"Customers of all sizes rely on VMware's virtualization software at the core of their data centers and as a key building block in their hybrid cloud environments," said John Gilmartin, vice president and general manager, SDDC Suite Business Unit, VMware. "We believe VMware's placement in the Leader's Quadrant for five consecutive years highlights the impact our vision, strategy and offerings are having within modern IT environments. Importantly, we continue to innovate and extend virtualization beyond compute to network virtualization and software-defined storage to help our customers dramatically increase IT efficiency, agility and flexibility across data center domains."