Parallels virtualization and automation software is powering new virtual private server (VPS) offerings from Blacknight Internet Solutions. Blacknight, a Parallels Gold Partner, is offering four VPS service plans for the Linux and Windows platforms. Each level - Starter, Basic, Standar

Scalent Systems announced support for Sun Logical Domains (LDoms) server virtualization and partitioning technology by Scalent V/OE Infrastructure Virtualization software. Sun's LDoms technology is available on its chip multi-threaded (CMT) systems with CoolThreads technology including

Scalent Systems announced availability of Scalent V/OE version 2.5, with enhanced workload and image portability functionality. Scalent delivers portability of Windows and Linux server images and associated provisioning of network connectivity & storage access across virtual and physic

Qumranet previewed its Solid ICE Multi-Site desktop virtualization solution, which will offer the benefits of centralized desktops to enterprises with globally dispersed users in branch offices and remote sites. Solid ICE Multi-Site employs Qumranet's SPLICE technology, which enables a

CodeWeavers announced the release of CrossOver Mac 7.0 and CrossOver Linux 7.0. Both version of CrossOver 7.0 will include support for Microsoft Office 2007 (including Outlook 2007), newer versions of Quicken, and the Adobe CS and CS2 line of products, particularly Photoshop.

Marathon Technologies announced that Jerry Melnick, its chief technology officer, will be a featured speaker at the Third International Virtualization Conference and Expo hosted by SYS-CON Media, June 23-24 in New York City. Melnick's presentation, 'Are Your Applications v-Available?'

PlateSpin ULC, a Novell company, announced new packaging options for PlateSpin Forge that make the innovative disaster recovery hardware appliance even more cost-effective for small and medium-sized enterprises that need to protect ten or more server workloads. PlateSpin Forge is a pur

VKernel announced a partnership with Lighthouse Virtualization Group. Under the agreement, Lighthouse becomes 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 VMw

It's no secret that data centers are faced with exponential storage growth, increasing operational costs, power and cooling limitations, and the need to provision and bring new applications online more rapidly to support critical business needs, many customers look to virtualization st

SOA Software and iTKO announced a combined solution for continuous management and quality assurance across the entire design, development and change lifecycle of SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) applications. The integrated offering includes iTKO's LISA Testing, Validation and Virtu

GigaSpaces Technologies and RightScale announced their alliance to provide an integrated solution for the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). Ideal for data-intensive and transactional applications, the joint solution offers an affordable end-to-end stack for easily deploying and scali

Traditional recovery infrastructures have failed to keep pace with requirements for recovery speed and integrity at a reasonable cost. Learn why organizations are now leveraging server virtualization to protect servers in their network that have commonly been left under-protected. Find

Parascale, the four-year-old firm with the Cloud Storage system software layered on the Linux XFS file system, the Linux operating system and the Internet Protocol networking protocol stack, has hired Sajai Krishnan out of NetApp to be its CEO. He ran NetApp's mid-market StoreVault bus

As virtualization becomes more widely deployed, and enterprises look for new ways to leverage this revolutionary technology, the consumption and delivery of this technology is changing. It is no longer one-size-fits-all and confined to a specific area of the data center, but instead is

Storage virtualization introduces a level of abstraction that sits between application servers and physical storage resources to provide centralized volume management and non-disruptive data mobility. These capabilities help storage managers improve productivity, capacity-utilization a

As the adoption of virtualization technology in the data center increases, organizations are encountering new challenges associated with planning and managing rapid growth in virtual infrastructure. Without effective planning and forecasting, organizations often fail to realize the ful

NEC announced a partnership with SYNNEX. The partnership underscores NEC's commitment to expanding the delivery of dynamic IT infrastructure solutions in North America. NEC's extensive portfolio of IT products and international recognition for quality give SYNNEX VARs across North Amer

As part of IBM's 'Project Big Green' offerings, IBM announced new storage virtualization software, its System Storage SAN Volume Controller (SVC) 4.3 software, to manage and consolidate volumes of business data.

IDC and Gartner have boosted their worldwide PC growth projections for the year. IDC thinks shipments will be up 15.2% to 310 million units compared to last year, not 12.8% like it said it March and Gartner puts the number at 12.5% rather than 10.9%.

