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VMware Cloud Applications Marketplace: VARs Meet ISVs

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http://www.thevarguy.com – VMware (NYSE: VMW) has launched a Cloud Applications Marketplace, which provides partners and customers with downloadable application blueprints, reference architectures and other guidance for deploying public or private cloud solutions. The marketplace is part of VMware’s broader vCloud Suite initiative, which allows partners to build and managed cloud infrastructure. VMware also announced the general release of VMware vCenter Operations Management Suite 5.6 and VMware vFabric Application Director 5.0.Both releases are part of VMware vCloud Suite 5.1, which integrates VMware’s virtu (IT news)

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