Let me summarize for you the three reasons why I believe you have to select HP and VMware as your disaster recovery vendors. First off, from an HP perspective, it's our proven experience. We've got over a 30-year track record of providing proven scalable solutions that really help customers deliver DR solutions that can help save their businesses. And couple this with the fact that we have been working with VMware for over seven years on virtualization. We really understand virtualization and how that virtualization can be combined with HP's infrastructure to help design, deploy and manage that whole virtual environment, the business applications that you run on top of it, and of course the need to protect and recover that information should disaster happen.
Secondly, it's about our global expertise. HP has one of the broadest channel offerings of any vendor available today. HP has trained and certified more VMware professionals than any other organization. So what this means is that we have very qualified partners and services professionals who can really help you assess your business needs and make recommendations as to what are the appropriate solutions to address your business requirements. If you look at HP on our own, we have a global team of qualified players and high availability experts, as well as over 50 recovery centers and DR units operating across the globe. Finally, from a product leadership and innovation perspective, HP is a continued market leader in the storage business. Not only do we deliver disaster recovery solutions with our StorageWorks, we span that over our server and software offerings as well. Our relationship not only with VMware, but with other application vendors such as Oracle, SAP and Microsoft, means we understand what those application requirements are that need to be protected. We know what needs to be backed up, but more importantly, we know what is required to recover those applications, effectively and efficiently.
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