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Information Technology News VMware boss believes clients are too fat | VMware boss believes clients are too fat |
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| Information technology news - Vendors | |
| by Stan Beer | |
| Wednesday, 15 October 2008 | |
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Maritz, in Australia for a client and prospective customers forum this week, was not backward in coming forward about how the rest of the world's bad news is actually gold for VMware. "The current economic climate will serve as impetus for IT organisations to take action to get costs under control. Virtualisation is a key to do that," Maritz said at a media conference. VMware's activities in the server rationalisation area, where the company gets most of its revenue, are well known. However, the company is now pushing ahead with strategies to capitalise on what it believes is massive potential in the established desktop and emerging cloud computing spaces. Rationalisation of the client desktop area, which VMware calls its vClient strategy, is a growing market which the company intends to capture. vClient is the roadmap for VMware to free organisations from the tyranny of desktop infrastructure. "Most organisations don't have a good strategy for their client (computers)," said Maritz. "We need to equip organisations so that it doesn't matter what device their employees are using. CONTINUED Page 2 |
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