Articles by Virtualization News Desk

iStor Networks Introduces Virtualization Technology

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:30:00 EDT

iStor Networks announced that it has started shipping its new management interface, integraSuite/MC Management Center. integraSuite provides smart and simple setup, storage provisioning and allocation. The intuitive interface requires no storage expertise freeing the network administrator to focus on user needs

MESH-Solutions Uses Parallels Virtualization Automation Software to Offer Hosted Microsoft Exchange

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:30:00 EDT

Parallels announced that MESH-Solutions is using Parallels Automation software to offer business-class email based on hosted Microsoft Exchange. The offering is aimed at European resellers looking for a hosting partner that provides customization and branding of the Hosted Exchange infrastructure.

SYS-CON.TV Presents "Virtualization Power Panel" Live From Times Square

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:15:00 EDT

Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens, Citrix CTO Simon Crosby, Egenera CTO Pete Manca, Allen Stewart, Group Manager, Windows Virtualization at Microsoft, and Brian Duckering, Sr. Director of Products and Alliances at Symantec were the top industry executives who joined Jeremy Geelan in the 4th Floor Reuters Studio overlooking Times Square for a special SYS-CON.TV 'Virtualization Power Panel' recorded during SYS-CON's 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo, in New York City.

Rochester General Hospital Runs Mission-Critical Applications on The VMware Virtualization Platform

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 12:10:00 EDT

VMware announced that Rochester General Hospital (RGH) has deployed VMware Infrastructure 3, the datacenter virtualization and management suite, to optimize the availability, scalability and performance of nearly every application it has in production. RGH, a community-based teaching hospital that includes a premier heart institute and cancer center, offers innovative surgical procedures and care to the region and beyond.

Open-E Experiences Strong Channel Growth to Address Growing Market for Next-Generation IP Storage Management Software

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:15:00 EDT

Open-E announced that the number of companies using its comprehensive NAS/iSCSI software offering has grown by more the 30 percent since its entry into the U.S. market this year. The company has established a worldwide presence with 220 OEMs, resellers and integrators located across North America, Europe and Asia Pacific regions, and is positioned to outpace first-generation solution providers. With over 10,000 installations, in over 93 countries, Open-E data storage solutions are used by Fortune 500 customers worldwide.

Internet Research Group Publishes Research Study on Microsoft Virtualization

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:05:00 EDT

Internet Research Group (IRG) announced the release of its latest report on technology infrastructure, "Why Microsoft Virtualization is Different (and possibly better)." With this summer's launch of Hyper-V, Microsoft began shipping its long awaited entry into the server virtualization market in competition with VMware's ESX, the market leader. This new research report compares Microsoft's quite distinct virtualization strategy to that of VMware as the two companies battle to win enterprise customers.

New Microsoft Licensing and Support Eases Path to Virtualization

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 10:00:00 EDT

New licensing, expanded product support policies and a worldwide series of events from Microsoft help business customers create more dynamic datacenters and enterprise IT systems with virtualization software. Beginning Sept. 1, 2008, customers will be able to move any of 41 Microsoft server applications between servers within a server farm as often as necessary without paying additional licensing fees, and they can take advantage of expanded specialized technical support.

Symantec Redefines Endpoint Virtualization

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:15:00 EDT

Symantec announced it is delivering expanded endpoint virtualization solutions to further protect and manage endpoints, whether physical, virtual or hybrid. Symantec provides IT organizations the flexibility needed to deliver applications with a variety of computing models matched to the specific needs of different workers in the company. Symantec is changing the way software is managed, delivered and consumed at the endpoint by separating information from the operating system and applications, thereby improving user productivity while lowering IT cost.

LeCroy Protocol Tools Help Demonstrate Single Root I/O Virtualization During Intel SR-IOV Lab

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 09:00:00 EDT

LeCroy is participating in the Intel IDF Single Root-I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) lab to demonstrate the application of its Summit Protocol Analyzer and Protocol Test Card (PTC) for PCI Express in the testing of SR-IOV capable add-in-cards. SR-IOV is a PCI-SIG workgroup extension to the PCI Express standard that makes it possible for a single PCI Express adapter to behave simultaneously as several independent devices using a shared PCI Express physical link, and to allow multiple virtual machines to use the link more efficiently.

