Cloud Computing, in its current incarnation, falls short on its promise to make computing as a whole as simple as plugging an application into a utility service. The 'cloud' model initially has focused on making the hardware layer consumable as on-demand compute a...

The demand for storage has increased exponentially, placing significant stress on current 'in house' storage architectures and costly overcapacity build-outs. Factoring in pressures of power, space, large capital expenditures, global performance, and availabilit...

2X Software announced that it has teamed up with Azlan. With the 2X Server Based Computing software portfolio, Azlan can now provide a fully integrated and highly reliable virtualization business grade solution to its customers.

Currently most desktop productivity software including browsers, mail clients, Office suites, IM, and media players make direct connections to the Internet and/or run untrusted content. As a result, these applications, which are core to office productivity, are al...

This session describes how the wave of virtualization technology in the data center can be extended beyond hypervisors to embrace complete IT infrastructure management resulting in significant business value. It will commence by summarizing the fundamental problem...

As more enterprises embrace virtual infrastructure for part or all of their compute infrastructure, tools are needed to effectively control both physical and virtual. Few large organizations seek to virtualize all of their servers due to the performance hit of v...

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 ...

Cloud technologies offer many benefits over traditional IT systems, especially when managing the size and vastness of unstructured data and unpredictable growth in IT environments. But when does it make sense to adopt cloud technologies and migrate a set of your I...

Virtualization enables strategic benefits, but significantly impacts infrastructure, operations and configuration management. Virtualization's additional complexity and new management challenges can adversely affect TCO, reduce service levels, threaten security an...

IGEL Technology, the world's third largest thin client vendor with its virtualization-oriented Universal Desktop range, recently announced a new distribution agreement with IQ Sys Ltd., the UK's leading Citrix distributor. In the past two years, IQ Sys has won f...

InstallFree has reached an agreement with Click Manageware to distribute its products in the UK and across Europe on a Software as a Service model. The arrangement expands Click Manageware's portfolio into the developing application and desktop virtualization spac...

eMeter 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 timely, joint solutions to mutual customers.

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 platfor...

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 ...

HP Middle East launched the first phase of the 'Alternative Thinking about Virtualization' Roadshow for the Middle East in Dubai. The roadshow begins in Dubai and will then follow through to Riyadh, Doha and Cairo between the 13th and 17th of July. The roadshow wi...

As part of Pillar Data's Emerald Partner Program initiative, Adeara has been elevated to the Emerald Partner Program. In order to participate, Adeara met specific requirements around sales and technical Pillar accreditations which have enhanced Adeara's overall st...

Hitachi announced that is has signed two new partnerships in Saudi Arabia with Al Moammar Information Systems (MIS) and Business Management Company (BMC), as part of the vendor's strategy to strengthen its presence in the Kingdom. Both MIS and BMC will work with c...

api software announced it has joined the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program as a Premier Partner. The VMware TAP program enables partner organizations to take advantage of VMware resources and expertise to deliver enhanced value to shared customers. ...

As a member of the VMware Technology Alliance Partner Program, Pillar Data Systems announced compatibility of its Application-Aware Axiom with virtualized VMware environments. The Pillar Axiom and Axiom MC are now listed on the VMware SAN compatibility guide for V...

Real-Time Systems introduced the latest version of its Real-Time Hypervisor software. This software product, which enables the simultaneous running of multiple operating systems on multi-core processors, also supports Microsoft Windows XP.

SanDisk announced that Howard County General Hospital in Columbia, Maryland, has selected SanDisk's Cruzer Enterprise secure USB flash drives and Central Management & Control (CMC) server software to protect highly confidential medical and organizational data.

Currently, an overwhelming majority of organizations are migrating and consolidating servers from physical to virtual environments. While the savings of the virtualized data center are extremely compelling, there is a new set of challenges that IT staffs didn't ...

Transitive announced that its QuickTransit software will run within Hyper-V, the Windows Server 2008 hypervisor released this month by Microsoft. This innovative product combination will allow enterprise customers to run Solaris/SPARC applications on the latest Wi...

Nexenta Systems announced a partnership with Broadberry Data Systems. Broadberry and Nexenta are partnering to deliver complete enterprise class storage solutions. Based upon NexentaStor, these solutions leverage the revolutionary ZFS file system and offer many ad...

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...

Virtualization is quickly becoming a staple technology for enterprise IT. The theme of this November's 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo is 'The Next Generation of Virtualization.' The Call for Papers, which is now open, welcomes submissions fro...

While organizations and IT staff continue to see the many benefits of implementing virtualization, the challenge of controlling virtual infrastructures is quickly arising as a top management priority. Virtualization benefits are offset by issues such as security, ...

Orb Networks announced that its user base is now over seven- million strong. Orb's French-born co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Dr. Luc Julia, drew parallels between this industry milestone and the French national holiday.

Endeavors Technologies, the pioneer in application streaming and virtualization technology, announced a distribution agreement with Business, Communications & Technologies (BCT Group). BCT will use a localized version of Application Jukebox to deliver applicatio...

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 Automati...

INX announced that it has been selected to design and deploy a Cisco unified communications solution for Springboard Non-Profit Consumer Credit Management's national call center. As the consumer credit crisis deepens, Springboard has seen large increases in demand...

HCL Technologies announced it has signed a Global System Integration contract with VMware. This relationship combines VMware virtualization products and services with HCL's proven experience and globally benchmarked capabilities in enterprise IT infrastructure o...

BlueBear, LLC announced beta availability of Kodiak, the virtualization industry's most innovative management application. Kodiak addresses the many limitations in existing management software and empowers IT professionals with split-second reaction time and maxim...

VDIworks announced it has integrated its solution with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007, which provides management of physical and virtual deployments throughout the data center, desktops and devices. With a new VDIworks plug-in, called VDIvision fo...

To address this issue of improving capacity utilization, more and more companies and information technology departments are implementing infrastructure solutions, such as server and storage consolidation through virtualization. With the promise of a new day risi...

CDNetworks and Nirvanix announced a strategic partnership to deliver a unified cloud storage and content delivery service. Available immediately, CDNetworks' customers will be able to store unlimited amounts of protected and secure content online and move content ...

Third Brigade Deep Security host IDS/IPS protects critical data and applications on virtual machines and physical servers. With a high performance deep packet inspection engine, Third Brigade Deep Security detects and prevents known and zero-day attacks that byp...

The eG Monitor for VMware Infrastructures (the eG VM Monitor), part of the eG Enterprise Suite, is a comprehensive solution for monitoring and managing all aspects of virtual hosts and guests, whether the infrastructure is used to support server or desktop applica...

VKernel announced a partnership with Xcedex. Under the agreement, Xcedex is a VKernel Gold Partner that will resell VKernel's Suite of Virtual Appliances for analyzing and monitoring capacity, implementing chargeback, and gaining cost visibility in VMware ESX envi...

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 Vianc...