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Videos SmartCloud Provisioning

16 May 2012

IBM® SmartCloud™ Provisioning is an entry-level, infrastructure-as-a-service solution that allows quick cloud deployment. It provides automated provisioning, parallel scalability, integrated fault tolerance and a foundation for more advanced cloud capabilities. This low-touch private cloud environment offers near-zero downtime and automated recovery.

Videos University Texas Medical Branch (UTMB) - Customer Video

10 May 2012

UTMB use AppSense with their Citrix XenDesktop environment to implement faster, operate at lower cost and improve end user productivity

News 6fusion Expands Multi-Hypervisor Federated Cloud to Include Xen Customers

09 May 2012

Users can now use a combination of Xen Source, Citrix Xen Server, or VMware hypervisors across public, private and hybrid cloud environments

6fusion, the leading provider of utility metered public, private, and hybrid cloud infrastructure management solutions today announced multi-hypervisor support with the expansion of its cloud computing platform to support the Open Source and Citrix Xen platforms.

News ExtraHop Networks Builds First-Ever Agentless Performance Monitoring Solution for Citrix Desktop Virtualisation

08 May 2012

ExtraHop Delivers the Only Real-Time, Comprehensive, Deterministic Performance Monitoring for Desktop Virtualisation Deployments

ExtraHop Networks, the leading provider of network-based application performance management (APM) solutions, today announced the launch of the first-ever agentless APM solution that is verified Citrix Ready® to be compatible for Citrix XenDesktop®, Citrix XenApp™, and Citrix NetScaler®. With real-time analysis of virtual desktop wire protocols, the ExtraHop Citrix Module for XenDesktop and XenApp enables IT teams to identify and resolve small issues before they become major problems, quickly determine which part of the infrastructure is responsible for degradation in performance, and gain other valuable insights to help manage their desktop virtualisation deployments.

Videos Quest on the Board - ZeroIMPACT Migrations

08 May 2012

Product Marketing Manager Lacy Gruen talks about Quest's solutions for helping you prepare, migrate and maintain coexistence between your platforms, and more effectively manage your platforms post-migration

Videos Video Case Study - Hospital La Fe

27 Apr 2012

Learn how Hospital La Fe in Valencia administers their virtual desktops with vWorkspace, Quest Software's solution for deploying and managing desktop virtualization and VDI Technologies

News Zunicore GPU hybrid cloud offers best of virtualisation and network

25 Apr 2012

Zunicore, the cloud division of PEER 1 Hosting, today announces it is developing a GPU hybrid cloud solution to offer businesses the combined benefits of deploying physical hardware seamlessly alongside virtual servers via secured network hardware.

News Denmark city Esbjerg Kommune enhances award-winning IT services with Fusion ioTurbine virtualisation caching software

05 Apr 2012

Danish Oil, Gas and Wind Energy Hub Supports Community Entrepreneurship Services and Extends Existing IT Investment with Virtualisation Upgrade; Fusion ioTurbine 1.1 Upgrade Now Supports VMware ESXi 5.0 Virtualisation Hypervisor

Fusion-io today announced that the Danish city of Esbjerg Kommune has virtualised its Microsoft Exchange 2010 infrastructure with Fusion ioTurbinevirtualisation caching software to support a range of community services, including its award-winning entrepreneurship program. The complete details of the deployment have been published in a new case study.

News Quest Introduces New vFundamentals Virtualisation Management Suite

04 Apr 2012

Quest Software, Inc. has announced the availability of vFundamentals, a new product suite that delivers best-in-class backup, capacity planning and resource optimization for VMware virtual environments. vFundamentals enables virtualisation administrators to confidently grow their virtual environments knowing that critical assets are properly utilized and protected. Attainably priced at $995 per CPU, the new bundle includes Quest vRanger® Pro, the market’s leading VMware backup, replication and recovery solution, as well as capacity management and optimisation technology from VKernel’s vOps Server Standard Edition.

News Groupama Insurances virtualises the desktop with Centralis

02 Apr 2012

VDI replaces traditional desktop PCs to drive efficiency across UK operations

Independent application and desktop delivery specialist Centralis is working with Groupama Insurances, to deliver a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI). The UK insurance company is replacing its traditional desktop estate and fleet of laptops with VDI across five major locations in the UK under a phased programme that will lower its total cost of ownership (TCO) and environmental impact while increasing security, performance and flexibility.

News virtualDCS successfully launch their Virtual Service Provider (VSP) offering

30 Mar 2012

On Wednesday 21^st March 2012, Cloud Computing experts’ virtualDCS officially launched their innovative new service, which enables users to create custom Cloud solutions.

News Virtual Computer Enrolls 40 Resellers in Initial UK Channel Launch

27 Mar 2012

Intelligent Desktop Virtualisation Leader Captures the Interest of Solution Providers across the UK

Virtual Computer, the market leader in intelligent desktop virtualisation (IDV), today announced that as part of its UK channel launch it has signed up 40 new resellers including B2Lateral, Centralis, Cetus Solutions, Overbright, RedPixie, and Virtek. The company has also teamed up with Prianto, a virtualisation-focused distributor, to handle the volume of interest from the UK channel.

Videos Quest Software - Video Case Study

26 Mar 2012

Quest Software helps simplify IT management for over 100,000 customers worldwide. But "Simplicity at Work" is more than just a tagline to us -- because we also use Quest solutions every day to solve our own IT challenges. 

News Citrix streamlines delivery of cloud-hosted apps and desktops

19 Mar 2012

New Citrix Cloud Provider Pack provides powerful automation, app aggregation and mobility technologies for hosted cloud services

This week at WHD.global, Citrix is introducing a new “Cloud Provider Pack” for hosting providers delivering Windows apps and desktops as a hosted cloud service. This powerful new collection of enabling technologies, available exclusively to certified Citrix Service Providers (CSPs), makes it easy to set up “Windows-as-a-Service” hosting businesses that are simpler to run, less costly and better optimised for mobile devices.

News VDI Boot Storms do a Disappearing Act with Avere

19 Mar 2012

Testing shows NAS Optimization more effective at eliminating boot storms than upgrades to NAS filers

Avere Systems today announced that testing of its FXT Series proves that NAS Optimization provides the fastest boot times when compared to traditional disk-based filers.

News Poundland builds fast business growth with flexible storage solutions from NetApp

15 Mar 2012

Poundland moves to a virtual server environment with NetApp storage

Poundland, Europe’s biggest single price discount retailer, has moved to a virtual server environment with a NetApp storage system to support the company’s plan to open 50 stores every year,  adding to its current 386 stores.

Videos Cox Enterprises Trusts in Red Hat - Customer Success Story

14 Mar 2012

Cox Enterprises transitions their critical ERP platform to Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Cox Enterprises is a leading communications, media, and automotive services company. Headquartered in Atlanta, Cox Enterprises has more than 66,000 employees and its revenues are nearly $15 billion. Cox businesses include Cox Communications, the third-largest cable TV provider, Manheim, the world's leading provider of vehicle remarketing services, Cox Media Group, an integrated broadcasting, publishing, and digital media company, and AutoTrader.com, the Internet's largest auto classified marketplace and consumer information website

Videos Quest Software - User Workspace Management

14 Mar 2012

Quest Software Senior VP and GM of User Workspace Management and Monitoring Shayne Higdon explains how Quest user workspace management solutions enable users to access their workspace from anywhere and from any device

News Quest Software Meets Escalating Demand for User-Centric Approach to Managing Virtual Offices

13 Mar 2012

Today, Quest unveils its user-centric approach to workspace management that leverages the company’s proven expertise and industry-leading capabilities in desktop virtualisation, application migration and physical desktop management to deliver the most comprehensive solution on the market.

News Red Hat Premier Business Partners Help European Customers Embark on Cloud Projects

13 Mar 2012

Local Red Hat Premier Virtualization Partners provide easy on-ramp to cloud with open source virtualization

Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today highlighted the capabilities offered by its local virtualization-specialised Premier Business Partners focused around enabling end customers to lay a solid foundation for their future cloud plans. This follows from the January 2012 launch of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3.0, a compelling open virtualization alternative that offers leading performance, scalability, security, manageability and cost benefits.

News virtualDCS is to launch their exciting new service at the Yorkshire Mafia conference

12 Mar 2012

On Wednesday 21^st March 2012, Cloud Computing experts’ virtualDCS are set to premier their new innovative Cloud service at the exhibition

Yorkshire based company Virtual Data Centre Services (virtualDCS) provide innovative ways to host business systems for companies around the world. The team specialises in Cloud services such as: Infrastructure as a Service, Software as a Service, Recovery as a Service, Voice as a Service and Private Clouds.

News Actian and Viada Bring Analytics to German ‘Under-Served Majority’

08 Mar 2012

Vectorwise adds speed and efficiency to the IT service provider’s portfolio

Actian Corporation today announced that it has signed a strategic partner agreement with Viada GmbH & Co. KG, an IT service provider that offers custom made software development and project implementation. In addition to designing and developing Java Enterprise based IT solutions, Viada will now offer Actian Vectorwise and the company’s data warehouse and management and business intelligence (BI) capabilities as part of its portfolio. The foundation of this agreement is the collaboration that both companies have with Red Hat, the world's leading provider of open source solutions.

News Red Hat To Host European Cloud Computing Tour Focused on Open Cloud Architecture

05 Mar 2012

7-city tour to feature Red Hat cloud experts and partners on strategies and technologies for building open clouds

Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that it will host a seven-city tour of one-day, cloud-focused events throughout Europe, kicking off on March 20 with presentations in Helsinki, Finland. The event series will cover strategies and best practices from Red Hat experts and partners on approaches for building open clouds.

Videos SharePoint Experts Talk about Quest Software

05 Mar 2012

Joel Oleson, Rob LaMear, Michael Noel, Mark Miller and Ben Curry talk about Quest Software's SharePoint Solutions

News SUSE Studio helps thousands easily deploy workloads into private and public clouds: SUSE unveils latest SUSE Studio user data

17 Feb 2012

Number of SUSE Studio users doubles in one year; number of cloud-ready application images in SUSE Gallery surpasses one million

SUSE today announced that the number of registered users building cloud-ready application images with SUSE Studio has more than doubled in one year to 233,500. Additionally, the number of cloud-ready application images built and maintained in SUSE Gallery surpassed one million. More and more customers worldwide are realising the convenience and time-to-market advantages of the industry's only solution available today that streamlines the configuration, deployment and management of cloud-ready application images. 

Blog The expectation of collaboration

17 Feb 2012

DeLisa Alexander, SVP People writes: I believe that the future success for businesses to attract and retain top talent relies on a more open management and leadership approach. The workforce is evolving and the new employee is part of a major change affecting not only how we hire and who we hire, but how our companies operate on a basic level. It’s especially prevalent in the new generation entering the workforce.

News Quest Software Announces Executive Changes

16 Feb 2012

Vinny Smith to Return as CEO and Doug Garn to Become Vice Chairman

Quest Software’s Board of Directors announced today that Doug Garn is stepping down from his role as President and Chief Executive Officer and the Board has named Vinny Smith, previously Quest’s Executive Chairman, as the company’s new CEO.  Garn has been appointed Vice Chairman of the Board and Smith will remain as Chairman, effective immediately.

News Netplan’s Public Cloud Service Attains VMware vCloud® Powered Validation

16 Feb 2012

Netplan Internet Solutions Ltd has announced that its VMware public cloud service has achieved VMware vCloud Powered status, illustrating to customers that the company’s cloud  services are underpinned by VMware's leading virtualization and cloud computing technology, namely VMware vSphere® and VMware vCloud Director™.  A member of the VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP), Netplan provides its VMware vCloud Powered service as a set of cloud computing services across a common platform, supporting the largest set of existing applications and offering distinctive application mobility uniquely available from VMware.

Videos How to Install the Foglight Experience Monitor

15 Feb 2012

Learn how to install the Foglight Experience Monitor, Quest's solution for optimizing web application performance and user experience.

Articles FCS Financial - Case Study

13 Feb 2012

Integrated customer relationship management solution supports 20% annual business growth with limited staff additions

The Company

FCS Financial is part of the nationwide Farm Credit System located in Jefferson City, MO. that provides lending opportunities and financial services to more than 14,000 farmers and farm-related businesses through 29 branch offices.

News Quest Helps Spark Collaboration at PZ Cussons

13 Feb 2012

PZ Cussons Saves Weeks of Development Time and Fuels Innovation with Quest Web Parts for SharePoint

Quest Software, Inc.  has announced that it is enhancing global ideas generation and collaborative working at PZ Cussons, a leading FTSE 250-listed products group in Europe, Asia and Africa.

News iomart Hosting carries out group wide virtualisation for office2office

10 Feb 2012

UK Government supplier migrates to iomart Hosting’s London data centre

Cloud computing and managed hosting services provider iomart Hosting has announced that it has carried out a group-wide virtualisation for office2office (o2o), the sole provider of offices supplies and Closed Loop document recycling services for the UK government

News Cogenta builds virtual data centre with a couple of clicks

06 Feb 2012

Price intelligence firm is among first customers for Claranet’s Virtual Data Centre service

Market intelligence firm Cogenta has migrated key elements of its IT infrastructure into a virtual data centre that it provisioned itself – with only a few clicks of a mouse.

Videos Quest Software - IAM, Security and Compliance Simplified

06 Feb 2012

Quest One Identity Solutions help increase IT efficiency, minimize the pain and cost associated with audits and keep your network secure, all while letting you be more responsive to the needs of the business.

News Record Number of Exhibitors and Visitors for Data Centre World 2012

31 Jan 2012

Over 140 data centre vendors, resellers and equipment suppliers to showcase solutions between 29th February and 1st March 2012

A record number of exhibitors will attend the fifth annual Data Centre World exhibition and conference, taking place at London Olympia between 29th February and 1st March 2012. 

Videos Wyse Technology's President and CEO Tarkan Maner speaks with Edie Lush

27 Jan 2012

Wyse Technology's device dramatically lowers the cost of computing by connecting users directly to the internet. There is no Software or Operating Systems on the device - everything comes from the cloud. The technology is much cheaper and much greener - they have no fans, create no heat and use much less power.

News Magirus Clinches First Pan-EMEA Distribution Deal with Embotics

24 Jan 2012

Cost effective virtualisation and cloud management solution set to open up SME market for cloud consultancy services

Magirus, a leading European IT solutions provider has signed a pan-European distribution agreement with Embotics, a Canadian company which is a leader in virtualisation and private cloud management software. The partnership represents Embotics’ first pan-EMEA distribution agreement.

Videos Value through performance, scalability, openness

19 Jan 2012

Customers are asking for open source technology that provides performance, scalability, choice, and low cost in a well-managed environment. Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization 3 is the answer

Videos Golder Associates - Case Study

13 Jan 2012

Learn how Quest Web Parts for SharePoint helps Golder Associates create and manage custom SharePoint sites in-house - without the need for expensive .NET developers.

News More Than Half of Small Organisations Across Europe Lack formal Disaster Recovery Plans

11 Jan 2012

Over half of small organisations across the UK, France and Germany are operating without a formal disaster recovery plan in place, according to research from analyst firm Freeform Dynamics, sponsored by Quest Software.

News Netop Introduces Next Generation of Classroom Management Solutions With Launch of Netop Vision Pro

11 Jan 2012

World Leader in Classroom Management Software's Premium Solution Features High-Speed Screen Sharing, Other Capabilities to Accelerate Learning

Today at the BETT show, the world's leading event for education technology,  Netop introduced the next generation of classroom management software with the launch of Netop Vision™ Pro. A new powerful classroom management solution that combines ease of use with enhanced features for best- in-class performance, Vision Pro gives educators unsurpassed flexibility and control over student computer use, which ultimately results in improved student achievement. 

News Novell ZENworks Application Virtualisation 9 delivers reliable virtual applications faster

11 Jan 2012

New update includes industry’s first proven harvesting tool designed to save time while ensuring quality

Novell today announced the availability of Novell ZENworks Application Virtualisation 9. This latest release leverages a unique approach to application harvesting that enables enterprise IT staff to tap into a library of trusted resources and find the best stored version to build the necessary virtual application dynamically. By harvesting work that has already been done, IT users can scan a target endpoint and quickly build a set of needed virtual applications, saving time and ensuring quality.

News SUSE Linux Enterprise Server now available on Dell Cloud with VMware vCloud Datacentre Service

11 Jan 2012

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is the first Linux operating system available to customers through Dell's new public cloud offering; Dell joins leading cloud providers including Intel, 1&1, SGI and Verizon

SUSE today announced that SUSE Linux Enterprise Server is the first Linux distribution for Dell’s new VMware software-based cloud offering, Dell Cloud with VMware vCloud Datacentre Service. SUSE Linux Enterprise offers the broadest application portfolio, as well as optimisation with the VMware cloud infrastructure suite. Now, Dell customers can efficiently run a wide range of ISV applications, on demand with maximum performance, while receiving streamlined support from Dell and SUSE across the Dell public and private cloud offerings.

Videos Scale-Out Data Storage Solutions and Virtualization with Scale-Out Steve

11 Jan 2012

Whether it's a small business or not, every company faces change. But how easily those changes are conquered can depend on several things. Follow Scale-Out Steve's company's storage timeline to see how Scale Computing's scale-out storage solution helped them overcome the extensive storage demands they've faced over time. 

