RSSVirtual-Server Vendors Adding Ability to Manage Competing Products
As the market for virtual-server managment heats up, VM vendors are responding to users' aversion to homogeneity by adding the ability to manage other vendors' virtual environments.
By Deni Connor
Hyper9, a startup in Austin, Texas has said that its product will manage Microsoft Virtual Machine Manager and Citrix XenCenter instances as soon as next year. The company's Hyper9 software, which is in beta now and expected to ship in September, already manages VMware ESX Server environments.
CA too has joined the game. It's CA (formerly Unicenter) Advanced Systems Management console and that of VMware's VirtualCenter work together to monitor joint environments.
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