More VMware Buzz on B-hive Acquisition Announcement
When you have most
of the marbles, it never hurts to have a few more. For industry leader
VMware, the challenge is well defined: Stay ahead of the pack by maintaining
market share; keep building the value-added areas of virtualization where
high growth is most likely to take place; fill gaps in the existing
portfolio; and move toward the company's vision of automated virtual data
centers.
VMware's acquisition of B-hive is consistent with those
goals, especially the last. B-hive is an application performance management
company with headquarters in San Mateo, CA. The 3-year-old, privately held
company's core product is the Conductor, which it describes as the first
Service Level Control solution for virtualized environments.
Target
markets have included retailers and financial organizations. According to
Bogomil Balkansky, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Vmware, the
company has already been working with B-hive as a partner and much of the
current level of product integration is already in place through open API
development.
B-hive Conductor is a virtual appliance that resides in
the data center and monitors the response time of user transactions and
applications, as well as utilization levels of virtual machines. It also
provides real-time resource allocation.
Used in conjunction with
VMware's existing management tools, Conductor can pinpoint degradations in
application response time and dynamically reallocate virtual resources. This
includes the ability to migrate applications to a different server, and
provisioning additional VMs if necessary.
VMware plans to use the
technology to augment customer deployments for both servers and desktops. In
addition, B-hive's research and development facility in Israel will form the
basis for a new VMware research and development center. Balkansky told
Virtualization Review that plans for the R & D projects to be
carried out are still being finalized.