Bitnami
Erica Brescia, chief executive officer, Bitnami
“Our partnership with VMware brings top open source applications, such as Alfresco, Liferay, SugarCRM and JasperSoft, to VMware vFabric™ Application Director™. With the new BitNami application blueprints for VMware vFabric Application Director, users can have multi-tier deployments of CRM, content management, business intelligence and other applications up and running in minutes.”
Cognizant
Raj Bala, chief technology officer, Cognizant
“As companies look for ease and consistency in deploying and consuming enterprise applications, VMware vFabric™ Application Director™ marks an important step toward enabling enterprises to automate and manage application deployment topology across cloud services. The VMware Cloud Applications Marketplace™ helps enterprises consume applications the way individuals consume mobile applications today. Cognizant is pleased to work closely with VMware in bringing about this change through innovative platforms and solutions such as our Build-as-a-Service blueprint. These solutions will help enterprises to easily consume applications through a marketplace, and drive agility, flexibility, control and performance.”
Estuate
Marc Hebert, chief operating officer, Estuate
“Estuate is a global IT services company with a diverse portfolio of services, including deep expertise in Oracle and IBM solutions. Having done many complex, global application implementations, we appreciate VMware’s innovations in rapid application deployments. VMware vFabric™ Application Director™ allows us to model PaaS architectures for real-world applications with complex middleware. Leveraging VMware vFabric Application Director, the Estuate reference architecture enables Oracle applications to be deployed into the hybrid cloud in minutes, something that would ordinarily take hours or days. One customized Oracle EBS system can be deployed into many environments, such as development, test and production, and then be managed throughout its lifecycle for configuration, code or scale updates.”
HCL Technologies
Vikram Duvvoori, executive vice president, HCL Technologies
“With the growing complexity of the IT landscape, demand for integration of application development and operations capabilities has increased in the market. By combining our best practices in application services and VMware vFabric™ Application Director™ for a model-driven approach for cloud deployments, we aim to provide a reliable and integrated business platform. This can benefit our customers by reducing time, cost and complexity in deployment, upgrade, testing, and roll out of new business applications.”
Jaspersoft
Karl Van den Bergh, vice president, Product and Alliances, Jaspersoft
“In addition to on-premises Jaspersoft deployments, customers are increasingly depending on Jaspersoft for scalable, nimble business intelligence in the cloud. Our cloud customers are interested in fast time to solution, low-effort administration, and high flexibility; VMware vFabric™ Application Director™ provides them with well-designed provisioning and maintenance for these cloud deployments.”
Liferay
Brian Kim, chief operating officer, Liferay
“Liferay's availability within the VMware Cloud Applications Marketplace™ can simplify lifecycle management for enterprise customers implementing Liferay Portal in private, public and hybrid cloud environments. Our customers already choose Liferay's open source applications for their ease of use and effectiveness in complex enterprise scenarios, and VMware vFabric™ Application Director™ can further simplify the deployment and systems management of Liferay Portal for our community."
OpenLogic
Steven Grandchamp, CEO, OpenLogic
“OpenLogic provides enterprises with open source support, scanning, provisioning and governance solutions to safely and efficiently leverage open source software. We support more than 700+ open source packages for leading enterprise IT and are seeing increasing adoption of open source software for mission critical IT projects. We believe that VMware vFabric™ Application Director™ is a great IT asset to accelerate multi-tier application delivery with a self-service interface for application teams. VMware vFabric Application Director’s blueprinting approach with reusable services, IT customizability for application and middleware configurations, cloud portability allows OpenLogic to create ready-to-deploy trusted open source applications, that enterprises can quickly download, customize per their governance needs in their supported clouds.”
Opscode
Christopher Brown, chief technology officer, Opscode
"Bringing the power of the Chef™ integration language to the VMware vFabric™ Application Director™ user community can provide value to both Opscode and VMware customers. VMware customers can use and integrate their investments in Opscode Chef with VMware vFabric Application Director to fully automate the provisioning and management of cloud infrastructure as well as accelerate the delivery of applications to market."
