XenSource closes a distribution partnership with NEC

Quoting from the XenSource official announcement:

XenSource, Inc., the leader of the open source Xen virtualization project and a provider of enterprise virtualization solutions, and NEC Corporation, one of the world’s leading providers of Internet, broadband network and enterprise business solutions, today announced a broad alliance in which NEC will deliver XenSource’s server virtualization solutions. With this agreement, NEC and XenSource will collaborate to deliver XenSource virtualization solutions to market to help businesses dramatically reduce operating costs through savings on hardware, provisioning, power, space, cooling, and system maintenance.

Additionally, the companies will collaborate to deliver Integrated VM on NEC’s REAL IT PLATFORM vision. Integrated VM is a technology which realizes total management for multiple virtualization products and is performed by NEC’s platform management software, NEC SigmaSystemCenter. By this collaboration, NEC and XenSource will add XenEnterprise into the Integrated VM and enhance the virtualization market by joint development of the management features…