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Investment Overview for VMware (NYSE:VMW)
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Below are key drivers of VMware's value that present opportunities for upside or downside to the current Trefis price estimate for VMware:
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Percent of Servers Virtualized: We currently estimate that the percent of servers virtualized by VMware would grow from 19 percent in 2011 to 30 percent by the end of our forecast period. There could be more than a 15 percent downside to our current Trefis price estimate if this growth slows to 25 percent by the end of our forecast period. This can happen if other players enter the virtualization market. With companies like Dell entering this space in 2011, this is a likely downside scenario. However, if VMware's percentage share of servers utilized increases to 35 percent in the same period, there could be a potential 20 percent upside to the current Trefis price estimate.
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VMware Market share: We expect market share to decline gradually from 44.5 percent in 2011 to 40 percent by the end of our forecast period. If market share drops to 35 percent in the same period, we can expect a potential downside of 10 percent to the current Trefis price estimate. This can happen due to increased competition from new entrants such as Dell and existing competitors such as IBM and HP. However, if its market share was to remain constant till the end of our forecast period, we can expect an upside of 10 percent to our Trefis price estimate.
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VMware is the leading software virtualization company worldwide. EMC is the company's largest stakeholder with an 80% share. EMC also consolidates VMware's results within its own operating results.
VMware's virtualization software can be categorized into two primary segments:
Desktop Virtualization Software
- Allows users to run multiple operating systems on a single desktop or notebook. For example, by using VMware's desktop virtualization software, a user can run Apple's Mac OS X from within a Microsoft Windows machine
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Server Virtualization Software
- Allows companies to increase the utilization of their servers by allocating the virtualized resources of server hardware to multiple applications, in a manner that is independent of the underlying operating system required to execute the application.
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High Virtualization Market Share
We believe that VMware had a dominant 45% market share in the virtualization software market in 2011.
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Increasing Virtualization Software Competition
Microsoft, Citrix, Oracle and many others have come out with their own versions of virtualization software. Partnerships by competitors could reduce VMware's share gains; for example, HP's ProLiant servers now offer built-in support for Citrix' XenServer.
Increasing Adoption of Cloud Services
Businesses are shifting from legacy systems to cloud based systems as this helps reduce costs by resource pooling and allows for easy scaling of applications. Cloud services drive virtualization and as cloud services get popular, we expect the demand for virtualization to grow.
Trefis Forecast Rationale for VMware Market share
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${forecast} refers to VMware's market share of all Virtualization Software sold by all vendors globally.
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We estimate that ${forecast} has decreased from 50% in 2005 to 45% in 2011. Going forward, we expect ${forecast} to steadily decline at an annual rate ~0.5% to reach 40% by the end of our forecast period. We believe VMware will lose market share driven by intense competition and low price of competitive offerings and open source software.
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Trefis considered the following factors for its forecast:
Supporting Factors
- Increasing competition
- Firms like Microsoft, Citrix and Oracle have become active in the virtualization market with their own versions of virtualization software and have taken share from VMware which once dominated the market
- Pricing
- VMware's virtualization software package is the most expensive; some competitors offer similar software at a fraction of that price, and open source products are usually free. VMware says it doesn't have plans to change its pricing
Mitigating Factors
- VMware offers superior features
- VMware offers live migration, a feature that its competition does not offer. Live migration provides the ability to move operating systems and applications from one server to another while they are running
- VMware offers superior disaster recovery features when compared to its competitors
- VMware scores above competition in stability, ease of use or high degree of automation and security of data
- VMware leads in customer satisfaction
- A market survey by Changewave Research suggests VMware
maintains a lead in customer satisfaction compared to the other major virtualization vendors, with 54% of its customers stating they are "Very Satisfied" with VMware's virtualization products
- VMware is the pioneer in the software virtualization market with the largest installation base that makes it a popular choice
- VMware serves an estimated 85% of large enterprises
- In 2001, VMware released its breakthrough virtualization software for low end servers. The software, called VMware ESX, lets one server do the work of many, and it has become the gold standard in virtualization. Since launching ESX, the company has pretty much had the market all to itself
- In comparison, Microsoft's core application called the Hyper-V was available in the market since 2H 2008.
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