Patel sees VMware's role in accelerating the new era of IT coming down to helping to empower secure mobile workforce, enabling faster time to market for modern applications, and giving access to more flexible and scalable efficient infrastructure

VMware A/NZ vice-president and managing director, Duncan Bennet, spoke about the vendor's growth in the A/NZ market.

In 2011, VMware experienced a 37 per cent growth across A/NZ, with 97.5 per cent of all business done through partners in the region.

"Vmware's vision is paving a change in the A/NZ market and a strong foundation has been laid," Bennett said.

He also spoke about the key drivers for VMware, such as IT departments being concerned about losing control of their IT budgets, Cloud driving change despite lingering security concerns, the proliferation of mobile devices, and big data starting to overwhelm most companies.