Symantec has unveiled the top Internet security trends of 2007 that impacted consumers and business. The security trends emphasize the ongoing evolution of cybercrime becoming more professional and commercial. Two key trends that summarize the findings are 'topical' and 'trust' -- atta

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

Symantec introduced Symantec Mail Security 8300 Series Virtual Edition, a complete virtual appliance version of the award-winning messaging security appliance. Operating in VMware Server and ESX environments, Virtual Edition helps reduce costs and save time by giving users the ability

eXludus announced a technology partnership with Runtime Design Automation (RTDA), developers of workflow and workload management technology and products. This technology partnership represents a fundamental evolution and improvement in electronic design automation (EDA) application per

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

Nvidia - which Intel might say discounts the processor - has gone into competition against Intel and its tiny Atom MPU with a non-x86 family of processors called Tegra described as the first single-chip computer capable of accessing rich high-definition applications and the Internet on

Intel has been fined $25.4 million by South Korean regulators for abusing its dominant position and discounting its microprocessors, thereby freezing AMD out of the market. The charges relate specifically to $37 million in rebates awarded to Samsung and Trigem between 2002 and 2005 in

Intel hit Computex Tuesday with enough design-wins in hand to put its newfangled netbook-, nettop- and MID-bound Atom chips in short supply at least for the next six-eight weeks, it said. The manufacturing giant confessed last week to hiccups with its new more conventional laptop-bound

Zmanda, the open source backup and recovery folks, says it's integrated NetApp's Snapshot technology with its own Recovery Manager for MySQL. It's supposed to translate into continuous data protection for mission-critical MySQL databases. With Snapshot, administrators can create point-

HP Tuesday named Don Grantham, Sun's global sales and service boss, and an ex-IBMer, its chief sales officer responsible for enterprise accounts and public sector sales as well as sales to the communications, media and entertainment, financial and manufacturing and distribution industr

There is a lot of hype today about server virtualization. You wouldn't know it, but the reality is the technology is still only deployed on about 6-8 percent of the installed x86 server base worldwide. To take this penetration rate to a more meaningful level requires that we in the ind

Ceedo announced Ceedo Enterprise, a complete virtualization product that allows IT administrators to create, deploy and remotely manage desktop workspace environments enabling a number of cost-effective scenarios including: application portability, remote management, business continuit

rPath announced that the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) have been using rBuilder to deliver virtual appliances to both scientists' desktops and computational clouds. The use of rBuilder in these environments reduces the effort

GRM announced that they have instituted the next step in their company-wide green initiative - virtualization of their information management system. The data center of large corporations is one of the leading contributors to a company's carbon footprint, and GRM has decided that virtu

Xenocode's Virtual Application Studio allows IT professionals to convert their existing Windows, .NET, and Java-based applications into virtualized applications ready for instant deployment using the Xenocode Virtual OS.

Tripwire announced the availability of Tripwire ConfigCheck, a free utility that assesses configuration settings for the VMware ESX hypervisor and recommends steps to take to ensure even greater security. Tripwire ConfigCheck provides an immediate assessment of the configurations of a

Ceedo Personal enables you to create a portable virtual desktop comprising of your favorite Windows applications, carry it with you on a USB flash drive, portable hard drive, iPod or any other on any portable storage gadget, and run it on any PC without installation.

Virtualization is quickly becoming a staple technology for enterprise IT. The theme of this November's 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo is 'The Next Generation of Virtualization.' The Call for Papers, which is now open, welcomes submissions from exceptional speakers w

VMware has cozied up with ASUS, Gigabyte, Inventec and Tyan to get more customers for its brand of virtualization by certifying the ODMs one-, two- and four-socket servers as well as their blade servers. It's already got a deal with Supermicro. The vendors are certifying their systems

SOA and Virtualization are viewed today as the ultimate IT power couple. They've been called two of today's hottest technologies: virtualization provides cost savings and flexibility, while a service-oriented architecture (SOA) affords application reuse and fast response to business ne