News Adapt's eVDC achieves VMware vCloud Powered status

10 Jan 2012

Adapt, the independent IT managed services provider, today announced that its Enterprise Virtual Data Centre (eVDC) service has achieved VMware vCloud Powered status, illustrating to customers that the company’s cloud services are under-pinned by VMware’s leading virtualisation and cloud computing technology, namely VMware vSphere® and VMware vCloud Director™. A member of the VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP), Adapt provides its eVDC VMware vCloud Powered service as a set of cloud computing services across a common platform, supporting the largest set of existing applications and offering distinctive application mobility uniquely available from VMware.

News Quest Optimizes Continuous Data Protection with NetVault FastRecover

10 Jan 2012

Quest Software, Inc., today announced the availability of NetVault® FastRecover 4.5, which enhances the company’s continuous data protection (CDP) capabilities by enabling instant recovery of critical Oracle data through patented Virtual On-Demand Recovery™ technology.

News RapidSwitch goes ‘Extreme’ for cloud hosting

10 Jan 2012

Dedicated host offers HP-branded processing boost for virtualization hypervisors

RapidSwitch, a leading European supplier of self-managed dedicated server solutions, has announced an HP-branded ‘Extreme’ package for customers who want more processing power from their self-managed servers.

Videos Cloud Architectures with HDS and Brocade

06 Jan 2012

Brocade and Hitachi Data Systems Join Forces to Automate and Accelerate Cloud Adoption

This ESG video highlights the need for organizations to create and deploy more open and agile IT architectures in order to better respond to the business. It further describes how Brocade and HDS are working together to enable highly flexible, converged solutions by leveraging their open cloud architectures, Virtual Compute Blocks and Converged Data Center Solutions respectively, and avoid vendor lock in.

Videos Virtual Machine (VM) Growth and Your Business: Scale-out Steve - Scale Computin

04 Jan 2012

Scale-out Steve's business is experiencing rapid virtual machine growth. Their virtualization platform is designed to handle it, but the storage system isn't. Discover why it's so important to increase performance as your virtualization demands increase. 

News Novell Open Enterprise Server 11 reduces costs while enhancing user productivity

14 Dec 2011

Latest version of enterprise-class solution delivers trusted networking, file and print services on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1

Novell has announced the availability of Novell Open Enterprise Server 11. The latest release is built on SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1, providing customers with more flexibility and choice.

Videos Solving Your Biggest Backup and Recovery Headaches - Episode Four

13 Dec 2011

In episode four of this series, Forrester Research analyst Rachel Dines answers questions about enterprise data protection strategies.

News Comet Selects Quest to Deliver Unrivalled Online Shopping Experience

13 Dec 2011

 Quest Software, Inc. today announced that it is helping leading home electrical retailer, Comet, improve its online customer shopping experience by providing application performance monitoring and management tools.

News Radware to Deliver Attack Mitigation System Solution to Tier 1 Wireless Carrier in North America

12 Dec 2011

Solution based at the network perimeter will help protect against the new wave of multi-level attacks

Radware, a leading provider of application delivery and application security solutions for virtual and cloud data centers, today announced a $2 million sale of its Attack Mitigation System (AMS) security solution to a leading Tier 1 wireless carrier in North America.

News Adapt scores double victory at the SVC Awards 2011

09 Dec 2011

Wins Enterprise Virtualisation Project of the Year with Wildnet and named Managed Service Provider of the Year

Adapt, the independent IT managed services provider, has announced that it was has won the Managed Service Provider of the Year category at the 2011 SVC Awards.  Adapt was also the joint winner of an award for Enterprise Virtualisation Project of the Year as a result of its ongoing work with Wildnet, a leading supplier of solutions to the global insurance marketplace. The SVC Awards, hosted by Angel Business Communications Ltd., is open to innovative products, projects and companies that operate in the cloud, virtualisation and storage fields.  It also recognises the achievement of end-users, channel partners and vendors in the space.

News Red Hat Releases First Integrated Scale-Out Storage Product for Unstructured Data

08 Dec 2011

Red Hat Storage Software Appliance delivers flexibility, performance and quality for enterprise environments

Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the availability of Red Hat Storage Software Appliance, which is its first integrated product that provides scale-out storage for unstructured data. 

News Quest Software Survey Reveals Improving Business Agility and Managing the Mobile Workforce Among Top Drivers of Virtualisation Initiatives in 2012

08 Dec 2011

Survey Indicates More Than Half of Organisations Will Allocate at Least 25 Percent of 2012 IT Spend to Managing Virtual Environments  

Improving business agility, delivering cost savings, meeting increasingly demanding user expectations, and managing the growing mobile workforce will be the top drivers of IT spending on virtualisation initiatives in 2012, according to a Quest Software survey of more than 200 organisations. In addition, more than half of the respondents surveyed indicated that at least 25 percent of their 2012 IT budgets will be allocated to virtualisation projects across a broad range of critical initiatives, including backup and recovery, virtual desktops, network management, and performance and capacity management, thus highlighting the clear need among the end-user community for comprehensive virtualisation management solutions.

Videos Building Identity Intelligence into Your IAM Framework

29 Nov 2011

Learn what Identity Intelligence means, how it helps by providing you with extensive control and a clear view of all IAM components, so that you can make sound decisions based on data, reducing risk.

News UniCredit Global Information Systems S.p.A. Global Markets & Treasury selects Platform Computing to deliver a private cloud environment

29 Nov 2011

Major financial institution leverages virtualisation to create shared computing platform for cost savings

Platform Computing, the leader in cluster, grid and cloud management software, announces that UniCredit Global Information Systems S.p.A. (UGIS), the global information and communication technology (ICT) company of the UniCredit Group, a major European financial institution, selected Platform Computing to create a global, virtualised high-performance shared computing infrastructure for its global markets & investment banking and risk management applications to lower their costs and increase server utilisation.

Articles Modern IT Infrastructures Demand New Approach to Monitoring and Management

21 Nov 2011

In an era of tight spending, reduced profit expectations, rising utility costs and environmental concerns, enterprise computing infrastructures are now increasingly reliant upon outsourced managed service and hosting providers thanks to the growing sophistication of virtualisation, SaaS, and cloud computing. Together, these trends are marking the beginning of what some believe will be a move to the “all cloud enterprise”, an organisation that relies solely on externally hosted services for its computing infrastructure. Whether or not this vision turns out to hold true for most enterprises, there is no doubt that external SaaS and cloud offerings are here to stay, and will play increasingly important roles in how enterprises deliver and consume business applications in the years ahead. 

Videos Quest on the Board - Simplified Provisioning

31 Oct 2011

Learn how Quest One Identity Solution automate and extend Active Directory-based provisioning to non-windows systems, while helping you become more responsive to business needs

News Red Hat Joins Facebook’s Open Compute Project to Drive Data Centre Efficiency

28 Oct 2011

Open Compute Project to use the open source development model to transform the energy efficiency of global data centres; Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens keynotes at the Open Compute Summit

Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that it has joined the Open Compute Project, a project established by Facebook with the goal of building one of the most efficient computing infrastructures at the lowest possible cost.  With this, Red Hat will collaborate with the Open Compute Project and its members on technologies, design and development to redefine the next-generation data centre.

News Red Hat Achieves New Top Virtualization Performance Benchmark with HP

26 Oct 2011

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 with Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor on HP ProLiant DL980 G7 establishes new SPECvirt_sc2010 benchmark with highest overall performance

Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that it has achieved a new record-setting SPECvirt_sc2010 virtualization performance benchmark in collaboration with long-time partner HP based on the powerful Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisor and HP ProLiant systems.

News Citrix accelerates anytime, anywhere access with acquisition of App-DNA

26 Oct 2011

Leader in application migration and management key addition to Citrix desktop transformation model

Today, at Citrix Synergy, the conference where cloud computing, networking and virtualisation meet, Citrix announced it has agreed to acquire App-DNA, a leader in application migration and management, and long-time Citrix partner. The acquisition is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to close in the fourth quarter. App-DNA technology adds a significant component to the Citrix desktop transformation strategy aimed at helping customers speed deployments of desktop virtualisation enterprise-wide. The App-DNA AppTitude product enables organisations to quickly and intelligently assess their application portfolio and migration plans. As part of the Citrix desktop transformation model, this will give customers important information that will help them plan and more rapidly implement a strategy to deliver desktops and applications as a service to all users in the enterprise.

News SoftLayer® Investing €55 million in New European Operation to Meet Growth Demands

26 Oct 2011

Company Extends Global Footprint with New European Headquarters and Data Centre in Amsterdam and Points of Presence (PoPs) in Amsterdam, London and Frankfurt

Expanding its global reach and IT hosting capabilities, SoftLayer^® Technologies today announced the opening of its new European headquarters and data centre in Amsterdam. Over the next two years the company will invest approximately €55 million in its European operations, which also includes new network PoPs in Amsterdam, London, and Frankfurt.

News Atlantis Computing broadens storage optimisation offering with Atlantis ILIO for Citrix XenServer

26 Oct 2011

Citrix, Atlantis and GlassHouse to Publish Desktop Virtualisation Architecture for XenServer and Atlantis ILIO

Atlantis Computing™, the leader in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) storage and performance optimization solutions, today announced the expanded support for Citrix technologies including the ability for Atlantis ILIO to run as a virtual appliance natively on the Citrix XenServer hypervisor. Atlantis ILIO is the first storage optimisation solution to deliver up to 90 per cent storage reduction and better than PC performance for Citrix XenDesktop on XenServer.

News Citrix unveils “follow-me-data” fabric to enable the personal cloud

26 Oct 2011

New ShareFile cloud to become open platform for integrating data into other apps and services; first new Citrix products built on this platform announced

Today, at Citrix Synergy, the conference where cloud computing, networking and virtualisation meet, Citrix announced it is opening up its recently acquired ShareFile data cloud to create an extensible platform for sharing business data across a wide range of apps, devices and services. The company’s new “follow-me-data fabric” will make it easy for third-party developers and vendors to incorporate common data services like search, share, sync, secure and remote wipe into their solutions through a set of open APIs. Taking a platform approach will also make it easier to create dynamic mesh-ups that extend secure data sharing services to both new and existing apps, and ensure that user data can be accessed easily and securely from millions of business and consumer devices. Citrix also announced the first two products in its own portfolio that will be integrated into this open data fabric, Citrix Receiver, the company’s universal software client, and Citrix GoToMeeting, the award-winning collaboration solution.

News SUSE debuts OpenStack-powered cloud infrastructure solution

26 Oct 2011

Alpha version now available on SUSE gallery for customers and community to test

SUSE announced today it has released an early development snapshot of its OpenStack*-powered cloud infrastructure solution.

Videos Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust

24 Oct 2011

Oxleas NHS Foundation Trust was struggling with an overly complex helpdesk management solution, and wanted an easy-to-use solution that could integrate seamlessly with its existing infrastructure. Novell Service Desk allowed the Trust to rationalise and automate its technical support, improving efficiency and reducing expenses.

News Quest Acquires ChangeBASE to Speed Adoption of Latest Windows Platforms, Browser Versions and Virtualization Technology

24 Oct 2011

Reflects Next Step in Quest’s Evolving Strategy to Empower IT to Deliver a Productive, Protected, Dynamic User Workspace on Every Device

Quest Software, Inc.  announced today it has acquired ChangeBASE, a privately held software provider based in the UK, which specializes in automated application analysis, remediation and conversion for target platforms including Windows 7 and 8, Internet Explorer 8 and 9, Terminal Server/Remote Desktop Session Host, VDI, and Application Virtualization. The acquisition represents an expansion of Quest’s product portfolio that allows companies to develop a user-centric management focus for their Windows application, desktop, mobile, and cloud environments. With this assembled portfolio of capabilities, Quest becomes a single source for helping organizations take advantage of technology changes to benefit both IT and users alike.

News Silver Peak teams up with Commtech for WANop distribution

20 Oct 2011

Commtech Distribution, one of Ireland's leading trade only ICT distributors, today announced that it will distribute the entire portfolio of Silver Peak Systems data centre class wide area network (WAN) optimisation appliances to resellers across the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.

News Exinda Accelerates UK Market Traction at IP Expo 2011 with Virtual WAN Optimisation Appliance

20 Oct 2011

New Product Enhances Cloud, Enterprise WAN Optimisation, Supports Mobile Road Warriors

Exinda, a global provider of WAN optimisation solutions incorporating Unified Performance Management, today announced a fully featured new virtual appliance, which delivers each of the key benefits delivered by Unified Performance Management with its hardware-based WAN optimisation solutions in a virtualised software load. Enterprises and service providers can use the Exinda virtual appliance to deliver WAN optimisation services to users and customers without having to use a dedicated hardware appliance.

News NextIO Announces the Availability of vNET™ I/O Maestro

20 Oct 2011

vNET I/O Maestro simplifies server management, lowers CAPEX by up to 40 percent, and reduces OPEX costs up to 60 percent

NextIO, the pioneer in I/O consolidation and virtualization solutions, today announced the general availability of vNET I/O Maestro, a rack-level appliance that simplifies the deployment and management of complex server I/O by consolidating and virtualizing I/O resources. Based on industry standard PCI-Express (PCIe) switching technology, vNET I/O Maestro’s innovative IOV architecture enables a single I/O device to appear as multiple virtual adapters so that servers in the rack can share a single PCIe device.

News Red Hat Expands Cloud Ecosystem through Partnership with Virtustream

20 Oct 2011

Virtustream Named Red Hat Premier Certified Cloud Provider and Announces Multi-Hypervisor Support for its Enterprise Cloud Platform, xStream

Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, and Virtustream Inc., a leading provider of cloud software solutions and services, has announced that Virtustream has joined Red Hat's cloud ecosystem as a Premier Certified Cloud Provider.  With this, Virtustream has added support for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to its xStream cloud platform and now offers Red Hat Enterprise Linux on-demand to customers.  Virtustream can now offer its customers a more scalable and flexible cloud infrastructure through enhanced support within a unified private and multi-tenanted enterprise cloud, and Red Hat customers can also now easily deploy on xStream.

Videos 2011 IT Capabilities & Needs Survey Results

20 Oct 2011

Protiviti's 2011 IT Capabilities and Needs Survey identifies top areas of concern for CIOs and their teams. This video offers a snippet of some of the notable findings of this survey which include virtualization and cloud computing, social media, security and privacy, regulatory change, and data classification and management are among their highest priorities.

Articles 2011 Information Technology Capabilities and Needs Survey

20 Oct 2011

More than 200 respondents, including CIOs, chief technology officers, chief security officers, and IT vice presidents and directors, participated in the study. Respondents answered more than 100 questions in three general categories: Technical Knowledge, Process Capabilities and Organizational Capabilities.

News iomart Hosting unveils vCloud

20 Oct 2011

iomart Hosting’s Public Cloud Service Attains VMware vCloud® Powered Validation

iomart Hosting one of the UK’s leading providers of cloud computing and managed hosting, today announced that its iomart public cloud service has achieved VMware vCloud Powered status, illustrating to customers that the company’s cloud services are underpinned by VMware’s leading virtualization and cloud computing technology, namely VMware vSphere® and VMware vCloud® Director™.  A member of the VMware Service Provider Program (VSPP), iomart Hosting provides its VMware vCloud Powered service as a set of cloud computing services across a common platform, supporting the largest set of existing applications and offering distinctive application mobility uniquely available from VMware.

News Real-Status announces partnership with Attova

20 Oct 2011

Real-Status a company focused on IT infrastructure modeling and data visualization, has announced a partnership with Attova, a high performance business technology consultancy.

News Cisco Network Innovation Enables the Most Scalable Data Center Fabric on the Planet

20 Oct 2011

Cisco scales data center fabrics to more than 12,000 10GbE server ports – double the market’s next-best and at half the cost; Cisco firewall to raise the bar for virtualized security  

As Internet traffic volumes increase at exponential rates (by 2013 it’s predicted that there will be 56 exabytes (about 12.8 billion online movies) crossing the internet per month) the data centers that house and secure applications and data need to scale while remaining highly secure. Today, Cisco® introduced ground-breaking additions to its data center networking portfolio that address these needs and deliver unmatched architectural flexibility and scale for physical, virtual or cloud computing environments.

Articles The Pensions Trust - Case Study

18 Oct 2011

The Pensions trust is one of the leading multi-employer occupational pension funds in the UK for the Third Sector. Established for over 60 years, The Pensions Trust has assets of more than £4.4 billion and serves over 150,000 employers and members.

News Citrix accelerates cloud data strategy with acquisition of ShareFile

17 Oct 2011

Market leading provider of secure, cloud-based document sharing to form foundation of Citrix “follow-me-data” platform

Citrix Systems has announced it has completed the acquisition of ShareFile¹, a market leading provider of secure, cloud-based data storage, sharing and collaboration. The ShareFile product line makes it easy for businesses of all sizes to securely store, sync and share business documents and files, both inside and outside the company. ShareFile’s centralised cloud storage capability also allows users to share files across multiple devices and access them fromany location. The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

News Citrix adds WAN optimisation to NetScaler SDX platform

17 Oct 2011

Open NetScaler platform adds virtualised Branch Repeater service to help customers build scalable service delivery networks

Citrix Systems today announced a new virtualised service for its NetScaler SDX service delivery networking platform that accelerates applications and desktop traffic delivered from cloud or enterprise data centres to branch office employees. The addition of Citrix Branch Repeater services to the NetScaler SDX platform complements the company’s recent announcement of consolidated core networking services that were once traditionally delivered via separate appliances. This customer-driven innovation helps Citrix customers leverage an open, virtualised platform to build a comprehensive service delivery fabric and enable cloud-ready networks.

