VMware has announced the general availability of VMware View 3. With VMware View 3, IT organizations can "decouple" a desktop from specific physical devices or locations to create a personalized view of a user’s desktop, applications, and data – called "myView" – that is securely...

In his virtualization session on Nov. 21 at the 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo in San Jose, CA, Roland Wartenberg, SAP's director of virtualization strategy, discussed the supported virtualization solutions provided by partners of SAP's virtualization ecosystem. Sim...

"The days of Cloud 1.0 are here," stated Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens in his session this morning at SYS-CON’s Virtualization Conference & Expo, in San Jose. He discussed the evolution of the cloud, and how to build a cloud. Over the last five years, the open source community has turned...

As a member of the Citrix Ready Program, Pillar Data Systems has announced compatibility of its Application-Aware profiles with the Citrix Application Delivery Infrastructure. Today's news builds on a series of certifications Pillar has made with the delivery of its Axiom Storage syste...

The Fedora Project, a Red Hat sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration project, has announced the availability of Fedora 10, the latest version of its free open source operating system distribution. Fedora 10 features numerous leading-edge technologies and continues ...

A recent survey conducted by Citrix Systems revealed that virtual desktop delivery interests higher education information technology (IT) professionals looking for ways to optimize the computer lab. Seventy-six percent of 200 higher education IT professionals indicated an interest in a...

Nick van der Sweep, HP's Director of Virtualization and Insight Software ESS Infrastructure Software, gave an information-packed breakout session at SYS-CON's 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo last week in San Jose, California. He explained to delegates how to develop ...

"Virtualization will help our customers be more agile and efficient," noted Mike Neil at SYS-CON’s Virtualization Conference & Expo, in San Jose, CA, "and there are three areas these companies are focused on." These areas are to drive costs down, increase efficiency, and using virtua...

With an ever increasing variety of physical and virtual endpoints, companies are rapidly facing the next big challenge – manageability. So stated Symantec's Brian Duckering and Intel's Chuck Brown in their general session on Friday at SYS-CON’s 4th International Virtualization Conf...

rPath has announced support for the Ubuntu and CentOS Linux operating systems as part of rBuilder and the rPath Lifecycle Management Platform. rBuilder is the category-defining build and release management system for creating virtual appliances and application images. The rPath Lifecyc...

EMC has announced the newest versions of data protection software. These new updates are part of integrated solutions that meet specific data protection requirements for analysis and reporting, backup for Microsoft and VMware virtual environments, data de-duplication and replication, h...

AppSense, the leading provider of user environment management solutions for the enterprise, will be a featured speaker at the 2008 SYS-CON's 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo (www.virtualizationconference.com) being held at the Fairmont Hotel in the heart of Silicon Va...

LynuxWorks has announced immediate availability of LynxSecure 2.0, a next-generation separation kernel and embedded hypervisor for high assurance systems. LynxSecure provides a standards-based, multi-domain computational platform that serves as a trusted foundation for applications wit...

BDNA has announced that Walker White, vice president of technology, will be among the presenters at SYS-CON’s Virtualization Conference & Expo, held Nov. 19-21, 2008, in San Jose, Calif. Mr. White will be presenting his session on the strategy and practice of virtualization, “Lever...

eXludus has announced that it has joined the HP Multi-Core Optimization Program. System processor core counts, and associated parallel processing capacity, are increasing. However, most applications are serial designs not capable of effectively using this parallel computing capacity no...

CA and VMware have announced an expansion in their long-standing relationship centered around the creation and delivery of integrated management solutions to complement the VMware virtualization platform. The relationship is aimed at helping enterprise IT organizations and cloud servic...

Embotics has announced the appointment of Stephen Pollack to its Advisory Board. Stephen Pollack is a recognized leader in the virtualization industry who founded PlateSpin. Acquired by Novell in March 2008, PlateSpin is ranked 11th on the Deloitte North American Fast 500 list and he...

Emulex has announced that its LightPulse LP21000 family of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) Converged Network Adapters (CNAs) have been tested and found to be compatible for use with IBM Systems x3650(7979), x3655(7943) and x3755(7163) series servers. Emulex CNAs enable the consolida...

While the hypervisor market is dominated by VMware and other large companies, Opus Capital believes that startup opportunities abound. For example, several companies have enjoyed some early successes in desktop virtualization. Since no dominant player has emerged, this market still sho...

