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At its Virtualisation Forum 2008 event in India, Vmware showcased the benefits that Indian businesses have achieved by implementing its virtualisation solutions.
VMware claims to have more than 550 customers in India today and more than 230 partners to support its business expansion across the country.
Virtualisation Forum 2008 aimed at driving virtualisation adoption in India. The event attracted more than 1000 delegates representing companies across key industries and has more than 15 sponsors and exhibiting companies. This strong support reflects VMware’s leadership and momentum amongst the Indian business community.
Factors like accelerating rate of business change, non-negotiable requirements for 24X7 business resiliency, and inexorable pressure to reduce costs are increasing the need for companies across various industries to adopt virtualisation. VMware offers a broad portfolio of virtualisation solutions that span the desktop to the data centre.
VMware’s customers in India include Atrenta India, BPCL, Chitale Dairy, i2 Technologies, Macawber Beekay and Religare.
Firstsource, a player in the BPO space, has benefitted from deploying VMware virtualisation technology in its data centre. VMware has helped Firstsource improve data security, ease the burden of desktop administration, and reduce the cost associated with operating numerous desktop systems. Firstsource has implemented desktop virtualisation for about 400 desktops in the initial phase, and nearly 500 servers virtualising their application server farms, including Oracle 8/9i, Apache Tomcat, SAP, CRM and variety of other business applications.
Prashanth MG, senior vice president, technology for Firstsource said, “As a BPO company, our success is largely incumbent on adopting and deploying the right technology to leverage the necessary operational efficiencies and deliver timely solutions to customers. Scaling the IT infrastructure at the desired speed was just not possible with the traditional physical server-based systems and desktops. VMware Infrastructure has helped us make better use of our data centre space, power savings, improve application availability and strengthen our disaster-recovery capability.”
Raghu Raghuram, VMware vice president, product and solutions marketing, said “Given today’s economic conditions, companies are telling us that virtualization continues to be a top priority as they seek IT solutions that deliver significant business results quickly. VMware is positioned as a strategic IT partner as we offer a complete virtualisation platform and solution portfolio. Customers across key industries are achieving clear business benefits, including cost savings from consolidating more servers, reducing power and cooling requirements and green IT; at the same time, they gain new capabilities for their systems to run their business, including enhanced security, business continuity, disaster recovery, and high availability.”