Today, governments face many new challenges. Presidential directives, legislation and government mandates are driving new initiatives such as remote PC access (teleworkers), COOP planning, IT consolidation and disaster recovery planning. Used by over 1,000 government customers, VMware virtualization solutions help address these critical IT issues, including:

• Server Consolidation — Bring unmanageable server sprawl under control by using virtualization to run multiple workloads on fewer servers and to reduce future needs for physical servers.
• Test and Development — Transform the software lifecycle by using virtualization to reduce costs, increase productivity, and improve quality in development and test.
• Business Continuity — Reduce downtime by making high availability and disaster recovery solutions more cost effective, simpler, and more reliable.
• Desktop Manageability and Security — Improve manageability and security of enterprise desktops to lower cost, reduce risk, and improve flexibility of desktop infrastructure.