Egenera Inc., announced it has joined the VMware Community Source program. Joining the program will allow Egenera to port VMware ESX Server to the Egenera BladeFrame system, complementing Egenera's virtualized computing architecture with the server virtualization capabilities of VMware ESX Server and offering their customers additional flexibility in hypervisor technology options. VMware's Community Source progr Egenera Inc., announced it has joined the VMware Community Source program. Joining the program will allow Egenera to port VMware ESX Server to the Egenera BladeFrame system, complementing Egenera’s virtualized computing architecture with the server virtualization capabilities of VMware ESX Server and offering their customers additional flexibility in hypervisor technology options. VMware’s Community Source program is a collaborative development effort that provides open technology access to the source code and APIs for VMware ESX Server. The new agreement between the two companies will align the two companies’ complementary technologies. The Egenera BladeFrame system combines diskless server blades with virtualization software to dramatically simplify datacenter infrastructure while delivering a highly available, flexible computing platform. Using VMware ESX Server to create and run virtual machines on the BladeFrame system allows customers to partition Egenera Processing Blade modules to run multiple operating systems and applications robustly and securely on a single blade. The Egenera BladeFrame system’s built-in redundancy and high availability make it an ideal platform on which to run mission-critical production applications in a virtual machine environment. “VMware and Egenera share many of the same values around driving our customers’ success, including delivering lower total cost of ownership, higher return on investment and improved service levels across the enterprise,” said Raghu Raghuram, vice president of platform products at VMware. “The combination of VMware Infrastructure with the Egenera BladeFrame system is expected to provide customers with simplified virtual infrastructure management, and greater hardware utilization and flexibility.” “VMware ESX Server is the market-leading server virtualization solution, used widely for production applications. We are excited about the opportunity to work shoulder-to-shoulder with VMware for joint customers’ benefit,” said Susan Davis, vice president, Egenera. “With the new agreement, Egenera customers will be able to further extend the inherent datacenter virtualization capabilities of our BladeFrame system with virtual machine technology.” For more information about Egenera and their solutions, visit their Website. Software Development