VMware Announces New Relationships with Original Design Manufacturers, Expanding Virtualization Options for Partners and Customers Worldwide

Key ODM Partners to Certify Servers for VMware Hypervisor

TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 3, 2008 — At Computex Taipei 2008, VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, today announced new relationships with original design manufacturers (ODMs) ASUS, Gigabyte, Inventec and Tyan, adding to VMware’s current relationship with Supermicro announced in February 2008.

The relationships will enable channel partners and system builders worldwide to make virtualization available to a broader range of customers by certifying a wide range of one-, two- and four-socket server systems as well as blade servers for the VMware virtualization platform. This provides customers of all sizes even greater flexibility when selecting the servers most suited to their needs. The vendors are certifying their server systems for the VMware ESX and ESXi hypervisor, with certified systems expected to be available later this year.

“As companies worldwide adopt virtualization in growing numbers, we continue to expand our partner ecosystem to provide customers with greater hardware choices,” said Brian Byun, vice president of global partners and solutions at VMware. “Working with the ODM community, we are helping our channel partner and system builder ecosystem bring new options for offering the transformative business advantages of VMware virtualization to a broader range of customers. Organizations of all sizes will benefit from these new relationships, particularly small and medium businesses looking for cost-effective ways to get more value from their investments, better protect their systems and data, and improve staff productivity.”

The VMware ESX hypervisor is the core production-proven VMware virtualization technology, used by tens of thousands of customers worldwide, including all of the Fortune 100 and 92 percent of the Fortune 1000. VMware ESX delivers the highest scalability, reliability and performance for running the most demanding applications, and it is rigorously tested and certified for more than 250 different types of servers, 60 operating systems, 260 storage arrays, and 75 applications, making it the most broadly deployable and trusted virtualization platform in the world. VMware ESX is highly cost efficient – its advanced resource scheduling and unique transparent memory management techniques often deliver twice the consolidation ratios of competing technologies

The VMware ESXi hypervisor is the industry’s smallest hypervisor (32MB), enabling high levels of security and reliability, and it is the only OS-independent virtualization platform.  VMware ESXi delivers single-server consolidation with fast and easy deployment—the first virtual machine can operate within minutes of booting a server with pre-configured and optimized hardware configurations.

Customers can easily upgrade from VMware ESXi to VMware’s datacenter virtualization and management suite, VMware Infrastructure 3, when they are ready to move from server consolidation to the next stages of virtualization. VMware Infrastructure 3 provides the capability for automatic load balancing, business continuity and power management and the ability to move a virtual machine across physical machines to minimize service interruption. VMware Infrastructure 3 is also compatible with VMware’s desktop virtualization and management solutions, as well as VMware’s suite of automation solutions for the virtual datacenter. 

Read what partners are saying about the availability of new certified server systems: www.vmware.com/company/news/releases/odm_partner_support.html.

Availability

VMware ESX and ESXi are certified on server systems from Supermicro and available immediately. VMware ESX and ESXi are expected to be certified and available on server systems from ASUS, Gigabyte, Inventec and Tyan by the end of the third quarter of 2008.

About VMware

VMware (NYSE: VMW) is the global leader in virtualization solutions 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 100,000 customers and nearly 14,000 partners, VMware is one of the fastest growing public software companies.  VMware is headquartered in Palo Alto, California and on the web at www.vmware.com.

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Forward-Looking Statements

Statements made in this press release which are not statements of historical fact are forward-looking statements and are subject to the safe harbor provisions created by the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Such forward-looking statements relate, but are not limited, to the availability of ESX and ESXi and utilization by end users.  Actual results could differ materially from those projected in the forward-looking statements as a result of certain risk factors, including but not limited to: (i) adverse changes in general economic or market conditions; (ii) delays or reductions in consumer or information technology spending; (iii) competitive factors, including but not limited to pricing pressures, industry consolidation, entry of new competitors into the virtualization market, and new product and marketing initiatives by our competitors; (iv) changes to product development timelines;and (v fluctuating currency exchange rates.  These forward looking statements are based on current expectations and are subject to uncertainties and changes in condition, significance, value and effect as well as other risks detailed in documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including the report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal year ended March 31, 2008, which could cause actual results to vary from expectations. VMware disclaims any obligation to update any such forward-looking statements after the date of this release.