March 15, 2007 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Collaborative software development solutions provider CollabNet (collab.net) announced on Tuesday it has joined data center automation software developer Opsware’s (opsware.com) Technology Alliance Program.
Through the partnership, CollabNet and Opsware will provide access to a broad range of data center automation capabilities, enabling customers to more rapidly achieve operational efficiencies and reduce labor costs across their IT infrastructures, says CollabNet.
In addition, Opsware has selected CollabNet Community Edition to support collaborative extension of the Opsware network. Based upon Web 2.0 principles, CollabNet Community Edition is a fully integrated collaborative environment specifically tailored to meet customer and partner co-development needs and provides a Web platform for developers to communicate, collaborate and share code online. With the help of CollabNet, Opsware customers can now more closely communicate and collaborate with the Opsware support, service, and product engineers to increase efficiencies and performance.
“Opsware’s history of leadership in the data center automation market coupled with CollabNet’s ability to enable collaboration across geographical boundaries makes this partnership a natural fit,” says Martin Doettling, VP of marketing at CollabNet. “CollabNet will enable Opsware developers and customers to interact and collaborate on projects anywhere at any time, by supporting the collaborative extension of the Opsware network.”
