VMware fixes growth of clients in Russia since the beginning of year for 32%

Sales of VMware among the state and private enterprises increased in 2010 three times. Products of the company were especially demanded in the bank, oil and gas, telecommunication and transport industries and also in public sector. However the most significant growth showed medium and small business (SMB). In the last two years the number of the SMB enterprises using technologies of VMware in Russia and the CIS doubled. Thus, medium and small business became one of the most fast-growing segments of the customer base of VMware.

Cooperation of VMware with regional partners became one more factor which defined success. The number of the companies which are actively selling solutions based on technologies of VMware increased since January of this year by 60%. The total quantity of partners of VMware in Russia and the CIS exceeds 500 for today.

"This year we reached excellent indicators and we expect the further growth as the increasing number of clients begins to realize financial, ecological and organizational advantages which virtualization and "cloud" calculations provide them to business, - Antich Anton, the area manager of VMware Inc in Russia and the CIS comments. – Our region opens ample opportunities for VMware and benefit for partners and clients".

"Many companies will complete server virtualization and will pass to essentially new model of production and consumption of IT which is referred to as "IT as service" based on internal and hybrid "clouds". VMware helps clients to make this transition, allowing their IT services to reach unsurpassed operational efficiency and speed of reaction to business requests", - Anton Antich says.

"During our long-term cooperation VMware became for MTS not just software provider, but the strategic partner helping to develop business of MTS on the basis of the advancing implementation in operating activities of the company of innovations in information technology field and the advanced solutions in the field of virtualization, - the CIO of MTS Shorzhin Valery Viktorovich notes. - The MTS company uses products of VMware since 2004, and during this time we were convinced of their reliability and quality".

"Dynamically developing IT-services on Baltika, we came to such boundaries which demanded review of approach from extensive building of infrastructure to optimal use of available capacities. We looked for the mature IT solution which fits into our infrastructure and meets our requirements for controllability, fault tolerance to provide availability of IT services to end users. A choice was made for benefit of VMware as the most functional and developed system which efficiency and reliability confirmed numerous successful implementations", - Ilya Tambovtsev, the head of development of information infrastructure of JSC Baltika Brewery comments.

"The choice of the VMware platform was caused by its maturity and prevalence in the market. Components of the platform can be installed on any servers of architecture of x86, the list of supported operating systems is also very wide, and the completeness of functionality of products of VMware allows to create failsafe dynamic data processing centers of new generation that entirely corresponds to strategic plans of the company for the next years", - Malafeev Alexey, the associate director, the chief of service of PTS of the Enterprise of Means of Supervisory and Technology control and Information Technologies of JSC TGC-1 says.

"The solution of VMware suited us as well as possible, implementation took place very smoothly. Thanks to virtualization we can, without gathering additional IT personnel, it is easy to cope with repeatedly increased amount of works", - Alexey Gusev, the head of the laboratory of technical means of training of humanitarian faculty of Saint Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics and Optics notes.

VMware continues to invest resources in interaction with regional clients. Among recent initiatives of the company:

• The VMware vSphere platform received the certificate of conformity to requirements for security of information of Federal Service for Technical and Export Control of Russia. It means that the state organizations from now on will be able to take advantages of cooperation with VMware on the way to "cloud" calculations.
• Since this year, VMware offers the clients full Russian-language support. The possibility of use of a mother tongue considerably will facilitate interaction of regional customers with VMware.
• In the summer of 2010 the representative office of VMware in Kazakhstan which is considered one of the most perspective markets in the former Soviet Union opened.