Let me be clear: our goal is to simplify management of IT as customers move to an increasingly dynamic and virtualized infrastructure. However, our customers have varied needs and have also made significant investments in management platforms and tools from our partners. As we integrate the Ionix products into the vCenter family and accelerate innovation towards a new more agile management model, we remain committed to open APIs, and co-operation and integration with our partners. This approach has allowed us to jointly provide robust solutions for our customers and we will continue to lead in this area.
via blogs.vmware.com
That's nice and all but cutting to the quick VMware’s infrastructure partners will have access to some incredibly nifty products and technologies which previously were only available through an EMC Sales Rep.
If you’re an EMC competitor it’s not rocket science to figure out you’d go running to one of the big four IT management companies when you found yourself competing against these when they were part of an EMC solution.
Now you’ll be able to position them as part of your VMware solution as they're now part of the VMware core product set.
The big four is about to become the big five.
CA, HP, BMC, IBM & VMware