Nixon Peabody Turns to Fortisphere to Help Manage Their Virtualization IT Infrastructure

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:15:00 EDT

Fortisphere announced that international law firm Nixon Peabody has selected Fortisphere Virtual Essentials to more efficiently manage its virtual infrastructure. As one of the largest multi-practice law firms in the United States, Nixon Peabody has offices in 18 cities and employs more than 700 attorneys. The law firm will rely on Fortisphere’s policy-based management solutions to help track and control their virtualized infrastructure.

Check Point Extends Security to Protect Virtualization Applications

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:00:00 EDT

Check Point announced VPN-1 Virtual Edition (VE), which delivers the same best-of-class security for virtual applications that Fortune 500 companies depend on to secure their corporate networks and data centers. Check Point is a company that provides unified security management for both physical networks and virtual applications.

NetApp Helps Burt’s Bees Boost Data Center Virtualization Sustainability

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 23:00:00 EDT

NetApp announced that Burt’s Bees, in keeping in line with its goal of sustainable computing, has enhanced its IT infrastructure with the recent deployment of NetApp storage solutions. Thanks to NetApp, Burt’s Bees has been able to streamline its storage environment with the use of several power efficiency and space-saving storage technologies such as deduplication and virtualization.

Strong Demand for Continuous Availability Virtualization Solutions Drives xkoto's Growth in First Half of 2008

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:00:00 EDT

xkoto reported continued growth in the first half of 2008, as more businesses requiring continuous availability and scalability for business-critical applications chose GRIDSCALE over costly traditional database clustering technologies. In the second quarter alone, company revenues grew more than 400 percent over the same quarter last year. xkoto continued to increase its customer base with a number of new customers including: Comdata Corporation, HSBC, Independence Blue Cross, Norfolk Southern Corporation, and PUMA AG International.

Tidal Software Joins VMware Virtualization Program

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:15:00 EDT

Tidal Software announced it recently 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.

KACE Virtual Appliances for Systems Management Earns VMware Virtualization Validation

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:00:00 EDT

KACE announced that its KBOX family of appliances are now available as virtual appliances through the VMware virtual appliance marketplace at www.vmware.com/appliances/. The Virtual KBOX appliances offer customers an innovative way to deploy and manage critical IT resources.

Corticon Embeds Composite Software’s Data Virtualization Technology

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:00:00 EDT

Corticon and Composite Software announced Corticon has embedded the Composite Information Server in the Corticon Enterprise Data Connector (EDC)-Multi Source. Corticon’s EDC-Multi Source enables seamless access to relational databases, legacy data sources, web services, XML, message queues as well as leading packaged applications such as SAP, Siebel, PeopleSoft and Oracle through Composite Application Data Services.

Chocolatier TCHO Uses VMware Fusion Virtualization

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 20:30:00 EDT

VMware announced that TCHO, an emerging and innovative manufacturer of premium chocolate, has deployed VMware Fusion across the company’s Macintosh desktop systems to provide its staff with the flexibility to move seamlessly between native Macintosh applications and virtualized Windows-based applications.

Expand Networks Outperforms WAN Optimization Market and Continues to Dominate in Virtualization

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:45:00 EDT

Expand Networks has demonstrated it is continuing to drive the global WAN Optimization market with its impressive Q2 revenue results signifying a record 47% increase quarter over quarter. Expand's ability to accelerate all applications in IT projects for virtualization, satellite and server consolidation has resulted in one of the largest install bases in the WAN Optimization market.

Cenzic Launches Its Strategic Advisory Board to Guide Virtualization Growth

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:45:00 EDT

Cenzic announced the formation of the Cenzic Web Application Security Strategic Advisory Board. Industry notables Lloyd Hession, former chief security officer at British Telecom Radianz, John Mitchell, professor of computer science and electrical engineering at Stanford University, Dr. Sachar Paulus, senior vice president of product security at SAP, Dan Schoenbaum, senior vice president of marketing and corporate development at Tripwire, and Craig Weinstock, partner at White Pine Consulting Group, have signed on to provide strategic and business guidance as company growth accelerates.

NEC Soft and DataCore Renew OEM Agreement to Capture Virtualization Opportunity in Japan

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:00:00 EDT

NEC Soft and DataCore announced the renewal of their OEM relationship under which NEC Soft builds and markets its MelodiousStor storage virtualization appliance. The growth of server virtualization vendors – VMware and Microsoft in Japan – signals that Japan is poised for broad, mainstream adoption of virtualization. NEC Soft’s Powered by DataCore solutions pair DataCore’s storage virtualization software with NEC Soft’s highly respected hardware and solution integration. These solutions are tailored to bring the additional storage flexibility, protection and performance critical to customer satisfaction when virtual machines are deployed in place of physical servers.

