September 5, 2007 — (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Information availability solutions provider SunGard (sungard.com) announced on Tuesday that it is now offering support of VMware ESX Server 3.x and the distributed services that are part of VMware infrastructure through its operating system management service.
SunGard says it now provides full management of customers’ systems running in a virtualized environment on the VMware Infrastructure platform, a milestone in the company’s virtualization initiative. The service includes a VMware VirtualCenter management server to monitor and manage a customer’s virtual machines, as well as complete monitoring, management and reporting of the physical servers.
“SunGard Availability Services has long been providing support of partitioned operating systems, both for UNIX and AS/400 systems, and now extends this expertise to x86 systems,” says Frank Lacomba, director of product management at SunGard Availability Services. “We have taken this step to support the needs of our customers, as VMware’s virtualization technology becomes more popular and widely integrated into enterprise IT infrastructure.”
SunGard recently completed the previously announced acquisition of Houston, Texas-based managed services provider VeriCenter.
