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"We're on an amazing journey with our VMware NSX customers, going from only a handful of early adopter beta customers three years ago to exceeding 1,700 customers today that come from every region and every industry across the world," said Milin Desai, vice president, Product Management, Networking and Security Business Unit, VMware. "To be able to share this many customer stories, and showcase the evolution and diversity of use cases this year at VMworld, speaks volumes to the maturity and mainstream acceptance of VMware NSX as a platform for IT transformation."

A recent survey of the Virtual SAN customer base found that 64 percent of respondents (3) are now running business critical applications. That figure spikes to 81 percent (4) for customers running all-flash systems. According to Gartner, hyper-converged integrated systems (HCISs) market is forecast to grow from $371.5 million in 2014 to nearly $5 billion by 2019, which represents a 68 percent compound annual growth rate (CAGR). (5)

The need for organizations to effectively develop infrastructure across multiple public and private cloud environments is more crucial than ever before because most businesses need to optimize existing applications and services while innovating fast on new offerings. VMware vRealize Suite enables businesses to embrace both public and private cloud infrastructures to gain a major competitive edge in an increasingly digital world. By combining VMware's cloud automation, cloud operations management and cloud business analytics solutions into one holistic integrated platform, IT teams have the transparency, control and flexibility to combine the best aspects of public and private cloud.

Highlighting the conference theme of "be_TOMORROW," VMworld 2016 U.S. -- which kicks off on Aug. 28 in Las Vegas -- will feature more than 400 unique breakout sessions from VMware and its community of partners and customers. With more than 23,000 expected attendees, this year's conference is supported by more than 220 sponsors and exhibitors, including Global Diamond Sponsors Dell, EMC, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Intel, NetApp and Palo Alto Networks.

"Since VMware originally pioneered virtualization for x86 systems, our customers have embraced VMware vSphere® broadly across their infrastructure to deliver IT efficiency and business agility," said Mark Lohmeyer, vice president of products, Cloud Platform Business Unit, VMware. "We believe being positioned as a leader in the Magic Quadrant underscores the value of our innovative offerings to customers around the world today and recognizes our strategic vision for the future. We continue to extend VMware vSphere to provide our customers with a common platform for running all of their applications -- traditional and cloud-native -- across both private and public clouds."

"The transformative nature of mobility has cause the mobile endpoint to become the primary computing device for many businesses, and these same organizations are struggling to keep up with the device and app proliferation. The truth is managing mobile devices can be a timely and complicated process," said Blake Brannon, vice president of Product Marketing, End-User Computing, VMware. "Without the need for technical knowledge or additional IT staff, AirWatch Express empowers organizations to support an ever increasing mobile workforce."

Hewett has nearly 30 years of emerging market experience, with most of it focused on Asia Pacific. He joins VMware from IBM, where he most recently served as vice president for IBM Software for Asia Pacific, leading a team of over 1,800 people across sales, acquisition integration, subscription & support, software support and software services. Prior, Hewett has played roles leading a team of 400 Enterprise sales specialists spanning eight growth markets including South East Asia, India and South Asia, Greater China, Korea, Australia/New Zealand, Central and Eastern Europe, Middle East and Africa, and Latin America.

Connect offers several opportunities for attendees to collaborate on mobile initiatives with business innovators, thought leaders and technology experts, and network with leaders in the VMware, AirWatch and mobile communities. Conference highlights include:

"Our adoption of a VMware-based software-defined data centre will enable our cloud transformation, and help IT be a strategic partner by operating at the speed at which our business is moving," said Abdulaziz A. Al-Duaij, Manager Information Technology Department in KNPC. "The units throughout our refineries depend on IT services for informed decision making. Our VMware-based private cloud lets us provision IT services faster, and enables us to put applications and Big Data on top of our cloud services so senior management has access to actionable business intelligence."