Opsware has the option to resell the Solidcore offering with the Opsware System 6 solutions suite through its worldwide field sales and channel teams based on select customer needs. The combined offering will enable customers to enforce only changes from Opsware, providing lock-down for select systems that support mission-critical applications that require extreme change control policies.

The combined Opsware and Solidcore solution will track all change to servers in real-time, capture and document critical change detail in real time, identify changes that make a system non-compliant and enable enforcement of change process policy. The joint offering will be the only solution that completely controls all change to the server infrastructure, and enables IT organizations to eliminate change-related business risks and costs by allowing only authorized changes to take place. Meanwhile, the offering ensures all change activity is captured, documented and correlated against appropriate authorization.

"We are excited to be partnering with Solidcore to provide our joint customers with a comprehensive solution for delivering, tracking and controlling change throughout the IT infrastructure," says Sharmila Shahani, EVP of marketing at Opsware. "Working with Solidcore will provide today's IT organizations with a centralized means to ensure only appropriate, approved changes are provisioned to the infrastructure, as expected."