PALO ALTO, CA--(Marketwire - June 2, 2009) - VMware, Inc. (
NYSE:
VMW), the global leader
in virtualization solutions from the desktop through the datacenter and to
the cloud, today announced that TradeBeam, Inc., a leading provider of
on-demand supply-chain management solutions, is using VMware vSphere™ 4
to power its software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution.
TradeBeam's SaaS offering provides over 6,000 organizations with import and
export compliance, inventory management, shipment tracking, supply-chain
event management, and global trade finance solutions. TradeBeam has
embraced cloud computing as the strategic direction for its IT operations,
leading the company to evaluate VMware vSphere4 as a platform to transform
its datacenter into a cloud infrastructure. VMware vSphere 4 is designed
to aggregate and holistically manage large collections of IT resources --
including CPUs, storage and network equipment -- as a seamless, flexible
and dynamic operating environment. During the beta program, TradeBeam
found VMware vSphere 4 to be extremely effective for managing the company's
heterogeneous environment, which includes high-capacity storage systems and
sophisticated networking technologies.
"Cloud computing is the future for us, and VMware vSphere 4 is an ideal
platform," said Nasser Mirzai, vice president of IT at TradeBeam. "In our
business, prospective customers would need to have similar environment to
the production systems during the on-boarding phase for their training and
process re-engineering for weeks or even months. In the past, we had to
dedicate large amounts of computing resources for each new customer. It's
very expensive to scale that type of sales model. VMware vSphere 4 allows
us to pool our computing resources in an internal cloud. We can then carve
out a virtualized piece of the infrastructure for any new customer aside
from the production systems. We can manage our resources and increase
utilization much more efficiently while helping our customers with their
budgets and deployment."
During the beta program, TradeBeam was particularly interested in VMware
vSphere 4 features that maximize efficiency and control. VMware vStorage
Thin Provisioning, for example, can help TradeBeam expand its use of shared
storage and reduce storage-related costs by up to 50 percent. Another new
feature, VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch, helps simplify network
management and configuration and nearly eliminates the possibility of human
error. Other new features, such as VMware Fault Tolerance, can help
TradeBeam ensure high availability and operational resiliency at a fraction
of the cost and effort required for traditional tools.
"The capabilities and tools in VMware vSphere 4 really do seem too good to
be true," said Mirzai. "In addition to the enhancements in efficiency and
control, VMware vSphere will give us choice -- the flexibility to utilize
nearly any type of server, any storage system, and any OS that could help
our company. That's important because we have a heterogeneous environment
with products and solutions from multiple vendors. The beauty of a cloud
is that it aggregates these resources and allows us to deploy internally or
with a VMware vCloud service provider, enabling us to choose where we want
the application to live. VMware vSphere 4 will allow us to bring
everything together seamlessly so we can run applications more efficiently,
accelerate time to market, and optimize reliability and performance. I've
found vSphere to be a great fit for our cloud roadmap."
VMware vSphere 4 offers organizations like TradeBeam an evolutionary,
non-disruptive path to cloud computing that helps to decrease IT costs
while positioning IT to be a flexible and responsive service provider.
VMware vSphere 4 will enable TradeBeam's applications to be provisioned via
the cloud on-demand and with guaranteed service levels. VMware vSphere 4 is
now generally available. For more information on VMware vSphere please go
to
http://www.vmware.com/go/vSphere.
About VMware
VMware (
NYSE:
VMW) is the global leader in virtualization solutions from
the desktop to the datacenter -- bringing cloud computing to businesses of
all sizes. Customers rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating
expenses, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green.
With 2008 revenues of $1.9 billion, more than 130,000 customers and more
than 24,000 partners, VMware is one of the fastest growing public software
companies. Headquartered in Palo Alto, California, VMware is majority-owned
by EMC Corporation (
NYSE:
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www.vmware.com.
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Contact Information: Contact:
Renee Spooner
VMware Public Relations
rspooner@vmware.com
(303) 942-4609