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professional services revenues, including training. Our corporate headquarters are located at 3401 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, California, and we have
approximately 97 offices worldwide.
Products and Technology
Software
-Defined-Data-Center
VMware’s SDDC architecture consists of four main product categories:
Compute
VMware vSphere is our flagship data center platform and provides the fundamental compute layer for VMware environments. A “hypervisor” is a layer
of software that resides between the operating system and system hardware to enable compute virtualization. Users deploy the VMware vSphere hypervisor
when they purchase VMware vSphere or suite versions that include vSphere, such as vCloud suites.
Storage and Availability
VMware provides many storage and availability products to offer cost-
effective holistic data storage and protection options to all applications running on
the vSphere platform. Key technologies in this area include:
Network and Security
Network virtualization abstracts physical networks and greatly simplifies the provisioning and consumption of networking resources. In addition,
security services are built in, do not require purpose-built hardware, and can scale with the network. VMware’s key product in this area is VMware NSX,
launched in the third quarter of 2013. While the market for network virtualization is in an early stage, we believe that network virtualization product
offerings, including VMware NSX, have the potential to be as transformational for networks as server virtualization has been for computing.
Management and Automation
VMware’s management and automation products move beyond core infrastructure to manage and automate overarching IT processes involved in
provisioning IT services and resources to users from initial infrastructure deployment to retirement. These IT processes manage virtualized and non-
virtualized infrastructure resources, and private and public cloud infrastructures, including hybrid cloud services. Examples of products in the management
and automation product portfolio include:
Our SDDC offerings are available separately or may be acquired in a single solution. The vCloud Suite, is an integrated solution for building and
managing a complete cloud infrastructure optimized for use with the VMware vSphere platform. vCloud Suite is our first set of products designed to fulfill
the promise of the software-defined data center by pooling industry-standard hardware and running compute, networking and management functions in the
data center as software-defined services.
vCloud Suite offerings include combinations of the following components:
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Compute
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Storage and Availability
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Network and Security
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Management and Automation
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vSAN
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clusters server disks to create radically simple shared storage designed for virtual machines.
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vSphere Replication
– provides cost-
efficient and simple way to manage replication.
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vCenter Site Recovery Manager
– leverages vSphere and vSphere Replication to protect applications against site failures and to streamline
planned migrations.
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vCenter Operations Management
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provides performance, capacity and configuration management for virtual or physical infrastructure.
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vCloud Automation Center
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enables customers to rapidly deploy and provision cloud services.
• IT Business Management Suite –
provides transparency and control over the costs and quality of IT services.
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vSphere Enterprise Plus
– VMware's virtualization platform enabling server virtualization with its most robust feature set designed for policy-
based automation.
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vCloud Director
– enables self-service access to logical pools of compute, network and storage resources with policy-driven controls and service-
level agreements.