News Atlantis Computing expands VDI partner programme in Europe

17 Oct 2011

New Partners In UK, Ireland, Italy, Switzerland, France And Norway Work With Atlantis ILIO To Accelerate Desktop Virtualisation Opportunities

Atlantis Computing™, the leader in Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) storage and performance optimisation solutions, today announced it has appointed a range of new partners to its VDI Solution Partner Programme in Europe. New partners include Kelway, Intercept IT, Centralis and Foundation IT in the UK, along with DataSolutions in Ireland, ActivLan in France and Commaxx in Norway. By joining the Atlantis Computing VDI Solution Partner Programme, resellers and distributors will benefit from a unique opportunity to complement their existing VDI offerings with a solution architected to help them grow their business around desktop virtualisation.  

Articles WhipTail Tech - XLR8r

17 Oct 2011

Solid State Optimization for Virtual Desktops

The WhipTail XLR8r is an SSD appliance designed to cost effectively meet the demanding performance needs of virtual desktop infrastructure deployments. An XLR8r uses flash drives instead of hard drives to narrow the gap between processor and IO access performance. MLC flash drives are used to deliver cost effective price/performance that’s ideally suited for virtual desktop workloads.

News New Red Hat Solutions Enable Customers to become Intelligent, Integrated Enterprises

13 Oct 2011

Updates to JBoss Enterprise Service Bus, data services and business rules platforms drive complex event processing and active decision-making

Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced the availability of significant enhancements to its JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform, JBoss Enterprise Data Services Platform and JBoss Enterprise Business Rules Management System (BRMS) product lines. Together, updates to the Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), data and business rules platforms enable a more intelligent, integrated enterprise by connecting applications and complex event processing (CEP) services across the enterprise.

News Cisco and Citrix form strategic alliance to deliver rich-media-enabled virtual desktops

13 Oct 2011

Companies collaborate to deliver solutions that help enterprises accelerate mainstream adoption of desktop virtualisation

Cisco and Citrix Systems today announced that they have entered into a strategic alliance to develop and deliver solutions that help customers simplify and accelerate large-scale desktop virtualisation deployments. Through this alliance, Cisco and Citrix will drive innovations that simplify the deployment of high-definition virtual desktops and applications and improve end-user experiences over a highly secure Citrix HDX-enabled Cisco network. The companies will also continue to enhance and build upon their data centre solutions and cloud technologies to help accelerate deployment of cloud services.  

News Quest Software Meets the Need for Serious Virtual Data Protection

12 Oct 2011

New Product Integrations Extend Enterprise-class Deduplication and Enhanced Application-level Recovery Capabilities into the Virtual Environment

The virtual world is the norm for most IT departments today, but their data protection strategies often remain stuck in the physical realm. Backup and recovery solutions that excel in physical environments don’t fare as well in their virtual counterparts, however, often resulting in excessive resource usage that starves virtual machines and slows business operations to a crawl. It’s time for organisations to get serious about fully maximising the cost-savings and efficiency that virtualisation delivers, with a data protection plan specifically built for the virtual environment. Quest Software enables customers to meet this need and optimise their virtual data protection strategies by combining market-leading VMware backup, replication and recovery with critical data reduction and granular application recovery capabilities.

Videos Desktop Virtualization from a Data Center Perspective

10 Oct 2011

Learn more about customer feedback for Cisco's VXI solution with Cisco product manager Ashok Rajagopalan.

News Citrix NetScaler delivers massive network consolidation for private and public clouds

06 Oct 2011

New NetScaler solution uses integrated virtualisation to consolidate up to 40 appliances into a single platform

Citrix Systems has unveiled four new additions to its leading Citrix NetScaler MPX and SDX product lines, delivering the unprecedented performance and virtualisation that businesses require in the cloud era.  

Articles Service Provider VESK selects Nexenta for rapidly growing virtual desktop business

05 Oct 2011

In 2009, after nine months of development, the founders of IT support specialist Appiam set up VESK, one of the first companies to implement virtual desktops in the UK. Today VESK is fully owned by Appiam Limited, a London based IT Support provider specialist renowned in the industry for excellent levels of IT and customer support.

News SharePoint Migration is Simple and Fast with New Quest Software Solutions

05 Oct 2011

New Quest Migration Products Mitigate Risk and Show Value in Less Than Five Minutes

As organizations continue to depend on Microsoft® SharePoint® as a business-critical application, migrating to SharePoint, either on-premises or in the cloud, needs to happen quickly and with certainty. Today, Quest Software introduces new, agentless solutions that provide SharePoint administrators with the ability to complete installation and begin migrating in less than five minutes without changing existing infrastructure or server configuration. These products are the latest additions to the company’s award-winning SharePoint product portfolio, which provides simple, focused and fast solutions for SharePoint administrators.

News Citrix optimises XenServer for the cloud era

03 Oct 2011

XenServer 6 delivers innovations for cloud computing, desktop virtualisation and networking

Citrix Systems today announced the availability of XenServer 6, the most recent edition of its server virtualisation product line.  As a key component of the Citrix cloud computing and virtualisation strategy, XenServer 6 brings new optimisations and improved scalability and performance for cloud infrastructure, desktop virtualisation and networking.  XenServer continues to grow market presence and adoption, fueled by the strong leadership of the underlying open sourceXen technology, the virtualisation platform of choice in a majority of the public cloud today.  XenServer was recently positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the leaders quadrant of the “2011 Magic Quadrant for x86 Server Virtualisation Infrastructure, and was listed as a “Champion” in Info-Tech Research Group’s Vendor Landscape report on server virtualisation.

Videos Quest on the Board - IAM Framework Optimization

03 Oct 2011

Learn how to build identity intelligence into your IAM framework with Quest One Identity Solutions -reducing complexity, increasing security and compliance and empowering business control and visibility.

News Interoute announces three year ICT infrastructure and hosting partnership with UEFA

27 Sep 2011

Europe’s largest private cloud services platform to support UEFA’s entire business operations and online presence for next three seasons

The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), the governing body of football in Europe, has selected Interoute’s pan-European cloud services to support all its business, football competitions and events over the next three seasons. Interoute will host all applications and systems used directly by UEFA including its Football Administration and Management Environment (FAME) and the UEFA.com website.

Videos Virtualization Drives Business Expansion and a New Service Delivery Model

23 Sep 2011

ND SatCom, Europe's largest satellite company, enables their 300 employees and 900 clients to work in any location using any device through its use of Citrix virtual computing solutions. Citrix made it possible for ND SatCom to greatly simplify their IT infrastructure by centralizing applications and data - allowing for faster rollouts, reduced cost and improved user experience.

News Vision Solutions Partner Network Supporting Customers With Cloud Recovery

22 Sep 2011

More than 70 organisations across the UK rely on hosted business continuity and cloud –based disaster recovery solutions powered by Double-Take range of products

Vision Solutions, Inc., the world’s leading provider of information availability software and services for Windows, Linux, IBM Power Systems and Cloud Computing markets today announced that more than 70 organisations in the UK are now relying on its real-time data replication products in order to protect their critical business data in the cloud. Through its Cloud Protection and Recovery Programme, Vision Solutions is working with 24 service providers in the UK to provide customers with simple effective business continuity and cloud recovery services that protect their critical IT systems and applications.

News Quest Introduces New Edition of Toad for Data Analysts that Brings Powerful Data Analytics to the Desktop

22 Sep 2011

Quest Teams with Fuzzy Logix to Deliver a Cost-effective Solution for Predictive Modelling and Data Mining

The ability to simulate trends and identify probable business forecasts based on corporate data, using data analytics, is extremely valuable. However, the technology behind this capability is often far too expensive for most organisations and, what’s more, can be very time-consuming for the data analyst tasked with reporting. Today’s analysts need a simplified and cost-effective way to perform fast advanced analytics right on the desktop. Quest Software, the leading provider of database tools that simplify and improve the productivity, efficiency, and accuracy of production for database professionals of all skill and experience levels, has partnered with in-database analytics software vendor Fuzzy Logix to incorporate a rich, analytics library into a new Professional with Analytics Edition of Quest® Toad® for Data Analysts. The new edition delivers a powerful desktop analytics solution for predictive modelling and data mining, and also adds advanced heterogeneous queries, data cleansing, local storage, and visualization enhancements.

Videos Bill Swanton Previews the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo Applications Track

14 Sep 2011

Cloud, software as a service, social, collaboration, mobile, integration and intelligence technologies will have a significant impact on how applications are sourced and managed. The applications track focuses on how these forces will dramatically overhaul the application portfolio and require new skills for application leaders to balance new and legacy investments.

News Dimension Data Launches Data Cetnre Networking Assessment Service

06 Sep 2011

Data centres are at the beginning of the most important transition since the move away from mainframes

Traditional network architectures and network technology will not deliver the performance and functionality needed to support the fully evolved and virtualised data centre.  That’s according to specialist IT services and solutions provider, Dimension Data which announced today the availability of its Data Centre Networking (DCN) Assessment service that helps organisations implement a future-state data centre architected to support their future IT strategy and business objectives.

News Quest Software, Quantum Team to Offer More Intelligent Data Protection for VMware Environments

02 Sep 2011

Quest Software, Inc. has certified vRanger^®, its market-leading VMware backup software, on  Quantum DXi systems. The use of vRanger with Quantum DXi-Series deduplication appliances significantly enhances backup and recovery performance, while dramatically reducing storage requirements.

Videos VMworld 2011: Interview with VMware's Sanjay Aiyagari

01 Sep 2011

Peter Silva interviews Sanjay Aiyagari, Senior Partner Architect with VMware. We discuss the growth of VMworld, cloud computing, scalability, and Metro vMotion.

News Brocade Advances Ethernet Fabric Innovation to Unleash the Power of Virtualisation

31 Aug 2011

New Brocade VDX Switch Models and Zero-Touch Virtual Machine Discovery, Configuration and Mobility Enhance the Industry’s Only Shipping Ethernet Fabric Portfolio to Increase Business Agility and Simplify Operations

Today at VMworld, Brocade today announced it is delivering more choice, flexibility and automation to customers deploying virtualisation and cloud IT infrastructures. Specifically, the company announced enhancements to the Brocade^® Ethernet fabric portfolio that utilises Brocade VCS™ technology. These enhancements are designed to increase scalability, improve virtual machine (VM) awareness, further simplify management and significantly reduce operational overhead.

News KONAMI Selects Radware’s ADC-VX Virtualisation Solution For its Online Entertainment Site

31 Aug 2011

Advanced ADC virtualisation solution enables global developer of electronic entertainment to improve quality of experience for customers

Radware, a leading provider of application delivery and application security solutions for virtual and cloud data centres, today announced that Konami Digital Entertainment Co., Ltd. (KONAMI) has purchased Radware’s ADC-VX, the industry's first Application Delivery Controller (ADC) hypervisor that runs multiple virtual ADC instances on Radware’s dedicated OnDemand Switch platform. KONAMI will use the solution to consolidate its system infrastructure, improve the quality of experience for customers, and provide them with new ways of having fun.

News Fusion-io unveils ioCache virtualisation solution

30 Aug 2011

Fusion’s ioTurbine software and customised ioMemory accelerator virtualises flash to deliver affordable performance for virtualising data-intensive enterprise applications

Fusion-io, Inc., a provider of a shared data decentralisation platform, today announced its ioCachesolution customised to deliver Fusion Powered performance for the virtualisation of even data-intensive enterprise applications in VMware environments, including environments that use vMotion. The ioCache bundle features a new purpose-built ioMemory product dedicated to accelerating Fusion’s ioTurbine virtualisation caching software.

Videos Jewelry Television Chooses Wyse Cloud Client Computing

26 Aug 2011

Return on investment is one of the hallmarks of information technology. It's typically measured in dollars saved or dollars earned; sometimes in time savings, other times in uptime.

News UK hosting leader iomart Hosting helps internet consultancy reduce servers

25 Aug 2011

HBS internet goes virtual with iomart Hosting

Cloud computing and managed hosting leader iomart Hosting has helped UK consultancy HBS Internet to virtualise.

HBS Internet services 150 clients across the UK and Europe, ranging in size from multi-nationals and large organisations right down to the smallest of businesses, providing them with broadband, hosting, SEO services, web maintenance, web design, backup services as well as mail and file transfer management. It also helps clients with their IT and web infrastructure giving valuable commercial advice and support.

News Mazda Austria Standardises Online Car Exchange on JBoss Enterprise Application Platform

22 Aug 2011

Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Mazda Austria has reduced operating costs, enhanced employee productivity, and increased adaptability and manageability of its online car management systems with JBoss Enterprise Application Platform.

Videos Quest Helps Partners Elevate Their Office 365 Migration Business

22 Aug 2011

Quest Software can elevate your Office 365 migration business with one-stop migration from Lotus Notes, GroupWise, Google Apps, Windows file shares, Exchange public folders and on-premises Exchange and SharePoint. 

Videos Cloud planning and assessment

09 Aug 2011

Brian Che from the cloud business unit at Red Hat talks about some of the reasons why and how enterprises choose to deploy cloud technology for their IT infrastructure. He also highlights some of the flexible cloud offerings from Red Hat that allow companies choice in how, where, and how quickly they bring cloud into their IT.

Videos Scale Computing 2011 VMware vExpert Award Winner, Shane Weinbrecht

08 Aug 2011

Scale Computing is excited to annouce the nomination of Shane Weinbrecht, Systems Engineer as a 2011 VMware vExpert

Videos Quest Software Partner Announcement at Microsoft WPC 2011

08 Aug 2011

Quest Software announces the Quest Partner Circle at Microsoft's 2011 Worldwide Partner Conference in Los Angeles.

News Citrix reports second quarter financial results

28 Jul 2011

Quarterly revenue of $531 million up 16% year-over-year

Second quarter GAAP diluted earnings per share of $0.43 up 70% year-over-year

Second quarter non-GAAP diluted earnings per share of $0.57 up 38% year-over-year

Citrix Systems, Inc. today reported financial results for the second quarter of fiscal 2011 ended 30 June, 2011.

News New Report Ranks Quest as One of Top 3 Vendors for Virtual Server Management Software

26 Jul 2011

Quest Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: QSFT) has announced that a new report by industry analyst firm IDC ranks it as one of the top three vendors by market share for virtual server management software, for the second consecutive year. The report specifically notes that, “Quest Software continues to build on the base established by the Vizioncore acquisition as well as extending the vFoglight business.”

News SUSE launches next generation of award-winning SUSE Studio

22 Jul 2011

SUSE Studio 1.2 accelerates application deployment across physical, virtual and cloud environments

SUSE has announced the availability of SUSE Studio Version 1.2. The latest update to the award-winning development platform helps customers more easily build, update and manage application images across x86, public cloud and IBM System z* deployments, significantly reducing the overhead associated with managing a heterogeneous IT environment.

Videos NetVault Backup - Introduction to Data Protection Webcast

15 Jul 2011

Learn how NetVault Backup lets you perform cross-platform backup and recovery software that safeguards your data and applications in both physical and virtual environments - all from one intuitive console.

News Silver Peak leverages virtualisation to enable ubiquitous WAN optimisation

14 Jul 2011

New Open Architecture revolutionises the delivery, pricing, and packaging of WAN optimisation

Silver Peak Systems, the leader in data centre class wide area network (WAN) optimisation, today unveiled its Virtual Acceleration Open Architecture (VXOA), a combination of software and flexible pricing options that enable customers, partners, and service providers to deploy WAN optimisation more conveniently than ever.

News Factonomy implements secure VDI to manage regulation concerns

13 Jul 2011

£85,698 worth of staff time re-deployed to concentrate on core business activities

Factonomy, a leading provider in Business Continuity Management Software has implemented a Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) from Lumison, the Managed IT Services provider, to host its desktop applications in a controlled environment. The new system will allow Factonomy to meet stringent compliance requirements from customers including heavily regulated global investment banks. The VDI will enable users to run Windows 7 and execute the company’s applications from a range of consumer devices, such as iPads, increasing flexibility, negating the need for hardware standardisation, and reducing associated costs.

News NetIQ enhances PlateSpin virtualisation and workload management solutions

13 Jul 2011

PlateSpin improvements help IT improve performance and simplify management of today’s mixed data centres

NetIQ today announced new enhancements to the PlateSpin virtualisation and workload management products – PlateSpin Forge, PlateSpin Protect and PlateSpin Migrate – that enable IT organisations to better respond to growing business demands and reduce risk across the data centre.

Videos Foglight - Monitoring End User Performance with the FxV Cartridge

11 Jul 2011

Learn how the Foglight Experience Viewer cartridge helps improve the web application experience for end users by identifying performance problems and improving application performance.

News Run Autodesk software in a 'Private Cloud Environment'

11 Jul 2011

London based company IMSCAD have taken on the role of supporting over 1000 Autodesk resellers across EMEA. They will be delivering Citrix based solutions to end users to complement the new 2012 ‘Citrix Ready’ versions of Autodesk’s software. 

News Nouvelles Frontières moves to Interoute's flexible pan European hosting platform to support boom in online bookings

07 Jul 2011

Interoute provides virtualisation to maintain web performance for more than two million unique visitors per month

Interoute, owner operator of Europe’s largest next generation network, has today announced that tour operator Nouvelles Frontières is using its managed hosting to support growth of its web based business. Rather than relying on four hosting providers, Nouvelles Frontières has upgraded to one hosting platform from Interoute, utilising innovative virtualisation technologies to deliver flexibility.

