http://hostmysite.sys-con.com/ Latest articles from Virtualization News Desk Copyright 2008 hostmysite.sys-con.com Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:24:00 GMT hostmysite.sys-con.com 10 http://backend.userland.com/rss http://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/605634.htmhttp://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/605634.htm Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:00:00 GMT Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens, Citrix CTO Simon Crosby, Egenera CTO Pete Manca, Allen Stewart, Group Manager, Windows Virtualization at Microsoft, and Brian Duckering, Sr. Director of Products and Alliances at Symantec were the top industry executives who joined Jeremy Geelan in the 4th Floor Reuters Studio overlooking Times Square for a special SYS-CON.TV 'Virtualization Power Panel' recorded on June 22, 2008, the day before the opening of SYS-CON's 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo - which was held 23-24 June 2008 in New York City. http://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/609872.htmhttp://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/609872.htm Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:45:00 GMT The world's first journal devoted to the delivery of massively scalable IT resources as a service has been launched by SYS-CON Media, the latest in a series of leading-edge additions to its 25-plus stable of online and print publications such as Web 2.0 Journal, AJAX & RIA Journal, Open Web Developer's Journal, and iPhone Developer's Journal. http://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/597044.htmhttp://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/597044.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:45:00 GMT SYS-CON Events announced today that the Virtualization on Wall Street Conference & Expo will take place on March 22-24, 2009, in New York City. The event is expected to attract over 1,000 developers, architects, IT managers, and software professionals of every stripe who will be converging in New York City to attend this comprehensive meeting on Virtualization on Wall Street. http://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/484494.htmhttp://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/484494.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:15:00 GMT 2008 will be the year of Virtualization with many companies offering their products and services, including: 3 Leaf, Acronis, Agilysys, Akorri, AMD, APC, Appistry, AppStream, Attune Systems, Avanade, BEA Systems, Blue Lane, Brocade, CA, Cassatt, Certeon, CiRBA, Citrix, ClearCube, Coraid, Crosswalk, DataDirect, DataSynapse, Digipede Technologies, Double-Take Software, Dynamic Network Factory, Ecora Software, Egenera, Embotics, EMC, Enigmatic, Enomaly, EqualLogic, Evault, eXludus Technologies, F5Networks, FalconStor, FastScale Technology, Fortisphere, GlobalFluency, Grid Dynamics, Hitachi, HP, IBM, InovaWave, Intel, KACE, Kidaro, Layeredtech, LeftHand Networks, Leostream, Mainline, ManageIQ, Marathon Technologies, Mellanox Technologies, Microsoft, Mid-Atlantic Computers, Mindbridge Software, Ncomputing, NeoPath Networks, Neoware, Network Appliance, Neverfail, Novell, Opalis Software, OPNET Technologies, Opsware / HP, Oracle, Panologic, Parallels, PlateSpin, Platform Computing, PolyServe, Provision Networks, Raxco Software, Red Hat, Reflex Security, rPath, Sagent Solutions, SAP, Scalent Systems, ScienceLogic, Seanodes, Splunk, Stoneware, StorageNetworking.org, Supermicro Computer, Surgient, SWsoft, Symantec, Tangosol, Thinstall, Tideway Systems, TOA Solutions, TRANGO Virtual Processors, Trigence, United Devices, VeeAm Software, Virtual Iron, VirtualLogix, Virtugo Software, Vizioncore, VMLogix, vmSight, Vmware, vThere, Sentillion, Wyse Technology, XDS, XenSource, Xsigo Systems, and ZenithOptimedia. http://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/597918.htmhttp://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/597918.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:15:00 GMT Virtualization has quickly become a staple new concept for enterprise IT. At SYS-CON's 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo, held at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City, June 23-24, we had exceptional speakers with high-quality use cases not only of how virtualization maximizes the use of resources and thus saves companies money, but also of how it is fundamentally altering the way that businesses run IT. The two content-packed days emphasized value with a rich array of sessions about the business and technical value of virtualization. http://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/607812.htmhttp://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/607812.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 20:15:00 GMT The future model for providing IT infrastructure and services in large organizations is what many today are calling 'Cloud Computing' - a concept popularized by Amazon through its web services efforts. Merrill Lynch analysts for example reckon that by 2011 the volume of Cloud Computing market opportunity will amount to $160BN, including $95N in business and productivity apps (e-mail, office, CRM, etc.) and $65BN in online advertising. http://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/608763.htmhttp://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/608763.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:00:00 GMT Just as people begin to understand the difference between web ops and IT, we are entering a period where clouds promise 'Ops-Free' computing. Because it's easy, scalable, available and disposable, the cloud is well on its way to becoming 'technology's next big thing.' However, with recent outages from Amazon and Google Apps, the question of the cloud's competence, security and reliability have come into play. In this session, Hyperic's CEO, Javier Soltero will address these issues along with the many others surrounding the cloud including: The emergence of web operations as a discipline, How cloud computing simply changes, instead of eliminating the importance of web operations, What tools are available to help better manage cloud environments? http://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/612908.htmhttp://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/612908.