A quick scan of the Elastic Server factory floor shows VMware as the most popular virtualization format selected for custom Elastic Server assembly at this time. What better way to enhance all of those VMware-clad servers than to certify them as VMware Ready? In conjunction with the VMworld 2008 conference this week, VMware is announcing its VMware Ready Virtual Appliance Program (formerly the Certified Virtual Appliance Program). As part of this announcement, CohesiveFT (that's us) has been selected as one of the companies that can help you create certified virtual apps.What this means
The VMware Ready Virtual Appliance Program is a verification program designed to ensure the best possible user experience by promoting virtual appliances that are VMware verified and ready to run on virtual environments. You can offer virtual appliances that are optimized to run on VMware Infrastructure, create a better user experience, and clearly communicate that your virtual appliances are safe, tested, and ready to run in a production environment. As part of the program, you'll also get to visual seal of approval, the VMware Ready logo, a symbol of quality amongst customers who find, evaluate, and purchase virtual appliances.
You can learn more about how to test and validate your production-ready virtual app on the VMware site. At this time, VMware Ready certification is a manual process, but the good news is that Elastic Server can get you most of the way there. (As soon as VMware is ready to support dynamic assembly, our Elastic Server platform will help you certify your servers immediately. It's not that we're opposed to mere static assembly, but when you're us and you have a real-time assembly capability, why not build and certify on-the-fly?)
VMware Ready is just one of the exciting announcements coming from CohesiveFT and the Elastic Server factory this week. Subscribe to our blog and Twitter feeds for more news. Also, if you're looking to meet with us in Vegas this week? Contact us with your whereabouts and we'll seek you out at the show.
