Convirture Adds VMware Support to Cloud Management Tool
November 28, 2012
Grazed from The Var Guy. Author: Christopher Tozzi.
In days past, virtualization platforms that relied on an amalgamation of different technologies could present complications for IT managers. But in a sign that hybridized virtualization environments are becoming the accepted norm, Convirture has announced a new version of its management tools that supports all major virtualization and cloud platforms.
If the world of virtualization and cloud computing were simpler, there might be one clear preferred solution for building computing infrastructure. But organizations now have an array of enterprise ready hypervisors to choose from, ranging from Xen to VMware to KVM. At the same time, several major cloud platforms, including Eucalyptus, OpenStack and Amazon EC2, are available. Because all of these technologies have different strengths and weaknesses, many IT infrastructures rely on a mix of these various solutions…
And while the mantra of IT managers may once have been that consistency and core standards win the race, value-added management solutions for virtualization and the cloud are making it easier to administer hybridized environments without having to worry as much about what’s running under the hood. The most recent release of Convirture’s ConVirt Enterprise and ConVirt Enterprise Cloud software, which will go live on December 3, highlights this trend by adding support for VMware’s vSphere and ESXi hypervisors to the range of other popular platforms that already work with the company’s management tools…
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