Xiotech announced Virtual View, a new add-on for its ICON Manager user interface that simplifies storage monitoring, management and provisioning tasks in virtual environments. Virtual View, designed for users of Xiotech's Emprise 7000 and Magnitude 3D 4000 storage systems, enables admi

Credit Suisse announced that it is launching an independent company to market an innovative virtual machine management application. The company, DynamicOps, formed in January, 2008, is funded by Credit Suisse?s NEXT II venture group and is located in Burlington, Massachusetts. Credit S

VMware announced new relationships with original design manufacturers (ODMs) ASUS, Gigabyte, Inventec and Tyan, adding to VMware's current relationship with Supermicro announced in February 2008. The relationships will enable channel partners and system builders worldwide to make virtu

InstallFree has reached an agreement with CDG Europe to distribute its products in the UK and across Europe. The arrangement expands CDG Europe's portfolio into the developing application and desktop virtualization space, which helps IT directors lower total cost of ownership, improve

Wyse Technology announced its support for Citrix XenDesktop desktop delivery solution across all Wyse product lines. Citrix XenDesktop is a desktop delivery solution that allows companies to virtualize Microsoft Windows desktops in the datacenter and deliver them on-demand to workers i

2X and Virtual Iron announced a strategic alliance to provide a complete Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) and Application Publishing Solution. Desktop computing makes up a large part of the enterprise computing infrastructure today. As distributed end points, desktops are among the

Players of 'EVE Online' are expected to get faster and more reliable web-based gaming and subscriber services, thanks to the virtualization of game developer CCP's data center in London. Cisco Application Control Engine (ACE) technology will help ensure that registration, background in

Fortisphere announced that it has been selected to join the Microsoft Startup Accelerator Program. As a member of the program, Fortisphere will receive customized Microsoft support for its software development initiatives and increased access to internal Microsoft resources, ensuring t

Marathon Technologies announced that it has been named as a finalist for the 'Best of Tech:Ed 2008 IT Professional Awards' in the virtualization category by Penton Media's Windows IT Pro and SQL Server Magazine. Marathon was awarded the distinction for developing everRun VM, the first

GlassHouse Technologies announced the acquisition of independent IT consulting firm TPP Group. The move is part of GlassHouse's continued drive to expand its storage management capabilities across the UK. The agreement was completed on May 22, 2008 for an undisclosed amount, and TPP em

VMware announced that VMware Fusion for the Mac was named one of PC World's '100 Best Products of 2008.' VMware Fusion, introduced in 2007, brings the Mac and PC worlds together to let people use the hardware they want and the software that best serves their needs. With VMware Fusion,

TRANGO announced it has partnered with Symbian to support the growing market for Symbian OS mobile phones, extending the benefits of virtualization to the Symbian ecosystem. Symbian develops and licenses Symbian OS, the open operating system for mobile phones. Symbian OS is licensed by

Array Networks announced its new SPX 4800 Universal Access Controller (UAC) which uses a maximum of 122 Watts of power to support up to 12,000 concurrent users. The energy efficient SPX 4800 UAC requires only one rack unit of space and consumes 0.01 watt of power per user at maximum us

Red Hat announced that Channel Insider has named Red Hat Enterprise Linux the top server operating system in its 2008 Product of the Year awards. Winners exemplify attributes of high importance to the channel including value, support and profit potential. Red Hat Enterprise Linux is a

Catbird announced a Virtual Infrastructure Security Assessment (VSA). Catbird's VSA helps IT administrators identify and close the potential gaps in security and compliance created in the move from 'P to V'. The 30-day assessment includes a thorough security analysis, detailed reports

Acuo Technologies announced the integration and certification of IBM's Grid Medical Archive Solution (GMAS) as well as the addition of IBM to Acuo's Elite Partner Program. By adding the Acuo Technologies middleware software to the IBM GMAS solution, the medical imaging industry has the

VMware announced that VMware Infrastructure 3, VMware ESX Server 3.0.2 and VMware VirtualCenter 2.0.2 have earned Common Criteria Evaluation Assurance Level 4 (EAL4+) certification under the Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) Common Criteria Evaluation and Certificatio

SAVVIS announced an agreement to provide fully managed hosting services to StarCompliance Software. In conjunction with its released Next Generation software, StarCompliance is expanding their relationship with SAVVIS by upgrading their IT infrastructure to SAVVIS' managed and virtuali

VMware announced a new certification program for thin client devices. Thin clients - which have small footprints and price tags because they use centralized servers for most of their processing power - provide a cost-effective alternative to standard PCs when used in conjunction with V

The conference theme of the Virtualization Conference & Expo Europe, to be held in London, England, January 26-27, 2009, is 'Deploying Virtualization in the Enterprise.' The Call for Papers, which is now open, welcomes submissions from exceptional speakers with high-quality use cases n

