EMC Expands Virtualization Portfolio with New VMware Services

EMC Corporation, an information infrastructure solutions, is now a gold-level VMware authorized consultant (VAC), strengthening and expanding its global alliance with VMware to help enterprise customers around the world accelerate the business benefits they can realize by virtualizing their information infrastructures and data centers.

Customers recognize the VMware platform as a well suited environment for information infrastructures and choose EMC's technology because of the breadth of its VMware-integrated products and features, according to the firm. EMC's global services helps customer to accelerate the benefits from virtual infrastructure by extending these benefits into a consistent enterprise-wide strategy. The EMC global services portfolio for the VMware platform focuses on key customer requirements, such as: business continuity for virtualized environments including VMware site recovery manager (SRM), VMware operations, management, and reporting best practices, VMware infrastructure acceleration and implementation, planning and deploying client virtualization.

"EMC's deep knowledge of enterprise infrastructure, combined with our longstanding engineering relationships with tier-one application vendors and our broad product portfolio of VMware-integrated products make it possible for EMC to deliver high-value services that enable our customers to get to the next level within their VMware adoption curve," said Howard Elias, EMC's president, EMC global services & resource management software group, in a press release. "As a VAC, EMC will be able to actively address all of the requests we receive from our enterprise customers who seek to leverage virtualization technology throughout their information infrastructure to reduce infrastructure and operational costs and gain business agility," he said.