Intel and VMware have together announced the launch of Intel-VMware Virtualize ASAP, a global program that the companies hope will accelerate IT customer deployment of applications in virtual environments using VMware Infrastructure on Intel Xeon processor-based platforms. The program is also expected to strengthen the collaboration between Intel and VMware around optimizing Intel platform support for virtualization.
Through this engagement with leading software vendors, Intel and VMware will jointly drive tuning, feedback and technical optimization for VMware virtualization software on Intel processor technologies. Over the long-term, Virtualize ASAP is intended to help direct continued improvements in support for VMware software on Intel’s platforms and processors.
“We created Virtualize ASAP with VMware to accelerate and simplify the process of customer solutions deployment of VMware environments on Intel Xeon-based server platforms and to strengthen our joint technical collaboration,” said Pat Gelsinger, senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group. “Virtualize ASAP gives a broad set of ISV partners a set of technical resources to accelerate the creation of best practices and reference configurations of VMware Infrastructure for servers using Intel’s dual-core Xeon processors,” said Diane Greene, president of VMware.
Leading original equipment manufacturers, including Dell, HP and IBM, are also driving Virtualize ASAP in support of software vendors with the contribution of new hardware platforms and technical resources. Software vendors who are initial participants in Virtualize ASAP include: Altiris, BEA, CA, Cassatt, Citrix, CommuniGate Systems, DataSynapse, Hyperion, Interwoven, LANDesk, McKesson, MySQL, NetIQ, Open Country, Platform Computing, SAP, SAS, SyAM, Sybase, Symantec, Tangosol and UGS. |