In 45 jam-packed minutes that will include case studies and live technology demonstrations, the VP of xVM at Sun, Steve Wilson, will at this week's 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo be giving a session entitled "Virtualization from Desktop to Datacenter" - in which he ...

Virtualization is not just about server consolidation any more; as virtual infrastructure grows, there's an entire Virtualization Lifecycle for IT to manage. The thiPresident & CEO of Embotics Corporation, Jay Litkey, will be giving a top breakout session this week at SYS-CON's 4th Int...

'Virtualization is one of the most interesting IT topics these days,' says Roland Wartenberg, SAP's Director of Virtualization. 'Whereas one can find a lot of concepts and high level content provided by various vendors, it's sometimes a challenge to find detailed technical information ...

"Virtualization is a word often mentioned these days," observes the charismatic Chairman & CEO of Parallels, Serguei Beloussov, before adding: "Though largely users are only just starting to understand the range of applications for the technology." Beloussov will be giving a much-antic...

As cloud computing becomes more commonplace, creating a secure method to bridge the gap between existing data centers and remote sources of compute capacity is being more and more important. The ability to efficiently and securely tap into remote cloud resources is one of the most impo...

Parallels announced that SoftLayer is presenting Parallels Virtuozzo Containers as part of its dedicated server offerings. SoftLayer provides servers for many small and medium-sized hosters, providing a cost-efficient means to offer services that enable them to move up the value chain....

Customers of all sizes are looking to information infrastructure to help them cost effectively and efficiently store, manage, and protect data across their Oracle application, middleware and databases environments. EMC Corporation, the world leader in information infrastructure solutio...

SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading global virtualization technology provider LynuxWorks named "Bronze Sponsor" of SYS-CON's the 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo, (www.virtualizationconference.com), which will take place November 19-21, 2008, at the Fairmo...

SYS-CON Events announced today that Mike Neil, general manager for virtualization strategy at Microsoft will deliver the keynote speech, entitled "Virtualization Futures: From the Desktop to the Datacenter," at SYS-CON’s upcoming “International Virtualization Conference & Expo 2008...

Virtualization carries the promises of flexibility, lower costs, ease of deployment and simplified server management. However, when condensing the physical resources of your enterprise, are you considering how to make applications easily accessible to the growing number of remote users...

Today’s businesses can no longer afford to have essential business content trapped in separate, incompatible repositories. They want an interoperable interface for their repositories that allows them to reuse and share business content easily. To address this need, EMC, IBM, and Micr...

RightScale, the leader in cloud computing management, provides a Web-based cloud management platform and support services. Our system enables companies to quickly create hosted solutions running on cloud computing providers that are scalable, reliable, easy to manage, and affordable. R...

Netmagic Solutions has announced that its Remote Infrastructure Monitoring and Management (RIMM) services have been selected by SigmaQuest. Netmagic's RIMM is a cost-effective solution for monitoring and managing the performance, availability and security of On-Demand and SaaS environm...

SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading global virtualization technology provider VMware named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo, (www.virtualizationconference.com) which will take place November 19-21, 2008, at the Fairmont Hotel in...

SYS-CON Events announced today that the leading global virtualization technology provider VMware named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo, (www.virtualizationconference.com) which will take place November 19-21, 2008, at the Fairmont Hotel in...

Virtualization is a good idea. Losing best-practices in security and compliance in the move from P to V is not. While virtualization presents enormous opportunities for enhanced operational efficiencies and improved ROI , migration from physical to virtual will also more than likely cr...

Tripwire helps over 6,000 enterprises worldwide reduce security risk, attain compliance and increase operational efficiency across virtual and physical environments. With its industry leading configuration assessment and change auditing software solutions, IT organizations achieve and ...

Companies today have more choices than ever to support endpoint productivity, from laptops and desktops, to terminal servers, blade PCs, and virtual desktops. With an ever increasing variety of physical and virtual endpoints, companies are rapidly facing the next big challenge – mana...

"IT efficiency is a primary factor driving organizational adoption of server virtualization," said Adam Moise, Director of Global Alliances for Asigra, which has announced that Asigra Televaulting has been certified for use with Virtual Iron's server virtualization software. Televaulti...

Application virtualization technology is changing the way software is managed, delivered, and consumed at the endpoint. Indeed, bringing virtualization to the endpoint offers IT a natural migration path toward a more fluid computing environment—one that effectively balances the often...

Virtualization carries the promises of flexibility, lower costs, ease of deployment and simplified server management. However, when condensing the physical resources of your enterprise, are you considering how to make applications easily accessible to the growing number of remote users...