VMware sets up new R&D centre in Israel

IT SEEMS TO BE business as usual for decapitated virtualisation outfit VMware. After the dramatic shock firing of CEO and co founder Diane Greene this week, the company was pushing ahead with plans to open its new research and design centre in Israel.

After snapping up Israeli B-hive Networks, a privately-held application performance management software company in May, VMware will now open a local development center in the unholy land.

VMware has had a regional sales centre in Israel for about 18 months but this will be the first time the firm will move towards having an R&D venture in the country.

B-hive’s technology will purportedly provide VMware punters with what it calls 'proactive performance management' and service-level reporting for applications running on VMware virtual machines.

The firm lets users take a closer look at application performance in virtual environments, like end-user transaction response time, virtual machine utilisation and cross-virtual machine dependencies.

Breaking new ground and entering trendy new virtualisation territory, B-hive reckons it's different from OS-based performance monitoring products, because it measures performance across multi-tier or service-oriented architecture applications, distributed across clusters of ESX hypervisors and virtual machines.

Senior product manager at VMware, Karl Rumelhart, noted that buying B-hive was VMware's way of dipping its toe into the waters of the Israeli technology market when it came to infrastructures for management of enterprise computing. He explained, "If you look at the Israeli companies in management and security, this is the right place to be to find opportunities to progress in this field."

VMware also hopes to make further investments in the region. µ

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