VMware and Cisco Collaborate on Cloud Innovation

LAS VEGAS, NV — Today at VMworld® 2011, VMware and Cisco announced new technology technology and enhancements to their combined virtualization solutions that help clients accelerate their journey to the cloud. Expanding on a strategic relationship and engineering collaboration that spans more than four years, the companies, in conjunction with industry partners, unveiled a breakthrough in network virtualization that will broaden the mobility range of virtual machines across multiple datacenters and cloud environments. The companies as well announced enhancements to several desktop virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions designed to boost scalability, security and performance.

The same time with VMware

"At the same time with VMware, Cisco has unlocked the power of the network to extend virtual machines beyond the confines of a single stack to the entire data center and cloud infrastructure from different locations. VXLAN will provide the ability to scale networking segments to millions of VMs to ease the deployment of applications in the cloud. As well, by segmenting these VMs and applications via highly secure virtual networks, clients will be able to achieve the security required for multi-tenant cloud environments," said Soni Jiandani, senior vice president, Server, Access, Virtualization Research Group for Cisco.

"Our partnership with Cisco has resulted in numerous research innovations that are delivering strategic value across customer environments," said Raghu Raghuram, senior vice president and general manager, Cloud Infrastructure and Management, VMware. "With the new and enhanced research integrations announced today, we're continuing to help clients transform their datacenters for enterprise hybrid cloud computing and their desktops for the post-PC era."

About VMware VMware delivers virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions that enable IT organizations to energize businesses of all sizes. With the industry leading virtualization platform -- VMware vSphere® -- clients rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, improve agility, ensure business continuity, strengthen security and go green. With 2010 earnings of $2.9 billion, more than 250,000 clients and 25,000 partners, VMware is the leader in virtualization which consistently ranks as a top priority among CIOs. VMware is headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices throughout the world and can be found online at www.vmware.com.

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