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:00:00 GMT RingCube and MXI Security have partnered to deliver MojoPac Enterprise on MXI Security's Stealth MXP Biometric USB drives. The integrated mobile virtual desktop solution enables users to securely carry their entire desktop environment including applications, files and settings on a portable USB drive and access it from any PC - at work, home, at a customer site or on a public computer -- online or offline. MXI Security USB portable security devices ensure that RingCube's high performance virtual workspaces are protected by the highest 2-factor biometric user authentication and the strongest AES 256-bit hardware encryption to prevent data leakage and unauthorized access. http://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/608799.htmhttp://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/608799.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:45:00 GMT With the adoption of virtualization, virtual machines are replacing physical servers in the data center and introducing a unique set of management requirements. Policy-based management in the virtualized infrastructure is an approach that is used to simplify and automate management by establishing policies to deal with situations that are likely to occur. Many organizations today mistakenly assume that their approach for applying best practices in the virtual infrastructure will be the same as their physical one. This session will discuss leading practices and pitfalls of applying and enforcing IT policies in a virtualized environment. http://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/608800.htmhttp://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/608800.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:45:00 GMT Cloud Computing offers significant benefits over traditional solutions for deploying production systems as well as for conducting development and testing activities. This session will distill the unique characteristics of clouds and describe how to best think about deployments in the clouds. Case studies and real experiences from Thorsten von Eicken's two years of cloud computing experience will illustrate the pros and cons of today's cloud offerings. His technical discussion will cover: Layers of cloud computing, Cost breakdown versus traditional solutions, IT management and development, testing benefits/examples, Extreme, fast scalability at low cost - case study. http://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/611801.htmhttp://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/611801.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:45:00 GMT Citrix Systems announced 'Project Kensho,' which will deliver Open Virtual Machine Format (OVF) tools that allow independent software vendors (ISVs) and enterprise IT managers to create hypervisor-independent, portable enterprise application workloads. These tools will allow application workloads to be imported and run across Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V and VMware ESX virtual environments. http://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/612617.htmhttp://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/612617.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:45:00 GMT Fortisphere announced that it plans to support VMware VMsafe technology, expanding the market reach of its Virtual Essentials software suite, which provides customers with greater levels of visibility and control over their VMware virtualized environments. VMware VMsafe technology helps vendors combat the challenges of compliance, management and security in ways previously not possible in physical environments. http://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/612988.htmhttp://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/612988.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 14:45:00 GMT Hosting provider LeaseWeb has decided to use a FAS 3040HA mid-range platform by NetApp so that it will be able to offer its customers a complete storage-on-demand (SOD) solution. The platform will allow LeaseWeb to offer managed back-up and disaster recovery services. http://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/608801.htmhttp://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/608801.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 13:00:00 GMT As server virtualization gains mainstream adoption, it is increasingly being deployed to support a broad range of data center initiatives that extend beyond simple server consolidation and development and test. Today, enterprises of all sizes are realizing the true potential of server virtualization and using it to streamline their data centers to create more flexible and dynamic IT infrastructure that enables them to deploy and manage software applications, support business continuity and balance CPU capacity dynamically. This session will examine the emergence of this new operating environment and its dramatic potential impact for users. It will also look at some of the critical considerations for users and how these decisions can impact their data center roadmap. http://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/606352.htmhttp://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/606352.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:15:00 GMT StoneFly unveiled StoneFusion 6.1, a new more robust release of the company's intelligent network storage platform, which is integrated into all StoneFly IP SANs to provide block-level provisioning and centralized storage management, control and monitoring of logical storage volumes. http://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/608840.htmhttp://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/608840.