for us all," said Michael Kaiser, executive director of NCSA, based in Washington, D.C.

As Microsoft’s representative to the NCSA board of directors and the current board president, I’ve worked with Kaiser and others, encouraging them to engineer more formally an international extension of NCSA’s signature public-awareness campaign, STOP. THINK. CONNECT. (STC). Last month’s two-day meeting was the first official step in that process. Since its 2010 launch, STC has been recreated or adopted in 12 countries with at least two more acceptances pending, and is being leveraged by nearly 150 organizations, either for their own internal use to help educate employees or to share with customers.

This “working session” featured informative presentations from several of the participants about the compelling initiatives underway in their countries and regions—all aimed at helping individuals and families stay safer when they go online. A few questions emerged during the discussions that were interesting themes in and of themselves. For instance, what precise vocabulary is needed to describe a concerted international effort of this magnitude? Although technology companies and other organizations parse the terms security, online safety and privacy as separate and distinct but inter-related issues, research suggests that consumers see few differences. Rather, individuals focus on outcomes and end-results. For example, they want to protect their personal and financial information when banking online, or they want their children to be “safe.”

The group suggested promoting a “healthy digital lifestyle” or “digital well-being” as one possible approach. As sub-topics under those broader themes, participants identified four other possible joint focus areas: safety on mobile devices, protecting personal information, smarter social networking practices and protecting young people online. Going forward, the group will aim to coordinate around key dates that call for global action and involvement: Cyber Security Month in October, Safer Internet Day in February and perhaps Internet Safety Month in June. The group welcomes new members and organizations to help spread the message, and all were energized to convene again within a year.

Microsoft has supported STC since its conception more than five years ago, not only because we feel we share in the broad responsibility to help protect consumers online, but also because we feel that together—as industry, government, NGOs, child safety organizations and others—we can accomplish more than any singular entity on its own. We applaud NCSA and APWG for the Paris meeting, and look forward to continuing the compelling dialogue and further driving local and international calls to action.

For more information about Microsoft’s work in Internet safety, and to learn about our non-profit partners in public awareness-raising and consumer education, visit our Safety & Security Center; “like” us on Facebook; follow us on Twitter, and look for my “point of view” following the #MSFTCOSO hashtag.

Veeam® Software, innovative provider of solutions that deliver Availability for the Modern Data Center™, today announced Veeam Cloud Connect, part of the new Veeam Availability Suite™ v8, which will be generally available in Q3, 2014. The new functionality gives service providers a direct pipeline to benefit from the Veeam ecosystem, which includes over 100,000 customers. Veeam customers get a fully integrated, secure and efficient means to move backups to an offsite backup repository managed by the service provider of their choice, but without the upfront capital investment of an offsite infrastructure.

“To ensure complete data center availability in the event of any disaster, Veeam recommends that IT follow the 3-2-1 rule: three copies of data on two different kinds of media, one of which is offsite,” said Ratmir Timashev, President and CEO of Veeam. “Veeam Cloud Connect enables IT to fulfill the offsite requirement without having to invest in offsite infrastructure or management, and presents new opportunities for service providers and Veeam resellers to build recurring revenue, offer additional services and establish relationships with new customers.”

New Opportunities for Service Providers
Both current Veeam Cloud Providers (VCPs) and new Veeam service providers can leverage Veeam Cloud Connect to grow their customer base and recurring revenue streams. Setup only requires a single server and takes less than 10 minutes, providing all the infrastructure management capabilities a service provider needs to offer an offsite repository service to Veeam customers.

Plus, pricing has been tailored to meet the specific needs of service providers. Instead of an up-front perpetual license, Veeam offers service providers monthly per VM licensing. Finally, Veeam customers can search for and contact nearby service providers through an integrated Web portal in Veeam Availability Suite v8, bringing new customers right to the service provider’s doorstep.

Features for service providers include:
Cloud gateway: Virtualizes all traffic between the customer and the service provider through a single port, creating a convenient way for customers to connect with cloud resources through firewalls.
SSL connection: Reliable, secure connection over SSL eliminates extra costs, complexity and management overhead—maintaining VPN infrastructure is no longer necessary.
Multi-tenancy: Manage multiple customers, cloud repositories and cloud gateways from one all-inclusive management and reporting console.
Resource management: Allocate storage for each customer, while leveraging built-in reports and alerts to track storage consumption, manage expiration dates, and send automatic renewal reminders.
Scale-out architecture: Easily scale Veeam Cloud Connect infrastructure by deploying multiple cloud gateways, thus enabling automatic load balancing and high availability.
End-to-end encryption: All data is protected in-flight with SSL, and customers can additionally encrypt data at-source (before it leaves their network perimeter) and still get all the benefits of Built-in WAN Acceleration.

