VKernel Corporation, a provider of easy-to-use and quick-to-deploy virtual appliances for managing virtual server environments, today announced a partnership with Blackhawk Technology Consulting LLC, a virtualization systems integrator based in Eugene, Ore. Under the agreement, Blackhawk Technology is a VKernel Gold Partner that will resell VKernel's Suite of Virtual Appliances for analyzing capacity bottlenecks, implementing chargeback, and gaining cost visibility in VMware ESX environments to its growing customer base.

"By rapidly solving specific server virtualization issues such as cost visibility, chargeback, and capacity bottlenecks, VKernel virtual appliances provide instantaneous value and benefits to any organization involved in a virtualization project," said Alex Bakman, founder and CEO of VKernel.  "Our relationship with Blackhawk Technology should immediately increase market opportunities for VKernel's products and drive revenues for both companies."

The VKernel Virtual Appliance Suite for Systems Management is a set of "plug-and-play" virtual appliances designed to quickly address real world systems management challenges as organizations migrate to VMware virtual
environments.  VKernel products enable IT groups to immediately solve today's critical pain points by providing visibility into the capacity and resource consumption of each virtual machine.  VKernel is currently offering a Chargeback Virtual Appliance for gaining cost visibility and implementing chargeback, and a Capacity Bottleneck Analyzer Virtual Appliance for identifying and eliminating capacity bottlenecks.

"The Combination of our services and solutions and those from VKernel is enabling us to offer our existing and potential customers a complete virtual data center chargeback and capacity analysis solution," said Ty Schwab, CEO
and CTO of Blackhawk Technology.  "With the VKernel systems management solutions and the services offered by Blackhawk Technology, businesses can now realize the benefits and awesome power that virtualization can bring to their IT data center."

Blackhawk Technology Consulting LLC is unique in that its technology professionals have proven expertise and capabilities in virtualization technologies, from planning, designing, deploying, and supporting organizations using virtualization technologies so that businesses can remain productive and profitable.