News Quest Software Introduces Capacity-based Licensing Alternative for NetVault Backup Customers

07 Jul 2011

Quest Software, Inc. today introduced an alternative capacity-based licensing program for NetVault^® Backup customers. The perpetual licensing model is offered for the NetVault product line along with the company’s standard licensing model, allowing customers to choose the licensing program that best suits their needs.

Videos Jon Rolls Discusses Desktop Virtualization and Multiple Device Support

27 Jun 2011

Quest Software VP of Product Management Jon Rolls discusses Quest's recent OEM agreement with MokaFive to deliver offline/local VDI, and the wide array of devices Quest supports for delivering virtual desktops

Articles Global produce labelling leader Sinclair International achieves cost-savings, rationalisation and performance improvement via virtualised storage

21 Jun 2011

Having pioneered the development of automatic fruit labelling systems nearly 30 years ago, UK firm Sinclair International now operates in 35 countries worldwide. With a 100% focus on the global fresh produce sector, Sinclair provides customers with an unmatched combination of fruit labelling equipment, labels and service - all from a single, reliable source, with its network of subsidiaries and partners all linking to one global data centre/ERP system in Norwich.

Articles Zeus Traffic Manager

15 Jun 2011

VMware vSphere 4 Performance On Cisco Unified Computing System

This document details the performance figures obtained by Zeus Traffic Manager running on VMware vSphere 4.0 on the Cisco Unified Computing System (UCS) and outlines the methods used to achieve these performance figures.

News Zeus Achieves Highest Performance on Cisco UCS Platform

15 Jun 2011

Tests Reveal Zeus Traffic Manager Delivers exceptional web-application performance speeds with Cisco

 Zeus Technology, the pioneers of Application Delivery Controller software, today announced results of joint testing with Cisco that show Zeus Traffic Manager on Cisco’s Unified Computing System (UCS).

News NextiraOne’s new Unified Building Services Division completes its Comprehensive Data Centre Portfolio

07 Jun 2011

The Communications Experts become The Infrastructure Experts with Turnkey Data Centre Design and Build Solutions

NextiraOne has completed the transformation of its Data Centre business proposition in the UK with the launch of its Unified Building Services division. This brings together all the physical infrastructure aspects needed for the creation of powerful effective Data Centres for NextiraOne’s private and public sector customers in the UK. It represents the final step in NextiraOne’s Data Centre strategy of creating a comprehensive, end-to-end portfolio covering physical infrastructure, network architecture, storage and virtualisation.

News Ixia & the Lippis Report Complete 10GE Open Networking Performance & Power Tests for Data Centre Clouds

27 May 2011

Ixia’s iSimCity Hosts Lippis Report 10GE Tests for Industry’s Only Comparative Report on 10GE Switch Performance and Power Consumption

Ixia and The Lippis Report today announced the completion of the second round of a series of open industry data centre network performance and power consumption tests. The tests will provide the industry with comparative performance and power consumption data across several 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) switch devices. These tests are the first of their kind, and provide network stakeholders with real-world data that compares and contrasts different 10GE equipment manufacturer products for data centre fabrics.

News Citrix Announces GoToManage Monitoring for XenServer

27 May 2011

Cloud-based IT Management Platform Enables SMBs and IT Consultants to Consolidate Monitoring of Physical and Virtual Servers

Today at Citrix Synergy™, the event where virtual computing takes centre stage, Citrix Systemsannounced Citrix® GoToManage® Monitoring for XenServer®. The latest capability of GoToManage solves a key challenge for SMBs and IT consultants in monitoring both physical and virtual servers distributed among dispersed offices and data centres.

News Scale Computing Launches New Partner Program to Leverage Growth and Benefits of Scale-out Storage for Virtualisation

25 May 2011

Scale’s partner program has grown 95% in the last 12 months

Scale Computing, a developer and manufacturer of intelligent, scale-out storage solutions tailored to the virtualisation and archiving needs of the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME), today launched a new partner program. A 100 percent channel organisation, Scale Computing’s Partner Program offers resellers new market opportunities, significant profit margins, strong marketing programs, responsive support and zero conflict with channel partners.

Videos Wyse and Microsoft discuss cloud PCs and OS licensing

20 May 2011

Andre Beuchat, Wyse Technology, and Michael Hoyt, OEM Partner Account Manager, Microsoft Corporation, discuss the benefits of cloud PCs and how Microsoft licenses the OS for them

Videos VMware's Paul Maritz

19 May 2011

EMC TV sits down with VMware CEO Paul Maritz at EMC World.

News NetIQ adds identity, security and select data centre lines from Novell; announces new executive leadership team

19 May 2011

Powerful combination of solutions, deep expertise and global support delivers greater customer value

NetIQ Corporation, a business unit of The Attachmate Group, today announced it will add the complete portfolio of Novell identity and security solutions and selected Novell data centre solutions to the NetIQ business unit solution portfolio. The combination of these technologies into one business unit further deepens the NetIQ focus on identity, security and compliance management, IT operations management, virtualisation and cloud computing. Under the leadership of Jay Gardner, president and general manager of NetIQ, the management team will spearhead the company’s objectives of reducing IT cost, complexity, and risk for its customers.

Videos vWorkspace iPad Connector

18 May 2011

vWorkspace is Quest Software's command and control console for managing your virtualized desktops. The vWorkspace iPad Connector lets you connect to your virtual desktop, right from your iPad

News StorageCraft Releases New Virtual Disaster Recovery Software

18 May 2011

ShadowProtect Virtual delivers affordable, flexible backup solutions for hybrid environments

With so many different combinations of physical systems and virtual environments in today’s storage strategy, it is important for IT professionals to use a disaster recovery solution built to handle systems and data backup in any environment in order to ensure business continuity.

Videos Avaya Virtualization Provisioning Service

13 May 2011

Avaya Virtualization Provisioning Service delivers visibility, validation, automation and reporting across applications, servers and network devices for the next-generation Virtualized Data Center. Camille Campbell from Avaya provides an overview of this offering from the tradeshow floor of the Interop 2011 Expo.

Videos Cloud computing from hype to reality

12 May 2011

Riverbed's Senior Director of Product Marketing for Steelhead shares his thoughts on what he he has learned after a day and a half at Interop.

Videos Quest Software Case Study - DirectPointe

09 May 2011

Quest Software helps DirectPointe offer simple, manageable and affordable, enterprise-class services to the SMB market.

Articles Cost Benefits of Server Virtualization

09 May 2011

Server virtualization and clustered storage have much more in common than what is easily apparent. In fact, it can be argued that the next generation IT data center will leverage the symbiotic relation ship between the two technologies to reduce costs, increase control and eliminate needless com plexities.

Blog Being Open about Virtualization and Cloud Interoperability

04 May 2011

Byline: Dave Stevens, CTO and Ken Cheng, Vice President of Service Provider Products, Brocade

At Brocade Tech Day last year in New York, we described virtual machines, or VMs, as the “new atomic unit of work” in IT for both service provider and enterprise customers. This concept is based on the fact that VMs allow applications to be encapsulated and detached from the underlying infrastructure and are portable, combinable and manageable as separate entities. For this vision to be fulfilled, we believe that the IT industry needs to agree upon standards and interoperability mechanisms that facilitate the fluid movement of VMs between public and private cloud infrastructures, regardless of the technology or the provider.

Videos USANA Health Sciences - Case Study

26 Apr 2011

Quest Software helps USANA Health Sciences monitor their online retail system and ensure the availability of their Oracle databases.

Videos Break out of Cubicle Prison with Cisco's New Borderless Networks Solutions

21 Apr 2011

Today Cisco is introducing new borderless network solutions for customers to help them connect anywhere, with any device, at anytime. Plus, programs for partners help increase revenue.

News Portugal Telecom Expands Use of Red Hat Solutions

20 Apr 2011

Leading Telecom Operator Deploys Red Hat Enterprise Linux to Maximize Technology Flexibility

Red Hat, Inc. today announced that Portugal Telecom, a global telecommunications operator offering multimedia services in Portugal and developing international markets, has expanded its use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux as it moves toward an open source and open standards infrastructure.

News Red Hat Expands Cloud Computing Partnership with NTT Communications

15 Apr 2011

Leading communications provider extends use of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat Enterprise Linux as part of its cloud offering

Red Hat, Inc. has announced that NTT Communications, one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world, has expanded its use of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization and Red Hat Enterprise Linux as the foundation of its cloud computing and hosting service offering, Biz Hosting Basic.  

Videos Greg Knieriemen Talks About Storage Virtualization

12 Apr 2011

At HDS Geek Day 2.0 Greg Knieriemen, blogger with iKnerd, co-host of the Infosmack podcast and VP at Chi Corporation (@Knieriemen) discusses storage virtualization.

Videos HP Software & Solutions Information Management

05 Apr 2011

Erik Moller discusses results of an HP commissioned global information management study, as well as at HP's new information management products and services

Read the related Press Release here.

News Liberte Ousts HP LeftHand, Selects Scale Computing’s Intelligent Storage Solution to Complete Virtualization Project

05 Apr 2011

International dairy manufacturer realizes massive cost savings by deploying Scale’s clustered storage instead of HP LeftHand

Scale Computing, a developer and manufacturer of intelligent, clustered storage solutions tailored to the virtualization and archiving needs of the small and medium-sized enterprise (SME), today announced that Liberte, an international dairy manufacturer, has deployed Scale’s intelligent storage to complete the company’s virtualization project, ultimately saving the company thousands of dollars.

News Green Grid Endorses European Data Centre Sustainability Award

05 Apr 2011

The Green Grid has given its endorsement to the Green Award for Sustainability in Data Centres, to be presented at the annual Data Centres in Europe Awards which takes place on June 2^nd in London

Blog The Forecast is Cloudy with 100% Chance of Exploding Data

30 Mar 2011

Roger Klorese writes: When we look at cloud service providers, we see lots of different uses of the term, from innovators who are defining new paradigms of scalable, elastic, pay-as-you-go Software-, Infrastructure- and Platform-as-a-Service at the one end to legacy hosting and colocation providers who have glued some cotton balls on the outside of their racks and called them "clouds." (I like to think of them as "The Cloud" vs. "the cloud.") Whether fully or partly cloudy, though, one thing is certain: the greatest cost and the biggest obstacle to cost-effective elasticity is the biggest growth factor: the continuous and dramatic expansion of data, both structured and unstructured.

News New Citrix NetScaler DataStream technology addresses explosive growth in cloud, mobile and corporate data

30 Mar 2011

NetScaler is first service delivery networking system to introduce native database protocol and SQL intelligence for cost-effective scalability and security

To address the exponential growth in cloud, mobile and corporate data, Citrix Systems today unveiled a breakthrough new DataStream technology in its popular NetScaler service delivery networking product line. NetScaler is already firmly established as the delivery infrastructure of choice for most of the world’s largest consumer websites and cloud providers, touching an estimated 75 percent of all internet users each day.  Leveraging its expertise in web applications, NetScaler becomes the industry’s first service delivery controller to extend the benefits of scalability, availability and security for the web tier to the data tier for both enterprise IT and cloud and mobile providers.

News Scale Computing Enables Mays Chemical to Successfully Execute Affordable Virtualization Project

29 Mar 2011

Scale’s Intelligent Storage Eliminates SMB’s Virtualization Cost Barrier

Scale Computing, a developer and manufacturer of intelligent, clustered storage solutions that are tailored to the needs of the small and medium-sized businesses (SMB),  today announced that Mays Chemical, a fully integrated chemical distributor, has deployed Scale’s intelligent storage to complete its virtualization project.  Scale’s S-Series, 4TB cluster has delivered a simple, scaleable, VMware Ready™ storage solution.  In addition, Scale’s cost-effective storage, combined with VMware’s vSphere™ Essentials Kit, made Mays Chemical’s virtualization project an economic reality.

Articles Open Network Automation is Critical to the Virtual Data Center

25 Mar 2011

Mr. Kerravala is a distinguished research fellow at The Yankee Group, leads the Research Council and is chartered with the responsibility of providing thought leadership to the research organization. Comprising senior research leaders, the Research Council provides outreach to clients and the broader Yankee Group community, as well as ensures that the company's research agenda addresses the needs of business leaders. Kerravala drives the strategic thinking of the research organization and helps shape the research direction.

Blog Seeing the Forest Through the Trees

23 Mar 2011

John Humphreys writes: Sometimes it really does pay to step back, breath deep and take in the landscape surrounding you. It's during those introspective moments that connections just seem to come a little easier.  My guess is we simply need to have the space to let pieces fall into place. I recently had that experience when I saw this. 

News Citrix XenServer certified on IBM System x and BladeCenter Servers

23 Mar 2011

New pre-qualified configurations enable enterprise customers to more rapidly gain benefit from Citrix virtualisation solutions

Citrix Systems, Inc. today announced that IBM has certified Citrix XenServer® on System x and BladeCenter Servers to make deployment faster and easier for customers. The rigorously pre-tested configurations enable customers to more easily leverage Citrix XenServer and IBM servers to automate datacentre management processes and increase efficiency of datacentre infrastructures.

Videos Online Gaming Leader Nexon Wins with EMC Avamar and VMware

17 Mar 2011

Multi-million Online Role Playing Games (MMORPGs) engage gamers in an immersive, multi-sensory experience. For flawless performance, Nexon, the pioneer of interactive gaming software, partners with EMC. Chris Kang, IT Manager at Nexon, describes how Avamar has helped Nexon meet and manage data growth while providing quick and efficient backup and de-duplication for its growing VMware virtualization environment. 

Videos Riverbed accelerates RDP 7

16 Mar 2011

This is a demonstration of Riverbed's ability to accelerate RDP 7 environments

Videos Microsoft HIMSS 2011 - Interview with Andre Beuchat of Wyse Technology

11 Mar 2011

Microsoft's Cindy Hibble, Industry Partner Account Manager, talks with Andre Beuchat, Alliance Manager, about Wyse's cloud client computing solutions for the healthcare industry.

Videos Hemant Mahawar on PowerShell Remoting, Hosting, Delegation, and Deep Dive 2011

10 Mar 2011

Hemant Mahawar, the Program Manager behind PowerShell remoting, hosting APIs and delegated administration, talks about the components and the upcoming TEC 2011 PowerShell Deep Dive conference - April 17-19, 2011, Las Vegas.

News Virtualisation continues to top IT agenda while concern for sustainability plummets, nlyte DCW survey reveals

09 Mar 2011

nlyte Software research gains insight into 2011 data centre development, revealing a concerning ignorance towards the benefits of sustainability and infrastructure management within the data centre

nlyte Software today released the results of its research that surveyed 100 attendees* at Data Centre World (Olympia, London: 2nd – 3rd March 2011) on rising trends in the data centre,  which new technologies are motivating them and the importance of sustainability to organisations.  Findings indicate that virtualisation is the most popular modification for the coming year with almost two thirds (60 percent) of respondents looking to implement the technology, followed closely by cloud computing (40 percent) and intelligent power strips (41 percent).  Adoption appears to be due to mounting costs, but with minimal consideration for IT sustainability, confirmed by the lack of awareness of the CRC Energy Efficiency scheme and apathy towards carbon footprint measurement tools. 

Videos Email alerts for security events

07 Mar 2011

See how Quest OnDemand Log Management SaaS service can immediately notify you when suspicious activity such as sensitive resource access or administrative group change happens.

Videos Intel Cloud Builders' Day in the Cloud

07 Mar 2011

Intel Day in the Cloud brought together industry analysts, press reviewers and Cloud Builders member companies in a deeper lab-focused engagement. Intel provided insight into progress to-date on its cloud vision and discussed how the company addresses customer concerns with technology innovation. Additionally, attendees got a closer look at the Cloud Builders program to learn more about how ecosystem collaboration helps shape and enhance the portfolio of Reference Architectures.

News Cryptosoft launches first encryption service platform

02 Mar 2011

First scalable solution designed for on-premise, virtualised, hosted and cloud deployment reduces cost and complexity of managing cryptography while retaining the value of existing security management tools and processes

Cryptosoft,  ‘Encrypt anything to anywhere’, has announced the launch of its flagship encryption solution as the first dedicated platform built from the ground up to offer scalable encryption for any data type, from any application delivered to any destination.

Videos Simplifying Virtualization and Managing the Cloud - Part 2

28 Feb 2011

In this six part series, Quest Software Chief Technologist Dmitry Kaganski, Quest Software Solutions Architect Ken Cline and Blue Canopy President and CEO Bradley Schwartz discuss methods for simplifying virtualization and cloud management.

Videos Simplifying Virtualization and Managing the Cloud

25 Feb 2011

In this six part series, Quest Software Chief Technologist Dmitry Kaganski, Quest Software Solutions Architect Ken Cline and Blue Canopy President and CEO Bradley Schwartz discuss methods for simplifying virtualization and cloud management

Blog Citrix Betting Big on Cloud App Delivery

23 Feb 2011

Bill Burley writes: This is an exciting time to be at Citrix, and at the intersection of the two hottest IT trends - desktop virtualization and cloud computing. In fact, we've seen our Citrix Service Provider (CSP) program grow exponentially over the last year, with more than 800 cloud providers certified to use Citrix technology to deliver apps and desktops from the cloud to tens of thousands of subscribers.

