OREANDA-NEWS. CROC's achievements in private and hybrid clouds have been recognized in the "Cloud Partner 2014" nomination category by VMware, the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure. More than 20 certified professionals of CROC regularly use VMware products in data center and cloud infrastructure projects.

"Virtualization allows us to improve the performance of existing computing resources and accelerate the provision of IT services to users. CROC's Virtual Data Center segment is based on VMware products and provides cloud IT services and applications to customers. Moreover, with VMware solutions CROC deployed its own private cloud designed to test developed systems. Jointly implemented projects include creating a tool for quick computer resource provisioning for an energy holding company and ensuring disaster tolerance of two data centers for a large Russian energy company. At the moment we are running several pilot projects with some of VMware new products," says Igor Malyshev, Director of Systems Solutions at CROC.

"We are extremely proud of VMware's partner developments and achievements in Russia and congratulate CROC for winning this award. I am confident that we will continue to work on many outstanding projects in the future. Our Premier Partners consistently find that using VMware software in virtualization, private and hybrid cloud projects significantly optimizes IT infrastructure for almost any customer, and I'm sure this will remain the case for CROC. More than 500,000 customers around the globe, including Fortune Global 100 companies, have chosen VMware as their data center and private cloud core solution and have demonstrated the advantages of using our products," comments Vladimir Tkachev, Technical Director at VMware in Russia and CIS.

CROC and VMware have been working together since 2005, during which time more than 200 projects based on the vendor's products have been implemented. CROC has previously been recognized as the Best VMware Partner 2013 in the 'Multi-Industry Integrator' and 'Complex Project Implementation' categories, as well as the Best VMware Partner in 2012. In addition, CROC has been a certified VMware Enterprise Service Provider since 2012 and a VMware Premier Solution Provider since 2009 for a number of competencies, including 'Cloud Provider', 'Management Automation' and 'Management Operations'.