Partners Support on VMware Ready Program
BMC Software
"As more and more IT organizations seek to reap the benefits made possible through virtualization, management tools that control the full lifecycle of business services across both virtual and physical assets have become increasingly important. Through our partnership with VMware, now even stronger with the VMware Ready Management Program, we are providing customers with proven change, performance and capacity management solutions that ensure the full benefits of virtualization are realized."
-- Kia Behnia, Chief Architect, BMC Software.
CA
"CA's integration with VMware Infrastructure enables our customers to realize compelling business value from virtualization. By using enterprise-class systems management architecture, tools, training, and processes customers can improve their data center’s agility, cost effectiveness and service availability. Using vCenter extensibility, our solutions under the VMware Ready Management Program, provide an intelligent systems and application performance context for our customers' VirtualCenter tasks. What's more, it makes it easier than ever for them to use CA's centrally-managed, platform-neutral solution to discover, monitor, and optimize physical and virtual system resources to ensure business service availability.”
-- Roger Pilc, corporate senior vice president and general manager of CA’s Infrastructure Management and Data Center Automation business unit
EMC
“EMC’s VMware management solutions are a broad-based set of ITSM offerings providing change and configuration management, virtual and physical dependency mapping, storage resource management, and configuration compliance analytics for VMware-enabled data centers. We see the VMware Ready Management Program as a critical milestone in enabling our joint customers to deliver enterprise-scale IT service management across physical and virtual domains.”
-- Chris Gahagan, Senior Vice President, Resource Management Software, EMC
IBM
"IBM Service Management optimizes VMware virtualized infrastructures by providing end-to-end visibility, control and automation across the entire enterprise to help customers maintain service commitments and achieve business results. Tivoli has embraced the VMware Ready Management Program to provide our customers with tighter integration, dedicated support and best practices from IBM."
-- Chris O’Connor, vice president of strategy and market management, IBM
NetIQ
"Organizations need to apply the same management best practices to the virtual stack as they do the physical to ensure application availability and a superior end user experience. As part of the VMware Ready Management Program, we are working to optimize hybrid physical-virtual enterprise management, and with vCenter extensibility we can extend the depth of our management capabilities for our joint customers."
-- Chris Pick, Vice President, Products and Marketing, NetIQ.
Symantec
“Support of the VMware Ready Management Program allows Symantec to work more closely with VMware to provide our joint customers robust server and configuration management functionality for physical and virtual servers. vCenter extensibility helps us deliver on our objective of providing users with a single, easy-to-use toolset and console for managing all servers regardless of hardware platform, virtual vs. physical or operating system.”
-- Rich Lacey, Director, Product Management Endpoint Server Management, Symantec Corporation.
Tripwire
"The VMware Ready Management Program is a significant move to simplify and streamline managing virtual infrastructure for customers. By building on vCenter Extensibility, we are able to uniquely address our customers’ enterprise management needs. Tripwire is committed to fully qualifying our products, including Tripwire Enterprise for VMware ESX, which provides customers with configuration control and continuous compliance for their virtualized datacenters.”
-- Dan Schoenbaum, Senior Vice President, Marketing and Corporate Development, Tripwire
Veeam/nworks
"With the VMware Ready Management Program, VMware introduces real solutions to the management challenges our customers have been facing as they try to get a consolidated view of the health of their increasingly virtualized datacenter. Together, we will be able to continue to help customers reduce operating costs by bringing VMware management information directly into the enterprise for service orientation, performance reporting and monitoring."
- Ratmir Timashev – President and CEO, Veeam Software/nworks
Vizioncore/Quest Software
“At Vizioncore, we are committed to providing server virtualization management solutions that allow our customers to safeguard and optimize their IT systems and extract the maximum ROI from virtualization. Becoming a member of the VMware Ready Management Program will further our goal of developing simple, sophisticated, ‘VMware-smart’ solutions that will make it even easier for our customers to gain exponential IT improvements with the VMware platform.”
-- Chris Akerberg, President and Chief Operating Officer of Vizioncore Inc.
