VMware, Inc. : VMware Delivers VMware vCenter Operations Management(TM) Suite

PALO ALTO, CA -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 01/25/12 -- VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualizationcloud infrastructure, today announced the general availability of the VMware vCenter Operations Management™ Suite. Part of VMware's comprehensive management portfolio, the VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite is designed to help customers deliver IT as a service by simplifyingautomating the operations of virtualcloud environments.

"The highly dynamic nature of cloud infrastructure has outpaced traditional operations management disciplines, requiring customers to think differently about how to manage their virtualcloud environments," said Rob Smoot, director, product marketing, Enterprise Management, VMware. "The VMware vCenter Operations Management™ Suite provides customers with greater visibility 'under the hood' of their infrastructures,it provides the actionable intelligence customers need to optimize efficiency, enable complianceproactively manage service levels."

Unveiled in , redefines IT management by embeddingintegrating management into the platform, converging disciplines to streamline processesapplying analytics to help customers achieve the agilityeconomics of cloud computing. Updates to the VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite include deeper integration of capacityconfiguration management capabilitiesnew "application awareness" to enable customers to optimize infrastructure operations based on application needs.

"The next step in our journey to cloud computing is to streamlineautomate the operations of our cloud infrastructure," said Matthew Cunningham, Senior Vice President of IT, CareCore National. "The VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite gives us better visibility into key performance, healthefficiency indicators across the operationalinfrastructure environmentsallows us to achieve higher service levels of our business-critical applications from a single management console."

The VMware vCenter Operations Suite is tightly integrated with ®,includes the following new features:

• Tighter integration of performance, capacityconfiguration management
  VMware continues to deliver on its strategy of converging management disciplines with deeper integration of into the vCenter Operations Management Suite. This helps customers to identify emerging problems, "right size" infrastructure resources,identifyremediate performance issues caused by configuration changes.
  
  
• New dashboardsmart alerts for quicker, more effective health analysis
  Leveraging the deeper integration of capacityconfiguration management data, VMware has enhanced the vCenter Operations Management dashboard to provide more comprehensive views into health, riskefficiency of cloud infrastructure. New smart alerts provide proactive notifications of emerging health, performancecapacity issues. Automated root cause analysis can identify the offending metric across all layers of the infrastructure.
  
  
• "Application Awareness" optimizes infrastructure for business-critical applications
  The VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite includes a new application awareness capability that can automatically discovermap the relationshipsdependencies between applicationsthe infrastructure components that support them. This can help customers optimize infrastructure operations such as security managementdisaster recovery based on individual application needs.

PricingAvailability
The updated VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite is available in four editions to meet the IT operations needs of customers of all sizes -- from smallmidsized businesses (SMBs) to large enterprises. List prices start at $50 per VM. Updates are also available as a free upgrade for current VMware vCenter Operations customers. For more information, visit

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About VMware
VMware is the leader in virtualizationcloud infrastructure solutions that enable businesses to thrive in the Cloud Era. Customers rely on VMware to help them transform the way they build, deliverconsume Information Technology resources in a manner that is evolutionarybased on their specific needs. With 2011 revenues of $3.77 billion, VMware has more than 300,000 customers25,000 partners. The company is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the worldcan be found online at .

VMware, VMware vSphere, VMware vCenterVMware vCenter Operations Management are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. All other marksnames mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies. The use of the word "partner" or "partnership" does not imply a legal partnership relationship between VMwareany other company.

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