Ankit Mehrotra, Technical Consultant – Government, VMware India, commented, “VMware is the fifth largest company providing Cloud infrastructure services. We have clients like ICICI bank, HP, Infosys and Cognizant. By mid 2011, about 81% of the installed Cloud base was on VMware,” said Mehrotra.
Talking about virtualization, he said that the technology had changed the face of data centers. Along with virtualization, there are many technologies that work side by side in a data center, be it security, network etc. Email has emerged as the most popular service.
“Though VMware is predominantly known for virtualization, we do more than that. We provide data center consolidation by virtualizing physical servers and enabling organizations to run fewer physical servers. We build the private Cloud for our customers on their own infrastructure and data centers,” said Mehrotra.
With virtualization, companies can save up to 80-90% of their operational costs as the day-to-day IT costs come down. Also, according to a study done by IDC, there are more virtual machines running today than physical ones. “Virtualization is the foundation of Cloud computing. The moment you virtualize, you start to go further. It is the beginning of the journey to the Cloud,” he said.
VMware also manages SLAs for applications, which run in virtual data centers. “We also offer business continuity or disaster recovery solutions to our clients,” he added.
Talking about BYOD, he said that VMware had solutions that ensured the secure delivery of services/software. “Moving on, as part of our desktop solutions, we deliver a smart desktop to smart devices. You can access your desktop from any device be it a smartphone or a tablet,” he added.
