As a partner of this community, the company can access VMware SAP experts and a forum to communicate with other partners in the community.

Attenda Limited, a managed services company, today announced that it has been selected to become a member of the VMware Partner Community for SAP solutions. The company says that it has joined this community which VMware, a provider of virtualization solutions from the desktop to the datacenter, has built around partners who can help mutual customers virtualise their SAP environments and share in VMware initiatives focused on SAP.

It articulates that as a VMware Authorized Consultant (VAC) partner, a founding member of the VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP) and an SAP Hosting Partner, it brings to the VMware Partner Community for SAP Solutions a track record in the design and deployment of virtualised hosting infrastructures based on the VMware virtualisation platform. The company further states that VMware Partner Community for SAP Solutions gives it access to VMware SAP experts and a forum to communicate with other partners in the community. It adds that through its community membership, it will also have access to intellectual property for configuring, architecting, deploying and operating SAP solutions in VMware environments.

Simon Hansford, Vice President of Products & Marketing at Attenda, added, ''We provide all of our clients with best practices, people skills and technology to ensure that our environments deliver superior design, transition, operations and service improvement. This provides our SAP clients with confidence in IT certainty and agility for their business.''

Commenting on Attenda joining the VMware Partner Community for SAP Solutions, Christoph Reisbeck, director, SAP alliance for VMware, said, ''Attenda's proven SAP track record and commitment to best practices and standards helps ensure the delivery of highly available IT services.  With its strong customer base and expertise in VMware virtualisation, Attenda is a valuable addition to the VMware Partner Community for SAP Solutions.  Attenda possesses the experience and resources required to deploy VMware-virtualised SAP solutions not only in development and test but in live production environments.''