VMware announced the date of its earnings call for the first quarter of 2012. There’s no forecast available publicly at the time of writing, but the company has seen a lot of growth in recent quarters.

The official posting is as follows:

VMware, Inc., the global leader in virtualization and cloud infrastructure, plans to announce first quarter results after market close on Wednesday, April 18, 2012. The company will host a conference call at 2:00 p.m. PT/ 5:00 p.m. ET that day to review financial results and business outlook. A live web broadcast of the event will be available on the VMware Investor Relations website at http://ir.vmware.com. The replay of the webcast will be available for two months.

The virtualization giant reported a profit of of 46 cents a share, or $200.4 million, from a revenue of $1.06 billion in the fourth quarter of 2011. These figures both represented double-digit YoY growth, and the net earnings even beat analysts’ average expectation by four percent – all in all, there’s nothing to suggest a decline now.

VMware is quickening its pace now that companies are upgrading their IT infrastructure to accommodate the new decade’s demands, as well as the growing amounts of data they have to store and analyze. The same can be said of storage giant EMC, which owns a majority stake of VMware and has heavily integrated its portfolio with the latter’s.  This is the main reason its investors are monitoring both companies, in spite of the separate tickers.

This however is not a reason for concern, considering EMC is seeing just as much growth as its subsidiary. An IDC report from earlier this year placed the company firmly in the position of the no. 1 storage vendor, a description that Joe Tucci’s enterprise  has been answering to for a fairly long time.