VMware President and CEO Paul Maritz to Unveil Vision for Virtualization; Sessions, Labs and Customers Will Exemplify the Theme “Virtually Anything Is Possible”

VMware, Inc. (NYSE:VMW), the global leader in virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, today announced that it expects a record 14,000 attendees at VMworld 2008, VMware’s fifth annual virtualization conference being held at The Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas next week, which represents a 30 percent increase over attendance at last year’s conference. At VMworld, VMware will unveil next-generation virtualization capabilities and product direction.

VMworld 2008 will feature more than 300 breakout sessions in seven tracks: Automating the Virtual Datacenter; Building Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery; Exploring Technology and Architecture; Planning and Operations in the Datacenter; Running Enterprise Applications in Virtual Machines; Virtualization 101; and Virtualizing the Desktop. VMworld will also feature 13 instructor-led and five self-paced labs with nearly 8,000 total lab seats. More than 200 sponsors and exhibitors are supporting the conference, including Platinum Sponsors Cisco, Dell, EMC, HP, IBM, Intel, NEC, NetApp and Symantec who will be delivering keynotes.

Leading the keynotes is VMware President and CEO Paul Maritz, who will look back at virtualization history and ahead to the industry trends that are influencing VMware’s future and its solutions. Since VMware introduced the ESX hypervisor in 2001, virtualization has reshaped computing – from servers to storage to networking to security to management to operating systems to desktops to applications – by transforming the physical into the virtual. Just as electronic banking transformed bills into bytes to radically redefine the velocity, reach, ease, costs and kinds of commerce possible, virtualization has freed computing from the confines of hardware to enable radical new opportunities not possible in the physical world. Looking ahead, Maritz sees a future of virtualization expanding from the datacenter to the desktop and beyond to the cloud. He will deliver his keynote on Tuesday, September 16, 2008 at 8 a.m. PT, available via webcast at: http://www.vmware.com/go/vmworld2008-webcast. Also keynoting is VMware CTO Dr. Stephen Herrod, on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 at 8 a.m.