VMware Helps Enterprises and Governments of All Sizes Go Green

VMware Virtual Infrastructure Has Saved Enough Energy to Power the United States
for 10 Days1

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
VMware, Inc. (NYSE:VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the
desktop to the datacenter, today announced that it continues to drive
sustainability and socially responsible "green" initiatives for customers of
every size in the private and public sectors across the globe. VMware customers
have virtualized more than an estimated 9 million workloads since 1998,
resulting in an estimated energy savings of 105 billion kilowatt hours of
electricity2, or roughly $11.6 billion. According to The World Factbook1, those
savings are equivalent to the power consumed in the US for 10 days.

VMware virtual infrastructure helps enterprises and governments reduce their
energy costs and consumption by as much as 80 percent. Most desktops and servers
today are in use only eight to 15 percent of the time they are turned on, yet
they consume 60 to 90 percent of the normal workload power even when idle.
VMware vSphere has advanced resource and memory management features that will
enable consolidation ratios of 15:1 or more and dynamically power off unneeded
servers, which increase hardware utilization to as much as 85 percent. Every
server retired from a datacenter saves an estimated four tons of CO2 emissions,
equivalent to taking 1.5 cars off the road or planting 55 trees. Similar
opportunities for savings are available for desktop PCs, which can be
consolidated on servers in the datacenter using VMware View. VMware vSphere 4 is
expected to be generally available during the second quarter of 2009.

Saint Vincent`s Catholic Medical Center in New York has a strategy for an all
digital, all green IT infrastructure. With VMware virtual infrastructure, the
renowned healthcare system virtualized 85 percent of its infrastructure and
retired 185 servers in 90 days.

"After the successful greening of our datacenter, we have moved to the virtual
desktop stage of implementation where we have begun to replace the traditional
desktop with a `zero foot print` endpoint that has no OS," said Tony Antinori,
vice president of technology and operations, St Vincent`s Medical Center. "A
thin device consumes less than five watts, which is just three percent of a
typical PC, making it the ultimate green alternative and increasing our ROI. At
St. Vincent`s, we plan to continue to implement virtualization technology across
nearly 5000 endpoints, saving thousands of dollars in power and doing our part
to go green."

The City of Aurora, Colorado consolidated 70 servers down to five servers with
each running close to 20 virtual machines. "VMware virtual infrastructure helps
ensure outstanding performance," said Steve Jenovai, senior systems
administrator for the city of Aurora. "We dynamically add or reduce resources
for specific applications as demand ebbs and flows."

The Nurses Board of Victoria, a government agency for the state of Victoria in
Australia, is in charge of registering professional nurses, accrediting
educational institutions and investigating professional conduct cases. "By
deploying VMware virtual infrastructure, we reduced our power usage by 25
percent and also lowered our carbon footprint," said Michael Hoffmann, CIO,
Nurses Board of Victoria.

Forestry Tasmania is an Australian government organization charged with managing
more than 1.5 million hectares of state forest land. "Forestry Tasmania
consolidated its IT environment using VMware virtual infrastructure," said
Jeremy McCarthy, team leader systems and helpdesk for Forestry Tasmania. "This
allowed us to reduce server room power consumption by more than 30 percent."

PowerSeraya, a leading integrated energy company in Southeast Asia that provides
utility wholesale services such as electricity, steam and cooling water to the
greater Singapore region, reduced energy consumption and carbon emissions by an
estimated 70 percent by leveraging VMware virtual infrastructure. This
translates to a savings of about 26,000 kWh and 12.5 tons of carbon dioxide
yearly.

VMware works with more than 40 utility companies worldwide to offer financial
incentives for virtualization projects in datacenters. The incentives are based
on the amount of energy savings achieved through data center consolidation and
qualifying customers can earn a maximum rebate amount of $4 million per project
site, and $300 to $600 in annual energy costs for each server removed. Those
savings are almost double when reduced datacenter cooling costs are also taken
into account.

For more information on how VMware helps companies and governments of all sizes
go green, please visit: http://www.vmware.com/solutions/consolidation/green/

About VMware

VMware (NYSE: VMW) is the global leader in virtualization solutions from the
desktop to the datacenter-bringing cloud computing to businesses of all sizes.
Customers rely on VMware to reduce capital and operating expenses, ensure
business continuity, strengthen security and go green. With 2008 revenues of
$1.9 billion, more than 130,000 customers and more than 22,000 partners, VMware
is one of the fastest growing public software companies. Headquartered in Palo
Alto, California, VMware is majority-owned by EMC Corporation (NYSE: EMC). For
more information, visit www.vmware.com.

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competitors; (iv) our customers` ability to develop, and to transition to, new
products; (v) the uncertainty of customer acceptance of emerging technology
initiatives; (vi) rapid technological and market changes in virtualization
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release.

1 Derived from "The World Factbook". CIA. 2008.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world
factbook/rankorder/2042rank.html.

2 VMware has virtualized a total of 8,487,000 servers, resulting in a total of
105,578,823,168 kWh saved.

VMware Public Relations
Melinda Marks, 650-743-4614
mmarks@vmware.com
or
Fleishman Hillard for VMware
Steve Kerns, 415-318-4224
Steve.Kerns@fleishman.com

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