“We have provided offsite backup and disaster recovery for Veeam customers since 2011,” said Matthew Chesterton, President of OffsiteDataSync, a Rochester, NY-based cloud solutions company and a Gold Veeam Cloud Provider. “By supporting multi-tenancy and eliminating the need for VPN connections, Veeam Cloud Connect makes it easier to offer these services at scale. Our hosting and Veeam expertise, along with the new Cloud Connect functionality and Veeam’s huge presence in the market, will allow us to quickly acquire new customers, resulting in additional growth of our company’s overall profitability.”

“Our customers are increasingly telling us that their applications and data centers need to be available 24-7,” said Helene Caraux, Cloud Product Manager at OVH, a Platinum Veeam Cloud Provider. “With Veeam Cloud Connect, we can play an important role in making that happen by providing them with a simple, secure and affordable way to move backups offsite to our repository. It enables additional availability and security services for us as well as additional peace of mind for our customers. Thanks to Veeam, it’s a win for both of us.”

PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwired - Jun 26, 2014) - VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, today expanded its portfolio of validated desktop solutions for vertical industries to address challenges experienced by individual business sectors. The solutions meet specific performance, availability and security needs of vertical industries such as education, financial services, healthcare, government and manufacturing using the advanced technology found in VMware Horizon™.

"President Barack Obama recently issued a memo to all federal agencies mandating that they do a better job offering telework and flexible work schedules to employeesi," said Erik Frieberg, vice president, product marketing, End-User Computing, VMware. "VMware's Federal Secure Desktop solution for the Federal Government is just one example of how our broad portfolio of vertical solutions can help organizations achieve their mandate efficiently and securely. By working closely with customers across industries, we understand the various IT challenges they encounter every day, and can accelerate their desktop modernization initiatives using our tested and validated solutions."

Vertical Industry Solutions
VMware works closely with technology partners to create complete, tested and validated solutions for critical use cases within a particular vertical industry. VMware vertical solutions help accelerate the time to value and minimize risk for customers.

Focus verticals include:
Education - The updated VMware Secure Online Testing solution makes it easy for school districts to deliver state mandated online testing that complies with the Common Core State Standards Initiative with minimal IT resources and disruption. VMware has achieved qualification from Pearson TestNav and is currently working on certification with the American Institutes for Research to securely deliver their online test system.

Federal Government - Built specifically for strict Federal Government security requirements, the updated VMware Federal Secure Desktop solution allows agencies to easily comply with the Federal Telework Initiative and meet the demands of agencies requiring the highest level of data protection. The solution includes key cybersecurity components such as SIPRNet token integration, CAC and PIV card support, and multi-level security to provide the most rigid, yet flexible data protection.

Financial Services - VMware's new AlwaysOn Financial Workplace™ solution can give financial services organizations peace of mind by providing high availability of their critical systems and business continuity for disaster planning. The solution also enables a more mobile workforce while complying with regulations around data privacy by keeping client information in the data center, in case of lost or stolen devices.

Healthcare - The new VMware Care Systems Analytics can monitor the health and performance of the entire Electronic Medical Record (EMR) clinical system environment -- from the infrastructure to the point of care -- to maximize the EMR investment. Along with VMware AlwaysOn Point of Care™ -- a secure, mobile and highly available clinical desktop, VMware Care Systems Analytics can help healthcare organizations improve clinical workflow and patient outcomes by alerting IT of potential issues so they can be resolved before the clinician is affected.

Manufacturing - The new VMware High Performance Desktop with 3-D solution can deliver workstation level performance while enabling secure collaboration. Companies with designers or developers in geographically dispersed locations can get the 3-D graphics performance they need to construct models and designs while companies benefit from their intellectual properties being protected in the data center.

"I'm excited about the level of visibility VMware Care Systems Analytics gives us into our EMR systems and supporting infrastructure," said Jason Theis, lead systems engineer, University of Colorado Health. "The solution gives us the ability to create role-based dashboards as well as shared dashboards that enhance communication between our geographically dispersed teams. It also automatically detects anomalies from the normal behavior of our environment and gives us a head start in troubleshooting by providing a list of potential root causes."

"The government IT landscape is changing rapidly. Establishing a virtual desktop infrastructure can help agencies address the multiple challenges introduced not only by increased mobility but also by the rising demand for multilevel security needed to support both in-house and mobile workers," said Shawn McCarthy, Research Director, IDC Government Insights.