Videos Quest Software and e-DMZ Security

22 Feb 2011

Quest Software Senior Director of Product Management Jackson Shaw and e-DMZ Security Chief Technology Officer Kris Zupan discuss Quest Software's acquisition of e-DMZ Security

News avast! 6.0 will let users create their own safe space in a dangerous world

21 Feb 2011

The next-generation avast! 6.0 will include a virtualized desktop for safer banking and shopping, adding a new layer of user security by preventing the theft of sensitive data from infected machines.

Even with an infected computer, users can still keep their online transactions private, thanks to the secure virtualized desktop in the upcoming version of avast! 6.0.

News ISACA’s EuroCACS Examines Data Protection, Cloud Computing and Social Networking 20-23 March 2011

11 Feb 2011

David Smith, the deputy commissioner and director of data protection for the United Kingdom Information Commissioner’s Office will discuss the challenges posted by personal privacy expectations from customers and regulators—and how IT professionals can strengthen public confidence in data protection—in his keynote presentation at ISACA’s European Computer Audit, Control and Security Conference (EuroCACS). This year, the event will be held 20-23 March in Manchester—one of the top 20 places to visit according to the New York Times’ “41 Places to Go in 2011.”

News F5 Accelerates VMware View Deployments with BIG-IP Access Policy Manager on a Virtual Platform

28 Jan 2011

F5’s Access Policy Manager on BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager Virtual Edition offers increased flexibility, improved user experience, and lower deployment costs for VMware View

F5 Networks, Inc. has announced a cost effective, scalable solution that streamlines and accelerates VMware View™ virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) deployments. F5 is delivering enhanced support for VMware View by making the F5^® BIG-IP^® Access Policy Manager™ (APM™) module licensable on the BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager™ (LTM^®) Virtual Edition (VE) product. APM for LTM VE, a high performance access and security solution, offers organizations an authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) module for virtual Application Delivery Controllers. APM for LTM VE can be deployed on existing hardware alongside virtual servers that host VMware View desktops, helping organizations control their infrastructure costs.

Videos Data Centre World 2011

28 Jan 2011

This year Data Centre World, the UK’s largest and fastest growing exhibition and conference for data centre managers, professionals, distributors and channel partners will deliver more than ever before with more sessions, more theatres and more exhibitors.

Over the 2 days of the event you will be able to attend 48 sessions and gain knowledge and insights from some of the industry’s key players.

Register here for FREE!

News Citrix connects Amazon Web Services to enterprise XenServer customers

27 Jan 2011

Citrix to deliver optimised cloud solutions for Windows and XenServer customers worldwide using Amazon Web Services

Citrix Systems, Inc. has announced it is providing engineering support to Amazon for the optimisation of Citrix products and Windows applications that run on Amazon Web Services (AWS).  This effort will further enhance interoperability and performance of Windows workloads on AWS, while ensuring continued innovation for the Xen virtualisation platform. Citrix will also work to extend these optimisations to on-premise deployments of its commercial server virtualisation platform, Citrix XenServer, making it easier for customers to seamlessly migrate workloads between enterprise datacentres and Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2).  As a result, AWS customers will be able to take advantage of the extensive expertise Citrix provides in virtualising and optimising the delivery of Windows workloads.

Videos Execute a Scalable Environment with HP's Converged Infrastructure

27 Jan 2011

Vision Critical, an online market research software company, uses HP technology to create a converged infrastructure with servers, storage, networking and virtualization.

Videos Red Hat - Cloud & Virtualization

26 Jan 2011

Industry leaders give comment on working with RedHat.

Videos BIG-IP APM & Citrix XenApp

25 Jan 2011

Watch how F5 customers can now simply use BIG-IP APM to consolidate access control in a central location, keeping infrastructure administration concerns to a minimum. With BIG-IP solutions, customers enjoy the flexibility and scalability needed to extend Citrix applications to both local and remote users without changing local XenApp deployments or requiring STA to provide secure remote access to applications.

News Quest Software Enhances Coexistence Manager for Notes with Directory Synchronization between Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange Server 2010

25 Jan 2011

Quest Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: QSFT) today announced its newest version of Coexistence Manager for Notes, a solution for ensuring e-mail and calendar coexistence between Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange Server, Exchange Online and hosted Exchange. In this latest release, Coexistence Manager for Notes provides directory synchronization between Lotus Notes and Microsoft Exchange 2007/2010. This enables users on both platforms to seamlessly interact with each other and view a common list of users, groups and resources, no matter where their mailboxes reside. 

Videos Quest OnDemand - Web-based Windows Management services

25 Jan 2011

Quest OnDemand is Quest Software's software-as-a-service offering designed to help organizations efficiently manage their Windows environments remotely.

Videos Foglight for Java - Demo

20 Jan 2011

Watch this 5 minute demo on managing Java Applications from End User to Database.

Videos RedHat / Dell Partnership

19 Jan 2011

Dell's Tui Leauanae talks about the value of Red Hat and Dell's partnership.

Videos Making Your Desktop Environment Future-Ready and Prepared For Change

18 Jan 2011

RES Software explains how to make your desktop environment future-ready and prepared for change.

News New Talari WAN virtualization solution aimed at reducing costs for mid-sized enterprises with up to 24 remote sites

18 Jan 2011

Talari Technology Allows Enterprises to Augment or Replace Private WAN Connections such as MPLS by Enabling 99.99 Percent Reliability using Public Internet Connections

Talari Networks™ today announced the addition of the Mercury T750 appliance to its family of Adaptive Private Networking (APN) products for WAN Virtualization.  Aimed at mid-sized enterprises with up to 24 remote sites, the T750 provides business-class (99.99 percent or greater) reliability & predictable performance by using inexpensive public WAN links.  As a result, enterprise WAN customers gain 30 to 100 times the bandwidth per dollar; can reduce monthly WAN service costs by 40 percent to 90 percent; and have greater reliability and application performance predictability than existing private WANs that use single-provider Frame Relay or MPLS services.

News Silver Peak positioned as visionary in Gartner's 2010 Magic Quadrant for WAN optimisation controllers

06 Jan 2011

Evaluation based on completeness of vision and ability to execute

Silver Peak Systems has announced that it has been positioned in the ‘Visionaries’ quadrant of the Gartner 2010 ‘Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimisation Controllers’ (Gartner, Inc. Magic Quadrant for WAN Optimisation Controllers, Severine Real, Andy Rolfe, Joe Skorupa, December 23, 2010).

News Raritan's New dcTrack Software Greatly Simplifies and Reduces the Cost of Implementing a Data Center Infrastructure Management Solution

06 Jan 2011

dcTrack Virtual Appliance model introduced; Release 2.4 simplifies data center capacity management and lowers operations cost

Raritan today announced that its award-winning dcTrack™ data center infrastructure management (DCIM) software solution is now available as a VMware®-ready virtual appliance, lowering total cost of ownership by dramatically simplifying installation and saving countless hours for deployment and configuration.  In addition, platform operating system and database licensing costs are eliminated, along with their associated integration costs. 

News Wick Hill announces the availability of LogLogic 5, with support for the newly launched VMware vCloud™ Director

04 Jan 2011

More secure, more compliant cloud computing

VAD Wick Hill announces the availability of LogLogic 5, with support for the newly launched VMware vCloud™ Director. LogLogic®, a leader in SIEM (Security Information and Event Management) and log management, will provide full support for VMware vCloud™ Director, as part of its LogLogic 5 product offering.

Videos Virtualization Business Benefits

15 Dec 2010

Ben Matheson of VMware*and Jake Smith discuss the business benefits of Virtualization.

Videos Quest Software - Microsoft SQL Server: PerfMon is Irie, Mon with Kevin Kline

13 Dec 2010

Performance Monitor is an important tool for you to master because it provides valuable performance information across all components of SQL Server. In this session of the Quest Virtual Training for SQL Server - Performance Monitor and Wait Events, Kevin Kline presents a simplified explanation of PerfMon's many counters. He also shows you how to easily store PerfMon data for long-term analysis and correlate PerfMon activity with specific SQL Server session activity. http://www.SQLServerPedia.com 

Articles Virtualization: Benefits and Challenges

07 Dec 2010

Virtualization is a high-tech buzz word in broad use today, but its increasing importance is based on more than just the passing fancy of the crowd. With its potential to reduce capital expenses and energy costs, virtualization presents an attractive solution for enterprises looking to save money and generate value from their IT investments. Virtualization can indeed offer many benefits to enterprises, but the benefits must be weighed against the potential threats to information assets and the business itself.

Videos EMC Introduces New Virtualization & Cloud Computing Training and Certification Programs

07 Dec 2010

EMC's Howard Elias and Sanjay Mirchandani discuss the industry's most comprehensive cloud architecture training and certifications, which enable IT professionals to maximize benefits of virtual data centers and cloud computing.

News EMC and VMware put Northern Hospital on course to Private Cloud

03 Dec 2010

Northern Hospital of Surry County, a community hospital in Mount Airy, N.C. with more than 850 healthcare professionals including physicians on staff, has implemented EMC and VMware solutions to virtualize and consolidate its IT infrastructure for increased efficiency, agility and data protection.

Videos Tim Burke on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

03 Dec 2010

New version of systems management solution enables organisations to more easily manage the new Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 operating platform; Offers improvements in subscription management, compliance and content management.

News NextiraOne Expands Cisco Data Centre Capabilities Across Europe

02 Dec 2010

Cisco solutions and NextiraOne’s proven international service expertise create powerful data centre offering

NextiraOne today announced an expansion of its relationship with Cisco to accelerate the adoption of virtualised data centre solutions in Europe. Together, Cisco and NextiraOne will focus on delivering advanced communications applications, including Cisco Unified Communications and Cisco Contact Centre hosted in virtualised data centre environments, which bring real value to customers.

News Raritan Introduces Virtual Appliance Version of CommandCenter Secure Gateway for Centralized, Secure Access and Control of IT Equipment

30 Nov 2010

New Virtual Appliance includes all management features in CommandCenter Secure Gateway 5.0

Raritan announced today a virtual version of its CommandCenter® Secure Gateway (CC-SG) appliance that provides centralized, secure access to IT equipment to help data centers remotely diagnose and resolve IT equipment issues quickly and reduce server management costs. 

News Meeting aggressive growth requirements and accelerating time to market

25 Nov 2010

NBN Co, the company set up by the Federal Government to design, build and operate Australia's wholesale-only, high-speed broadband network, has selected Cisco to lead the implementation of its data centre infrastructure.  The solution will be deployed by Cisco and will be built upon Vblock technology from the Virtual Computing Environment (VCE) coalition, a collaboration of Cisco, EMC and VMware, for its next generation data centre.

News Yunnan Copper picks Juniper for data center upgrade

25 Nov 2010

Yunnan Copper Industry (Group) Co Ltd has migrated data center network to switches, routers and security devices running the Junos® operating system. Deployment of Juniper Networks® EX4200 Ethernet Switches, SRX3600 Service Gateways and M10i Multiservice Edge Routers enables Yunnan Copper to scale its data center operations and provide improved services to its branch offices and subsidiaries.

Videos New England Biolabs Deploys Xsigo

22 Nov 2010

Bitotech firm New England Biolabs deploys Xsigo to reduce cost and space requirements, gains performance, uptime, and management agility.

Videos Performance Monitoring -- Infrastructure vs. Application Perspectives

17 Nov 2010

Everyone has monitoring tools. But which companies are best served by which tools? In this episode of the Quest on the Board whiteboard series, Director of Product Marketing Darin Bartik explains what is driving organizations to move beyond just an infrastructure resource perspective.

News “Private Cloud” takes centre Ssage at Microsoft Tech•Ed Europe 2010

09 Nov 2010

Hyper-V Cloud programs will help customers and partners accelerate private cloud deployment.

Articles Desktop Virtualization: Concept Becomes Reality with Quest

01 Nov 2010

CIOs and senior IT management are tuning their focus to desktop virtualization as they look for new ways to enhance their desktop strategy with simultaneous benefits to the end-user and IT operations. VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) has been the industry buzz word and may be the right fit for certain scenarios, but successful desktop virtualization implementations view VDI as one of many deployment models.

Videos Desktop Virtualization: Concept Becomes Reality with Quest

01 Nov 2010

In this companion video to the ESG whitepaper "Desktop Virtualization - Concept Becomes Reality with Quest", Quest Software Director of Product Marketing Mike Pagani talks with ESG Senior Analyst and whitepaper author Mark Bowker about the growth of desktop virtualization in the IT market and the key points that should be part of any desktop virtualization strategy.

Videos UDS N Interview with Mark Shuttleworth

29 Oct 2010

UDS N Amber Graner interviews Mark Shuttleworth

News Corporate Express selects Cisco, EMC and VMware to virtualise for increased business agility and energy efficiency

28 Oct 2010

Corporate Express, a $1.16 billion supplier of products for the office with 40 locations across Australia and New Zealand, is extending its commitment to virtualisation in the data centre with its selection of technology from Cisco, EMC and VMware.

News New virtual hosting services from Claranet represent the next stage in cloud evolution

25 Oct 2010

Unique three-tier combination of cloud services gives businesses unprecedented flexibility, reliability and cost control

Award-winning managed services provider, Claranet, has announced the launch of a three-tier virtual hosting service offering that will meet the complex, varied and rapidly changing hosting requirements of UK and EU businesses.

News Gartner identifies seven major CEO concerns CIOs should address

22 Oct 2010

With the increased reliance on IT from business leaders, it’s important for CIOs to understand the concerns of CEOs and the implications they may have on IT, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner analysts have outlined the seven major concerns from CEOs that CIOs should address.

Videos Why VMware Uses Xsigo Virtual I/O

22 Oct 2010

Tim Myers, Sr. Architect at VMware, discusses how Xsigo virtual I/O helps VMware meet their performance and availability objectives in both virtual server and VDI environments. Tim also discusses cloud requirements and how Xsigo virtual I/O helps meet these demands with high bandwidth and flexible configuration on live servers. Finally Tim discusses VMware's own experience in three years of Xsigo usage with zero downtime.

News GigaSpaces integrates with Citrix OpenCloud Platform to ease creation of elastic data center environments

20 Oct 2010

GigaSpaces has partnered with Citrix to provide an open and elastic cloud-enabled platform. Integrating GigaSpaces eXtreme Application Platform (XAP) with Citrix OpenCloud virtualization and networking infrastructure provides enterprise IT a fully integrated, optimized, and elastic application platform.

Videos Force10 Networks at Oracle OpenWorld 2010

19 Oct 2010

Force10 Networks at Oracle OpenWorld 2010. 
Paul Nathan describes Force10's Open Automation Framework

News VMware strengthens Cloud infrastructure strategy

15 Oct 2010

VMware has continued to expand its strategy for modern IT infrastructures, announcing new and enhanced products and programs to help enterprises and service providers achieve the benefits of cloud computing while maintaining the control and freedom of choice they require.

Videos Eric Kuzmack shares his thoughts at VMworld

14 Oct 2010

Eric describes the atmosphere and talks about Dell's Management Plug-in for VMware vCenter. He also shares his thoughts about what will be the next big thing for next year - the hybrid cloud.

News CA Technologies Support for VMware vCloud™ API to Enable Process and Workload Automation in Private, Public and Hybrid Clouds

14 Oct 2010

Today at VMworld 2010 Europe, CA Technologies announced plans to integrate CA IT Process Automation Manager with the VMware vCloud™ API. The integration, which is under development using the VMware vCloud API in BlueLock’s VMware-based public cloud, is intended to enable process automation and orchestration for providing and consuming virtual resources in the cloud. It also will empower customers to deploy and manage virtualised workloads in VMware vCloud-based private, public and hybrid clouds.  

News L7 Solutions Deploys Nimsoft Monitoring Solution to Support Cloud Computing and Vblock Deployments

12 Oct 2010

Infrastructure-as-a-Service Provider Delivers Added Value with 24/7 Monitoring And Customized Reporting to Key Clients.

News Cisco and Slumberland Inc. to Showcase Use of Cisco Data Center Solutions for Retail Industry

12 Oct 2010

Live IPTV Broadcast to Highlight Slumberland Inc.'s Deployment of Cisco Unified Computing System, Cisco MDS Storage Director and Microsoft Virtualization.

News UNFI Teams with EMC to Enhance Sustainability and Data Availability While Supporting Business Growth

11 Oct 2010

Largest Distributor of Organic and Natural Foods Drives Data Center Efficiency with New Virtualization and Data Protection Strategy.

News IGEL integrates Citrix Access Gateway client to manage access control and enable users to work securely from any location

07 Oct 2010

Integration provides IGEL Linux customers access to the full range of functionality in Citrix Access Gateway Standard Edition

IGEL Technology has announced that it has integrated the Citrix Access Gateway™ client into its Linux thin client firmware to allow IT administrators to better manage access control and enable users to work more securely from any location. Available immediately, the client allows IGEL devices to be used in conjunction with Citrix Access Gateway Standard Edition and all the management and user functionality it offers. The announcement will be made at Citrix Synergy Berlin (Oct. 6-8), the technology conference focused on virtualization, cloud computing and networking information to help customers build a simpler and more cost-effective IT environment.

