Verizon Business Expands Asia-Pacific Cloud Capabilities

Brings Computing as a Service Offering to Hong Kong Data Center to Meet Growing Demand for In-Region Cloud Services. Adoption of cloud services in the Asia-Pacific region continues to grow dramatically, and Verizon Business is meeting that demand by extending its flagship cloud-computing solution into the company’s recently opened Hong Kong data center.

Enhanced SAS IT Intelligence Software Includes Cloud, Virtual Servers

IT managers can now extract the intelligence they need to better manage virtualized servers and cloud computing architectures. A new version of SAS IT Resource Management enhances performance management and capacity planning for mainframes, distributed systems, networks, and other platforms, also includes a business intelligence reporting environment.

New InstallAware Virtualization Creates Royalty-Free Portable Applications

InstallAware Marketing Corporation has released InstallAware Virtualization, an application virtualization tool for ISVs and enterprises deploying and re-packaging software products on Microsoft Windows. InstallAware Virtualization comes to market with a royalty-free licensing model, resulting in phenomenal cost savings over comparable solutions like VMware ThinApp or Microsoft App-V.

ActiveImage Protector Released for Hyper-V With New ReZoom Feature

Rectiphy Corp. today released its ActiveImage Protector (AIP) for Hyper-V 2 .7.5 with patent-pending ReZoom technology. Rectiphy’s AIP was the first solution that allowed users to Hot Image a Microsoft® Hyper-V™ host along with all guest virtual machines and applications without shutting them down, vastly improving Hyper-V backup management.

Virtuon Paves Fast-Track to the Cloud and Gives New Life to Old Applications

Virtuon announced today it has unveiled a Virtual Application service based on cloud computing and virtualization technology. The new service allows software developers to put their applications immediately in the cloud as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering with no development or rewrite effort.

Citrix Accelerates Virtual Desktop Revolution with XenDesktop 5

The new XenDesktop 5 brings unprecedented levels of simplicity and power to virtual desktops for both users and IT. It supports a wide range of new consumer devices, thousands of new third-party products and an entirely new generation of web and software-as-a-service (SaaS) apps. XenDesktop 5 also extends the benefits of desktop virtualization to millions of laptop users for the first time ever, giving them virtual desktops “to go” with the new Citrix XenClient™ hypervisor.

Solarflare Announces Support for Citrix XenServer and Open Virtual Switch

Solarflare, the leader in standards-based 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) network adapters, silicon and middleware, announced today support for Citrix XenServer®, offering near-native performance for 10GbE network traffic to virtual machines using standards-based hardware I/O virtualization with its SFN5000 Enterprise Server Adapter Product Family.