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:15:00 GMT Join MokaFive co-founder and CTO, John Whaley, as he discusses desktop virtualization as a potential dream-come-true for IT administrators faced with demanding users and impending disasters. Whaley will cover how desktop virtualization provides solutions to accommodate a mobile workforce including secure remote access, ability to work online or offline, running complete operating systems and applications off a USB flash drive or iPod, and centrally-managed updates delivered simultaneously. Whaley will also talk about key security benefits to building and deploying virtual desktops including malware immunity, backing up to the cloud and automatic rejuvenation. http://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/610361.htmhttp://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/610361.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:15:00 GMT FastScale announced a new North America Channel Program with eight partners already signed including Blackhawk Technology Consulting, Continental Resources, International Computerware, New Age Technology, SecureTek Group, VirtaCORE, Whitewater Data, and Xcedex. Data center demand for the company's innovative technologies exceeded expectations during the first year of availability, and skilled partners will provide customers with greater access to products, technical expertise, and related services offerings centered on FastScale?s technologies. http://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/610362.htmhttp://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/610362.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:15:00 GMT FastScale announced the newest release of its flagship product, FastScale Composer Suite. FastScale Composer Suite fully automates the process of building, managing and deploying server software environments for enterprise class data centers and Web farms, whether the infrastructure is physical, virtual or both. The new release extends the benefits of FastScale's sleek software management solution to Windows Server 2003 environments, adds new capabilities in lightweight application provisioning, and delivers a range of scalability and usability enhancements. http://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/611159.htmhttp://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/611159.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:15:00 GMT Imera Systems announces next generation network virtualization solutions for cross-enterprise e-Diagnostics and equipment knowledge base access. The solutions connect manufacturers and equipment vendors to maximize productivity and reduce unscheduled equipment down time with no VPN connection, no third party service provider and no IP leakage. http://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/612680.htmhttp://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/612680.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:15:00 GMT On the heels of emergence from stealth mode, Hyper9 revealed the identities of two key product architects. Hyper9 search guru Jim Snyder and data aggregation expert Brian Baker share large roles in the development of the company's recently announced virtualization management solution. http://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/612944.htmhttp://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/612944.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:15:00 GMT 3PAR announced a new partnership with SYSDBA in South Africa to deliver innovative utility computing solutions built on 3PAR Utility Storage. SYSDBA offers a portfolio of products that collectively optimize and consolidate their clients' data centers by reducing management overhead and improving resource utilization, ultimately saving their clients money. 3PAR Utility Storage is designed to enable a new generation of utility computing applications such as delivery of enterprise IT as a utility service, cloud computing over the Web, and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA)-based applications. The partnership with 3PAR allows SYSDBA to take virtualization beyond the server layer and into the storage infrastructure for greater consolidation, cost savings, and reduction of storage administration for their customers. http://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/613930.htmhttp://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/613930.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:15:00 GMT StoneFly unveiled StoneFusion 6.1, a new more robust release of the company's intelligent network storage platform, which is integrated into all StoneFly IP SANs to provide block-level provisioning and centralized storage management, control and monitoring of logical storage volumes. http://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/608867.htmhttp://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/608867.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMT Virtualization comes in many forms, and by combining multiple technologies, enterprises can transform the way they deploy and manage their software. This session will examine how an enterprise can combine the use of layer-2 'desktop' hypervisor technology, layer-1 dedicated server virtualization software and next-generation management software to rapidly speed the rate at which they can develop and deploy new software within their enterprise. With software developers able to easily create and encapsulate software within virtual machine containers, and then speed this through staging and deployment, enterprises benefit from radical cost reduction and increased time to market. It will also radically simplify complex IT tasks, such as: patching and compliance reporting. This session will include case studies and live technology demonstrations. http://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/610032.htmhttp://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/610032.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMT IBM and Juniper Networks announced they have signed a five-year, data center hosting agreement with IBM to support Juniper's global operations. As part of the agreement, IBM will provide Juniper with a next-generation, global hosting environment to support its enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) application deployments worldwide. IBM will host Juniper's operations from its new energy efficient 'green' data center in Boulder, Colorado. http://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/612618.htmhttp://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/612618.