Puppet Labs
Luke Kanies, Founder and CEO of Puppet Labs
"As an innovator in software-defined infrastructure, Puppet Labs is committed to building solutions that help sysadmins rapidly deploy application infrastructure. With the latest release of Application Director, users can take advantage of the 600+ pre-built infrastructure solutions available on the Puppet Forge. Our VMware vFabric™ Application Director™ integration allows users to easily load Puppet modules into VMware vFabric Application Director from the Puppet Forge so they can use Puppet modules within their multi-tier application blueprints."
Radware
Gilad Zlotkin, vice president, Virtualization and Management Products, Radware
“VMware vFabric™ Application Director™ is the first solution to fully support our customers’ application life-cycle. Mission critical application development, testing and production can be deployed in the cloud with an imbedded Alteon load balancer for high availability and application performance acceleration. Thanks to Alteon global server load balancing we allow our customers to support multi-site traffic management for disaster recovery and bursting – all with a single application blueprint that can be deployed instantly in a private or public cloud.”
Riverbed
Apurva Davé, vice president of Products and Marketing, Stingray business unit, Riverbed
“Riverbed and VMware are partnering to provide dynamic performance solutions for organizations as they navigate the shift to software-defined data centers, By integrating Stingray Traffic Manager software with VMware vFabric™ Application Director™, we are providing application architects and enterprises with the ability to provision and scale their high-performing, multi-tier applications in hybrid cloud environments, enabling faster and easier deployments.”
SOASTA
Tom Lounibos, chief executive officer, SOASTA
“SOASTA is driven by a radical idea to make powerful mobile and cloud testing accessible to anyone. SOASTA joining the VMware Cloud Applications Marketplace™ helps enable top quality app delivery for VMware enterprise customers. The combination of SOASTA with VMware vFabric™ Application Director™ automates and compresses critical processes to enable continuous delivery of successful web and mobile apps using the cloud.”
SugarCRM
Chuck Coulson, vice president, Business Development and Alliances
“SugarCRM is excited to be part of the VMware vFabric™ Application Director™ launch. SugarCRM customers and partners have long enjoyed the ability to ‘run anywhere’ – on-demand, on-premise, and in the cloud - and VMware vFabric Application Director makes it easier to support the rapidly growing number of public and private cloud environments giving customers a high level of choice-of-deployment in the CRM market.”
TechDemocracy
Anant Kadiyala, vice president, SOA Practice, TechDemoracy
“TechDemocracy is a systems integrator with exclusive focus on Oracle Fusion middleware implementations. We offer an integrated portfolio of services for Oracle SOA, BPM, identity and access management, e-business, enterprise portals and business intelligence. Having done numerous complex deployments for large IT enterprises, it is refreshing to see an innovative, easy-to-use, rich application modeling interface for real world application deployments. For customers that are investing in application modernization and cloud implementations, VMware vFabric ™ Application Director™ would be a great IT asset for achieving true agility for real world application deployments.”
Xebia
Martin van Steenis, manager, Xebia IT Architects
“VMware vFabric™ Application Director™ is an important component of Xebia’s Continuous Delivery solutions. VMware vFabric Application Director enables our customers to speed up time-to-market of new application functionality by deploying complex applications in minutes compared to weeks or months. VMware vFabric Application Director facilitates implementation of a highly standardized and reliable deployment process for complex enterprise application environments driving significant operational efficiencies and enabling reuse of blueprints in different environments like development, test, acceptance and production.”
Zend
Andi Gutmans, chief executive officer, Zend
“We’ve heard strong feedback from clients since we announced the integration of Zend Server with VMware vFabric™ Application Director™. Our clients are telling us they value the combination of VMware’s multi-cloud provisioning and management with Zend Server’s enterprise-grade PHP application management and elastic cloud scaling. The seamless integration of these two offerings provides enterprise development and operations teams with a write once, deploy anywhere application platform that is turnkey, elastic, fault tolerant and managed.”
