VMware Reports First Quarter 2011 Results

PALO ALTO, Calif., April 20, 2011 - “The quarter’s strong performance underscores the value that VMware is providing customers on their journey to cloud computing,” said Paul Maritz, chief executive officer. “Customers continue to invest in our portfolio of virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions to remove complexity and enable IT as a Service.”

“VMware’s first quarter results were driven by strong demand across all geographies,” said Mark Peek, chief financial officer. “Second quarter 2011 revenues are expected to be in the range of $860 and $880 million, a year-over-year increase of 28% to 31%. For the year, we expect annual revenues to be in the range of $3.55 billion and $3.65 billion, an increase of 24% to 28% compared to 2010. We expect our non-GAAP operating margin for 2011 to expand slightly from 2010.”

Recent Highlights & Strategic Announcements

In February 2011, VMware announced at VMware Partner Exchange 2011 new specializations, certification, solution competency and toolkits designed to help partners deliver enterprise hybrid cloud solutions. The industry’s premier event included more than 3,300 attendees, an increase of over 25% from the prior year, with 65 sponsors and exhibitors.
In March 2011, VMware announced VMware vCenter™ Operations, a strategy and a new solution to simplify and automate how IT organizations manage services in dynamic virtual and cloud environments. vCenter Operations will integrate performance, capacity and configuration management capabilities.
In April 2011, VMware introduced Cloud Foundry™, the industry’s first open Platform as a Service, representing a new generation of application platform, architected specifically for cloud computing environments and to be delivered as a service from enterprise datacenters and public cloud service providers.
During the quarter, VMware announced it has reached a milestone in delivering the enterprise hybrid cloud with the availability of VMware vCloud^® Datacenter Services from SingTel, BlueLock and Colt, beta services available from Verizon, and the addition of SOFTBANK TELECOM to the VMware vCloud Datacenter Services Program.

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VMware offre soluzioni per la virtualizzazione e per le infrastrutture cloud che consentono alle organizzazioni IT di guidare la crescita di aziende di ogni dimensione. Grazie alle caratteristiche e ai benefici della piattaforma di virtualizzazione – VMware vSphere^® – le aziende si affidano a VMware per ridurre costi fissi e variabili, migliorare la flessibilità, garantire continuità di business, rafforzare la sicurezza e salvaguardare l’ambiente. Con un fatturato 2010 pari a 2,9 miliardi di dollari, oltre 250.000 clienti e più di 25.000 partner, VMware è leader di mercato nella virtualizzazione, che si conferma una delle priorità strategiche nell’agenda dei CIO. VMware ha sede nella Silicon Valley con uffici in tutto il mondo e può essere raggiunta online su www.vmware.com/it.

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Stefania Cugini
VMware Italia
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Email: scugini@vmware.com

Alessandra Merini e Stefania Paganardi
Imageware
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