4
M&T Bank
“First, we focused on
substantial cost and
efficiency gains through
server consolidation. Now
we’re focusing on business
enablement through the
private cloud.”
Wm. Bryan Clements,
Administrative Vice President,
M&T Bank
Evolving to the
Cloud with VMware
Virtualization is the essential
catalyst for enabling the transition
to cloud computing. VMware, the
fastest growing enterprise software
company and virtualization industry
leader, builds on virtualization
to deliver cloud infrastructure
and management solutions that
significantly reduce IT complexity. As
of August 2009, approximately 85
percent of installed virtual machines
in enterprises were VMware based.
1
In the most recent Gartner, Inc.
Magic Quadrant for x86 Server
Virtualization Infrastructure, VMware
was placed in the leaders quadrant.
2
As the pioneer in x86 virtualization,
VMware continues to redefine the
scope of virtualization for the new
era of cloud computing.
As an architectural approach, cloud
computing leverages the abstraction
provided by virtualization of the
1 Bittman, Thomas J. “Server Virtualization: From Emerging to Mainstream at Light Speed.” Gartner Presentation, December 2009.
2 Bittman, Thomas J., Dawson, Philip, and Weiss, George J. “Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure.”
Gartner, May 2010.
Gartner, Inc.’s x86 Server Virtualization Infrastructure Magic Quadrant
This Magic Quadrant graphic was published by Gartner, Inc. as part of a larger research note and should be evaluated in the context of the entire report. The
Gartner report is available upon request from VMware.
The Magic Quadrant is copyrighted May 2010 by Gartner, Inc. and is reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace
at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner.
Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors
placed in the “Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims
all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.
Figure 2:
VMware placed in the leaders quadrant of Gartner, Inc.’s x86 Server Virtualization
Infrastructure Magic Quadrant.
