IBM announced a definitive agreement to acquire CSL International: stakes and opportunities.

To face compete from Cisco, Oracle, SAP… IBM has definitely consolidated its portfolio regarding virtualization management technology for IBM’s zEnterprise system.

For those who unfamiliar, CSL International’s CSL-WAVE
software enables companies to monitor and manage their z/VM and Linux on System z environments using a powerful and easy-to-use interface. The software provides drag and drop simplicity to instantly create, discover, visualize and connect virtual servers to resources allowing clients to free up more skilled staff to address other business challenges. 

Regarding the zEnterprise System, it aims to enable clients to host the workloads of thousands of commodity servers on a single system for simplification, improved security and cost reduction.

Connectikpeople has also discovered that, the combination of IBM and CSL International technologies will allow clients to manage all aspects of z/VM and Linux on System z virtualization, including CPU, memory, storage, and network resources.  

Note: ‘’The acquisition is expected to close in the third quarter of 2013, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions and applicable regulatory reviews.’’