Key to this expanded alliance, VMware has announced a reseller agreement whereby EMC is now a fully authorised reseller of VMware vCenter AppSpeed.

This new solution, along with EMC's virtualization services, will be offered through EMC Select as part of EMC's Ionix portfolio, enabling customers to have full management capabilities across their physical and virtual IT infrastructures.

EMC and VMware are also partnering to provide new services designed to rapidly identify and migrate (physical to virtual) tier-one applications.

These services will leverage an automation and tools approach, including:

• VMware Capacity Planner
• MC Ionix  Application Discovery Manager
• VMware vCenter AppSpeed

All designed to help customers streamline the decision making process in determining which mission-critical applications to virtualize next. In total, these services will provide customers with a full-lifecycle and workflow approach to facilitate each application through its transformation to the virtual world.

The specific offerings related to VMware vCenter AppSpeed include:

• Enhanced Candidate Selection for VMware vCenter AppSpeed
• VMware vCenter AppSpeed Jumpstart
• VMware Infrastructure Performance Health Check

VMware vCenter AppSpeed will be sold in conjunction with EMC's newly announced Ionix IT Management portfolio. The Ionix family will help customers confidently accelerate their journey to the private cloud.

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