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Wyse Releases PocketCloud 2.0, Leading Mobile Cloud App for iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:21:00 0500

Wyse Technology announced the upcoming availability of Wyse PocketCloud 2.0 for iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. Wyse PocketCloud 2.0 can be purchased from the iTunes App Store....

Wyse Unveils Expanded Strategy for Cloud Client Computing, Mobile Cloud Business Unit

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:19:00 0500

Wyse Technology announced an expanded strategy blending its leadership in thin and zero client computing, desktop virtualization, unified communications, and mobile access to virtual environments for true cloud computing ? on any computing platform; desktops, laptops and the next generation mobile devices. Wyse, along with key partners including Citrix, IBM, Microsoft, VMware, and others, along with a channel ecosystem of more than 3,000 resellers, are combining to deploy today's leading techno...

Wyse Introduces Latest Release of the Industry-leading Management Software Solution for Desktop Virtualization Deployments in Public and Private Clouds

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:18:00 0500

Wyse Technology, the global leader in cloud client computing, today announced Wyse Device Manager? (WDM) 4.8, the most sophisticated enterprise-class management tool for cloud clients. This new version adds key capabilities to address management requirements for virtual desktops in businesses and institutions....

The Business Case for RDP Acceleration

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:17:00 0500

This Whitepaper identifies some of the RDP performance challenges facing organizations, as well as their potential causes and cures. With that said, this document is not intended to broadly address any one use case scenario, nor the entire scope of RDP alternatives, nor the costlier and complex solutions that deal with network performance as part of a comprehensive network solution....

Leostream Connection Broker Provides Improved Management and Scalability Through VMware Enhancements

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:15:00 0500

Leostream Corporation announced VMware enhancements in the Leostream Connection Broker 7.0, which provide customers who operate a VMware virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) with much more powerful management capabilities and improved scalability (see also the press release issued today....

Atlantis Computing Joins The VMware Technology Alliance Partner Program

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:14:00 0500

Atlantis Computing 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....

Veeam Software Announces Five Pending Patents for VMware Data Protection and Disaster Recovery

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:13:00 0500

Veeam Software announced its new vPower? technology for VMware data protection and disaster recovery, as well as five pending patents associated with this breakthrough technology. vPower includes the ability to run a virtual machine (VM) in production or in an isolated virtual lab directly from a compressed and deduplicated backup file on regular backup storage. The five pending patents related to vPower offer these capabilities that are unique in the industry: ...

Veeam Takes VMware Backup to a New Level

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:12:00 0500

Veeam Software, innovative provider of VMware data protection, disaster recovery and VMware management solutions for virtual datacenter environments, is demonstrating its new vPower? technology for Virtualization-Powered Data Protection? this week at VMworld 2010....

Quest and Virtual Computer Announce Integrated Server and Client-Hosted Desktop Virtualization�at VMworld

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:11:00 0500

Quest Software and Virtual Computer announced a technology alliance to deliver a desktop virtualization and management solution meeting the end-to-end computing needs of large enterprises. This technology provides anywhere, anytime access to both centralized and distributed end-user environments through the integration of Quest® vWorkspace client and Virtual Computer NxTop 3.0 enterprise platform....

RES Software Awarded U.S. Patent for Virtual Desktop Extender Technology

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:10:00 0500

RES Software, the proven leader in user workspace management, today announced that it has been granted Patent No. US 7,725,527 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) for its Virtual Desktop Extender (VDX) technology. VDX serves as a key technology in the successful deployment of virtual desktops because it enhances the remote desktop experience by enabling local applications. ...

Quest Launches vFoglight Storage for Optimal Virtual Performance

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:08:00 0500

Quest Software launched vFoglight® Storage, a physical storage monitoring solution that enables administrators to optimize their virtual infrastructures by gaining greater control and visibility over the physical layer. By providing superior insight beyond the datastore, vFoglight Storage enables users to pinpoint performance, capacity and topology issues; meet SLAs; and achieve performance levels....

RingCube Unveils New Security and Performance Innovations for Desktop Virtualization at VMworld Conference 2010

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:07:00 0500

RingCube Technologies announced at the VMworld Conference 2010 the latest in desktop virtualization innovations delivered in RingCube's vDesk solution, including enhancements in security, performance, management and usability that were developed in association with Intel....

Quest Announces Strategic Alliances, Licensing and Product Enhancements

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:06:00 0500

Quest Software announced strategic moves as its presence in the desktop virtualization market strengthens. Quest has entered into a licensing agreement with Liquidware Labs for its Stratusphere Fit? and UX? products. The company also has formed a technology alliance with Virtual Computer for open support of client-side hypervisors....

VMware's Purchase of TriCipher

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:34:00 0500

When it rains, it pours. Yesterday, CA Technologies announced its purchase of Arcot Systems. My blog post about the purchase can be found here. Today, VMware announced its purchase of TriCipher. Arcot Systems and TriCipher are eerily similar. Both companies started with innovative technology which protects the user's private PKI key in software (in TriCipher's case, the private key is split)....

The Open vSwitch - Key Ingredient of Enterprise Ready Clouds

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:32:00 0500

I'm often asked what Citrix and the open source community are trying to achieve with the Open vSwitch Project. The Open vSwitch is an open source virtual switch for Xen (and therefore XenServer, and in future perhaps Amazon EC2 and RackSpace), and KVM based virtual infrastructure that replaces the Linux bridge code with a powerful, programmable switch forwarding capability as well as programmable per-virtual interface ACLs. The Open vSwitch supports an emerging industry standard protocol for pr...

