The VMware Infrastructure product suite will now be available on Sun x64 servers with full support from Sun under an OEM agreement to extend the companies' virtualization offerings. VMware Infrastructure will appear as a datacenter virtualization run-time and management stack on Sun x64 systems.
Manesh Dubash of Techworld needed an answer to the question of just why Sun would choose to feature the VMware product suite on its hardware and to offer full support, especially when it had a virtualization solution of its own. Ben Lenail of Sun provided an answer, which was that the deal gives Sun parity with such mainstream server vendors as HP and Dell.
Sun's Vice President of Global Partner Sales Jesse Chavez ranked 14th in CRN's list of 25 channel chiefs that it believes you should know. In a brief questionnaire, Chavez answered various personal and business related questions, including naming the Sun Partner Advantage Program as the major accomplishment for the company's channel over the past year.
Starting February 29th, the Sun Startup Essentials Program was to begin offering the following new systems to its qualifying members: Sun Fire X4140, X4240, and X4450. Listen to Juan Carlos Soto, vice president of Sun's Global Market Development, on the particulars of the Sun Startup Essentials Program in an 11-minute Sun Net Talk, where he provides full details on the program's membership rules and benefits.
Some of the latest partner activity at Sun over the last few weeks includes Zmanda Recovery Manager (ZRM) for MySQL Version 2.1, Imation to Support T9840D Tape Drive, VMware Infrastructure Product Suite on Sun x64 Servers, New Inline Data De-Duplication Solution for Sun's Channel, Solaris 10 on SPARC Now Supported by Layer 7 Technologies, SugarCRM Stack Installers for Solaris and OpenSolaris, and much more.
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