Program Designed to Speed Deployment of Applications in VMware Environments on Intel Xeon-based Servers and to Strengthen Collaboration between Intel and VMware on Optimizing Intel Platform Support for Virtualization PALO Alto, Calif., June 21, 2006 – Intel Corporation and VMware*, Inc. announced the launch of the Intel-VMware Virtualize ASAP*, a global program to further accelerate IT customer deployment of applications in virtual environments using VMware Infrastructure on Intel® Xeon® processor-based platforms.