I/O is a key element of server architecture, but its virtualization is only now starting to be addressed. Without I/O virtualization, the amount, type and physical connectivity of server I/O are all fixed. In order to achieve true flexibility in server usage, these fixed resources must

Ceedo Technologies has developed patent-pending virtualization technology that takes a suite of standard off-the-shelf Windows applications, and virtualizes them in real-time, creating a portable virtual desktop, which launches on any Windows host PC with no need to pre-install any sof

CiRBA announced the release of Version 5.0 of its virtualization and consolidation analysis software. With Version 5.0, CiRBA enables organizations to build dynamic models of their virtual and physical infrastructure to continually identify opportunities to improve performance, optimiz

The Federal Trade Commission has decided to formally investigate Intel for antitrust for pushing AMD to the wall with its sales incentives, an answer to a prayer AMD has been saying for years now. AMD supposedly only brought its mammoth private antitrust suit against Intel in a Delawar

While virtual machines continue to proliferate in enterprise data centers with great results, high-powered physical servers aren't going away. Most enterprise data centers are in fact 'blended environments,' with some application services running on VMs, while often more mission-critic

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

Surgient announced that Insuresoft selected the Surgient Virtual Lab Management Platform to accelerate its software delivery cycles. Integrated with HP Quality Center, Surgient enables Insuresoft to improve the efficiency of its software test Q/A cycle and more quickly deliver its prod

Lanamark announced limited availability of its flagship software solution Lanamark Suite. The company also announced a Lanamark Early Access Program (LEAP) for value-added resellers, consultants and system integrators.

Tresys announced the availability of Tresys VM Fortress - a patent-pending secure desktop virtualization technology for organizations seeking strong security and operational integrity. VM Fortress gives organizations with high-end security needs the ability to utilize desktop virtualiz

The need for a way to more effectively manage and reduce the complexity of end points has never been greater. While virtualization technologies offer a breakthrough approach to reduce the complexities of managing end points, there are different ways organizations are leveraging this te

Managing Web Services in production is no easy task. Ensuring that services follow corporate security and SOA governance requirements, monitoring compliance with individual SLAs, preventing one client from degrading the performance of others and ensuring services built today will work

PlateSpin provides a unified suite of solutions to help enterprises adopt, manage and extend their use of server virtualization in the data center. PlateSpin's patent-pending workload profiling and portability technology liberates software from hardware and streams server workloads (da

3PAR is a provider of utility storage, a category of highly-virtualized, tightly-clustered, and dynamically-tiered storage arrays built for utility computing. Organizations use utility computing to build cost-effective virtualized IT infrastructures for flexible workload consolidation.

Parallels announced the hosting implementation of Parallels Server for Mac, a server virtualization solution for Intel-powered Apple Mac systems. Parallels Server for Mac is a powerful and easy-to-use hypervisor solution for server virtualization that runs on any Intel-powered Apple ha

VMware announced that Chitale Dairy has used VMware's datacenter virtualization and management platform, VMware Infrastructure, to consolidate its two widely separated datacenters into one, while improving application availability and reliability. Chitale Dairy, which produces about 40

In February 2007, APC and MGE UPS Systems combined to form a $3.5 billion (2.4 billion) Critical Power and Cooling Services business unit of Schneider Electric. The Critical Power and Cooling Services division offers the industry's most comprehensive product and solution range for crit

SUSE, which is packaged up with Xen, has started supporting VMware's Virtual Machine Interface (VMI), Vmware's brand of paravirtualization. Novell worked on the widgetry with VMware for nine months and modified the SUSE kernel to support VMI, a communication mechanism between the guest

Parallels announced that ActiveHost will offer Windows virtual private server (VPS) packages based solely on Parallels products. The new offering will be delivered by the newly created ActiveVPS division of ActiveHost. ActiveHost is using Parallels Virtuozzo Containers, Parallels Plesk

Red Hat is a trusted open source provider. Red Hat offers enterprise customers a long-term plan for building infrastructures on the quality and innovation of open source. Combining open source operating system platform, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, together with applications, management,

Citrix is losing its sales boss John Burris to one of the open source contingent's few publicly traded companies, the struggling Sourcefire, creator of Snort, the security software, whose $15 IPO price has pretty been shaved in half since its debut in March of 2007.

Virtualization is the future of IT management, but what exactly does that mean to your organization? CIOs around the world recognize that virtualization could be the answer to combating skyrocketing costs associated with managing their IT infrastructure; however, many are still left wo