Videos Gregor Petri from CA speaks at 360ºIT 2010: Part 2

07 Oct 2010

Part 2 of an interview with Gregor Petri, Advisor on The Cloud at Computer Associates speaks about Virtualization and The Cloud at 360ºIT The Infrastructure Event in Earls Court on 22-23 September 2010. Brian McKenna Interviews

News New solutions simplify deployment, improve security and accelerate performance of applications

06 Oct 2010

HP has announced new Converged Infrastructure solutions in networking, security and scalable computing that significantly enhance the delivery of application services to business.

News Dell launches Virtual Integrated System Architecture

01 Oct 2010

New capabilities continue to support heterogeneous server, storage, networking and multi-hypervisor environments to help customers extend legacy investments and deploy best-of-breed technologies.

Blog VMworld Labs - Thousands of Virtual Appliances deployed in just 4 days!

01 Oct 2010

David Shyu writes: It was on the last day of VMworld 2010 in San Francisco where it happened.  I was sitting at a Lab Station at the Moscone West building, learning a few things myself on vCloud Director.  Suddenly, one of the VMware Lab Staff member announced: "We have just reached a new milestone just moments ago, we have served our 145th THOUSAND (145K) virtual machine being deployed and destroyed)!  We all clapped our hands, we all enjoyed this moment of glory for the world of virtualization!

Videos vFoglight, The Movie

30 Sep 2010

A "different" take on vFoglight...

News Enabling data centre transformation

28 Sep 2010

Hitachi Data Systems says that it has further solidified its position as the leader in storage virtualisation with a series of announcements that represents a major milestone in the company’s vision of data centre transformation.

News Magirus opens up European SME data centre market with launch of vBundles

28 Sep 2010

Lower price point allows resellers to address wider section of the data centre and cloud-based computing market.

Magirus has launched across Europe its vBundle unified data centre offers, aimed specifically at the Small and Medium Enterprise (SMEs) data centre market. The competitively-priced vBundles comprise a series of industry-leading computing, network, storage and data management technologies from VMware, Cisco and EMC, all integrated and pre-configured for resellers.

Videos Customer Video: QBE Insurance Group

15 Sep 2010

QBE is utilizing AppSense user virtualization solutions to deliver desktop virtualization to support offshore developers and to help effectively manage their user profiles.

News Qualcomm Selects Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization as its Strategic Virtualization Platform

15 Sep 2010

Wireless leader builds on its use of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with Red Hat's virtualization portfolio

RedHat today announced that Qualcomm Incorporated has adopted Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization as a key virtualization platform for its production workloads.

Videos Wyse Xenith + Kaviza

15 Sep 2010

A quick demonstration on how Kaviza with the Wyse Xenith box can have your virtual desktop up and running in seconds.

Videos vFoglight VMware Management from the iPad

14 Sep 2010

A great way to easily monitor and manage the perfomance of your VMware environment from the Apple iPad.

Videos VMworld2010 Customer Spotlight: Byer California

08 Sep 2010

Peter Silva chats with Mandar Ghosalkar, Applications Infrastructure Manager of Byer, a privately held garment manufacturer about virtualization, time-to-market, servicing users, business processes and much more.

Videos NetApp and Gale Technologies - Virtualizing Oracle test and Development

06 Sep 2010

NetApp and Gale Technologies - Virtualizing Oracle test and Development on VMware

News Security is a primary business objective

03 Sep 2010

Altor Networks, a leading innovator and provider of security for virtualized data centers and clouds, together with Juniper Networks have announced the results of a jointly conducted survey at the VMworld show floor. The survey, which garnered responses from the representatives of over 200 firms at San Francisco's Moscone-hosted VMworld 2010, found over 77% of respondents have security intensive environments with over 90% of workloads requiring protection.

Videos VMworld 2010 - Compellent and CommVault

03 Sep 2010

Bruce Kornfeld, VP of business development and alliances at Compellent and David West, VP of marketing and business development at CommVault discussing the partnership, storage efficiency, data mangement and protection for virtualized enterprises and data centers.

Videos TBD Networks - Analyze & Act Demo

03 Sep 2010

Dr. Anindo Banerjea from TBD Networks takes us through a demo on how to address network and storage bottlenecks to keep the utilization of your data centre high.

News EMC reduces TCO for virtual desktops 60 percent

02 Sep 2010

EMC has announced a comprehensive portfolio of services and solutions for VMware View 4.5 to help customers accelerate deployment of virtual desktop environments. By centralizing the management of desktops and deploying those virtually with VMware View 4.5 businesses can avoid much of the cost and expense associated with traditional desktop management. EMC reduces storage costs by 60 percent and decreases physical space and power required by 90 percent while, at the same time, maintaining high desktop performance levels.

News Symantec solutions give customers the confidence to virtualize

02 Sep 2010

Symantec has announced key technology developments designed to help customers more effectively deploy, protect and manage their essential applications and databases running in virtual environments. Security, availability and data protection challenges have restrained many organizations from realizing the full benefits of virtualization for the applications that are critical to their businesses, including CRM, ERP and email.

News CiRBA announces enterprise-class analytics platform for capacity & efficiency management

01 Sep 2010

CiRBA Version 6.0 adds unique cross-functional dashboards to enable executives, capacity managers, and operations to collectively manage efficiency and risk across physical, virtual, and cloud infrastructure.

News Virtensys adds new I/O virtualization solution

31 Aug 2010

Virtensys has expanded its product offerings with the introduction of the VIO-4004, a high-performance I/O virtualization system that consolidates and virtualizes network connectivity to a rack of servers and provides up to 80 Gbps of sustained Ethernet bandwidth per server.

News Quest Software Delivers Advanced Private Cloud Automation Platform

30 Aug 2010

Quest Cloud Automation Platform 7.5 Delivers Comprehensive Cloud Capacity Management, Self-Service-Enabled VM Migration, and Revamped Reporting with Chargeback

Videos Meet Ray, Norm, Sue and an IT department about to have revenue pouring in!

30 Aug 2010

Get your virtualized environment to run faster and more efficiently and future-proof your IT investment.
Sue and Norm help their global blue chip enable better than ever IT performance and humming applications.

Videos City of Griffin On Its New Network Architecture

27 Aug 2010

Hear from Jack Poland, Director of IT for City of Griffin, GA on how his new network architecture and VM deployment has helped the city improve responsiveness and provide higher return on network investment.

News 'Direct attach' data centre architecture

26 Aug 2010

Extreme Networks and ecosystem partner Exar introduce ‘Direct Attach’ data centre solution supporting VMware virtualisation environments.

Videos Exchange 2010 Architecture Design with Virtualization- Can I virtualize it all?

25 Aug 2010

One of the strategies we keep hearing about to cope with Exchange 2010 sprawl is Virtualization- but there are some interesting gotcha's, especially with Database Availabiltiy Groups, or DAG's as they are known.

Articles Transformational DR in a hybrid universe: Physical, Virtual, Cloud

23 Aug 2010

Virtualisation and Cloud Computing have been touted for the last few years as the panacea for the IT industry and, in a time of economic uncertainty, both have the ability to help companies get the most out of their existing server and storage infrastructure. With both technologies at the forefront of the IT debate once again, what effect are they having on the backup and recovery arena?

Articles Five Imperatives for Extreme Data Protection in Virtualized Environments

19 Aug 2010

Transforming an organization through server virtualization requires a strategic and coordinated approach. Data protection – which includes not only backup, but also secondary storage and disaster recovery considerations – is an area that can easily complicate virtualized data centers if implemented hastily. It is essential that data protection efforts reduce hardware purchases, rather than require additional hardware to make it work. The following are five critical data protection imperatives that organizations must consider during virtual server planning.

News Synopsys selects Virtensys I/O

17 Aug 2010

Synopsys, a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, has successfully deployed the Virtensys I/O virtualization (IOV) solution in the company’s data center. The VIO-4001 IOV appliance met the performance requirements and delivered the full network connectivity bandwidth at 10 Gbps to standard server environment while reducing costs and complexity

News VMware unveils Zimbra appliance

16 Aug 2010

VMware has launched the Zimbra® Collaboration Suite Appliance, an enterprise-class email and collaboration solution delivered as a virtual appliance. Designed to run on the VMware vSphere™ platform, the Zimbra Appliance helps reduce the cost and complexity of infrastructure management.

Articles Data Centre Network Virtualisation – The Final Frontier

12 Aug 2010

As demand for greater processing continues to outstrip available space, power and air-conditioning, the market has turned to server virtualisation in order to maximize resources. Recognising that having hundreds of servers running at 5% utilisation is a waste, virtualisation has become a key driver for energy efficiency as well significantly reducing organizations’ IT infrastructure spend.

Blog Virtual Desktop Bandwidth Averages Are Just a Start

11 Aug 2010

Daniel Fellar writes: Back in May 2010, I started my Top 10 Mistakes Made with Virtual Desktops. I talked about how much bandwidth certain activities require when using XenDesktop and HDX. The table I provided is great, but it does pose the question, "What does a person do with this information?" Since then, I've been able to spend more time and have recently completed the bandwidth planning guide, which you can get by accessing the XenDesktop Design Handbook. But let's take a closer look at what the planning guide says...

Articles Optimising application delivery in a virtualised world

06 Aug 2010

Server virtualisation has dramatically changed the landscape in the datacentre but server consolidation is just the beginning of what can be achieved. Owen Garrett, Cloud Computing expert at Zeus Technology, explains.

News Hype cycle shows two generations of EA

05 Aug 2010

Gartner, Inc.'s 2010 Hype Cycle for enterprise architecture (EA) reveals that two generations of EA, one currently focusing on IT-oriented practices and the other rising to focus on integrating and engaging with the business. The Hype Cycle also shows how EA will further evolve and how enterprise architects will utilise and govern EA within the business in the next 10 years.

Videos Virtually Speaking: How Virtualization Impacts the System Administrators Role: Part 3

05 Aug 2010

Vizioncore Senior Systems Engineer Larry Loucks briefly explains how virtualization impacts the systems administrators role.

News Siemens orchestrates the cloud

03 Aug 2010

Bespoke options for customers to be enhanced with VMware vCloud partnership

Siemens IT Solutions and Services has signed a global virtualisation deal to become a VMware vCloud^™ service provider partner. This will complement the options available to its customers via Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS) and Software as a Service (SaaS) environments from the VMware vSphere^™ platform.

Articles Shifting The Mix: A Practical Approach To Making IT More Strategic

03 Aug 2010

Today’s IT budget is spent mostly on “keeping the lights on”. In fact, roughly 70% of the budget is spent on sustaining and running existing capability while only 30% is spent on providing new capabilities to the business. The business, together with IT, needs to find ways to increase the value created by the existing and new investments in IT.

Articles Vizioncore’s “hot” backup solution, vRanger Pro, helps keep things “cool” at Emerson Climate Technologies

30 Jul 2010

Emerson Climate Technologies, Inc. utilized virtualization for server consolidation to reduce operating costs. The company needed to deploy a comprehesive back up and recovery solution for its virtual environment.

News Telstra International selected by Aspire Media Group for managed virtualised hosting

28 Jul 2010

Telstra International has been selected by Aspire Media Group, the online recruitment solution provider, which includes the world’s first internet recruitment service, JobServe and web development company HotLizard, to manage its hosting infrastructure at its state-of-the-art London Hosting Centre.

Videos Global IT Council

28 Jul 2010

Daryl Plummer and David Cappuccio introduce the benefits you can get from the Global IT Council. View a related webinar: http://is.gd/dDyip

Blog Cost Recovery and Cost Transparency in the Virtual World

28 Jul 2010

Paul Martin from the Vizioncore blog writes:

Chargeback in the days of exclusively physical infrastructure was so much simpler wasn’t it? You bought what someone needed, put an asset tag on it and slapped them with an invoice. Well, maybe or maybe not. Chargeback, even in those environments (and those environments still exist), had it’s challenges. It’s just back then nobody really used chargeback as much as people want to use it today with virtual environments. Today, virtualization really means you can very effectively and securely share infrastructure, but you need the right tools to figure out how much of what resources are being used and by whom. This is in addition to understanding where the costs lie inside the environment.

News Saginaw school learns about virtualization

27 Jul 2010

Saginaw Intermediate School District (ISD) has replaced a legacy storage area network (SAN) and fully embraced virtualization in its centralized data center built on DataCore, VMware and Xiotech. Saginaw ISD’s VMware- DataCore-based cloud for servers and storage serves as both a centralized data center and a hosting service for the majority of school districts in the county.

Videos How Virtualization Impacts the System Administrators Role: Part 2

27 Jul 2010

Vizioncore Senior Systems Engineer Larry Loucks briefly explains how virtualization impacts the systems administrators role.

News Vizioncore Launches First Free Management Pack for VMware to Extend Microsoft System Centre Operations Manager

26 Jul 2010

Centralised Monitoring Solution Fills Gap Between the Major Players in Virtualisation

Vizioncore Inc. today announced the release of Quest® Management Pack for VMware, the first free management pack on the market to extend Microsoft System Centre Operations Manager to monitor VMware virtual infrastructure. The solution offers free community support with paid product support as an option.

News DataCentre Expo’s Visitor Marketing reaches over 1 million internationally

23 Jul 2010

DataCentre Expo’s visitor marketing plan is extremely high-profile, with a ‘global reach’ of over 1 million recipients.

Email broadcasts, off-the-page advertisements, online advertising and press coverage will really take off throughout July and August. The marketing campaign has already produced impressive results with appearances in: IT Mittelstand, eWeek and Network Computing, DV Dialogue, Manage IT and of course TheDataChain.

News City of Ettlingen Chooses “Hassle-Free” Virtualised Backup and Restore from Vizioncore

19 Jul 2010

German city deploys vRanger Pro and vReplicator to manage entire virtualised infrastructure; achieves significant cost and efficiency gains

Vizioncore today announced that Ettlingen, a city in Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, has chosen Vizioncore vRanger® Pro and Vizioncore vReplicator® to manage backup, restore and server replication of its virtual IT infrastructure. The new technologies will augment disaster recovery initiatives and help simplify administrative complexity for the city.

Videos How Virtualization Impacts the System Administrators Role: Part 1

16 Jul 2010

Vizioncore Senior Systems Engineer Larry Loucks briefly explains how virtualization impacts the systems administrators role.

Videos Turning Data into Valuable Information

14 Jul 2010

Customers are facing challenges meeting the cost demands of storage growth, regulatory compliance and more agility to deploy solutions more quickly. Virtualization, tiered storage and the ability to move information seamlessly without application outage provide the capability to solve these problems.

Articles United Bank & Trust Banks on vEssentials™ for Its Virtual Foundation

12 Jul 2010

United Bank & Trust decided to virtualize systems for the first time because it wanted to reduce the growth of its IT systems and the support they required. To make the decision worthwhile, the company needed to architect a highly reliable, easily managed virtual infrastructure.

News Vizioncore reduces Virtual Storage Cost and improves Virtual Machine performance

12 Jul 2010

New Version of vOptimizer Pro Extends Platform Support to Include Linux-Based and VMware Thin Provisioned Virtual Machines

Vizioncore Inc., the market leader in virtualisation data protection and management solutions, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Quest Software, Inc. (Nasdaq: QSFT), today announced the availability of a new version of vOptimizer Pro. This market-leading storage optimisation solution provides broader platform support for virtual machine (VM) storage reclamation and optimisation operations, which enable customers to experience greater benefits and additional value from their virtual infrastructure. Additional enhancements include support for both Linux-based and VMware® Thin Provisioned VMs.

Articles Increasing IT Efficiency in a Dynamic Datacenter with a Virtualized Storage Solution

12 Jul 2010

End to End Efficiency Delivered by Microsoft Server Virtualization and Compellent Storage Virtualization

Datacenter efficiency is a large concern for Information Technology (IT) management as demands for services continue to increase while budgets continue to be reduced. Supporting growth and maintaining availability per the service level agreements while mitigating the risks to critical data, systems, applications, and the computing infrastructure in the event of a system outage or a complete disaster presents an ongoing challenge from both a technological and a business perspective. Organizations must consistently find solutions that not only meet application and data requirements for capacity, performance, and availability, but also have proven return on investment and cost reduction capabilities.

Videos Customer Testimonial: Credit Market Analysis

12 Jul 2010

Ryan Sclanders, IT Infrastructure Manager for Credit Market Research talks about the challenges of their high volume data requirements and how they came to choosing their provider to reduce costs and improve efficiency.

Videos Brocade Services ARB

09 Jul 2010

John Lockyer, Principal Consultant at Brocade, discusses Brocade's Application Resource Broker (ARB).

Videos Terremark Sees Growth for Enterprise Cloud

08 Jul 2010

Randy Rowland has a lengthy track record working with enterprise users on virtualized platforms and clouds, first at Data Return and now at Terremark Worldwide, where he services as Senior VP of Product Development. At the recent Structure 2010 conference, we spent a few minutes with Randy discussing the current state of cloud computing adoption by enterprise customers and the federal government market, where Terremark has had some high-profile wins.

Articles Vizioncore solutions provide Jentjens with cost effective business continuity

08 Jul 2010

Jentjens Machinetechniek BV is a specialist in machinery for the automation of, otherwise manual, production activities, where client-oriented and market-oriented systems are developed, assembled, installed on location, maintained and serviced as required. Their customers cover a wide range of market segments, such as the medical, automotive and consumer goods industries; in addition they specialize in automated applications for the food industry and greenhouse horticulture. As an internationally-operating company, Jentjens Machinetechniek BV is known by the keywords ORIENTED HANDLING.

