"Customers around the world both large and small rely on VMware's unified platform of virtualized compute, network, and storage software to power their businesses," said Mark Lohmeyer, vice president of product management and marketing, Cloud Platform Business Unit, VMware. "We believe that VMware's placement in the Leaders Quadrant demonstrates the impact our vision, strategy, and offerings are having in today's IT environments. We will continue to drive innovation across VMware's unified platform, including VMware vSphere®, to enable our customers to virtualize any application and to achieve breakthrough IT efficiency, agility and flexibility across hybrid cloud environments."