VMWare and SAP forge support agreement
VMWare said Tuesday that SAP will support its software
running on VMWare's ESX Server, in 64-bit Windows and Linux environments.
SAP will offer companies who deploy ESX Server support for "all stages
of the software lifecycle, from development and test to production," according
to a VMWare statement.
VMWare also said that server products from Fujitsu-Siemens, HP, Dell and IBM
have been certified for running SAP software on VMWare.
Parag Patel, vice president of alliances for VMWare, said it took some time
for SAP to provide production-environment support due to the company's high
standards: "SAP is demanding, they're conservative. They're cautious of
what goes into the environments of their customers."
He also acknowledged the technological implications of virtualizing an enterprise's
ERP (enterprise resource planning) infrastructure. "Companies run their
businesses around SAP," he said. "It's one thing to virtualize a lightweight
application and another thing to virtualize something like SAP."
The company's newly strengthened alliance with SAP comes at a time when it
remains the dominant market leader for virtualization but is seeing competing
products from the likes of Sun and Oracle emerge.
VMWare nonetheless hopes to form an equivalent support pact with Oracle, according
to Patel. "I'm optimistic. I think there's a lot to be gained for both
companies," he said.
Also Tuesday, VMWare shipped the latest version of VMware Infrastructure 3.
The company said the release features improvements in automation, availability
and workload performance.
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