I'd look more closely at this announcement to see what's really there before getting too excited.
I have no hard evidence, but consider the following:
- VMware support is very hot in the market right now.
- the SRM market share leader (EMC) announced full-featured support for VMware in ControlCenter 6.0, so they have to respond in some fashion.
- doing end-to-end SRM in VMware turned out to be really, really hard: discovery, visualization, new forms of reporting at multiple levels, provisioning, et. al.
I don't want to take anything away from the Symantec guys, but I want to make sure that they're not getting away with a bit of marketing puffery here.
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I'd look more closely at this announcement to see what's really there before getting too excited.
I have no hard evidence, but consider the following:
- VMware support is very hot in the market right now.
- the SRM market share leader (EMC) announced full-featured support for VMware in ControlCenter 6.0, so they have to respond in some fashion.
- doing end-to-end SRM in VMware turned out to be really, really hard: discovery, visualization, new forms of reporting at multiple levels, provisioning, et. al.
I don't want to take anything away from the Symantec guys, but I want to make sure that they're not getting away with a bit of marketing puffery here.