CITOC Builds Virtualized Application Infrastructure on VMware Platform

CITOC Leveraging VMware for Internal Use as well as Client
Solutions, Selects VMware Infrastructure Over Microsoft Hyper-V
PALO ALTO, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
VMware, Inc. (NYSE:VMW), the global leader in virtualization
solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, today announced that
CITOC, an award-winning provider of managed and hosted IT solutions,
has standardized on VMware's industry-leading management and
virtualization platform, VMware Infrastructure, as its application
environment for internal systems and client solutions.

Houston-based CITOC is a certified partner of both VMware and
Microsoft and provides IT solutions to some of the country's most
respected companies, including Lockheed Martin, Mary Kay Cosmetics,
Sysco Foods and Carriage Services. With the emergence of
virtualization as an essential component of IT environments, CITOC
evaluated a number of virtualization platforms to incorporate into its
IT operations, including VMware Infrastructure and Microsoft Hyper-V.
CITOC opted to standardize on the VMware platform for a number of
reasons, not the least of which was the fact that CITOC could run
three times as many virtual machines on VMware Infrastructure as it
could on Microsoft Hyper-V with identical hardware.

"VMware provides the most reliable and robust virtualization
platform, hands down," said James Garrett, chief operating officer at
CITOC. "We guarantee our clients 99.999-percent application
availability. VMware makes that possible with capabilities like
Distributed Resource Scheduler (DRS), VMotion and Site Recovery
Manager (SRM). VMware also provides superior manageability with its
VirtualCenter, and it enables us to provision virtual machines in less
than five minutes. For a complete virtualization solution, you need an
outstanding hypervisor and all the tools to ensure availability,
recoverability and great performance. VMware separates itself from the
crowd by providing that complete solution."

Garrett estimates that CITOC is hosting nearly 5,000 virtual
machines for its customers. Approximately 85 percent of those virtual
machines are running Microsoft Windows-based applications. Internally,
CITOC is running its own business-critical applications on the VMware
platform, including Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft
SharePoint, Microsoft SQL Server, BlackBerry Enterprise Server, and
ConnectWise for business automation.

CITOC has also set up a pre-production environment with VMware Lab
Manager for cost-effective testing and training. This virtualized
development environment minimizes the hardware that CITOC must
dedicate to non-production uses.

"The breadth of VMware's virtualization product suite is
unmatched," said Garrett. "And it just makes so much sense. A few
years ago, we had to educate people on the merits of virtualization.
That's no longer the case. People understand the tremendous financial
and operational benefits. We save our typical customers 70-80 percent
by building virtual solutions rather than hardware-based solutions.
For small-to-midsize companies in particular, that's a hard value
proposition to ignore."

Garrett recalled one recent customer that was running 343 physical
machines when it hired CITOC to streamline its IT operations. Today,
the customer is supporting its entire application environment with 16
blade servers (32 including redundancy) running VMware Infrastructure.
For more information about CITOC, please visit www.CITOC.com.

About VMware

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from the desktop to the datacenter. Customers of all sizes rely on
VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, ensure business
continuity, strengthen security and go green. With 2007 revenues of
$1.3 billion, more than 120,000 customers and nearly 18,000 partners,
VMware is one of the fastest growing public software companies.
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