Leostream Introduces Connection Broker 7.0 for Optimal End-User Experience and Simpler Management of Virtual Desktops

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:21:00 0500

Leostream Corporation introduced Leostream Connection Broker 7.0. The most widely deployed, vendor-independent technology of its kind, the new release empowers IT to deliver an optimal virtual desktop experience to end-users, one that encompasses any kind of desktop or session delivered to endpoints that range from laptops to thin-clients to handheld devices....

eG Innovations Unveils Sweeping Enhancements to Its Business Service Infrastructure Monitoring Software

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:11:00 0500

eG Innovations announced today more than 100 enhancements in Version 5 of its award-winning eG Enterprise Suite?. With new functionality, integration enhancements, increased breadth and depth of monitoring for cloud-based infrastructures plus enhanced usability, eG Enterprise is more powerful and easier to set up, use and deploy than ever before....

Cloud Market Leaders Turn to 3PAR and VMware for Cloud-Scale Virtualization

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:09:00 0500

3PAR announced that cloud computing market leaders in the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) segments have combined the 3PAR InServ Storage Server with VMware vSphere to build agile and efficient cloud infrastructures for their shared, virtualized "utility" service offerings....

Virtacore Joins VMware vCloud Express Program With Launch of First Infrastructure-as-a-Service Offering for the Mid-Market

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:07:00 0500

Virtacore Systems unveiled its vCore platform, the first infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) offering tailored to meet the swiftly changing needs of mid-market, emerging businesses, independent software vendors (ISVs) and service providers. Virtacore's vCore platform provides a unified management console and seamless upgrade between VMw......

Zmanda Enhances Backup and Disaster Recovery for VMware

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:05:00 0500

Zmanda announced enhancements to its VMware Backup Client for Amanda Enterprise (AE). In addition to running a full image-level backup of a live virtual machine (VM), users now have the ability to run faster and more efficient block-level differential backups of VMs. During recovery, the Zmanda's VMware backup client will automatically combine a full backup image with the relevant differential backup image....

Bluesocket Introduces the First VMware Ready Wireless LAN With Virtualized Control and Management Capabilities

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:04:00 0500

Bluesocket has extended their vWLAN wireless technology to include deployments on hypervisor platforms. The first hypervisor platform to be announced will be with VMware and is a first in the wireless industry with both the control and management of WLAN networks residing on the industry's leading hypervisor platform. ...

Zenoss Announces Key Customer Wins for Management of Cisco UCS-Based Clouds

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:02:00 0500

Zenoss announced that in its first quarter of availability, it has achieved several significant customer wins for its management offering for the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS). ...

HP Launches CloudStart to Fast Track Private Clouds

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:01:00 0500

HP announced HP CloudStart, the industry's first all-in-one solution for deploying an open and flexible private cloud environment within 30 days....

Reflex Systems Enables Self-Service Virtual Infrastructure Management With Its 'Private Cloud Initiative'

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:59:00 0500

Reflex Systems unveiled its Private Cloud Initiative, a bold new vision that helps enterprise IT staff deliver the power of self-service to virtual infrastructure. While cloud computing has long held the promise of simplification for the end-user, Reflex's Private Cloud Initiative provides greater simplification and ease of management for the IT staff tasked with building private clouds for their end users to leverage. ...

OpenCloud - A Platform for Innovation

Fri, 03 Sep 2010 02:47:00 0500

Open means a lot to me. I was one of the lucky kids that caught the cusp of the open source explosion in the early 90s. Ah the memories of spending nights porting source code from SunOS to Linux. And really, you cant appreciate the miracle of modern installers until you've toasted a monitor trying to manually configure X-Windows on Linux 0.93. Yeah, I knew how to party....

Citrix and Microsoft Roadshow- Learn about Desktop Virtualization from the Experts - Montreal, Canada

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 11:27:00 0500

Join Citrix and Microsoft in Montreal, Canada and learn about new strategies for desktops and become an expert on desktop virtualization in just half a day....

Entisys Solutions Named to Prestigious Inc. 5000 List

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 17:03:00 0500

Entisys Solutions announced that the company has been recognized by Inc. magazine as part of the prestigious 2010 Inc. 5000 list of America's fastest-growing private companies. Ranking #2609 on the list, Entisys Solutions experienced financial growth of 89% from 2006 through 2009....

3PAR Accepts Matching Acquisition Offer by Dell

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 16:45:00 0500

3PAR announced it has accepted a matching offer to be acquired by Dell for a price of $27 per share, or approximately $1.8 billion, net of 3PAR's cash. Accordingly, 3PAR and Dell have signed a second amendment to their previously announced merger agreement reflecting the new offer price, and maintaining the termination fee unchanged at $72 million, which is payable in the event that 3PAR receives and accepts another unsolicited acquisition proposal that its board determines to be superior to De...

Citrix Releases Citrix Online Plug-in for Macintosh 11.2

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:26:00 0500

Citrix just released the 11.2 version of the Mac Online Plug-in for XenApp / XenDesktop! The 11.2 version includes a few new really cool features such as desktop resize support, dazzle application launch compatibilities and a few more. ...

Perform The Hybrid Cloud Dance Easily With newScale, rPath and Eucalyptus

Fri, 27 Aug 2010 02:21:00 0500

Cloud Computing is both inspiring and confusing to many people. When you realize the efficiency and cost savings offered by the cloud, you get inspired but when you listen to the marketing folks, you get confused. The reason is pretty straightforward. The marketing folks on the public cloud side wants you to believe that it is a miracle pill set out to cure all the problems of IT and if you listen to the marketing folks on the private cloud side, they will want you to shudder at the very though...