Ericom's Virtualization Solutions Now Available on Symbio Technologies' New Boot Appliance

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 17:30:00 EDT

Symbio Technologies said that it has added Ericom's PowerTerm WebConnect client to its Symbiont Boot Appliance and Symbiont Boot Stick after signing technology licensing and reseller agreements with Ericom Software. Ericom's PowerTerm WebConnect provides secure local and remote access to enterprise mission-critical applications running on a broad range of Microsoft Windows Terminal Servers, Virtual Desktops (VDI), Blade PCs, and legacy hosts.

View "Virtualization Power Panel" Live on SYS-CON.TV

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:00:00 EDT

Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens, Citrix CTO Simon Crosby, Egenera CTO Pete Manca, Allen Stewart, Group Manager, Windows Virtualization at Microsoft, and Brian Duckering, Sr. Director of Products and Alliances at Symantec were the top industry executives who joined Jeremy Geelan in the 4th Floor Reuters Studio overlooking Times Square for a special SYS-CON.TV 'Virtualization Power Panel' recorded on June 22, 2008, the day before the opening of SYS-CON's 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo - which was held 23-24 June 2008 in New York City.

Amazone Chooses Ericom's Virtualization Solution

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:15:00 EDT

Ericom announced that Amazone has replaced its Citrix infrastructure with Ericom's PowerTerm WebConnect RemoteView software. PowerTerm WebConnect RemoteView provides Amazone's employees with secure and centrally managed access to applications running on Windows Terminal Servers (WTS), including their Sage Bäurer Industry ERP system.

Egenera Strengthens West Coast Virtualization Presence With Santa Clara Operations

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 07:00:00 EDT

Egenera announced the opening of its new West Coast operations in Santa Clara, Calif. The Santa Clara headquarters will provide Egenera customers and partners with increased access to company resources, including sales and marketing, and business development.

Virtualization on Wall Street Conference & Expo Will Be a Leading Technology Event in New York

Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:45:00 EDT

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.

Virtual Iron Releases New Version of its Server Virtualization Platform

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 18:00:00 EDT

Virtual Iron announced new power management capabilities in the latest version of its software, Virtual Iron Version 4.4. This release extends Virtual Iron's virtual infrastructure management capabilities with the addition of LivePower, a new experimental feature that automatically optimizes power usage to deliver cost-savings and environmental benefits across the data center.

Microsoft's Virtualization Chief Mike Neil To Keynote SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & Expo

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:00:00 EDT

Mike Neil is general manager for virtualization strategy in the Windows Server Division at Microsoft. Mike is focused on the delivery of the Windows virtualization technology, including Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, Microsoft Hyper-V Server and Virtual PC 2007. Mike also directs the technical enablement of Microsoft's broader vision for virtualization, to include virtualization management tools and virtualized desktop infrastructure. Prior to this role, Mike was responsible for Microsoft?s server and PC virtualization efforts since 2003.

5th International Virtualization Conference & Expo in London Will Be the Most Significant Virtualization Event to Date

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:15:00 EDT

The conference theme of the Virtualization Conference & Expo Europe, to be held in London, England, January 26-27, 2009, is 'Deploying Virtualization in the Enterprise.' The Call for Papers, which is now open, welcomes submissions from 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.

SYS-CON's Virtualization Expo Was Larger Than Any Gartner Event in Two Years

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:45:00 EDT

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.

Tripwire ConfigCheck Uses VMware Virtualization Infrastructure 3 Security Hardening Guide

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:30:00 EDT

Tripwire announced that Tripwire ConfigCheck has integrated VMware’s revised Virtual Infrastructure 3 Security Hardening Guide to assess VMware hypervisors for security and operational weaknesses created due to system misconfiguration. Tripwire ConfigCheck is a free utility that assesses configuration settings for VMware ESX 3.0 and 3.5 hypervisors, determines potential configuration risks, and provides prescriptive remediation advice so that administrators can ensure greater security.

