IBM buys CSL International to expand cloud virtualisation capabilities

Grazed from ComputerWeekly. Author: Archana Venkatraman.

IBM is to buy Israel-based virtualisation management provider CSL International to expand its cloud offerings by adding management capabilities. The financial terms of the deal will not be disclosed, IBM said. The acquisition is expected to close in the third quarter of 2013, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions. The IT assets from CSL will be integrated with IBM’s zEnterprise System portfolio. IBM says its System z products help enterprises integrate data with analytics and enables cloud delivery.

With the zEnterprise System tools, businesses can host the workloads of thousands of commodity servers on a single system for simplification and cost savings. CSL International’s software, CSL-WAVE, is used by enterprises to monitor and manage the virtual machine hypervisor z/VM and Linux on System z environments…

The software provides drag and drop options to create, discover, visualise and connect virtual servers to resources. "As clients create smarter computing environments, they are looking for ways to manage IT costs and complexity without sacrificing security or the ability to scale," said Greg Lotko, IBM business line executive, System z…

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