http://virtualization.sys-con.com/ Latest articles from Virtualization News Desk Copyright 2008 VIRTUALIZATION JOURNAL Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:59:00 GMT VIRTUALIZATION JOURNAL 10 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/602026.htmhttp://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/602026.htm Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:00:00 GMT Parallels announced that ProServe has selected Parallels Virtuozzo Containers 4.0 to deliver a cost-efficient and scalable Online Backup solution via a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model. Parallels Virtuozzo Containers provides the virtualization technology for ProServe's Virtual Online Backup Server (VOBS) offering. By using Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, ProServe is able to deliver an on-line backup solution with the necessary performance, cost-efficiency, scalability and isolation required for their VOBS offered in a SaaS delivery model. http://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/597044.htmhttp://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/597044.htm Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:45:00 GMT SYS-CON Events announced today that the Virtualization on Wall Street Conference & Expo will take place on March 22-24, 2009, in New York City. The event is expected to attract over 1,000 developers, architects, IT managers, and software professionals of every stripe who will be converging in New York City to attend this comprehensive meeting on Virtualization on Wall Street. http://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/597918.htmhttp://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/597918.htm Fri, 04 Jul 2008 06:30:00 GMT Virtualization has quickly become a staple new concept for enterprise IT. At SYS-CON's 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo, held at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City, June 23-24, we had exceptional speakers with high-quality use cases not only of how virtualization maximizes the use of resources and thus saves companies money, but also of how it is fundamentally altering the way that businesses run IT. The two content-packed days emphasized value with a rich array of sessions about the business and technical value of virtualization. http://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/520379.htmhttp://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/520379.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:45:00 GMT Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery 8 is the gold standard in complete Windows system recovery allowing businesses and IT to recover from system loss or disasters in minutes, even to dissimilar hardware and virtual environments. Helping IT administrators meet recovery time objectives, Backup Exec System Recovery provides system restoration or full bare-metal recovery for servers, desktops or laptops. It also enables you to recover systems in remote, unattended locations. http://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/544993.htmhttp://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/544993.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:45:00 GMT The Ingres Icebreaker BI Appliance is a self contained software stack of o/s, database, and business intelligence tools. The solution is provided in a single stream install enabling a rapid and easy deployment of a complete BI environment within a VM. The software appliance comes with an online web service update mechanism to manage patches and upgrades in a seamless fashion. Users apply updates to the entire multi-component stack with a single click. Users are able to stay current and online with their BI investment at a significantly lower cost. The solution is built from open source technologies from Ingres, JasperSoft, & rPath. http://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/502900.htmhttp://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/502900.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:30:00 GMT Kidaro delivers an end-to-end desktop computing solution for enterprise desktops and laptops. The Kidaro platform leverages innovative virtualization technology to enable enhanced security, manageability, and mobility without disrupting existing desktop capabilities and infrastructure. http://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/516844.htmhttp://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/516844.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:30:00 GMT Parallels Desktop 3.0 is a Mac system utility that allows users to run Windows, Linux, and more side-by-side with Mac OS X on any Intel-powered Mac, without rebooting. Parallels' Mac virtualization technology has won over 25 major industry awards and is used by more than 850,000 users every day. http://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/599132.htmhttp://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/599132.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:30:00 GMT DataSynapse's GridServer is a service execution platform that dynamically scales enterprise application services based on performance and business requirements. GridServer provides a simplified approach to enabling business critical application components to execute across the entire available computing infrastructure -- the 'grid'. http://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/600343.htmhttp://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/600343.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:30:00 GMT Following the launch of Windows Server 2008, Microsoft reached another milestone with the release of Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, the hypervisor-based virtualization technology that is a feature of select versions of Windows Server 2008. The nearly 1.5 million copies of the Hyper-V beta version that have been distributed demonstrate how customer interest in virtualization is moving from evaluation to production environment deployments. http://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/602027.htmhttp://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/602027.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:30:00 GMT Univa UD announced it has named industry veterans Alex Brown and Kent Purdy to lead its data center automation business division and retool its product suite. The announcement comes as Univa UD officially launches Reliance as its cornerstone product for service-based management of application delivery environments. http://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/602183.htmhttp://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/602183.