The Evolution of Ionix
Ionix: The New Frontier
Late last week, EMC and VMware announced a major milestone in the
The Evolution of Ionix
evolution of Ionix. Announced February 25, VMware and EMC announced that the two companies have entered into a definitive agreement for VMware to acquire certain software products and expertise from EMC’s Ionix IT management business.
Under terms of the agreement, VMware will acquire all of the technology and intellectual property of: Ionix Application Stack Manager (FastScale), Ionix Application Discovery Manager, Ionix Server Configuration Manager, and Ionix Service Manager.
EMC will retain the Ionix brand and have full reseller rights to continue to offer customers the products acquired by VMware. Additionally, EMC will continue to develop the Ionix portfolio, and will focus on such products as: Ionix for IT Operations Intelligence (Smarts), Ionix Network Configuration Manager (Voyence), Ionix Data Center Insight, Ionix ControlCenter, Ionix Storage Configuration Advisor and Ionix Unified Infrastructure Manager.
This focus will enable EMC to concentrate on on providing ground-breaking solutions that simplify the management of the information infrastructure - specifically for network, storage and private cloud environments (including Vblocks).
There’s a great post from Chuck Hollis on the announcement and what it means. Stay tuned to this blog for more exciting updates on the evolution of Ionix. Much more to come…
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Change and Configuration, Cloud, Configuration Management Database (CMDB) Population, Data Center Automation and Compliance, Dependency Mapping, Service Management, Storage Resource Management (SRM), Virtualization Management
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