<p>Avaya's Aura unified communications (UC) platform can now run on VMware virtualised environments, following similar UC moves by Cisco Systems, ShoreTel and Microsoft.</p><p>Avaya officials unveiled Avaya Aura Virtualized Environment (VE), a fully virtualised version of the UC platform that the communications technology vendor introduced more than two years ago to become the foundation of its communication and collaboration technology.VMware Ready</p><p>Now the applications on Avaya Aura have been certified as VMware Ready, enabling businesses to run them from a VMware virtual machine as virtual appliances hosted on a server rather than solely on Avaya hardware.</p><p>"All [of a business'] Aura apps are available on VMware," Tac Berry, product marketing manager for Avaya Collaboration Platform, told eWEEK. "We've added a deployment option for Aura."</p><p><a href="http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/news/avaya-virtual-unified-communication-101131">Keep reading...</a></p><p>Read also:</p><p><a href="http://www.destinationcrm.com/Articles/CRM-News/Daily-News/Avaya-Releases-New-Aura-Collaboration-and-Unified-Communications-Tool-86552.aspx">Avaya Releases New Aura Collaboration and Unified Communications Tool</a> (Destination CRM)</p><p><a href="http://www.zdnet.com/avaya-teaming-with-vmware-on-virtualized-collaboration-7000008363/">Avaya teaming with VMWare on virtualized collaboration</a> (ZDNet)</p><p><a href="http://www.datacenterjournal.com/the-daily-buzz/new-communications-architecture-from-avaya/">New Communications Architecture from Avaya</a> (The Data Center Journal (blog))</p><p>Explore: <a href="http://news.google.com/news/more?ncl=dkeEhzvTT2CicVMHssOno4lAuqcGM&ned=us">34 additional articles.</a></p>