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:30:00 GMT Egenera announced that BroadRiver Communications Corporation has chosen the Egenera BladeFrame system and Egenera vBlade software for its new hosted virtual server offering. BroadRiver combines the best of both worlds -- a full selection of products and services that can be customized to customer needs with prices for bundled services that are competitively priced. The customer's solution contains just the services they need, without having to pay a premium for not fitting into an inflexible 'package.' This flexibility enables BroadRiver to effectively provide customized solutions to many customers of different sizes, sectors and lines of business. http://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/603023.htmhttp://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/603023.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:30:00 GMT BLADE Network Technologies announced its 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet network virtualization switch for IBM BladeCenter. BLADE's new switch provides the ability to use six 1-Gigabit copper and three 10-Gigabit SFP+ fiber uplinks concurrently -- for 50 percent more bandwidth than alternative blade switch offerings. http://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/599180.htmhttp://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/599180.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:00:00 GMT VIRTERA is an independent Information Technology (IT) professional services and consulting firm delivering virtualization technology solutions and services to companies nationwide. VIRTERA's proven Virtual Operations Framework (VOF) methodology ensures successful and rapid adoption of virtualization technologies and an optimum return on organizations' IT investments. VIRTERA's team of certified IT architects and consultants develop, deploy and manage Virtual Infrastructure (VI) solutions designed to solve today's most challenging IT issues while its industry-unique vAssure Strategy group tests and analyzes virtualization trends across the entire virtual ecosystem. http://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/602753.htmhttp://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/602753.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:00:00 GMT SECUDE announced the release of FinallySecure 9.1 with Centralized Management to its Data Protection portfolio. FinallySecure is a hybrid software - or hardware - based Full Disk Encryption. FinallySecure enables early adoption and migration to the upcoming wave of hardware-based FDE technologies such as Seagate Momentus Full Disk Encryption (FDE) disk drives. http://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/602754.htmhttp://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/602754.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:00:00 GMT SoftLayer extends its solution set to include virtualization with the release of Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. Hyper-V is a next-generation virtualization hypervisor that allows a single physical server to be separated into multiple virtual machines that can run independent operating systems - Windows, Linux and others. As with all SoftLayer services, Hyper-V can be ordered through the customer portal and provisioned automatically along with a server's operating system or systems. http://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/603105.htmhttp://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/603105.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:00:00 GMT vmSight announced that the company was granted U.S. patent number 7,386,889 for its Connector ID technology. The patents applies to the technology vmSight uses to automatically, continuously and efficiently locate and track users, terminals and virtual machines in a virtual desktop deployment. http://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/603106.htmhttp://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/603106.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 11:00:00 GMT Trigence announced the appointment of Greg O'Connor as President and Chief Executive Officer. O'Connor, a software industry veteran, brings over 20 years of industry knowledge and technology vision to Trigence. O'Connor joins Trigence from Progress Software, where he was President and Founder of Sonic Software. http://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/600245.htmhttp://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/600245.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:30:00 GMT Specifically created for Citrix XenDesktop and with knowledge workers in mind, the all-new Wyse Viance high performance desktop appliances are designed to both maximize the user experience and minimize administration across a virtualized infrastructure. Wyse Viance desktop appliances immediately connect to Citrix XenDesktop sessions, delivering their users rich multimedia (such as smooth video and audio playback) decoded locally on the appliance, multi-display support, and broad USB peripheral compatibility that's virtualized in the data center through the built-in Wyse TCX software suite. In summary, Wyse Viance desktop appliance users gain simple, fast access to their virtualized desktops, their applications of choice and documents without compromising data security or performance. http://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/603688.htmhttp://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/603688.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:30:00 GMT Apani announced that EpiForce VM is now shipping. EpiForce VM is a software-based solution that secures corporate networks, containing both physical and virtual servers, from a single platform. EpiForce VM is part of Apani's comprehensive security software product family and leverages the latest platform of the company's flagship product EpiForce 2.5. http://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/603689.htmhttp://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/603689.