Members Talk About VMware Community Source

Compuware is excited to be a member of the VMWare Community Source program. We are evaluating a number of synergies between the VMWare ESX Server environment and our products, CompuwareVantage and Changepoint. Access to the internal source code expedites our analysis and opens up the possibilities to extend our ESX support beyond the existing published interfaces, which will allow us to better support our customers.

Double-Take Software is committed to driving innovative and cost-effective disaster recovery and application availability solutions. Leveraging virtualization allows customers to architect reliable, scalable disaster recovery solutions by combining the real-time replication and application failover capabilities of Double-Take with the flexibility and efficiency of virtual machines powered by products like ESX Server," said Bob Roudebush, Director of Solutions Engineering for Double-Take Software. "We are excited to be working with VMware to provide solutions that allow businesses to improve their IT efficiency while continuing to drive down costs and ensure recoverability in the event of a disaster.

Emulex is working closely with VMware to bring to market and support enterprise-class virtualization solutions via the VMware Community Source program. The Emulex HBA architecture is uniquely flexible and features industry-standard APIs to ensure seamless compatibility with industry-leading virtualization solutions, such as VMware ESX Server," said Mike Smith, Executive Vice President of Worldwide Marketing at Emulex Corporation. "As a leading contributor to community development initiatives, we expect VMware's Community Source program to provide the open framework and flexibility required for maximizing server and storage management, while ensuring deployment of fully interoperable solutions to our mutual customers.

Virtualization is a key component of all Dynamic IT solutions, which is mandatory for large enterprises to keep up to speed with the ever-changing requirements for their core businesses. Fujitsu Siemens Computers is one of the pioneers in the dynamic IT area and has established within its Dynamic Data Center (DDC) solutions that can be delivered today. We highly profit here from our mainframe experience in which virtualization is a proven technology. VMware and Fujitsu Siemens Computers share the same vision and we highly appreciate our collaboration with VMware in the Community Source Program. System management and adaptive computing end-to-end solutions are our focus areas within that programme. Participation in the Community Source Initiative is the foundation for an even more intense integration of VMware's product portfolio into Fujitsu Siemens DDC solution," comments Klaus Kratzer, Vice President Enterprise Server Products.

Mellanox looks forward to leveraging the source code that VMware is opening up through the Community Source initiative," said Eyal Waldman, CEO of Mellanox. "Mellanox is leading the industry in advancing Infiniband technology and driving the incorporation of Infiniband technology and optimizations into VMware virtual infrastructure for the 10,000+ enterprise customers running VMware in their data centers.

QLogic sees increasing customer adoption of VMware virtual infrastructure with QLogic Fibre Channel Storage Area Networks," said Roger Klein, Vice President of Product Marketing, QLogic Corporation. "We are excited to work with VMware under the Community Source umbrella to add value to VMware ESX Server and deliver jointly optimized solutions to our customers.

We are working with VMWare through the Community Source program to enhance support for InfiniBand,” said Patrick Guay, Senior Vice President of Marketing, Voltaire. “Voltaire’s multi-service switches with I/O virtualization capabilities complement VMWare’s server virtualization solutions to bring customers closer to a more efficient and flexible IT infrastructure.

Wyse is pleased to be working with VMware’s Community Source program initiative. Using VMware’s virtualization infrastructure and Wyse thin computing solutions delivers real Enterprise Desktop Virtualization,” said Ricardo Antuna, Vice President, Business Line Management at Wyse. “Wyse provides the device and centralized management tools while VMware provides centralized execution, control and security benefits for the data center. This approach delivers an end-to-end solution that maximizes ROI, increases security, and reduces IT management costs while preserving usability for the end-user.