Industry Leaders Support Community Source

Virtualization is about making IT resources changeable matching IT supply to business demand, which is key to becoming an adaptive enterprise, where business and IT are synchronized to capitalize on change," said Rick Becker, vice president and general manager, HP BladeSystem. "HP and VMware are committed to simplifying a user's IT infrastructure through consolidation and migration to the latest evolution in industry standard solutions. Through our collaboration with VMware in the Community Source Program and our joint efforts across our servers, management tools, storage solutions, consulting and support, we are helping enterprise customers drive down IT costs, increase business agility and free up resources for innovation.

Virtualization is a game-changing technology for the data center, and we expect VMware's open collaboration to help foster a broad set of well-integrated commercial solutions for AMD Opteron processor-based systems," said Joe Menard, corporate vice president, software strategy, AMD. "VMware has significant market experience, focusing on robust and accelerated support for AMD's 'Pacifica' specification. We support VMware's lead in offering API's to further drive market adoption of virtualization. As a founder of the HyperTransport Consortium, founding member of the Trusted Computing Group and leader in defining x86-based 64-bit computing, AMD is a huge proponent of customer freedom and we support open standards for virtualization.

Cisco is committed to bringing the benefits of best-in-class data center virtualization solutions to our customers," said Jayshree Ullal, Senior Vice President, Datacenter, Switching and Security Technology Group, Cisco. "By fostering the creation of open virtualization standards we can better deliver our customers complete end-to-end data center solutions that take advantage of the natural synergy between VMware's virtual machine capabilities and the end-to-end physical server, storage, security, I/O virtualization, and VFrame virtualization management capabilities Cisco offers across our portfolio of data center switching infrastructure.

As a leader in virtualization, BMC Software has already introduced comprehensive management solutions for VMware virtual infrastructure software, including monitoring, capacity management and optimization with BMC PATROL Performance Assurance for Virtual Servers and BMC Performance Manager for Virtual Servers," said Tom Bishop, Chief Technology Officer at BMC Software. "These solutions help customers make dynamic provisioning decisions from a business perspective to achieve Business Service Management. BMC is looking forward to supporting VMware's open virtualization initiative to drive key integrations and common interfaces that advance innovation and manageability for the broad range of enterprise customers who are adopting VMware virtual infrastructure.

Our customers are expanding the use of virtual technologies in their data centers," according to Sam Greenblatt, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Advisor at Computer Associates International, Inc. "CA has a long history of helping customers leverage these systems, which run the gamut from classic mainframes to more recent innovations on commodity platforms. Working with VMware under the Community Source program will be an important step toward identifying standards that will make virtualized environments even more significant in deploying IT assets in the enterprise.

Broadcom is committed to convergence over Ethernet by driving C-NIC technology as the baseline function for the coming generation of servers," said Greg Young, Vice President & General Manager of Broadcom's High-Speed Controller Line of Business. "As the industry adoption of server virtualization increases, we are excited to be working with industry pioneer VMware to drive optimized integration and support for Broadcom converged NICs with VMware ESX Server.

Customers tell us that driving IT efficiency through virtualization is a strategic imperative and close interoperability is key," said Guy Churchward, General Manager of JRockit Product Group at BEA Systems. "It is great to see companies like VMware offer flexibility to innovate around open technology initiatives. As part of BEA's utility computing and virtualization strategy, it's important for the company to work closely with enterprise class components, such as VMware's virtual infrastructure, to meet customers' needs. Companies like VMware help further our goal to provide highly differentiated value to global customers.