VMware Integrates with Cisco VFrame

September 17, 2007 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Networking hardware developer Cisco Systems (cisco.com) recently announced that it has partnered with virtualization software developer VMware (vmware.com) to integrate its Virtual Infrastructure 3 software with Cisco's VFrame data center virtualization appliance in an effort to expand its Data Center 3.0 vision.

Cisco says the integration of VFrame DC with VMware Virtual Infrastructure offers customers enhanced IT automation capabilities, including added VMware ESX Server capacity on demand, as well as orchestrated configuration of network services. Customers will also benefit from increased IT agility and flexibility, faster coordinated provisioning of storage and network resources and improved business continuance, says the company.

Data Center 3.0 is Cisco's next-generation data center virtualization strategy announced in July. It is designed to help customers better use data center resources, improve business continuance, optimize application performance and enhance data security through real-time, dynamic orchestration of infrastructure services from shared pools of virtualized server, storage and network resources, says Cisco.

VMware recently partnered with SunGard, which now offers support of VMware ESX Server 3.x and the distributed services that are part of VMware infrastructure through its operating system management service.