RSSVMware Remains Only Holdout on Multi-vendor Virtual Server Management
The market for heterogeneous virtualization management is heating up, experts say. How's VMware going to play it?
By Deni Connor
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The management of heterogeneous virtualized environments has also gained some degree of success with other management software vendors.
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. Its CA Unicenter Advanced Systems Management console and that of VMwareâ¬"s VirtualCenter work together to monitor joint environments.
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