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMT ScaleMP announced the availability and support of its vSMP Foundation Standalone software on the Dell PowerEdge server platforms. ScaleMP customers can now take advantage of ScaleMP's aggregation solutions using Dell's PowerEdge server platforms. The vSMP Foundation Standalone software aggregates multiple x86 and cluster-based systems into a single virtual shared memory system, reducing overall system management complexity while providing maximum processing and memory capabilities. http://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/612679.htmhttp://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/612679.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMT Carbonite announced a partnership agreement with Lifeboat Distribution. The agreement will enhance distribution coverage within North America. Carbonite will have access to Lifeboat's North American network of more than 4,500 resellers, value-added resellers, consultants and systems integrators. Among the partners expected to resell the Carbonite Online Backup solution are Wayside's separate subsidiaries - Programmer's Paradise and TechXtend - that sell software and hardware solutions to U.S. and Canadian corporations, universities and government organizations. http://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/613867.htmhttp://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/613867.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMT TOLIS Group announced a partnership with Parallels. TOLIS' BRU Server network backup solution has been successfully tested for compatibility with Parallels Server for Mac virtualization software. TOLIS Group is the developer of the ultra-reliable BRU brand of data backup and restore solutions and is a Parallels Technology Partner. BRU Server is now listed in the Parallels Certified Products Catalog. http://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/614566.htmhttp://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/614566.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:00:00 GMT SYSGO announced that their PikeOS safe and secure virtualization platform has been selected to support the ARINC-653 test application ported on AIDA, the new platform defined by the DIANA project. This test application is a Flight Management System (FMS). http://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/614565.htmhttp://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/614565.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:45:00 GMT Peer Software announced a partnership with Parallels. The companies are collaborating to enable customers to realize cost-savings through simplified IT infrastructures, using virtualization platforms and disaster recovery solutions with certified data protection, availability and continuous backup provided by Peer Software. Peer Software's solutions have been certified to provide Parallels Virtuozzo Containers with virtual server backup of user and application data through the PeerSync product line, and MS SQL backup and MS Exchange backup through the Peer DRS product line. http://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/607501.htmhttp://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/607501.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:30:00 GMT Xeround announced the Company has closed a $16 million round of Series B funding led by Ignition Partners and Trilogy Partnership. Also participating in the round were existing investors Benchmark Capital and Giza Venture Capital. The newly acquired funds will be used to increase sales and marketing activities as well as to step up research and development to advance the product roadmap. http://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/608096.htmhttp://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/608096.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:30:00 GMT Today, offerings such as Amazon Web Services' Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) are providing a new model for on demand compute resources based on virtual machines. Virtual appliances are a natural deployment vehicle for this type of infrastructure, allowing a clean separation between the memory, compute, and storage resources managed by the appliance provider and the complete software stack managed by the end user. Virtual appliances also allow a simple transition from internal virtualization clusters to outsourced providers, enabling capacity spikes to be handled. This session will showcase the tremendous flexibility, scalability, and financial savings that result from leveraging virtual appliances and cloud computing. Billy Marshall, CEO and founder of rPath will present a real life case study on KnowledgeTree, a document management provider, to examine the implementation of this strategy. http://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/587551.htmhttp://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/587551.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:15:00 GMT Cloud Computing offers significant benefits over traditional solutions for deploying production systems as well as for conducting development and testing activities. Dr Thorsten von Eicken, CTO of RightScale, Inc., will be giving a session at SYS-CON's 'Cloud Computing Expo' (November 20-21, 2008) - an adjunct to the 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo being held at The Fairmont Hotel in San Jose, CA. http://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/608703.htmhttp://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/608703.htm Fri, 18 Jul 2008 10:15:00 GMT Cloud Computing, in its current incarnation, falls short on its promise to make computing as a whole as simple as plugging an application into a utility service. The 'cloud' model initially has focused on making the hardware layer consumable as on-demand compute and storage capacity. This is an important first step, but for companies to harness the power of the cloud, complete application infrastructure needs to be easily configured, deployed, dynamically-scaled and managed in these virtualized hardware environments. Thus 'Elastic Computing' enters and enhances the cloud computing model by allowing companies