SYS-CON Media Website (www.sys-con.com) and email servers were affected from Saturday's explosion at The Planet hosting facility together with 9,000 servers which belonged to more than 7,500 customers. SYS-CON has been hosting its image server and email servers at the facility. At the

Messaging Architects announced new support for the VMWare platform with the 2008.2 release of M+Guardian. Organizations can now deploy M+Guardian either as a hardware or a virtual appliance to manage email risks more efficiently and cost-effectively. M+Guardian filters inbound and outb

2008 will be the year of Virtualization with many companies offering their products and services, including: 3 Leaf, Acronis, Agilysys, Akorri, AMD, APC, Appistry, AppStream, Attune Systems, Avanade, BEA Systems, Blue Lane, Brocade, CA, Cassatt, Certeon, CiRBA, Citrix, ClearCube, Corai

Brian Stevens, the Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Engineering of Red Hat, delivered his Virtualization Keynote 'The Future of the Virtual Enterprise' at SYS-CON's Virtualization Conference & Expo 2007 West in San Francisco. 'Virtualization is the hottest subject today,

How can virtualization help transform your IT environment into a dynamic datacenter? In this Virtualization Keynote, Dr Stephen Herrod will explore how a virtualized IT infrastructure gives any organization a sustainable competitive advantage. We have reached a point in time, Herrod be

David Marshall in his InfoWorld 'Virtualization Report' blog writes: 'Despite a sharp slowdown in U.S. business software spending, an April 2008 survey report from ChangeWave Research shows that virtualization may be spared as virtualization software spending has increased.' Marshall c

HP's latest answer to scale-out, which it interprets as clouds, grids, compute farms, Web 2.0 and HPC, is the BL2x220c G5, which it says is the world's first two-in-one server, offering the highest compute density in the industry or more than three times the density of traditional 1U r

StackSafe announced the external infrastructure connectivity upgrade to its staging and testing solution, StackSafe Test Center. The solution creates a virtual copy of the software infrastructure stack and enables IT Operations teams to better test the impact of changes before releasin

Double-Take Software will host the next stop of its Latin America-area disaster recovery seminar on June 11, 2008, in Santiago, Chile. The educational series focuses on the importance of protecting business critical data and applications, and ensuring the highest levels of recoverabili

HP is racing to the rescue of those threatening to drown in their own data, but that Web 2.0 lot had better be able to hold on until the fourth quarter when HP can deliver what it calls 'Extreme' storage, the NAS-style ExDS9100. It's a 10U BladeSystem that can hold 820TB of SATA-based

Founded in 1982, Green Hills Software is a highly successful software company specializing in virtualization and security. Green Hills Software's INTEGRITY is the first operating system or virtualization technology to be accepted for EAL 6+ Common Criteria IT Security evaluation; the l

IBM intends to set up a Cloud Computing Center in Wuxi, China so dozens of emerging Chinese software companies can tap into a virtual computing environment to support their development. It appears to be a three-way deal between IBM, Wuxi Tai Lake Industry Investment and Development Com

Reminding people of how its backing was the making of Linux, IBM, to no one's surprise, has thrown its support behind cloud computing, that delicious nexus of every chi-chi buzzword technology currently in vogue: Web 2.0, rich Internet applications, software-as-a-service, SOA, grid com

To achieve the full potential of 'cloud computing' we need a broader definition of virtualization, and that is the complete de-coupling of the logical components of an application (represented by the software stack) and the physical resources. In the case of middleware, whether it is d

To achieve the full potential of 'cloud computing' we need a broader definition of virtualization, and that is the complete de-coupling of the logical components of an application (represented by the software stack) and the physical resources. In the case of middleware, whether it is d

IBM claims to have created new species of custom-built, industry-standard, Linux-based rack server for Web 2.0 and Cloud Computing companies with massive data centers and tens of thousands of servers, like online gaming, social networks, search and Internet firms. A relatively limited

Amazon is now offering two premium support levels for application developers using its cloud computing services, to wit its S3 storage service, its EC2 computing service and SQS application messaging service. It's got Silver support, priced at $100 a month or 10 cent for every dollar o

Stoneware is a privately held corporation providing innovative software that delivers 'Universal Web Access' to all of an organization's web, Windows, and hosted applications through a 'Virtualized Web Desktop' interface. Based on Web 2.0 technology, Stoneware's webOS is an offering in

The European Commission's spokesman Jonathan Todd called a story by the Financial Times Deutschland - claiming that the EC had reached a provisional antitrust decision against Intel - 'irresponsible journalism.' Todd said 'no provisional or internal decision' had been made and that the

VIA is making a move up the outside rail trying to join the other two ponies in the mainstream PC market with a new x86 Nano processor while it counters the dust from Intel's sexy new Atom chip. VIA says the 65nm dingus, based on its Isaiah architecture, offers four times the performan