Select Technologies has entered into a distribution tie up with VMware. VMware's expertise lies in offering virtualization platform IT Infrastructure, enabling higher level of protection for business critical systems and data for small and medium business enterprises. This will be mutually beneficial as Select Technologies also focuses on the SMB segment primarily.

Virtualization is a proven software technology that is rapidly transforming the IT landscape and fundamentally changing the way that people compute. The x86 computer hardware, which was initially designed to run only a single operating system and single application, now runs multiple operating systems and multiple applications, increasing the utilization and flexibility of hardware. This is done through inserting a thin layer of software directly on the computer hardware or on a host operating system. This software layer creates virtual machines and contains a virtual machine monitor or 'hypervisor' that allocates hardware resources dynamically and transparently so that multiple operating systems can run concurrently on a single physical computer without even knowing it.

However, virtualizing a single physical computer is just the beginning. VMware offers a robust virtualization platform that can scale across hundreds of interconnected physical computers and storage devices to form an entire virtual infrastructure.

One of the advantages of Virtualization is that it helps eliminate planned downtime for machine maintenance and also helps recover quickly from unplanned outages with the ability to securely backup and migrate entire virtual environments with no interruption in service.

It also offers a new way of managing IT infrastructure and can help IT administrators spend less time on repetitive tasks such as provisioning, configuration, monitoring and maintenance. This also helps to achieve significantly higher resource utilization by pooling common infrastructure resources and breaking the legacy "one application to one server" model.