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:30:00 GMT SemanticSpace announced its acquisition of 100 percent of Prolifics, a distinguished systems integrator specializing in IBM technologies. Prolifics complements SemanticSpace's offering with its high-value services focused around the IBM brand - making the combined entity a truly Global organization with a strong and balanced presence across the U.S., Europe and Asia Pacific. Together Prolifics, SemanticSpace Technologies, and Arsin Corporation will operate as SemanticSpace Group, creating a new overall organization of 1500 employees with more than $100 million in revenue on a proforma basis. http://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/587551.htmhttp://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/587551.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:00:00 GMT Cloud Computing offers significant benefits over traditional solutions for deploying production systems as well as for conducting development and testing activities. Dr Thorsten von Eicken, CTO of RightScale, Inc., will be giving a session at SYS-CON's 'Cloud Computing Expo' (November 20-21, 2008) - an adjunct to the 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo being held at The Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, CA. http://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/600246.htmhttp://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/600246.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:00:00 GMT Vyatta delivers complete, ready-to-deploy, open-source networking solutions that make it possible for anyone to own an enterprise-class router/firewall/VPN for a fraction of the cost of traditional closed-source, proprietary products. By combining the features, performance and reliability of an enterprise-class router, firewall and VPN with the cost savings and flexibility of open-source solutions, Vyatta software enables customers to build routing and security solutions using hardware of their choosing, ensuring that the network will always meet performance requirements and scalability needs. http://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/601991.htmhttp://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/601991.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:00:00 GMT Embotics announced its U.S. expansion with a new office in Charlotte and the appointment of U.S. Sales Director, Adam Kurtz. The U.S. expansion is a result of customer and partner growth, helping to increase visibility as well as support of Embotics' virtualization management and automation technology deployments. http://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/604565.htmhttp://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/604565.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:00:00 GMT Parallels announced that its Parallels Automation solution now integrates with Secure64 DNS, giving service providers who use Parallels Automation the ability to easily manage Secure64 servers within their datacenters. Through the collaboration, Parallels Automation is able to offer a new option for service providers searching for secure and highly available DNS solution. http://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/604590.htmhttp://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/604590.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:00:00 GMT VMware announced it has completed the acquisition of B-hive Networks. VMware announced a definitive agreement to acquire B-hive on May 28, 2008. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. With this acquisition, VMware will leverage the B-hive team and technology to enhance the VMware portfolio of application and infrastructure management products by offering proactive performance management and service level reporting for applications running within virtual machines. http://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/600344.htmhttp://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/600344.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:45:00 GMT Continuing to fulfill and expand the Cisco Data Center 3.0 initiative, Cisco announced new products and professional services that will help customers virtualize data centers for greater operational and energy efficiency. The new offerings make the virtual network a highly efficient platform for delivering data center services-accelerating, providing security, and orchestrating application delivery networks, servers, virtualized computing, and storage, while providing greater responsiveness and resource conservation. http://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/601921.htmhttp://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/601921.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:45:00 GMT Cisco Systems has released new products and professional services, designed to assist customers with virtualization efforts for data center operational and energy efficiency. The company states that the new offerings make the virtual network an efficient platform for delivering data center services - accelerating, providing security, and orchestrating application delivery networks, servers, virtualized computing, and storage, while providing greater responsiveness and resource conservation. http://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/602071.htmhttp://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/602071.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:30:00 GMT Egenera announced three new members to the Egenera Assured Solution Alliances program: Axeda, Micron Technology and Transitive. The Egenera Assured Solution Alliances program leverages a technical assurance process designed to optimize the interoperability of third-party software solutions with Egenera virtualization solutions. The relationships forged between Egenera's support organization and each member's support team create highly integrated, seamless service standards for joint-customer engagements. http://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/602099.htmhttp://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/602099.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:30:00 GMT Egenera announced it has named Christine Crandell executive vice president and Chief Marketing Officer. A technology veteran with over two decades of marketing and strategy experience, Ms. Crandell will spearhead the company's efforts to build its high standing position in the fast growing global market of data center virtualization solutions. http://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/602595.htmhttp://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/602595.