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"VMware works closely with schools all around the world to bring cost effective virtual desktops to help close achievement gaps for students and simplify management for IT," said David Grant, vice president, product marketing, desktop products, End-User Computing, VMware. "We have an entire portfolio of validated solutions for vertical industries and understand the circumstances each one faces. Our proven track record offers specialized solutions for their everyday challenges."

Automating DevOps with VMware's Unified Cloud Platform

New Technology Previews Ease Development, Testing and Running of Containerized Applications

The Bitnami Launchpad for VMware vCloud Air OnDemand provides fully configured and ready-to-run cloud templates that can be launched with just a few clicks onto any size cloud instance. This makes it incredibly easy for users to deploy apps and spin up development environments, without having to manually configure anything. By removing complexities associated with the cloud and by providing more applications for users to run, Bitnami Launchpad for VMware vCloud Air can provide a low-friction path for users to run their applications in the hybrid cloud.

"We're proud of the position VMware has placed in IDC's Marketscape report as it marks a huge shift in the client computing landscape," said Sumit Dhawan, senior vice president and general manager, desktop, End-User Computing, VMware. "This achievement is due to the tireless work of everyone in the VMware End-User Computing business unit and the spirit of innovation shared among the team. We will continue to push the envelope of innovation to help customers transform their desktops and deliver applications to any device, on any platform, anywhere using a secure virtual workspace so workers can truly take advantage of the mobile cloud."

The City was looking to improve its ability to recover from unforeseen disasters through cloud-based disaster recovery. Given the diverse sets of users accessing its private cloud infrastructure and cybersecurity goals they had defined, Avondale also sought to improve controls within their hybrid cloud environment. The City teamed with IT Partners (a VMware Solution Provider Partner) to implement production deployments of vCloud Air Disaster Recovery, followed by implementation of the VMware NSX network virtualization platform.

"Security is a critical concern for our health care customers who must deliver patient services quickly, in a secure manner. We use VMware NSX network virtualization to simplify and automate the delivery of Intel Security's McAfee NSP through our new Cloud. This allows us to offer our customers the same advanced levels of threat protection for all their data center traffic, with security controls aligned with each application," said Matt Ferrari, CTO, ClearDATA.

"Vodafone is continuously improving its state-of-the-art infrastructure to optimize the customer experience, which is why it is the first German carrier to roll out Voice over LTE," said Rui Frazao, Director Network Engineering, Vodafone Germany. "By making the decision to own and manage our own platform and deploying VMware virtualization technology as the basis of our NFV infrastructure. Vodafone has been able to combine the best Virtual Network Functions (VNFs) from different vendors on a single platform, and to bring high-value services to market more quickly."

VMware and its partners will deliver the following demonstrations in VMware/EMC booth 42/43 in the NFV World Congress exhibition area. Both demonstrations are based on the ETSI NFV reference architecture, utilizing the VMware vCloud for NFV platform across mobile core and vCPE use cases.

VMware Virtual SAN Delivers High Performance and Scalable Storage for VMware Horizon 6