VMware and AMD Forge Best-in-class Relationship 

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Through deep collaboration extending throughout our organizations, VMware and AMD are forging a best-in-class relationship between hardware and software that delivers robust virtualization solutions to support our customer’s business needs.

By basing your virtualization solutions on VMware Infrastructure software and multi-core AMD Opteron™ processor-based systems from Dell, Fujitsu Siemens, HP, IBM, Rackable, and Sun, you can significantly improve performance, reduce power consumption, increase utilization, and enhance security for your business critical resources.

View clips from an AMD-hosted panel discussion with leading virtualization software vendors that included topics such as how to measure the success of a virtualization implementation, licensing scenarios and how to optimize workloads.

Learn more about AMD’s virtualization solutions.

Learn more about AMD’s partnership with VMware (PDF, 707 KB).

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Virtualization Case Study: North Shore Medical Center

"Better technology absolutely makes for better medicine." Mark Hulse, CIO, NSMC

NSMC reduces power consumption and cooling costs while improving patient support by implementing a virtualization strategy utilizing AMD Opteron™ processor-based HP servers. This allowed NSMC to consolidate 150 servers to 94 servers, with 86 of them running virtualized. NSMC then extended the solution to their doctors and staff by launching cutting edge VDI technology with AMD Sempron™ processor-based thin Clients.

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All Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ processor-based servers certified with ESX/ESXi 3.5 Update 1 are supported with ESX/ESXi 3.5 Update 2.