to efficiently and cost-effectively configure, deploy and managing clustered, highly-scalable applications in cloud computing environments. This session will discuss in greater detail how these models work in concert and how to gain business value from them. http://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/607998.htmhttp://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/607998.htm Thu, 17 Jul 2008 16:30:00 GMT The demand for storage has increased exponentially, placing significant stress on current 'in house' storage architectures and costly overcapacity build-outs. Factoring in pressures of power, space, large capital expenditures, global performance, and availability issues, companies are faced with an exploding challenges and costs to go with the exploding storage demand. Bottom line, companies must take a new approach to storage. Companies need to move from the old and out-dated storage 1.0 model of 'do everything yourself' to a new storage 2.0 cloud model. This session will show how Cloud storage delivers persistent storage on demand to applications regardless of location and pre-defined boundaries and meets the performance and scalability characteristics of the web applications and enterprise users. http://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/610647.htmhttp://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/610647.htm Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:15:00 GMT 2X Software announced that it has teamed up with Azlan. With the 2X Server Based Computing software portfolio, Azlan can now provide a fully integrated and highly reliable virtualization business grade solution to its customers. http://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/607996.htmhttp://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/607996.htm Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:00:00 GMT Currently most desktop productivity software including browsers, mail clients, Office suites, IM, and media players make direct connections to the Internet and/or run untrusted content. As a result, these applications, which are core to office productivity, are also the primary vector of infections from Internet-borne malicious software. This session will describe how desktop virtualization can be deployed within an organization to secure users' desktop applications against Internet-based threats and untrusted content. http://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/608076.htmhttp://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/608076.htm Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:00:00 GMT This session describes how the wave of virtualization technology in the data center can be extended beyond hypervisors to embrace complete IT infrastructure management resulting in significant business value. It will commence by summarizing the fundamental problems that are holding back scale, flexibility and asset utilization in the data center. It will then describe an innovative approach to data center optimization that addresses the fundamental problems through virtualization of the complete IT infrastructure. This approach delivers 'Services Oriented IT Infrastructure' (SOI) that can be fully exploited by evolving management systems to enable service providers and enterprises to more efficiently deliver service differentiation, business continuity, disaster recovery and opex reduction. The session will be complemented by examples of how Liquid Computing is delivering on this vision today along with other technology leaders in the industry. http://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/608094.htmhttp://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/608094.htm Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:00:00 GMT As more enterprises embrace virtual infrastructure for part or all of their compute infrastructure, tools are needed to effectively control both physical and virtual. Few large organizations seek to virtualize all of their servers due to the performance hit of virtualization layers. Dynamic provisioning delivers the best of both worlds - high performance plus flexibility. This session will address the issues of server consolidation, virtual & hybrid software infrastructure, and management complexity; it will also review solutions that enable building, deploying and managing software environments with simplicity and flexibility, whether their environment if physical, virtual or both. http://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/607992.htmhttp://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/607992.htm Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:00:00 GMT As cloud computing becomes more commonplace, creating a secure method to bridge the gap between existing data centers and remote sources of compute capacity is being more and more important. The ability to efficiently and securely tap into remote cloud resources is one of the most important opportunities in the cloud computing today. In this session Reuven Cohen will discuss some of the challenges and opportunities to deploying across a diverse global cloud infrastructure. Location, security, portability, and reliability, he will explain, all play critical roles in a scalable IT environment. http://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/607994.htmhttp://hostmysite.sys-con.com/read/607994.htm Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:00:00 GMT Cloud technologies offer many benefits over traditional IT systems, especially when managing the size and vastness of unstructured data and unpredictable growth in IT environments. But when does it make sense to adopt cloud technologies and migrate a set of your IT services to the cloud? The movement of information and services out of the data center and into the cloud can unleash fear in many of us. Trusting that your information is secure, accessible and protected is important, and deciding what information remains inside and outside of the cloud can be critical to the success of your business. In this session, Mike Feinberg, Senior VP of EMC's Cloud Infrastructure and Services Division will discuss how to optimize the deployment of cloud technologies and the options that exist for migrating information to the cloud.