VMware announces Partner Exchange On Tour 2012

VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, announced its Partner Exchange On Tour 2012 for the India and SAARC region. The tour aims to enable partners in the region to learn to grow and transform their businesses for the cloud era with VMware.

Partner Exchange On Tour 2012 is expected to attract more than 1,500 senior executives, sales professionals and technical experts from VMware's community of solution providers, technology alliances, systems integrators, distributors and OEMs in the region. The tour kicked off from Mumbai on April 5 and will cover Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai and Colombo. Partners will have an opportunity to engage and hear first-hand from VMware executives about new partner programs, best practices and training roadmaps to help them successfully deliver VMware virtualization and cloud solutions in the region.

Leading industry experts and senior executives from VMware - including Raghu Raghuram, senior vice president and general manager, Cloud Infrastructure and Management, and T Srinivasan, managing director, India & SAARC - will deliver keynotes and discuss VMware's vision and technology roadmap for 2012.

Ganesan Arumugam, director, partners, VMware India, said, "Our partner community is the strategic channel for educating and enabling customers from small and medium businesses to the enterprise on the immediate opportunity of the cloud. VMware Partner Exchange On Tour promises to offer partners in the region a chance to learn how to help customers progress on their cloud journey, with extensive content and engagements that are designed to help expand their expertise."