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November 2006 - Posts
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AppStream, Inc., a leader in on-demand application deployment and management, today announced that the company has launched a new VAR Partner Program. The first value added resellers to join under the new program are Async Associates, a Michigan-based IT solutions integrator and ProSys Information ... Read More...
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Server virtualization is one of the hottest trends in the IT industry, with the technology maturing and the market exploding. According to a recent IDC survey, the worldwide virtual machine software market grew 67% last year, on top of 64% growth in 2004, and the total virtualization market (hardwar... Read More...
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Vendor Neoscale has attempted to address the multiple key issues by teaming with Symantec, Optica Technologies, and Entrust to create software that manages encryption keys from different vendors.
NeoScale exec Rosenblum told Byte and Switch that the vendor is also working with the Trusted Compu... Read More...
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Virtual Bridges, Inc, a provider of desktop and enterprise virtualization solutions for business, announced today the release of a major upgrade to its Win4Lin Pro product.
Win4Lin Pro Desktop allows Linux users to run Windows applications from the security of the Linux desktop. Win4Lin Virtual ... Read More...
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2X today announced the release of the 2X Server Based Computing Guide, which describes ways in which to optimize IT network infrastructures whilst cutting hardware, energy and administration costs.
Businesses worldwide face an escalating desktop PC management problem, requiring tremendous resour... Read More...
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When a series of electrical snafus took down the Las Vegas Valley Water District's (LVVWD) data center, its network administrators were vindicated. Yes, server virtualization really is a good idea.
Senior network administrators Dave Trupkin and Greg Hearn told attendees at Gartner's Data Center ... Read More...
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Parallels announced that it is bringing virtualization to Windows Vista via a free update for Parallels Workstation 2.2 for Windows and Linux, the company’s easy-to-use desktop virtualization software that enables users to simultaneously run multiple operating systems on any PC running Linux or Wind... Read More...
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As the software market becomes more and more competitive, software product demonstrations and evaluations play an increasingly crucial role in the marketing and sales cycle.
In fact, software evaluations are the single most expensive component of the software sales process – and yet the number of... Read More...
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United Devices (UD) has announced general availability of solutions focused on virtualizing mission-critical business applications for enterprise data centers and outsourced IT service providers.
UD's data center virtualization solution, Data Center One, enables automatic provisioning of business... Read More...
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A hypervisor is simply a scheme that allows multiple operating environments to run in virtual machines on a single system at the same time. By using a hypervisor, a single server or desktop could host four or five (or more) different operating systems. And a hundred servers or desktops could thus ru... Read More...
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Gartner Inc. is telling attendees at its annual data center conference here this week that it expects companies to increasingly virtualize desktop environments to improve PC management and security. An offshoot of that trend may be a shift to employee ownership of the hardware.
IT managers at thi... Read More...
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Symantec has launched new capabilities for its Veritas Server Foundation (VSF) suite designed to simplify the management of enterprise datacentres and provide additional patch management functionality.
A new Application Director feature enables administrators to automate the control of applicatio... Read More...
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Ben Rudolph from Parallels responds to his users' questions about the Parallels products. Here are the latest lists of questions and answers from Ben's Blog site. If you have other questions that need answering, and you can't find answers online... ASK BEN! Jump over to his Blog site and leave hi... Read More...
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Novell Inc has expanded its ZENworks systems management capabilities with automation, virtual machine management and high performance compute cluster management capabilities.
The Waltham, Massachusetts-based company is best known for its Linux and identity management offerings, but also offers ZENw... Read More...
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Even though VMware ESX Server is known for high performance, performance tweaks and a little know how can make it even better. In this series, David Marshall and Wade Reynolds are examining 12 tips for top-notch ESX Server performance.
Tips one through four discussed VI3, host processors and mem... Read More...
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David Marshall and Wade Reynolds write about 12 tips that can be used to improve guest server performance in your VMware ESX Server environment. This article is part one of three, and it discusses the following tips: Upgrade to VI3, Improve your host's processor and memory, Enhance your host's stor... Read More...
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Invirtus, Inc. today announced the Beta availability of a new product: Enterprise VM Converter, an enterprise-class platform conversion application that transforms physical machines into virtual machines.
Invirtus VM Converter allows users to convert any number of Windows host operating systems ru... Read More...
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Fujitsu Siemens Computers is taking its CentricStor virtual tape appliance to midsize users, introducing two entry-level models with a mere 2.7TB of caching disk each and the ability to connect to one tape library and up to four physical tape drives.
The CentricStor VTA 500 and 1500 appliances ma... Read More...
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IN VMware's brave new world, software applications will no longer sit on top of operating systems but will be bundled and sold as software appliances.
They will sit above a layer of software developed by VMware, a company founded in 1998 by Diane Greene and her husband Mendel Rosenblum.
VMware'... Read More...
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CA Inc. today is announcing a revision of a Unicenter software tool that consolidates management of a greater variety of vendors' clustered and virtualized servers.
The new Unicenter Advanced Systems Management r11.1 will support systems with virtualized servers and server clusters through a sin... Read More...
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