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VKernel and Lighthouse Virtualization Team Up
(Wireless News Via Acquire Media NewsEdge)
VKernel, a provider of virtual appliances for managing virtual server
environments, announced a partnership with Lighthouse Virtualization, a
subsidiary of Lighthouse Computer Services.
Under the agreement, Lighthouse becomes a VKernel Gold Partner that
will resell VKernel's Suite of Virtual Appliances for analyzing and
monitoring capacity, implementing chargeback, and gaining cost
visibility in VMware ESX environments and build services to support its
"Green IT" initiative.
"As Organizations continue to virtualize their data centers, they need
visibility into resource utilization to properly plan their virtual
infrastructures, ensure optimal performance, and enable IT to have an
accurate cost of each virtual machine," said Alex Bakman, founder and
CEO of VKernel. "Our solutions are a great fit for Lighthouse as they
rapidly address critical issues within the virtual data center to
deliver instantaneous value and benefits to Lighthouse and its customer
base."
The company explained that its VKernel Virtual Appliance Suite for
Systems Management is a set of "plug-and-play" virtual appliances
designed to address real world systems management challenges as
organizations migrate to VMware virtual environments. VKernel stated
that its products enable IT groups to immediately solve today's
critical pain points by providing visibility into the capacity and
resource consumption of each virtual machine. VKernel is currently
offering a Chargeback Virtual Appliance for gaining cost visibility and
implementing chargeback, and a Capacity Bottleneck Analyzer Virtual
Appliance for identifying and eliminating capacity bottlenecks.
"Lighthouse differentiates itself by understanding the impact that
virtualization has on an organization's entire environment. By not
addressing the organization as a whole, the cost savings inherent to a
virtualization strategy will not be recognized. Operational readiness
which encompasses the processes and procedures that a company needs to
address prior to virtualizing needs to be considered," said Peter
Heigis, managing partner for the Lighthouse Virtualization Group.
"VKernel completes the Virtualization Methodology Lifecycle and enables
companies to proactively address the management challenges to ensure
that capacity planning in the virtual world does not meet the same fate
as seen in the physical world of over procurement and underutilization."
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