Videos Cisco Data Center Distribution Supporting Virtualization

08 Jul 2010

CiscoChannels sat down with Disty Dave O'Callaghan to find out the scoop on virtualization and what it means for resellers and distribution partners.

Blog How the Cloud Changed World's Oldest Newspaper

07 Jul 2010

Bernard Golden writes:

Recently I was in London, speaking at the Cloud Computing World Forum. From my perspective, it was an ideal event: large enough to have a critical mass of interesting vendors and attendees, and small enough to support quality conversation. If you've been to any of the large U.S. cloud shows, you'll know how hard it is to accomplish the latter quality at them - they're packed and conversations are reduced to sound bites. Of course, the conference being located in Britain, there was less tolerance for over-the-top claims and marketing hype, which was also a refreshing relief.

Videos Desktop Virtualization, Episode 2

07 Jul 2010

Michele talks to Mike Baum and learns more about virtualization and hypervisors.

Videos Quick Tips: Server Utilization ROI

06 Jul 2010

Brad Wagner, Director of Product Strategy at Vizioncore discusses server utilization ROI.

Articles Controlling Datacenter Costs With Virtualization

06 Jul 2010

Switch on a server and you've just doubled its cost. According to Gartner, between 2007 and 2012, most U.S. enterprise datacenters will spend as much on power and cooling as on the hardware itself. Couple this with increasing infrastructure demands needed to handle the petabytes of data flowing through organizations as well as increasing energy costs, and Gartner also predicts that energy costs for IT could double by 2012.

News Architectural flexibility for virtualisation and The Cloud

02 Jul 2010

Cisco has introduced new technology that supports its Data Center 3.0 strategy to help customers increase the flexibility of their data centers as they become more virtualized and cloud-based. The new technology advances Cisco's underlying unified fabric capabilities that help customers enhance the efficiency of information delivery in physical and virtualized data center environments, and manage public and private cloud resources more effectively.

Videos Isilon Simplifies Data Management for Enterprise IT

30 Jun 2010

Sam Grocott, VP of Marketing at Isilon, talks us through the sixth generation of its OneFS^® scale-out storage operating system and two new data management software applications, SmartPools™ and InsightIQ™. With OneFS 6.0, SmartPools and InsightIQ, Isilon delivers a uniquely powerful yet simple approach to solving complex data management challenges, enabling enterprise IT departments to easily manage data, consolidate applications and scale out a single storage resource in lockstep with evolving business needs.

News Unified service-oriented dashboard

29 Jun 2010

Watch4net has added a new ReportPack for Vblock(TM) Infrastructure Packages to its APG Software(TM) Suite, a leading carrier-class IT performance management solution.

Articles vEcoShell, vRanger Pro Give Middlesex Networks the Power to Prevent Problems

29 Jun 2010

Middlesex Networks provides network administration, system implementation and other IT services to small and midsize businesses in New England. The company uses its expertise to manage systems more efficiently, reliably and conveniently than customers can do for themselves. The business model drives Middlesex Networks to continually improve its own performance and productivity.

News Red Hat and Cisco expand Relationship

28 Jun 2010

Companies working together to integrate Cisco VN-Link and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to deliver data center customers reduced total cost of ownership, higher performance and greater return on investment.

Blog Assessing Risk in the Virtual Data Center

28 Jun 2010

Brian Gracely from Cisco writes:

Having lived through both the Internet bubble in 2001 and the Housing/CDO bubble in 2008, we’re all too familiar with what happens when large inter-connected entities start having problems. It can often be like watching dominos fall. Things were really great when the systems appeared to be working according to the plan, but then “the plan” got sidetracked and bad things started happening that weren’t on the radar.

News Data Centre Expo & Green Data Center Alliance

25 Jun 2010

The Green Data Center Alliance and Data Centre Expo have reached an agreement to promote power saving initiatives in the data center.

Videos Cloud Meets Virtualization and Linux

24 Jun 2010

The VAR Guy FastChat Video interviews Red Hat CEO Jim Whitehurst during Red Hat Partner Summit 2010. Whitehurst discusses Red Hat's Linux, JBoss Middleware and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization (RHEV) moves, and Red Hat's role in cloud computing.

Articles Major U.S. Healthcare Provider ‘Prescribes’ BMC Software To Ensure High-Quality Patient Care

24 Jun 2010

When Novant Health needed to replace its IT service management (ITSM) tools and processes, the North Carolina-based non-profit healthcare system selected BMC Software’s (NASDAQ: BMC) Business Service Management (BSM) platform to ensure the changes supported the hospital system’s No. 1 priority – providing quality patient care.

Blog Simplify, but lose control... not in my data center!!!

24 Jun 2010

Charlie Leeming writes:

In my last post, I talked about how we all – in our personal, and for those of us in technology, our professional lives – are trying to simplify and do more with less. This all sounds good in a data center unless it increases risk and/or lessens our actual visibility for control over our data and applications. We all get great offers and PowerPoint slides about how vendors A, B and C can easily simplify our data center and consolidate tier 1 and tier 2 applications down to virtualized servers.... but often, I am left wondering several things: Have these vendors done this before? Will they be around to support it? Will it really be cheaper when I calculate the OpEx required to manage all those virtual server sessions I can no longer see and touch?

Videos Cisco and Red Hat Innovations

24 Jun 2010

Learn about breakthrough advancements from Cisco and Red Hat for data center innovation, performance, and business results.

Articles Fosters EMEA - Case Study

23 Jun 2010

Foster’s EMEA, part of the Foster’s Group, having deployed VMware Infrastructure required an easy-to-use efficient backup solution to ensure high availability of all its virtual machines in the event of a disaster or failure.

Videos "SYBIL" SPARCstation and "ZELUS"

23 Jun 2010

John Pritchard, CEO and Robert Boers, CTO of Stromasys announce the launch of "SYBIL" SPARCstation and "ZELUS" virtual HP 3000 (Full)

Articles How virtualization helps companies transform their approach to IT.

22 Jun 2010

Virtualization made its way into the mainstream data center with a strong cost-reduction value proposition centered around a straightforward tactic: server consolidation.

Videos Quest on the Board OnDemand Solutions

21 Jun 2010

Watch Dmitry Sotnikov, Director of Cloud Solutions, explain how Quest OnDemand services fully protect your data.

Videos Storage Cost Estimating

21 Jun 2010

Brad Wagner, Director of Product Strategy at Vizioncore discusses the costs of storage virtualization.

Blog Understanding the Resources of "The Cloud" within IT

21 Jun 2010

Scott M Herold writes:

I have just returned from a great week meeting customers and partners across Germany. This was my third trip to Europe this quarter. During this time, I've had a chance to visit customers and partners across UK, Denmark, Netherlands, and Germany. One thing remains abundantly clear, people still don't seem to understand "The Cloud". This is globally across both the US and Europe, so I'm definitely not singling out one region over the other. I'm of the opinion of "Who can blame them?" The marketing behind "The Cloud" is absolutely hideous. Everyone and their mother (seriously, my mom actually asked me about "The Cloud") is using the term to describe everything from Facebook to "Look, my application has a web console so it's in the cloud".

Articles Siemens Case Study

21 Jun 2010

When Siemens IT Solutions and Services consolidated more than 150 physical servers into only 15 virtual ones, it found its hypervisor-based management tools were inadequate to monitor and ensure availability of the large-scale virtual environment. It also experienced scalability issues with its legacy backup solution.

News Brocade achieves network simplification

17 Jun 2010

Brocade has introduced unique converged fabric-based innovations designed to radically simplify network architectures. These new innovations will help enable the seamless transition to highly virtualized infrastructures where information and services are available anywhere in the cloud.

Articles Allied Irish Bank

14 Jun 2010

Allied Irish Bank (AIB) was implementing a complete virtual data centre strategy, moving almost all of its applications that previously ran on physical x86-based servers into virtual machines. The bank required a simple tool to manage backup and manage its virtual machine images, as well as restore them in the event of an incident.

News IBM selects top-of-rack switches

11 Jun 2010

BLADE Network Technologies' RackSwitch 1Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet switches have been selected by IBM for inclusion in the IBM System x option portfolio. BLADE's RackSwitch products provide enterprise data centre networking capabilities for IBM System x, including IBM Virtual Fabric, BLADE's VMready Virtual Machine-aware networking and lossless DCB/CEE networking.

News Transmode sets the industry standard for Low Latency Transport at 4 nanoseconds

11 Jun 2010

Transmode has announced latency performance of up to 1000 times better than comparable solutions for applications such as algorithmic trading, cloud computing, data center interconnect and video distribution.

Videos vFoglight QuickView

10 Jun 2010

This is an overview of the vFoglight Quickview product and the different features the product contains.

Read the related news article on vFoglight here.

Blog vFoglight QuickView: Functionality Worth Noting - Don’t Take it From Me!

10 Jun 2010

Ben Scheerer writes:

Wow, the response has been tremendous, it’s only been a week since the announcement of vFoglight QuickView and downloads have already been in the quadruple digits! The responses have been so positive we are confident that QuickView provides the right solutions for the right level of requirements.

News Piercing the fog of virtualisation?

10 Jun 2010

Vizioncore has introduced vFoglight™ QuickView, the free edition of its market-leading vFoglight virtualisation management offering. vFoglight QuickView is a simple and quick-to-deploy monitoring solution that provides essential alerts and data to enable administrators to quickly detect, diagnose and resolve critical issues within the virtual infrastructure.

Videos Low-latency networking

09 Jun 2010

ADVA Optical Networking's Jim Theodoras and Angelica Barriga discuss low-latency networking

News PromonLogicalis Wins Cisco Global Technology Excellence Partner of the Year

08 Jun 2010

PromonLogicalis announced today that it is the recipient of a Cisco Partner Summit global award for Technology Excellence Partner of the Year. Logicalis Group was also presented with a further seven awards spanning Latin America and Europe. Cisco unveiled the winners April 28 at its annual channel partner conference in San Francisco.

Videos Three Data Centres: One Vision

03 Jun 2010

What is the common theme behind three types of data centres, namely, Platform as a Service, Infrastructure/Hosting as a Service, and Enterprise Back Office. Force10 investigates.

News Switch built for dynamic, virtualised environments

02 Jun 2010

Force10 Networks has extended its S-Series™ access switch line with the introduction of the S60 top-of-rack (ToR) Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) switch. As the first switch purpose-built for dynamic virtualized data center environments, the S60 answers challenging application needs and lowers operational costs at the rack edge by leveraging new features and functionality, including ultra-deep buffering and “bare metal” auto-configuration, as well as proven Force10 product attributes, such as low power consumption and non-blocking, line-rate switching.

Videos Hilton Hotels Case Study

01 Jun 2010

Hilton Hotels reduces call center costs with Work-at-Home program. Employees participating in this program are able to work from home using Wyse thin clients running Windows XP Embedded. This video case study shows the business situation Hilton Hotels created, the solution it found, and the benefits it's reaping.

News Colleges sign “one-stop shop” IT deal with Calyx

01 Jun 2010

Colleges Northern Ireland (CNI) has signed a £3 million four-year contract with Calyx to provide managed services and a technology refresh across 47 College campuses. The IT specialist was selected by CNI, the representative body of the six regional Colleges, to be the single provider to educational facilities with wide-ranging and complex requirements.

Videos Kavisa Virtual Desktop

01 Jun 2010

Kaviza founder & CEO describes how Kaviza's architecture disrupts desktop virtualization (VDI) economics, with a desktop-specific approach that is one-third to one-fourth the cost of alternatives.

News Data centre hosting services for Saudi market

28 May 2010

Cisco, VMware and EMC coalition helps to secure strategic data center win to enable STC to introduce Managed IT Services in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

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Videos Business Continuity in a virtual environment

28 May 2010

Every IT organization is concerned about surviving a disaster. Listen in as James Staten, Principal Analyst, IT Infrastructure & Operations Research, Forrester Research, the requirements for a flexible, yet precise disaster recovery plan with both failover and failback for your virtualized environment.

Videos VMware and EMC - The Value of EMC VPLEX in the Virtual Data Center

27 May 2010

Learn from VMwares Stephen Herrod, Chief Technology Officer and Senior VP of R&D, about the breakthrough technology that allows dynamic application and data movement over distance.

Videos How to demonstrate full ROI on virtualization

26 May 2010

Can you justify total ROI from virtualization? With the right strategy and virtual-optimized infrastructure you can show consolidation savings. Listen in as James Staten, Principal Analyst, IT Infrastructure & Operations Research, Forrester Research, outlines opportunities to deploy such technologies as thin provisioning, deduplication, and tiered storage.

News Optimising virtualized data center management capabilities

21 May 2010

Solution streamlines management of next-generation data center, including public and private cloud infrastructures.

News Vizioncore Takes Mystery Out Of Virtual System Performance For New Movie Studio

20 May 2010

Vizioncore has announced that Australia-based Dr. D Studios has deployed Vizioncore vFoglight™ to monitor the performance of the company's VMware vSphere virtual server environment.

Articles New Movie Studio Takes the Mystery Out of Virtual System Performance with vFoglight

20 May 2010

Dr. D Studios is a digital movie production studio formed by two leading companies in the Australian film industry. When the startup launched in Sydney, the IT department got to write the script for creating an IT infrastructure that would be most effective and efficient for supporting Dr. D Studios’ sophisticated digital production work.

News System Integrator MTI Launches Enterprise Backup as a Service

19 May 2010

New Cloud Backup Service Now Meets Businesses-Level Requirements

MTI has unveiled its Cloud Backup as a Service (BaaS) offering for businesses, one of four new service sets to be launched under the MTI Insight Services banner. The other three groups will be MTI Consult (Consultancy Services), MTI Create (Project Services) and MTI Care (Customer and Managed Services).

Blog Four Disaster Recovery Options for Virtualized Environments

19 May 2010

Robin Howard at Double Take writes:

Virtualization is great for saving money and resources, but if you lose a virtual server you have larger bigger problems than if you had just lost a single server. While no company wants to put their business at risk by under-protecting their VMs, nobody likes to spend more than they have to on non-productive expenditures like insurance.

Videos American Suzuki Case Study

19 May 2010

American Suzuki is passionate about affordable performance both in their products and how they run the company. When business growth led to IT storage issues, they needed a solution. Backups took 18hrs; users had performance issues with file shares; and data replication took weeks.

News Transforming data centre economics and experience

18 May 2010

Juniper Networks has unveiled new software, services, systems and partnerships that will help enterprise IT dramatically reduce the cost and complexity of data center networking while also improving application and business performance.

News IBM opens Development Laboratory

18 May 2010

IBM has opened a new systems software development laboratory in Manchester. With a focus on IBM Power Systems, the engineers in the Lab develop optimisation, security, and virtualisation software to help clients manage emerging workloads designed to reduce data centre costs.

Videos What does Transparency, Effieciency and Networks mean to you?

18 May 2010

SunGard poses the question to Claudia Feldmann from Commerzbank AG at SunGard's City Days Frankfurt.

Articles Virtualization: Optimized Power and Cooling to Maximize Benefits

11 May 2010

Data centers are routinely and unknowingly missing a great portion of their entitlement from virtualization. Beyond virtualization’s undisputed IT benefits – from reduced rack footprint to disaster recovery – is the parallel story of a substantial benefit from optimizing the physical infrastructure that supports it. In particular, row-based cooling, correctly sized power and cooling, and real-time capacity management are essential elements in realizing virtualization’s full potential in cost reduction, efficiency, and reliability.

News Cisco and VMware to accelerate data center virtualization opportunities

06 May 2010

Initiative provides new program benefits for partners delivering Cisco Unified Computing System and VMware vSphere.

Videos The Private Cloud

06 May 2010

Tom Bittman from Gartner discusses the trend of private cloud computing vs public cloud computing.

Videos The First American Corporation Case Study

06 May 2010

Watch how First American Corporation was able to consolidate and virtualize their infrastructure with BIG-IP LTM, GTM and FirePass SSL VPN providing them with the flexibility & speed to market their business required. From 750 machines to just 75, Jake Seitz of the Enterprise Architecture group talks about how they achieved performance gains, faster log in times, better service and disaster recovery.

News Centrix Software Announces Release of WorkSpace iQ™

05 May 2010

New solution allows organizations to monitor and meter application delivery and consumption across virtual and physical data center resources; supports IT charge-back policies

News New NetScaler Solutions Bring Cloud Economics and Elasticity to the Virtual Datacenter

04 May 2010

Citrix Systems unveiled its new Citrix® NetScaler® 9.2 release along with three powerful new NetScaler MPX™ hardware appliances and a new high-performance NetScaler VPX™ virtual appliance.

News Logicalis Wins Cisco Data Centre and Virtualisation Partner of the Year at 2010 Cisco Partner Summit

30 Apr 2010

Logicalis have announced that it is the recipient of a Cisco Partner Summit regional award for Data Centre and Virtualisation Partner of the Year. Cisco unveiled the winners on April 28 at its annual channel partner conference in San Francisco

News Barracuda Message Archiver Extends Beyond Email to Archive All Microsoft Exchange Items

30 Apr 2010

New Capabilities Improve Storage Efficiency by Archiving Calendar Items, Contacts and Tasks

Barracuda Networks Inc. announced new features for the Barracuda Message Archiver that allow users to archive calendar items, contacts and tasks from Microsoft Exchange making it the first appliance- based solution to offer this capability.

