Server virtualization pioneer VMware is holding its VMworld conference in Las Vegas this week, and among new announcements, it has unveiled a new online resource to help corporate enterprises find and test VMware cloud services partners, many of whom are telcos or similar service providers.
The new site, vcloud.vmware.com, provides information on about 48 vCloud service providers so far and allows companies to test-drive their services. VMware eventually plans to include reviews and recommendation tools to further help virtualization customers connect with the cloud.
In a similar vein, the company also announced Global Connect, a service to help multi-national corporate enterprises find cloud service provider partners in different regions of the world and combine them into a single global virtual cloud services platform.
VMware's success may increasingly depend on the future of such partnerships as chief competitor Microsoft (Nasdaq:MSFT) continues an aggressive marketing campaign against the company that started the whole virtualization trend--or at least made the market take notice. VMware also has taken some odd turns recently, having launched a new licensing strategy that stoked controversy among customers. After an outcry, VMware revised the licensing scheme but its competitor Microsoft has alleged it merely masked its price hikes.
At this week's conference, VMware also is announcing a new database management platform called vFarbric Data Director, which enables greater control over dispersed databases.
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