Quest Software Meets the Need for Serious Virtual Data Protection

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… Continue reading Quest Software Meets the Need for Serious Virtual Data Protection

Cormant Announces the Ability to Query Virtual Machine Managers with CableSolve

Cormant Inc., a software development company specializing in IT infrastructure management, today announced CableSolve now queries virtual machine (VM) managers such as VMware ESX® and Cisco UCS® environments. With this update, data center and IT infrastructure managers are able to see a holistic view of their physical and virtual servers in the context of the… Continue reading Cormant Announces the Ability to Query Virtual Machine Managers with CableSolve

Citrix Optimizes XenServer for the Cloud Era

Citrix Systems today announced the availability of XenServer® 6, the most recent edition of its server virtualization product line. As a key component of the Citrix cloud computing and virtualization strategy, XenServer 6 brings new optimizations and improved scalability and performance for cloud infrastructure, desktop virtualization and networking. XenServer continues to grow market presence and… Continue reading Citrix Optimizes XenServer for the Cloud Era

Tech Data Partners with VMware to Deliver VMware vSphere 5

Tech Data Corporation today announced that it has partnered with VMware to deliver VMware vSphere® 5 to its channel of over 60,000 resellers in the United States. VMware vSphere 5 is available for live, remote, or virtual demos at Tech Data’s onsite VMware Transformation Center, providing resellers with expert-led sales and technical training to differentiate… Continue reading Tech Data Partners with VMware to Deliver VMware vSphere 5

Salsa Labs Builds Agile SaaS Platform on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that Salsa Labs, creator of the Salsa platform for online organization, is extending the capabilities of its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform with the use of Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization to simplify and scale its datacenter. Salsa Labs set out from its inception to… Continue reading Salsa Labs Builds Agile SaaS Platform on Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization

Small Businesses Gain Agility, Cut Costs with Server Virtualization

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Twenty-five percent of small businesses boost IT ROI with virtualized servers; 73 percent of those without virtualization are investigating or planning to virtualize CDW LLC, a leading provider of technology products and services to business, government, education and healthcare, today introduced the CDW Small Business Virtualization Roadmap, a technology adoption guide that also reports survey… Continue reading Small Businesses Gain Agility, Cut Costs with Server Virtualization

Information Security, Virtualization, and the Journey to the Cloud

According to ESG research, virtualization technology investments top the priority list in 2010 as nearly 60% of large and small organizations will increase their spending on virtualization technology. Why? Because its optimization and efficiency benefits are measurable and real. Given this, many firms plan to expand their use of virtualization by increasing the number of… Continue reading Information Security, Virtualization, and the Journey to the Cloud

ManageEngine Applications Manager Deepens VMware Monitoring

Today at VMworld 2011, ManageEngine, makers of a globally renowned suite of cost-effective network, systems, applications and security management software solutions, announced ManageEngine Applications Manager 10.0, the latest version of its availability and performance monitoring software. Now, Applications Manager gains deep VMware monitoring capabilities with support for VMware vCenter™ Server, upcoming support for VMware vFabric®… Continue reading ManageEngine Applications Manager Deepens VMware Monitoring