Microsoft To Manage Citrix, VMware In Forthcoming System Center
Microsoft's still trailing VMware by a wide margin in server virtualization, but no company in the IT industry has historically been more dogged in pursuit of its chosen prey. This week, Microsoft showed how it intends to narrow the gap, announcing that the next version of its server management platform will be able to manage not just Hyper-V-based guest systems, but those running hypervisors on Citrix XenServer and VMware vSphere.
"The data center is like the Wild West; there are no standards and no consistency," said Brad Anderson, corporate vice president of the Management and Security Division of Microsoft, in a recent briefing for reporters and analysts. "We know companies will have a hybrid of systems... They might have [compute resources] from Amazon here, and [something else] there."
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