VMware creates 78 jobs at their new EMEA Technical Support Centre in Cork

Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment Micheál Martin TD today (16^th December 2005) announced that VMware, of California, US, the global leader in virtual infrastructure software for industry-standard systems, is establishing its Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Technical Support Centre at Ballincollig, Co. Cork, with the support of IDA Ireland.

VMware’s virtual infrastructure software enables multiple virtual machines to be run on a single physical server, allowing for more effective and more efficient use of customers’ server hardware resources. The EMEA technical support centre will create 78 new positions for highly specialised software graduate and post-graduate engineers with extensive experience in a range of software environments and multilingual skills. VMware was acquired by EMC, one of the world’s leading producers of information storage equipment and software, in January 2004, and had revenues of $272m for the first three quarters of 2005.

Minister Martin said, “VMware, one of fastest growing software companies in the world and a well established name in Ireland, is a very important addition to the software sector here. The choice of Ireland as the location for this Centre, which is technology driven and requires highly skilled software engineers, is a further confirmation of Ireland’s ability to provide a knowledge base for global businesses across all industries.”

John Dolan, Director Support Services at VMware’s Cork facility, said“The EMEA technical support centre for Cork is an integral part of VMware’s strategy for the growth of its global business. It represents our first move to centralise support services in Europe, which is one of our fastest growing markets. Our expanding EMEA customer base required a technical support centre and an available pool of highly educated people with enterprise level software skills, specifically expertise in the Linux, Unix and Windows environments which we found in Ireland”.

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Notes for Editor.

VMware was founded in 1998 to bring mainframe-class virtual machine technology to industry-standard computers. VMware delivered its first product, VMware Workstation, in 1999 and entered the server market in 2001 with VMware GSX Server and VMware ESX Server. With the launch of VMware VirtualCenter in 2003, and the groundbreaking VMotion technology, the company established itself as the thought leader in the newly emerging virtual infrastructure marketplace.

Virtual Infrastructure introduces a new category of capabilities to the data center enabling businesses to reduce their IT costs through increased efficiency, flexibility and responsiveness. In 2004, the company extended the capabilities of virtual infrastructure to the enterprise desktop with the introduction of VMware ACE.

The world's largest companies use VMware solutions to simplify their IT, fully leverage their existing computing investments and respond faster to changing business demands. VMware is based in Palo Alto, California.

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