Credit Suisse, the big broker and investment banker, has launched an independent company called DynamicOps LLC, quietly formed in January, to market a virtual machine management application called Virtual Resource Manager (VRM). It is funded by Credit Suisse's NEXT II venture group. Ex

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

Citrix CTO Simon Crosby, Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens, Egenera CTO Pete Manca are among the top industry executives joining Jeremy Geelan in the famous 4th Floor Reuters Studio overlooking Times Square for a special SYS-CON.TV 'Virtualization Power Panel' to be recorded on the eve of SYS-

AMD has rethought its roadmap and, given its limited resources and near-death experience with Barcelona, it's scrubbing Montreal, the eight-core chip that was supposed to follow Shanghai, the chip after Barcelona, and substituting a six-core part code named Istanbul to be followed by a

From Application Virtualization to Xen, a round-up of the virtualization themes & topics being discussed in NYC June 23-24, 2008 by the world-class speaker faculty at the 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo being held by SYS-CON Events in The Roosevelt Hotel, in midtown

Conference in San Francisco. Dvorak held forth on a number of topics, including the new AMD/Intel lawsuit, the viability of Java and Sun, the value of (or lack thereof) of corporate PR, and whether or not a new book about Silicon Valley is really worth reading.

I've been a proponent of geotargeted cloud computing for a while (the ability to geographically target compute resources). The problem is for the most part there still really isn't any options outside of the US to do this. This type of Geopolitical computing may very well be one of the

Defining what cloud computing is in itself a tough job, the lack of common cloud methodologies and best practices is making the job even harder. Trying to find experienced people with knowledge on how to build out a 30,000 machine cloud is nearly impossible, and finding someone who's d

Currently, an overwhelming majority of organizations are migrating and consolidating servers from physical to virtual environments. While the savings of the virtualized data center are extremely compelling, there is a new set of challenges that IT staffs didn't have to deal with in the

SYS-CON Events announced today that the Founder & CEO of FastScale, Lynn LeBlanc, will be giving a top breakout session at SYS-CON's 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo in San Jose, CA (20-21 November, 2008).

IBM announced it will establish the first Cloud Computing Center for software companies in China, which will be situated at the new Wuxi Tai Hu New Town Science and Education Industrial Park in Wuxi, China. The center will offer emerging Chinese software companies the ability to tap in

IBM has released new software that allows data centers to benefit from so-called cloud computing, allowing them to scale more cost-effectively. The software is based on an updated version of IBM's Tivoli Provisioning Manager product that includes new automation features that remove muc

Virtualization is quickly becoming a staple technology for enterprise IT. The theme of this November's 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo is 'The Next Generation of Virtualization.' The Call for Papers, which is now open, welcomes submissions from exceptional speakers w

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,

Skytap is a provider of cloud-based virtualization solutions available as secure, on-demand services over the Web. Skytap solutions enable IT and development teams to develop, test, deploy and manage applications in a virtual environment, increasing their ability to respond to business

Some people may take offense to being told that their 'head is in the clouds,' but not Nirvanix CEO Patrick Harr. With his company serving as the premier 'Cloud Storage' platform provider, Harr is turning the phrase that suggests one is unrealistic or full of impractical ideas on its h

DataCore announced that it has accepted a $30 million equity investment from Insight Venture Partners and Updata Partners. Insight Venture Partners is a private equity and venture capital firm focused on the global software and Internet industries. Updata Partners is an information tec

Virtual Cloud Computing represents the next wave of virtualization and offers significant market opportunities by providing a new, simpler, and much more pervasive platform for on-demand, desktop and application service delivery. While server-side virtualization helps enterprises optim

VMware unveiled a new integrated desktop solution offering superior performance, especially over wide area networks (WANs), that leverages VMware's Virtual Desktop Infrastructure platform with Sun Microsystems' Sun Ray Software and virtual display clients. Ideal for use with remote use

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