Introducing the Vates Alliance Network

More organizations than ever are choosing Vates VMS as the foundation of their infrastructure. Across the globe, XCP-ng and Xen Orchestra are running in production environments in enterprises, service providers, public institutions, and organizations that have made a deliberate decision to move away from proprietary platforms.

This shift is accelerating across markets.

Documented, trusted, deployable solutions

Choosing a virtualization platform is only one piece of the puzzle. In practice, customers deploy complete solutions: the Vates platform combined with the underlying hardware, the storage layer, backup mechanisms, security tools, and the services that operate and support it.

These combinations need to work in production, not in theory. Customers need to know that the components they are assembling have been tested together, validated, and documented. That documentation is also how they discover what is possible: what solutions exist, what architectures can be built, and how to deploy them. It needs to be easy to find, and it needs to reflect reality. Not a marketing claim.

A deployable solution is not a product. It is a validated combination. Tested, documented and ready to trust.

Introducing "The VAN"

The Vates Alliance Network, aka the VAN, is where those solutions are built and made visible.

It brings together technology partners to ensure that integrations are not just compatible, but tested, documented, and ready to be deployed in production environments.

The VAN produces a set of concrete, accessible assets.

The Solutions Compatibility List (SCL) provides a public, versioned view of validated integrations with the Vates platform. It allows customers to quickly identify which technologies have been tested and are supported in real-world environments.

Solution Briefs document individual integrations, outlining how specific technologies work with Vates VMS and what use cases they enable.

When multiple components come together into a full architecture, Solution Guides provide a complete blueprint, from design to deployment and operations.

The VAN transforms partnerships into trusted, deployable solutions — and makes them visible to the customers who need them.

Join the ride

The organizations migrating to Vates are looking for complete solutions. They are an active, growing, decision-ready audience. And the VAN is the structured way to reach them.

Membership brings multiple structured advantages.

• Your validated solutions gain market visibility through joint campaigns, events, and Vates web presence.
• Co-selling engagement means aligned sales teams, shared account mapping, and real pipeline development.
• Technical validation support, including NFR licenses, integration workshops, and inclusion in interoperability programs, reduces the friction of getting your product proven.
• Solution Briefs, Solution Guides, and the public Solutions Compatibility List move your integration from “it works” to “it is deployable.”
• And alignment sessions give you a seat at the table: roadmap discussions, ecosystem initiatives, and growing influence on how the market develops.

The program is designed to create technical and business value. Not just a logo on a page. And founding membership is free.

The ecosystem for open infrastructure is here.
And it is proven.