With VMware kicking off VMworld Europe 2009 in Cannes today, we can expect that the VMware ecosystem information floodgates will be wide open and we'll have more news coming out than we can consume in one sitting. But don't believe for one moment that Citrix and Microsoft are going to be radio silent during this event.
In fact, VMLogix is announcing today that it is expanding support for its virtual lab automation and stage management capabilities to both Citrix and Microsoft hypervisor technologies, moving beyond what it already supplies to VMware.
VMLogix has been providing its LabManager product for VMware ESX for quite some time now. And the company's latest product, StageManager, helps IT operations manage the pre-production and staging infrastructure by reducing the risk of downtime, improving and enforcing the staging process and reducing the IT costs related to service staging.
In order to find out what VMLogix was up to with this new agreement with Citrix and Microsoft, I contacted VMLogix CEO, Sameer Dholakia. Here is what he told me.
InfoWorld Virtualization Report: Can you help explain to readers what the VMLogix-Citrix OEM announcement is all about?
Sameer Dholakia: On Feb. 23, 2009, Citrix Systems entered into a strategic OEM agreement with VMLogix to offer Citrix lab and stage management solutions to the market. The agreement brings VMLogix application lifecycle management capabilities (via LabManager and StageManager) to the Citrix XenServer and Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization platforms. With this agreement, VMLogix will deliver its hypervisor-agnostic application lifecycle management products through Citrix virtualization solutions.
IWVR: How does this announcement impact the virtual lab automation market?
Dholakia: As the hypervisor becomes increasingly commoditized, Citrix is now quickly closing the gap between it and VMware on important management capabilities. The vast and growing set of Citrix XenServer and Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization customers will now benefit from the value and hard ROI offered by our pre-production virtual machine management solutions.
This OEM agreement reinforces VMLogix as a strategic platform partner and further cements VMLogix as the solution of choice in pre-production labs for lowering costs and increasing efficiencies -- benefits which are especially necessary in these challenging economic conditions.
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