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VMTurbo Operations Manager 3.0 ? Enabling Application Assurance across Any Virtual Infrastructure

Fri, 03 Feb 2012 08:36:00 0500

Today we are very excited to have announced the release of the 3.0 version of our Operations Manager product line. The release is certainly a major undertaking by our development team ? and delivers a host of important, new capabilities to our rapidly growing customer base....

Citrix XenClient Best Practices Series ? Follow-Me-Data for Executive Mobility

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 15:10:00 0500

Our customers often ask how XenClient and XenDesktop work together. Citrix's vision is to empower people to work from anywhere, on any device. For example, a mobile executive might use XenDesktop while at the office and XenClient while on the road. ...

VMware Asks Cloud Security Standards, Are they coming to a cloud near you?

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 14:09:00 0500

I was recently reading an article about cloud security standards and found it quite interesting of the struggles service providers are going through right now without official security standards. Standards are on the way from several industry groups including vendor back groups to help. But what is happening in the meantime is what I found interesting....

VMware Resolution Path KB articles - the best thing since sliced bread

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 11:59:00 0500

You're all familiar with the VMware Knowledgebase, but do you know what a Resolution Path KB is? Well, it's a very special kind of KB article, and we've incorporated Mind Maps into them too, but more on that in a minute....

Virtual Computer's Market Momentum Accelerates Growth of Intelligent Desktop Virtualization

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:56:00 0500

Virtual Computer, the market leader in intelligent desktop virtualization (IDV), announced that it dramatically accelerated the growth of the IDV market in 2011 and is poised to continue driving the adoption of IDV as a better alternative to virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) in 2012. While VDI has been heavily promoted by virtualization giants VMware and Citrix, Virtual Computer has demonstrated that IDV offers better performance at a lower cost by combining centralized management with local...

VMWare Seeks To Be Oracle Of The Cloud

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:24:00 0500

A decade ago Oracle was the model for building an enterprise software company....

Kaspersky Lab Selects DataCore Storage Hypervisor to Safeguard Ten Petabytes of Storage and Accelerate Microsoft Hyper-V

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 08:02:00 0500

DataCore Software, the industry's premier provider of storage virtualization software, today announced that Kaspersky Lab, the world's largest privately-held Internet security and anti-virus company, has chosen DataCore SANsymphony?-V storage hypervisor software to virtualize and protect its build-out of 10 petabytes of disk storage located in two, separate Moscow data centers. With the SANsymphony-V virtualization layer, Kaspersky Lab has unified the management of its diverse storage systems f...

Quest Partners with Desktone to Deliver Desktops as a Service (DaaS) Built on NetApp

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:30:00 0500

Quest®, one of the nation's leading technology management and consulting firms, today announced it is partnering with Desktone, Inc., the pioneer of Desktops as a Service (DaaS), to deliver cloud-hosted virtual desktops to the enterprise. By leveraging Desktone's multi-tenant DaaS platform and NetApp's storage systems and management expertise, Quest is able to deliver cost-effective, full-featured virtual desktops to any device on-demand....

IBM's Mobile Strategy, Acquisitions Tackle BYOD Security

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:27:00 0500

IBM's Bob Sutor, the head of the WebSphere Foundation within the company's software unit, blogged his take on two of the company's most recent product announcements, both impacting IBM's mobile goals for the coming months....

VMTurbo Enhances Platform to Assure Application Performance Across Cloud and Virtualized Environments

Thu, 02 Feb 2012 03:16:00 0500

VMTurbo, the leading provider of intelligent workload management software for cloud and virtualized environments, today announced version 3.0 of its award-winning platform. VMTurbo Operations Manager 3.0 delivers cloud-scale management for the largest service provider and enterprise virtual infrastructures, expands heterogeneous hypervisor support to include Citrix XenServer and adds new application performance assurance capabilities. ...