Tuesday, May 17, 2011

VMware offers its services and Shavlik Cloud

VMware announced it has signed a definitive agreement to repurchase of Shavlik Technologies. The latter is particularly known for these solutions in-the-Cloud 'management and supervisory infrastructure for SMEs. The transaction amount was not disclosed but the acquisition should be finalized by the end of the quarter.

The two companies had already signed a number of partnerships in recent years in particular led to the creation of cloud service "VMware GO" to guide users through installation and deployment platform vSphere. His "Pro" version (launched in February 2011 in France) also provides services "in the cloud" of management information systems with security features of physical and virtual infrastructures, control of resources and software licenses, monitoring and fleet management.

The acquisition reinforces recent efforts Shavlik VMware to address the needs of small and medium enterprises, including through the cloud. "With the acquisition of Shavlik, VMware will offer management services, simple to use and inexpensive, developed specifically to address the needs of SMEs," said Raghu Raghuram, VMware vice president and general manager of the branch Cloud Infrastructure.

"With VMware and VMware vSphere Essentials GB, VMware brings enormous value to hundreds of thousands of SMEs." This announcement, in the end very oriented Cloud, follows the publication last April of the cloud platform (PaaS) Open-Source Cloud Foundry, based in particular on vSphere and vCloud, and will thus strengthen the portfolio of solutions Cloud Cloud public and private, VMware.

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