VMware announced today it is acquiring B-hive Networks.  I think this is a good acquisition for both companies and extends VMware’s presence in the data center.  Obviously VMware is hearing from its customers that they want to manage their virtual data centers as a service.  Web, application, and database performance is critical to that goal.

B-Hive’s Conductor product monitors network traffic and uses that information to map applications to the supporting infrastructure and reports on measured response times of the monitored transactions.  This gives a good view of how well your service is performing.  However Conductor does not have visibility into the SAN and storage layers and can’t help you monitor, troubleshoot, optimize, and plan those pieces of the infrastructure.

I would think the next step for VMware would be to make the information from the B-Hive product accessible via Virtual Center.  Products such as BalancePoint will benefit from that web and application centric analysis and complimenting that with the analysis and modeling that we do will give the customer a complete end-to-end view of their IT service.

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