Transform Your Retail Stores and Branch Offices into More Agile, Secure, and Cost-Effective Businesses. By extending VMware software beyond the data center, organizations gain increased visibility and control over IT resources in remote locations.

VMware virtualization solutions deliver significant benefits for retail offices and branch offices (ROBO): Agility: Streamlined management and rapid provisioning from a single pane of glass. Reliability: Improved service levels, availability, data protection and platform security.

Efficiency: Lowered IT hardware and operational costs with consolidation, centralization and standardization. VMware provides a standardized deployment platform that reduces the cost and complexity of branch office management while delivering higher levels of flexibility, availability and data protection.

By virtualizing servers at the remote site and managing them centrally, organizations can leverage existing data center resources, reducing cost, effort and downtime. From a single pane of glass, administrators can deploy new servers and desktops in the form of virtual machines across thousands of sites in minutes, responding rapidly to business and customer needs.