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August 13, 2007 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Automated configuration provider mValent (mvalent.com) announced on Monday it has signed an agreement through which data center automation software provider Opsware (opsware.com) will resell mValent Integrity with the Opsware System suite through its worldwide field sales and channel teams.
The agreement follows mValent's recent announcement that it had joined Opsware's Technology Alliance Partner program to deliver ongoing integration between mValent Integrity and the Opsware System product suite. mValent Integrity enables middleware software support teams to configure settings for middleware assets, monitor them for authorized and unauthorized changes and automate processes from initial provisioning to ongoing change across development, test and production environments.
Using Opsware's automation platform, the combination of mValent Integrity and Opsware's Data Center Automation software enables Opsware customers to extend their implementations to include highly granular control of configuration settings for middleware assets. These include application servers, Web servers and databases, and the thousands of configuration settings associated with these assets can be managed down to the individual property level.
"We are excited to be partnering with mValent to provide customers with a comprehensive solution for configuration, compliance, change and release management across middleware - and to enable fine-grained management of configuration items for middleware assets," says Sharmila Shahani, EVP of marketing at Opsware. "mValent's seamless integration allows us to provide IT organizations with an additional level of application change control."
Opsware announced last month that computer and printer manufacturer Hewlett-Packard will buy Opsware for about $1.6 billion.
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