Articles by Virtualization News Desk

VMware Announces VMware View 3 for Virtual Desktop Computing

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 09:12:00 EST

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 accessible from almost any device, at any time. By hosting these virtual desktop images in the datacenter using the virtualization and management platform, VMware Infrastructure 3, VMware View 3 enables IT personnel to provision and manage thousands of virtual desktops simply, securely, and with lower operating costs.

SAP Presented at SYS-CON's 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo

Mon, 01 Dec 2008 19:15:00 EST

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. Simply running an SAP solution in a virtualized environment is not enough.

Red Hat's Brian Stevens Explores the Evolution of the Cloud at 1st International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 07:00:00 EST

"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 its attention to virtualization, and Stevens discussed what has been achieved so far, and what is under development.

Pillar Data Systems' Application-Aware Profiles Compatible with Citrix Virtualization Platform

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 12:15:00 EST

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 systems, which are now listed in the Citrix Ready catalog for XenServer products.

Fedora 10 Lays Out Roadmap for Future of Open Source Computing with Virtualization Enhancements

Wed, 26 Nov 2008 09:00:00 EST

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 to lay the groundwork for derivative open source distributions throughout the enterprise.

Citrix Survey Finds College Labs Looking Ahead to Desktop Virtualization

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 08:15:00 EST

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 adding virtual desktop delivery to their institution’s virtualization profile.

HP's Director of Virtualization at SYS-CON's 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo in Silicon Valley

Tue, 25 Nov 2008 03:15:00 EST

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 a virtualization strategy that will enable the transformation of a datacenter into a cost-effective, energy efficient and responsive IT environment that can dynamically adapt to the changing business requirements.

Microsoft’s Mike Neil Keynotes at SYS-CON's 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 14:15:00 EST

"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 virtualization to provide new capabilities.

Symantec and Intel Present General Session at SYS-CON's 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo

Mon, 24 Nov 2008 13:00:00 EST

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 Conference & Expo held in San Jose, CA. In order to manage hybrid types of models, companies need to balance the datacenter with the needs of the users.

rPath Announces Cloud-Based Support at SYS-CON's Virtualization and Cloud Computing Conference

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:30:00 EST

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 Lifecycle Management Platform extends rBuilder with a comprehensive system for controlling the cost, complexity and risk of deploying, managing and maintaining application images in virtualized and cloud-based environments.

EMC Announces Data Protection Software at SYS-CON's 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo

Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:00:00 EST

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, helping customers slow data growth, reduce capacity and lower total cost of operations. The products with new and expanded capabilities include: EMC Data Protection Advisor– The next-generation of EMC Backup Advisor, providing proactive analysis and reporting software that helps users make the right decisions at the right cost, faster. Now new features include support for VMware and EMC Celerra unified storage systems, in addition to expanded support of EMC Avamar, and Data Domain platforms.

AppSense to Explore Virtualization at SYS-CON’s 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:30:00 EST

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 Valley, California, November 19 – 21, 2008. AppSense grew 50 percent in the U.S. and 30 percent in its worldwide revenue during its last fiscal year ended June 30, 2008, continuing its trend of 30 percent growth each year since 2005.

LynuxWorks Announces LynxSecure 2.0

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:45:00 EST

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 with low, medium and high assurance requirements that are all running concurrently on a single system. It allows legacy applications to run unmodified, enabling systems to be modernized with increased information sharing and security.

BDNA to Present at SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & Expo 2008 West

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:30:00 EST

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, “Leveraging Virtualization Efficiency While Diminishing Virtual Sprawl.” Other featured companies featuring presenters include Oracle, Microsoft, Amazon.com, Cisco Systems, Symantec, Intel, Salesforce.com, Yahoo! and more.

eXludus Joins HP Multi-Core Optimization Program

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:15:00 EST

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 now available to them. Re-writing applications to take full advantage of today’s multi-core systems is a difficult, time-consuming and a costly process. This situation has created a major application performance challenge for the industry. eXludus’ MultiCore Optimizer software addresses the parallel processor/serial application disconnect by inserting an intelligent resource allocation middleware layer between the applications and the operating system that allows unmodified applications to better leverage multi-core system potential based on resource needs.

CA and VMware Expand Cloud Computing Relationship

Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:15:00 EST

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 service providers manage virtualization for maximum business impact, while extending its benefits beyond basic server consolidation and cost reduction. The companies plan to jointly develop a management solution to maximize IT agility, service quality, cost efficiency and risk avoidance. As a first step, CA and VMware have signed an agreement to make CA Data Center Automation Manager interoperable with VMware Stage Manager.

Embotics Appoints PlateSpin Founder to Advisory Board

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:15:00 EST

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 helps organizations worldwide build more flexible, interoperable and cost-effective data center environments. With the addition of Pollack, the Advisory Board will continue to help guide Embotics’ direction, organization and strategy for product and company growth.

Emulex FCoE CNAs Compatible with IBM System x Servers

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:00:00 EST

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 consolidation of server I/O, allowing IBM customers to reduce the number of network interface cards and cables used by servers by as much as 50 percent, which in turn helps lower power and cooling costs.

Kidaro Investor Looking for New Stars at SYS-CON's Virtualization & Cloud Computing Conference & Expo

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 19:00:00 EST

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 shows plenty of promise due to the undisputable benefits of the approach. Security is another area of opportunity: as the numbers of virtual machines grow, so too do the concerns of security stakeholders. We believe that the rapid adoption of EC2, and other cloud computing environments, presents prospects for innovation as well.

Sun's VP of xVM to Speak at SYS-CON's 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo, Nov. 19-21, in Silicon Valley

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:00:00 EST

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 will examine how an enterprise can combine the use of layer-2 "desktop" hypervisor technology, layer-1 dedicated server virtualization software and next-generation management software to rapidly speed the rate at which they can develop and deploy new software within their enterprise.

