Platform to provide a secure, reliable solution for its customers' production and pre-production application environments.

VMware, Inc., a provider of virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, today announced that Siemens IT Solutions and Services, a provider of IT solutions and services, has deployed its management and virtualization suite, VMware Infrastructure 3, to provide a secure, reliable and flexible platform for its customers' production and pre-production application environments.

The company states that among the services offered by Siemens, customers are interested in hosted solutions that can support variable traffic loads. It also states that to address this market demand, Siemens has joined with the VMware vCloud Initiative by developing a virtualized private cloud environment with its infrastructure to provide capacity on demand for applications. The company claims that Siemens used its platform to build out its cloud environment, improve server utilization, and reduce hardware expenditures compared to the cost of building a cloud environment without virtualization.

''The VMware platform allows us to look at computing resources as a large pool of interchangeable assets rather than a string of unique and separate components,'' said Hill. ''Only VMware technology offers us and our users the range of tools and technologies combined with broad industry support required to host and serve business critical applications. And by building our business on the VMware platform, we will be able to leverage the vCloud technology offerings to deliver new services in the cloud, without losing reliability.''

''For our customers, reliability and speed are essential for ensuring competitiveness,'' said John Hill, chief technology officer, at Siemens IT Solutions and Services. ''With the VMware platform, we help our customers increase availability and reduce deployment time for applications and servers. We can now deploy in one day what used to take many weeks. Of course, VMware is much more than just a shortcut for us. Our customers turn to us for answers to the difficult questions facing their businesses, from financial to strategic to technical. VMware's flexibility, security and manageability allow our people to spend more time addressing upstream issues and less time on the rudimentary aspects of technology implementation.''