NComputing Desktop Virtualization Helps Change the Lives of Kandahar Women

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:15:00 EDT

NComputing announced that the Afghan-Canadian Community Center (ACCC), a post-secondary school in residential Kandahar, Afghanistan, has expanded the number of students it can support with the deployment of the NComputing solution.

Composite Software Sees Increased Adoption of Its Data Virtualization Solution Set

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:00:00 EDT

Composite Software announced record numbers of enterprises are buying and deploying its Composite Information Server and related technology. Since its inception, Composite has experienced more than 100 percent annual growth as new customers extended their virtualization from servers and storage to data, and as existing customers expanded their data virtualization usage across multiple business intelligence, master data management (MDM) and service-oriented architecture (SOA) applications.

DataCore Partner J4 Systems' SANmelody Virtualization Sales Hit High Notes

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 14:00:00 EDT

DataCore Software announced that sales from partner J4 Systems have sizzled throughout the first half of 2008. J4 Systems, a DataCore Authorized Business Partner, has added numerous customers to the ranks of DataCore users, including Ahtna Government Services, American Building Supply, Citizens Bank of Northern California, City of Elk Grove, Composite Engineering, Corn Products International, County Medical Services, Hobsons US, Schuering Zimmerman Scully Tweedy & Doyle, and Stockton East Water District, among others.

itX Adds DataCore to Virtualization Portfolio

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:15:00 EDT

DataCore announced that Australia-based itX has signed on as a new DataCore value-added distributor. itX offers an unmatched portfolio of virtualization solutions enabling their partners to fulfill customer demand for end-to-end virtualization, spanning desktops, servers and now storage with DataCore. The company offers high level pre-sales technical support and knowledgeable account management in conjunction with leading-edge technologies to meet the wide range of requirements needed to serve partners targeting small, mid size and large enterprises.

VIRTERA's Consultive Services Improve Virtualization Data Center Optimization

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 13:00:00 EDT

VIRTERA announced that CooperVision has selected its Server and Desktop Virtualization Solutions to reduce costs within their global data center and increase operational efficiencies.

Virtualization Conference & Expo: Future Proofing Virtualization Management for Heterogeneous Environments

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:00:00 EDT

Analysts estimate 80 percent of today’s virtualized environments run on VMware technology. However, that landscape will shift over the next 12 to 18 months as more powerful processors, competing hypervisors, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) and cloud computing take hold. Virtualization management will need to address heterogeneous environments that combine any number of different software and infrastructure platforms.

IGEL Announces Certification for VMware Virtual Desktop Manager Virtualization

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:15:00 EDT

Igel Technology announced certification for VMware Virtual Desktop Manager, VMware's next-generation connection broker, on IGEL's Microsoft Windows XP Embedded range of Universal Desktops. The software is available as a partial update for IGEL's Windows XP Embedded models, and allows customers deploying VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) to deliver an enhanced user experience. With over 120,000 customers worldwide, VMware VDI extends VMware's virtualization platform by allowing users to streamline and simplify desktop management, reduce operational costs and provide end users with a familiar user experience.

PanTerra Networks Announces SaaS On-Demand Virtualization Call Center

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:15:00 EDT

PanTerra Networks announced general availability of PanTerra Networks WorkSuite Call Center, designed to empower SMBs with a new level of customer service and technical support through resource virtualization, advanced agent-supervisor quality tools, and the ability to handle higher volumes of inbound calls.

Platform Computing Announces New Virtualization Management Product - VM Orchestrator 4

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 13:15:00 EDT

Platform Computing announced the next version of its virtual environment management product for the enterprise data center, Platform VM Orchestrator (VMO) 4. Platform VMO 4 provides faster delivery of virtual computer environments to end users while optimizing resource utilization, availability, and power consumption, to improve an enterprise's return on investment from its virtualization environment. The solution offers a cost-effective enterprise virtualization management solution for Citrix XenServer, with support for virtualization platforms from other vendors to be delivered in the coming months.

CipherOptics Selects rPath’s Virtualization Technology to Build and Maintain Appliances

Wed, 13 Aug 2008 12:15:00 EDT

rPath announced CipherOptics has selected rBuilder and the rPath Appliance Platform to build and maintain its encryption key server application, Key Authority Point. rBuilder is a development platform that simplifies and automates the creation of hardware and virtual appliances. The rPath Appliance Platform technology gives CipherOptics complete appliance lifecycle management capabilities, from creation through deployment, configuration, management, and update.