Partners Support on SMB offerings in VMware vSphereTM 4
Dell
“SMBs require the same level of data availability, data protection and disaster recovery as enterprises. Combining Dell PowerEdge servers, EqualLogic storage arrays and VMware vSphere 4, SMBs can now obtain this level of protection via a cost-effective, virtualized solution”.
—Steve Felice, senior vice president, Global SMB Business, Dell
Fujitsu
"VMware and Fujitsu together provide a compelling, feature-rich and cost-effective solution for mid-market customers. With Fujitsu's support of VMware vSphere 4 on Fujitsu PRIMERGY servers, customers have a rock-solid and energy-efficient platform upon which to build flexible virtual infrastructure solutions."
—Manuel Martull, senior director, Server Marketing, Fujitsu America
HP
"Channel partners and small and mid-sized businesses can turn to HP for a complete virtualization solution designed to save them money and reduce the risks associated with implementing a new infrastructure. As a leader in providing technology solutions to small and midsized businesses, HP has collaborated with VMware to create solution blocks specifying appropriate servers, storage, networking and services with the new VMware vSphere 4 Essentials offerings. These offerings simplify deployment and accelerate time to results. For customers needing ‘Always On IT’ infrastructures, these include our HP LeftHand Virtual SAN Appliance Software and entry iSCSI SAN systems that provide cost-effective yet highly available shared storage."
— Scott Farrand, vice president, Industry Standard Server Software, HP
IBM
"For smaller businesses, IBM packages leading technology with simplified management and operation to allow users to get the most benefit from virtualization technologies such as VMware vSphere 4. For example, our BladeCenterS is an all-in-one solution that comes with ample shared, internal storage to support more than 200 virtual machines, an ideal solution for SMB users."
— Robert Zuber, an executive with IBM's System x server line
Intel
“The Intel® Modular Server is a perfect fit with VMware vSphereTM 4, with its new features and product editions that deliver ‘Always On IT’ for small and midsized businesses (SMBs) and remote and branch office (ROBO) IT environments. The Modular Server has a SAN built into the system which enables end users to take advantage of higher-end VMware technologies without the cost and complexity of traditional hardware.”
—Jared Leavitt, worldwide product line manager, Intel® Modular Server
Stratus Technologies
“Uptime reliability and data integrity are equally important to SMBs as they are to large enterprises; the resources available to achieve them are where there’s wide disparity. VMware’s vSphere 4 opens the door wider than ever to SMBs for enterprise-class performance. VMware’s software together with hardware fault tolerance is an unbeatable combination for the best in uptime reliable, manageability, and ease of operation. And for users of VMware vSphere 4 Essentials, Stratus servers provide the only avenue for continuous availability of the virtualization platform.”
—Denny Lane, director, product marketing and management, Stratus Technologies
Sun Microsystems
"Sun and VMware are partnering to help companies adapt to changing business conditions without expensive hardware upgrades and frustrating systems integrations. Sun's broad systems portfolio, including Open Storage and Solaris ZFS, combined with VMware vSphere 4 can help customers realize substantial storage performance and utilization gains.”
—David Simmons, senior director, Mid-Market Business, Sun Microsystems
Unisys
“VMware and Unisys together provide a compelling, feature-rich, and cost-effective solution for mid-market customers desiring the benefits of an enterprise environment. With our planned support of VMware vSphere 4 on the Unisys ES3000 series, customers have an OPEX-friendly platform which delivers a highly available and scalable solution."
— Rod Sapp, director, Enterprise Servers, Unisys
