Web Hosting Provider SWsoft and Egenera Forge Team Up Server Virtualization

SWsoft (www.sw-soft.com), a provider in server automation and virtualization, announced that it has joined the Egenera Accelerate alliance program as an Assured Solution Alliances member. At the same time, Egenera has become a member of SWsoft's Strategic Technology Partner Program.

Through this joint alliance, SWsoft and Egenera will participate in co-marketing, sales opportunities and testing to further the use of the Egenera® BladeFrame® system and SWsoft's Virtuozzo, a server virtualization solution that creates multiple isolated Virtual Private Servers (VPSs) on a single physical server.

"Our alliance with Egenera represents a positive step in providing our customers with solutions to simplify the management of their server infrastructure," said Kurt Daniel, director of marketing, SWsoft.

"We are pleased to align with SWsoft to deliver utility computing solutions to businesses seeking to consolidate workloads without losing application isolation or producing a lot of overhead," said Susan Davis, vice president of marketing and product management, Egenera.

SWsoft's Virtuozzo for Windows has been validated on Egenera's BladeFrame system. The BladeFrame combines the utility of stateless servers with powerful software that virtualizes processing, storage and networking resources into a "computing fabric."

Virtuozzo empowers enterprises with powerful Microsoft Windows Server and Linux virtualization solutions. Customers can leverage Virtuozzo on standard and blade servers for server consolidation, departmental-specific servers, development and testing, managing application growth, minimizing downtime and patch management.