EMC announced it is a gold-level VMware Authorized Consultant (VAC), expanding its global alliance with VMware to help enterprise customers around the world accelerate their business by virtualizing their information infrastructures and data centers. EMC's Global Services helps customers by extending virtual infrastructure into a consistent enterprise-wide strategy.

The EMC Global Services portfolio for the VMware platform focuses on key customer requirements, such as:

• Business continuity for virtualized environments, including VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM)
• VMware operations, management, and reporting best practices
• VMware infrastructure acceleration and implementation, and
• Planning and deploying client virtualization

EMC will leverage more than 1400 services professionals and engineers who have completed the VMware hands-on training and hundreds who have continued to complete the VMware Certified Professional (VCP) certification test to offer a full lifecycle of strategy, design, implementation and managed services that help customers integrate VMware architectures and operations into their data centers, remote offices and desktop strategies.

For those customers deploying mission-critical applications from companies such as Microsoft, Oracle and SAP on the VMware platform, EMC service professionals will leverage EMC's ongoing investment in EMC Proven Solutions that have been validated and integrated with both EMC and VMware technologies.