VMware announced that TradeBeam has selected the VMware platform, including VMware Infrastructure 3 and VMware Lab Manager, as the foundation for its development and production IT environments.

TradeBeam's software-as-a-service (SaaS) model provides over 6,000 organizations with import and export compliance, inventory management, shipment tracking, supply-chain event management, and global trade finance solutions from four international datacenters housing more than 1,000 physical servers. With the number of servers continuing to rise along with power consumption, space requirements, infrastructure complexity and IT costs, TradeBeam recognized the need to virtualize its application environment.

For test and development TradeBeam has employed VMware Lab Manager to create a library of commonly used configurations and dynamically provision, modify or eliminate virtual machines.

TradeBeam's first production application to be virtualized was its European customs and compliance system, currently running on VMware Infrastructure. As the company moves even more production applications onto the VMware platform, the virtualized environment will include a combination of Windows and Linux applications.

The need to support both operating systems was reportedly a key factor in TradeBeam's selection of VMware.