Videos Barracuda Networks

30 Apr 2010

Michael Hughes @ InfoSecurity 2010 talks about Barracuda and the role they play in the market.

Videos Redstone @ InfoSecurity 2010

29 Apr 2010

Martin Blackhurst from Redstone Managed Services talks about how Redstone provides its customers with secure access for their business intelligence.

News SunGard Achieves Green IT Savings

29 Apr 2010

As part of a green IT initiative to improve the energy efficiency of its data centers, SunGard’s financial systems business is on track to achieve more than $5 million in savings over the next five years. The project, which kicked off in 2009, virtualizes the servers in the twenty-five North America data centers operated by SunGard Financial Systems.

News Virtualisation market accelerates out of the recession

28 Apr 2010

According to the IDC Worldwide Quarterly Server Virtualization Tracker, 18.2% of all new servers shipped in the fourth quarter of 2009 (4Q09) were virtualized, an increase from 15.2% in 4Q08.

News Enhanced network and IT operations management

28 Apr 2010

EMC has announced key enhancements to its flagship IT infrastructure monitoring and analysis portfolio, EMC Ionix for IT Operations Intelligence (formerly Smarts). The new technologies provide core network management functionality to help customers transition from a physical to virtual IT infrastructure – and eventually – a private cloud model.

Videos Simple - JBoss Enterprise SOA Platform 5

28 Apr 2010

With JBoss, your SOA solution is simple to develop, deploy and manage, on top of being responsive to business change. Because it's based on open standards, it will work with everything else. And that means you're in control.

News The world’s first Enterprise Java Cloud?

28 Apr 2010

Salesforce.com and VMware have announced a partnership to jointly deliver, sell and support a new enterprise Java cloud called VMforce™.

News Pillar Data Systems Gives Customers More Control over Disaster Recovery, Storage Performance and Efficiency

27 Apr 2010

Pillar Data Systems today delivered several new features that increase the performance, efficiency and ease of management for its award-winning Pillar Axiom storage system. These new additions build on the Axiom’s unique Quality of Service (QoS) capabilities and ensure greater flexibility and reliability for storage administrators.

News Hi-tech spending to increase

23 Apr 2010

Marketing spending among high-tech and telecom providers (HTTPs) is picking up in 2010, according to a survey by Gartner, Inc. The survey found that 44 per cent of 2010 HTTP marketing budgets will be flat compared with 2009, 41 per cent will increase and only 15 per cent are likely to decrease. This compares favorably to 2009 when more than half of providers' marketing organisations took cuts in their budgets compared to 2008.

Videos Data Explosion Driving Big Changes in Storage

22 Apr 2010

IBM vice president Doug Balog on the challenges driving steep growth in the storage market and what companies need to do to meet them

News New IBM Storage Products Reduce Cost, Complexity of Managing "Big Data"

22 Apr 2010

Help Clients Prioritize, Classify Data for Workloads Like Real-time Analytics

IBM has announced new storage products -- part of its 2010 lineup of workload-optimized systems -- that are designed to reduce the cost and complexity of storing vast amounts of data while making it easier for clients to apply analytics and gain insight from the data.

News Signs of early recovery in the EMEA server virtualization market

21 Apr 2010

According to IDC's EMEA Quarterly Server Virtualization Tracker, 17.7% of all new servers shipped in EMEA in the fourth quarter of 2009 (4Q09) were virtualized, an increase from 16.31% in 4Q08. Actual shipments increased year over year for the first time since 4Q08, rising 2.8% to 110,000 physical servers.

News Reduced IT costs thanks to unified compute platform

21 Apr 2010

As part of a continued commitment to deliver reliable, robust data centre solutions, Hitachi Data Systems has announced the Hitachi unified compute platform, said to be the industry’s first open and unified compute platform for enterprise data centres, including private and public cloud deployments.

News Dynamic virtualisation management

20 Apr 2010

Extreme Networks has introduced a network-based dynamic data centre virtualisation lifecycle management solution that delivers unprecedented visibility, control and automation of Virtual Machines (VM) to the network administrator.

News VI inks agreement with HDS

16 Apr 2010

Virtual Instruments has formed a limited purchase agreement for Hitachi Data Systems to resell Virtual Instruments NetWisdom and VirtualWisdom for deployment with its storage solutions.

Articles How to get the full value of virtualization

16 Apr 2010

Virtualization technology offers cost savings through server consolidation and increased efficiency — but only if your IT staff can meet the management challenges it presents.

News DataCentre Expo set for Dusseldorf

16 Apr 2010

Europe’s first fully dedicated, expo led data centre event will take place in Düsseldorf, 16^th – 17^th Sept 2010.

News Gartner says worldwide IT spending to grow 5.3 per cent in 2010

12 Apr 2010

Worldwide IT spending is forecast to reach $3.4 trillion in 2010, a 5.3 per cent increase from IT spending of $3.2 trillion in 2009, according to Gartner, Inc. The IT industry will continue to show steady growth with IT spending in 2011 projected to surpass $3.5 trillion, a 4.2 per cent increase from 2010.

Videos Kennedys Uses Falconstor NSS to Optimize Performance and Efficiency

12 Apr 2010

FalconStor NSS ensures that the dramas at this growing international law firm take place in the courtroom, not the data center. In this video, IT Director at Kennedys, Ian Lauwerys, discusses how his team leveraged FalconStor NSS in tandem with VMware ESX Server to create a reliable, comprehensive DR system that optimizes performance and efficiency

Articles Managing IT in tough economic conditions

09 Apr 2010

We are all feeling the effects of the economic situation facing the world markets today, and IT is no exception. In past economic downturns, those companies that focused on cost containment and process improvement emerged in a stronger position. During the current financial implosion, businesses must look at their expenses and determine where they should spend and where they should cut in order to ride out the storm.

Articles Virtual media

09 Apr 2010

Optimizing the efficiency and security of data center operations.

News Virtualisation achieves acceptance with manufacturers

08 Apr 2010

Vizioncore has announced the results of its latest Vizioncore Virtualisation Review (VVR) survey. These results indicate that virtualisation has achieved acceptance with manufacturers who are driving cost savings with innovative technology solutions. Moving beyond the basic benefits of virtualisation adoption, manufacturers have shifted their focus, seeking ways to prevent downtime, gain efficiencies and reduce costs at the corporate level. The VVR uncovered these trends in a survey of worldwide manufacturers across multiple industries, where 44 percent of the respondents were process manufacturers and 28 percent were discrete manufacturers.

News Additions to Data Center 3.0 portfolio

08 Apr 2010

Cisco has introduced continued innovation and additions to its Data Center 3.0 portfolio, designed to reduce IT infrastructure cost and complexity, provide better support for data center virtualization, and improve business agility to deliver strategic competitive advantages.

Videos Diane Morello discusses the Gartner CIO Leadership Forum in London April 27-28 2010

08 Apr 2010

Diane Morello discusses the Gartner CIO Leadership Forum in London April 27-28 2010. For more information, see our events page.

News McAfee and Riverbed partner

06 Apr 2010

Joint solutions delivers COMPREHENSIVE wan optimization and multilayer security in a single APPLIANCE.

Articles The vulnerabilities of virtual systems

05 Apr 2010

Robert Winter, chief engineer at data recovery firm, Kroll Ontrack discusses the risks of virtualisation.

News Extended intrusion prevention capabilities

31 Mar 2010

Sourcefire has expanded its Sourcefire 3D System to support the Xen 3.3.2 and 3.4.2 virtualisation platforms. Now supporting the two leading virtual environments – Xen and VMware – Sourcefire is enabling customers with diverse virtual platforms to further protect these investments, while also leveraging these resources to increase intrusion prevention capabilities.

Videos Classify & Collect by Iron Mountain

31 Mar 2010

Iron Mountain's Connected Classify & Collect offering simplifies the collection of laptop and desktop data for eDiscovery

Videos Avocent - MTC Reston

31 Mar 2010

Avocent testimonial video with partner Microsoft Technology Centre in Reston, near Washington DC

News Realising the benefits of SAN virtualisation

30 Mar 2010

More performance, greater available capacity, simplified upgrades and scalability - all on-the-fly.

Blog Will Google be your next ISP, Telco or Internet?

29 Mar 2010

Pete Gerr from HDS writes:

While Google has been making headlines on dry land from its challenges in China, the company’s investment in a $300 million ultra-highspeed fiber optic link to Japan is nearly ready to begin paying dividends

News HPC Server market declined 11.6% in 2009

26 Mar 2010

Return to growth expected in 2010, according to IDC.

Blog thedatachain of thought2

24 Mar 2010

"The notion that a single converged data center network makes for fewer switches and ports, resulting in a simpler network consuming less power and cooling, is flawed, according to Gartner, Inc. Gartner research shows that a converged data center network requires more switches and ports, is more complex to manage and consumes more power and cooling than two well-designed separate networks."

News Force10 unveils Open Automation initiative

22 Mar 2010

Force10’s Open Automation initiative aims to transform data centre infrastructure into a streamlined, efficient and policy-driven cloud computing fabric.

Videos Borderless Networks

19 Mar 2010

Wales, a constituent nation of the United Kingdom with a population of 3m people, is on course to become the first country in the world to achieve the Cisco vision of a completely borderless network embracing all of its public services.

News Expanding the virtual view

18 Mar 2010

Global deployment manager, centralized management and WAN application monitoring system now available as a virtual offering for enterprises and managed service providers.

News Intel launches its most secure data center processor

17 Mar 2010

Second-generation High-K Metal Gate 32nm processors blend security, performance, energy efficiency.

News Virtual WAN Optimisation Appliances for branch office IT infrastructure

16 Mar 2010

Blue Coat Systems has extended its Application Delivery Network Infrastructure with the introduction of a new family of virtual WAN Optimisation appliances.

Videos Quick Tips: Disaster Recovery Testing

16 Mar 2010

Brad Wagner talks about the challenges presented by disaster recovery.

News The insecurities of a virtual world?

15 Mar 2010

Gartner says 60 per cent of virtualised servers will be less secure than the physical servers they replace through 2012.

Blog thedatachain of thought

11 Mar 2010

The 'soft' launch of thedatachain continues to go well - with several key content partners on board, and more in the pipeline. Our intention is to use video as the primary delivery mechanism - short, sharp, incisive comment from vendors, analysts and end users as we visit the many data centre, virtualisation and cloud events out there. This content is backed up by vendors own video content, plus the site's strong news focus, articles and, over time, a valuable information source on buzz topics.

News Data centres remain a corporate priority

11 Mar 2010

Research commissioned by Digital Realty Trust shows that in 2010, companies will increase their data centre floor space and expand into new locations as the European economy stabilises.

News Space cut, speed doubled

09 Mar 2010

EMC plans to extend its leadership in storage for VMware environments with new software that increases virtual storage efficiency, automation and management simplicity.

News SNIA Europe endorses EU Data Centre Code

09 Mar 2010

The Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA) Europe is endorsing the EU Code of Conduct on Data Centre Energy Efficiency.

Blog 3 Reasons Why Channel Partners Should Include Virtual Appliances in Their Business Model

09 Mar 2010

Sai Allarvarpu from Citrix writes:

Last week, when we launched Access Gateway VPX and Branch Repeater VPX, I blogged about the feedback customers gave us. In this blog, I want to discuss the feedback from channel partners from a few focus groups and meetings over the past few quarters.
Traditionally, vendors talk about competitive dynamics when discussing customers. That is normal because new product launches often don't fundamentally change partners' practices of or decisions about any given vendor. Such product launches don't really sway the partners to favor one product over others or switch from one vendor to another.

News High-availability backbone is music to iomart’s hosted customers

04 Mar 2010

iomart hosting, one of the UK’s fastest growing managed services providers, is using DataCore’s SANsymphony solution to provide the high-availability backbone for iomart’s hosted customers.

News Near 50% reduction in storage TCO

04 Mar 2010

AudienceScience has reduced its storage total cost of ownership (TCO) by nearly 50% as a result of deploying 3PAR Utility Storage in its VMware vSphere environment.

Videos Netcordia

03 Mar 2010

Explore NetMRI's latest features (v.3.0) which help you improve network performance with automated configuration and change analysis across routers, switches, and other layer 2/3 network devices

News Automatic backup in a virtual environment

01 Mar 2010

The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) has ensured its growing virtual environment can be backed up reliably without significant hands-on time from system administrators by deploying Vizioncore's vRanger Pro Data Protection Platform (DPP).

Videos Netcordia

01 Mar 2010

Explore NetMRI's latest features (v.3.0) which help you improve network performance with automated configuration and change analysis across routers, switches, and other layer 2/3 network devices

News VMware to acquire IT management products and software expertise from EMC

26 Feb 2010

Acquisition expands VMware vCenter Management product.

News New level of uptime for critical applications

26 Feb 2010

VMware and DataCore Software deliver an “All Virtualized” IT environment for Dinwiddie County in Virginia.

News Fluid data storage provides more than virtual savings

25 Feb 2010

Credit information specialist CMA is making annual savings of more than £500,000 after virtualising its storage and server infrastructure using Compellent’s Fluid Data storage and server virtualisation technology from VMware. These money savings have been achieved by avoiding unnecessary disk purchases, reducing management costs and minimizing power costs.

News Accelerating cloud adoption

22 Feb 2010

EMC has unveiled improved information management and higher performing, lower cost platform capabilities as part of its EMC Atmos cloud infrastructure solution.

News Improved infrastructure agility

22 Feb 2010

New virtual version of BIG-IP LTM increases deployment flexibility, offering customers freedom to combine physical & virtual appliances in an integrated application delivery architecture for optimal efficiency, scalability, and reliability.

News Fibre Channel over Ethernet will be a key driver of HBA and Network Adapter markets

22 Feb 2010

Value proposition of converged fabric to fuel strong growth.

News IQ upgrade

22 Feb 2010

Raritan has announced adding systems integration capabilities to its Power IQ data centre energy management software and support for more data centre equipment. Power IQ helps companies track and analyze energy usage down to the individual IT device level and implement energy-saving actions from a central power console.

News Four join final phase

22 Feb 2010

Easynet Global Services, euNetworks, PacketExchange and BroadbandONE have joined the final-phase development programme for the company’s Equinix Carrier Ethernet Exchange.

News 16.6 Billion Optical Transport equipment market by 2014

22 Feb 2010

40/100 Gbps DWDM forecast almost $3 billion in five years.

News Gartner announces finalists for inaugural Green Data Centre Award in Asia Pacific

22 Feb 2010

Three energy-efficient data centres to present case studies at Gartner Infrastructure, Operations and Data Centre Summit, 24-25 March 2010.

Videos Ask the Experts: Virtualization and Cloud Infrastructure

18 Feb 2010

Dante Orsini, Vice-President of Business Development at iLand discusses Virtualization and how it has been a valuable tool for their business offerings.

Videos Virtually Speaking: Virtualization and the Cloud Infrastructure

18 Feb 2010

Dante Orsini, Vice-President of Business Development at iLand discusses Virtualization and how it has an important role in cloud computing.

Articles ServerTech - Background Flier

15 Feb 2010

Founded in 1984, Server Technology is located in Reno, Nevada, where the company develops, manufacturers, and distributes it’s Sentry line of power distribution units and switches.

News New level of uptime for critical applications

02 Feb 2010

VMware and DataCore Software deliver an “All Virtualized” IT environment for Dinwiddie County in Virginia.

News Logicalis Wins Cisco Data Centre and Virtualisation Partner of the Year at 2010 Cisco Partner Summit

30 Jan 2010

Logicalis have announced that it is the recipient of a Cisco Partner Summit regional award for Data Centre and Virtualisation Partner of the Year. Cisco unveiled the winners on April 28 at its annual channel partner conference in San Francisco

Articles ServerTech - Jewelry Wholesaler in Southwestern USA

25 Jan 2010

A chain of six jewelry wholesale stores across Nevada and Utah had three servers at each store, running that site's point-of-sale, security camera, and business applications. With Raritan's Dominion KX101 for remote administrative access, the chain was able to relocate all its servers to a single site, resulting in fewer on-site troubleshooting trips (across a range of 700 miles), and fewer cabling, HVAC, security and management issues.

Articles Mapesbury

25 Jan 2010

MCom established its business on the back of government legislation in 2002 that permitted the commercial use of the Wi-Fi spectrum for wireless internet access. The company formed a unique partnership with petrol station Texaco to develop a service offering wireless connectivity to motorists based around petrol station forecourts. These wireless hot spots were useful for business professionals such as sales representatives and engineers that needed to stay in touch with the office while on the move.

Articles Catalyst2

25 Jan 2010

In recent years, Catalyst2 has grown from strength to strength resulting in the need for regular expansion of infrastructure, servers and associated network equipment to accommodate new business. With this growth, Catalyst2 recognised the importance of having a "premium" data centre provider in place and prompted an in-depth review in 2006. Executives at Catalyst2 carefully evaluated key requirements and considered every provider in the London metropolitan area.

Videos How to get Alerted when a Server loses Power

25 Jan 2010

JSCS Computer Solutions illustrates how to use Raritan's Dominion PX capability for setting current thresholds to create an alert that will notify you if an outlets senses that power has gone beyond a specified limit.

Videos Power IQ Overview

25 Jan 2010

This video provides a brief overview of Raritan's Power IQ Enterprise Energy Management Software.

Videos 60 Amp Server Technology Switched PDU Demo

25 Jan 2010

60Amp Server Technology Switched PDU Demo with Andy Szeto