This week, VMware announced an acquisition of certain pieces of EMC management software to expand the VMware vCenter Management Product Family. By doing this, they "hope to address critical management needs as customers advance on journey to cloud computing." Basically, the pieces that they are purchasing are pieces of EMC's Ionix. more...

Read more at: http://blogs.virtualizationadmin.com/davis/2010/02/25/vmware-to-acquire-certain-it-management-products-and-software-expertise-from-emc-corporation/