UPDATED 17:12 EDT / NOVEMBER 17 2010

VMware Partners with Cisco, Zimbra for Simplified Virtualization

It seems there’s no stopping VMware in invading the virtualization market and cloud infrastructure, with its new deals with industry biggies Cisco and Zimbra.

The American-based multinational consumer electronics and networking company, Cisco, has tapped VMware resources to create starter packs of desktop virtualization which will operate based on Cisco’s UCS or unified computing system. The UCS servers will then be optimized by VMware View 4.5. Starter packs are expected to be released in the market on December. The follow-up expansion packs are projected to allow a proof of impression project followed by an enterprise product that could support over 10,000 virtual desktops.

“By combining our innovation in unified computing with VMware View desktop virtualization, we are helping our customers quickly benefit from the operational savings,” said Soni Jiandani, VP of the server, access, and virtualization technology group at Cisco in an announcement.

Meanwhile, Zimbra teams up with VMware to simplify monitoring of appliance via the prized vFabric Hyperic—which will be delivered to Zimbra Appliance administrators. This integration will empower administrators to rapidly pinpoint, correct and prevent application errors and to ensure that critical electronic mails will consistently be available for end users. There is no additional set-up required.

“Contegix is committed to providing our customers with the best hosting services possible. The combination of Hyperic and Zimbra Appliance increases our visibility into how customers are using email and collaboration. It enables us to increase our productivity and efficiency in managing this critical part of this infrastructure, while simultaneously helping our customers make smarter business decisions,” stated by Matthew Porter, Chief Executive Office and co-founder of Contegix.

Aside from Cisco and Zimbra, Microsoft has been tending to its cloud partners as well.  EMC is launched a new infrastructure intended to cut down private cloud applications’ operation time utilizing Microsoft virtualization technologies together with System Center and Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. This move is causing some competitive spat between VMware and Microsoft. This was evident in a recent fume that noted Microsoft’s blog calling to VMware’s High Availability with Exchange 2010 as reckless, with potential to put customers at risk. With all the foes and partnerships, one thing is certain–simplified virtualization and cloud infrastructure will continue to draw attention with their far-fetched features.


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