Embotics CEO Speaking This Week at SYS-CON's 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo in Silicon Valley

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 04:15:00 EST

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 International Virtualization Conference & Expo in San Jose, CA (19-21 November, 2008).

SAP's Director of Virtualization Speaking This Week at SYS-CON's 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo in Silicon Valley

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 02:45:00 EST

'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 on how to use it in SAP landscapes.' Wartenberg will be putting that right at SYS-CON's 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo, where he will be giving a technical breakout session in a speaker lineup that includes some of the best known virtualization executives in the entire IT industry.

Parallels CEO Speaking This Week at SYS-CON's 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo in Silicon Valley

Sun, 16 Nov 2008 12:15:00 EST

"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-anticipated session at SYS-CON's 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo later this month in San Jose, California, in which he will set out his vision - drawing on his 15 years of successfully building, growing and leading high-performing, multi-national high tech companies in North America, Europe and Asia - of exactly where virtualization is headed.

Enomaly's Founder & Chief Technologist Speaking Next Week at SYS-CON's Cloud Computing Expo November 19-21 in Silicon Valley

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:30:00 EST

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 important opportunities in the cloud computing today. In this session Reuven Cohen will discuss some of the challenges and opportunities to deploying across a diverse global cloud infrastructure. Location, security, portability, and reliability, he will explain, all play critical roles in a scalable IT environment.

SoftLayer's Virtualization Solutions Include Virtuozzo

Fri, 14 Nov 2008 06:00:00 EST

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. SoftLayer's new offering underpins this kind of "sticky" service, providing an end-to-end solution for infrastructure, hardware and applications to customers and service providers worldwide.

EMC ROI Across Oracle Environments

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:00:00 EST

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 solutions, today announced two new Proven Solutions and new capabilities to two existing Proven Solutions, all designed to help customers deploy a singular approach to virtualize and automate data movement across all tiers of the Oracle information stack.

LynuxWorks Named "Bronze Sponsor" of SYS-CON's Virtualization and Cloud Computing Conference & Expo

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:00:00 EST

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 Fairmont Hotel in the heart of Silicon Valley, in San Jose, California.

Microsoft to Deliver Keynote at SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & Expo, November 19-21, in San Jose, CA

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:00:00 EST

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 West” event due to take place November 19-21, 2008, in San Jose California.

Certeon to Present at SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & Expo, November 19-21, San Jose, CA

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 22:00:00 EST

EMC to Present at SYS-CON's Virtualization & Cloud Computing Conference, Nov 19-21, San Jose, CA

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:45:00 EST

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 Microsoft have led the charge together to draft a Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) specification. Alfresco, Open Text, Oracle, and SAP also collaborated on this work. This draft specification was recently submitted to OASIS for standardization. CMIS consists of a set of web services that an application can use to query, access, and manipulate content that are stored in a compliant content management system. The specification defines a domain model and two protocol bindings: a SOAP/WSDL binding and a REST/Atom binding.

RightScale Named Bronze Sponsor of SYS-CON's Virtualization & Cloud Computing Expo

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:00:00 EST

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. RightScale's core offerings include: Automated system management, pre-packaged and re-usable components, service expertise and best practices. For more information visit www.RightScale.com.

Netmagic’s RIMM Services Selected by Sigmaquest

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 18:00:00 EST

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 environments. Netmagic RIMM services provide enterprises with easy and cost effective solutions ideal for monitoring and managing virtual and SaaS environments. More and more enterprises are adopting on-demand and SaaS solutions.

VMware Named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & Expo, November 19-21, San Jose, CA

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 10:45:00 EST

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 the heart of Silicon Valley, in San Jose, California.

VMware Named "Gold Sponsor" of SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & Expo, November 19-21, San Jose, CA

Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:11:00 EST

Tripwire Named "Bronze Sponsor" of SYS-CON's Virtualization and Cloud Computing Conference & Expo

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:00:00 EST

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 maintain configuration control. Tripwire is headquartered in Portland, Ore. with offices worldwide For more information, visit http://www.tripwire.com/.

Virtualization Expo Compliance Session on November 19-21, in San Jose, California

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 23:00:00 EST

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 create gaps in compliance. Long-established controls and processes in place for the physical IT infrastructure are inadequate to address the special architecture of the virtual platform. Auditors are becoming increasingly educated about these issues, and stepping up their vigilance. Customers of virtualization platforms need to ensure that they are not inadvertently out of compliance.

Managing Hybrid Endpoint Environments

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:32:00 EST

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 – manageability. With streaming, virtualization, and vProTM technologies, Symantec and Intel provide a set of technologies to effectively manage these hybrid environments while maximizing end-user productivity. Learn how to select the right endpoints and how a new approach to managing them makes it practical and cost effective.

Asigra Televaulting Teams with Virtual Iron’s Server Virtualization Software

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:00:00 EST

"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. Televaulting is an agentless information recovery platform for virtualized server environments, reducing CPU and memory requirements while reducing resources required for deployment and management of information recovery processes.

Endpoint Virtualization at Virtualization Conference & Expo, Nov. 19-21, in San Jose, CA

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 11:47:00 EST

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 conflicting trade-offs between security and flexibility. The benefits of attending this session are that delegates will: Gain perspective on how virtualization can improve management, increase security, and deliver greater performance and flexibility at the endpoint by de-coupling an IT task from its underlying hardware.

Preparing Your Enterprise for Virtualization

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:04:00 EST

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 within your enterprise? IT managers rushing toward virtualization within the data center are finding that virtualization and consolidation do not address remote access performance issues experienced by remote branch users in today's distributed enterprises.