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:30:00 GMT File sharing and collaboration are requirements for dynamic and fast growing businesses. Etelos announced Etelos Share, an enterprise-class service that enables any business to utilize a virtual server. Etelos Share brings a company's data onto a secure server that is accessible from virtually anywhere. This service provides backups, secure data storage and secure access to a company's files anywhere and anytime. http://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/588466.htmhttp://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/588466.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:15:00 GMT The demand for storage has increased exponentially, placing significant stress on current 'in house' storage architectures and costly overcapacity build-outs. Patrick Harr, CEO of Nirvanix, will be giving a session at SYS-CON's 'Cloud Computing Expo' (November 20-21, 2008) - a brand new adjunct to the 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo being held at The Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, CA. http://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/602623.htmhttp://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/602623.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:15:00 GMT Catbird is a pioneer in security and compliance for virtual environments. Via Catbird V-Security and the Catbird V-Agent virtual appliance, Catbird has full visibility and enforcement of the virtual network. Catbird compliance functionality includes enforcement of separation of duties; backup and secondary controls; and monitoring of VMs with corporate and regulatory policies. Catbird security protection includes vulnerability monitoring, automatic quarantine of suspicious network traffic and compromised virtual machines, trusted zones and IDP. http://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/603022.htmhttp://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/603022.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:15:00 GMT Continuity Software is a provider of Disaster Recovery Management (DRM) solutions. Its RecoverGuard software mitigates disaster recovery (DR) risks by detecting data protection gaps and vulnerabilities between customers' primary production and disaster recovery sites and/or localized DR solution. With RecoverGuard software, customers can now confidently validate their DR strategy, and ultimately, ensure their data protection and business continuity goals. http://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/603107.htmhttp://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/603107.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:15:00 GMT InMage Systems announced a partnership with Marathon Technologies. Marathon will offer InMage's flagship DR-Scout solution to its customer base. Marathon representatives will be fully trained in sales, service and support for DR-Scout. The combination of DR-Scout with Marathon's everRun line of products results in the highest levels of availability and protection for applications, data and networks in physical and virtual server environments, and across geographically dispersed or remote locations. http://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/604520.htmhttp://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/604520.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:15:00 GMT Beijing PowerUnique Technologies announced it has joined the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program. The VMware TAP program helps technology vendors integrate their products with VMware virtualization software and deliver solutions to mutual customers. http://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/599328.htmhttp://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/599328.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:00:00 GMT Tek-Tools Software announced the latest version of its Profiler Suite with enhancements to continue to support customer requirements for managing virtualized and physical IT assets - servers, storage, backup and applications - from a single console. Virtualization provides almost immediate improvements in resource utilization and flexibility. However, it also impacts the way in which every component of the IT infrastructure, including servers, storage, backups, and applications, must be managed. Over time, organizations find that the derived benefits of virtualization are offset by the complexity of managing a virtualized environment. http://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/599349.htmhttp://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/599349.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:00:00 GMT Tek-Tools announced that it has joined the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program. The VMware TAP program helps technology vendors integrate their products with VMware virtualization software and deliver timely, joint solutions to mutual customers. http://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/600289.htmhttp://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/600289.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:00:00 GMT Citrix Systems announced European language and telephone system support for the Citrix EasyCall feature in Citrix XenDesktop. EasyCall, which is also available as a feature of Citrix XenApp and Citrix NetScaler, provides a way of seamlessly integrating communications into any application. With its newest release, EasyCall now includes German, French and Spanish (Castilian) language capabilities as well as integration with leading European telephone systems from Siemens and Alcatel-Lucent. As a result, customers delivering virtual desktops with XenDesktop can now provide an even richer experience to end users in more countries around the world. http://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/602028.htmhttp://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/602028.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:00:00 GMT Open source applications provider Red Hat has introduced three applications targeting enterprise-wide adoption of next-generation virtualization. It has introduced embedded Linux Hypervisor for hosting virtualized Linux and Windows environments, which provide virtualization with improved security, high performance, and a wide range of hardware. http://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/603183.htmhttp://virtualization.sys-con.com/read/603183.htm Thu, 03 Jul 2008 09:00:00 GMT Virtual Foresight is a policy-based virtualization management product that delivers out-of-the box best practices for enforcing IT Operations and Security policies. Acting as a critical control point, Virtual Foresight ensures policy enforcement throughout the lifecycle of a virtual machine regardless of location or state.