Marketing description

VMware vSphere is the industry's complete, scalable and powerful virtualization platform, delivering the infrastructure that organizations need to transform their information technology.
The vSphere provides unparalleled agility, control and efficiency while fully preserving customer choice.
Designed for organizations that want to optimize existing IT assets and costly datacenter expansions, VMware vSphere Standard edition provides an entry-level solution for basic consolidation of applications to slash hardware costs while accelerating application deployment.

Key selling points

• Efficiency through utilization and automation
• Dramatically lower IT costs
• Agility with control
• Freedom of choice
• Consolidate and optimize IT hardware
• Improve business continuity
• Streamline IT operations

Product features

• Efficiency through utilization and automation
  Achieve high consolidation ratios and improve hardware utilization without sacrificing performance.
• Dramatically lower IT costs
  Reduce capital expenditures and operational expenditures to achieve lower IT infrastructure costs for each application running on vSphere.
• Agility with control
  Respond quickly to changing business needs without sacrificing security or control, and deliver zero-touch infrastructure with built-in availability, scalability and performance guarantees for all business-critical applications running on vSphere.
• Freedom of choice
  Use a common, standards-based platform to leverage existing IT assets, and enhance vSphere through open APIs with solutions from a global ecosystem of leading technology providers.
• Consolidate and optimize IT hardware
  vSphere enables IT organizations to delay costly and disruptive datacenter expansion projects by making it possible to consolidate 15 or more virtual machines on a single physical server without sacrificing performance or throughput.
• Improve business continuity
  vSphere helps organizations reduce the cost and complexity of business continuity and disaster recovery with always-on IT capabilities and layered protection against service outages and data loss.
• Streamline IT operations
  vSphere lowers operational overhead and dramatically simplifies the management of large, geographically distributed development, QA and production IT environments.