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Scalent Systems announced
that it is one of the
select finalists for
'Best Virtualization
Product' in the European
IT industry's Techworld
Awards (formerly Network
Awards). The Techworld
Awards have recognized
great products in the
industry for over
thirteen years. Scalent
shares the t
NetApp announced support
for VMware Site Recovery
Manager, a product from
VMware for disaster
recovery management and
automation. This support
provides customers with a
disaster recovery
solution built with
VMware Site Recovery
Manager, VMware
Infrastructure, and
NetApp FAS storage sys
Research and Markets has
announced the addition of
'Web 2.0 Server and Push
Technology Market Shares
Strategies, and
Forecasts, 2008 to 2014'
to their offering.
Advertising budgets have
not been directly
connected to the computer
and technology before the
Web 2.0 companies started
attr
Ericom and BOSaNOVA
announced a partnership
in which all BOSaNOVA
Linux, CE and XPe thin
clients will include
Ericom's PowerTerm
WebConnect clients for
Desktop Virtualization
and Server Based
Computing. With Ericom's
PowerTerm WebConnect,
BOSaNOVA thin client
users will have secure
and
Desktone announced that
it has created the
Desktone Service Provider
Partner Program to enable
service providers in the
IT hosting, IT
outsourcing and datacom
businesses to offer
desktops as a service
(DaaS) based on the
Desktone Virtual-D
Platform. The company
also unveiled that Hewle
LeftHand Networks
announced its support for
VMware Site Recovery
Manager. VMware Site
Recovery Manager is a
pioneering product for
disaster recovery
management and
automation. Part of
VMware's suite of
management and automation
products for the data
center, VMware Site
Recovery Manager
Research and Markets has
announced the addition of
'Services Oriented
Architecture (SOA)
Infrastructure Market
Shares, Strategies, and
Forecasts, 2008 to 2014'
to their offering.
According to the report,
IBM is the de-facto
industry standard market
leader in SOA. IBM
dominates SOA with
db4objects has announced
that its db4o object
database is now optimized
for Microsoft's LINQ.
With the new support,
developers can choose an
object-oriented optimized
engine without changing
the API or compromising
performance. db4object's
db4o database offers a
persistence solution to
Micron Technology
announced that Egenera
has designed Micron's
line of energy-efficient
Aspen Memory products
into its Egenera
BladeFrame platforms to
reduce data center power
consumption. Egenera is
experiencing up to a 17
percent reduction in
server memory power
consumption by utiliz
'Wikipedia is a great way
for us to showcase
Powerset's functionality
while giving people a
faster time to
satisfaction,' said
Barney Pell, co-founder
and CTO of Powerset, as
his company today
unveiled a publicly
available beta product
that according to Pell
reinvents how users
search
WaveMaker announced the
release of Visual AJAX
Studio version 3.2. The
new version introduces a
beta installer for Mac OS
10.5 (Leopard) and full
support for the Safari
Browser, bringing
WaveMaker's drag-and-drop
Java development to the
Mac.
Curl announced it has
released the availability
of an Ubuntu Installer
for the Curl Rich
Internet Application
(RIA) platform. Curl is a
Rich Internet Application
platform that competes
with Adobe AIR/Flex,
Silverlight, and Ajax.
Curl has been shipping
with Linux support for
RedHat 9, S
Kaazing Corporation and
Sun Microsystems
announced an alliance to
deliver the scalable and
advanced real-time Web
2.0 platform. The
integration between
Kaazing's real-time Rich
Internet Application
(RIA) solution,
Enterprise Comet, and Sun
Microsystems' open source
Java EE application
Rich Green, executive
vice president of
Software at Sun, outlined
in his keynote
presentation at JavaOne
in San Francisco a
roadmap for the JavaFX
family of products that
includes a high
performance declarative
scripting language,
JavaFX Script - created
for Web scripters,
designers an
Intel wants to transition
from 300mm to 450mm
wafers in 2012 and has
gotten Samsung and TSMC
to agree to an
'industry-wide
collaboration' to ensure
that everything's in
place and there are pilot
lines being tested by
then. It should mean
lower-cost MPUs, diminish
overall use of resourc
Microsoft, which spent $6
billion on aQuantive and
was chasing Yahoo for its
ads before it came to a
dead stop, has been
supporting - as in
helping write -
legislation in New York
and Connecticut that
would regulate the data
that companies like Yahoo
and Google collect for
targeted adv
So how does it feel to
have witnessed one of
technology's little
miracles this week? I
mean Yahoo's stock price
successfully defying
gravity. It's as close as
any of us will ever get
to an apparition of the
Virgin Mary floating on a
cloud without any visible
means of support.
Apparentl
Citrix announced the
availability of Citrix
XenServer software
factory integrated on
Dell PowerEdge servers.
Citrix and Dell have
partnered to make
integrated server
virtualization technology
a reality for customers
of all sizes. The initial
products now available to
Dell customers wor
ShoZu announced that it
has expanded its mobile
social media service to
Photobucket, Dailymotion,
Friendster, Twitter and
four additional Web 2.0
and Mobile 2.0
communities. With these
eight new integrations,
ShoZu now enables mobile
users to interact with
their choice of 36 social
net
Virtualization stresses
existing management
systems by introducing
increases in the speed,
scale, and complexity of
the information
technology environment.
With its EVM Suite,
ManageIQ enables
enterprises to overcome
these challenges with
management and automation
designed for virtuali
Software Research has
announced the
availability of major new
specialized commands in
its Patented eValid
Website Test & Analysis
Suite. eValid has
introduced a set of AJAX
Playback Synchronization
on DOM Element commands
that provide direct
control of test script
playback synchronizat
DataCore announced that
it has accepted a $30M
equity investment from
Insight Venture Partners
and Updata Partners.
Insight Venture Partners
is a private equity and
venture capital firm
focused on the global
software and Internet
industries. Updata
Partners is an
information technology
As oil headed in the
direction of $200 a
barrel this week, VMware
claimed that its
virtualization widgetry
has saved users 39
billion kWh since 1998,
more power than it takes
to heal and cool Denmark
a year. It calculates the
savings at $4.4 billion.
Xceed launched Xceed
Upload for Silverlight,
the commercial offering
in support of Microsoft's
promising new Silverlight
technology. The product
is available now for
purchase or as a fully
functional 45-day trial
on Xceed's website. Xceed
Upload for Silverlight
lets developers add uplo
During my last trip to
Best Buy, on a whim I
picked up a DVI-to-HDMI
connector (male DVI,
female HDTV). This little
doohickey plugs into the
side of my Macbook Pro
and then I plug the HDMI
cable into that. I run
the other end of the HDMI
cable into the HDTV and I
get something that is
VMware and Lenovo
announced an agreement to
increase the adoption of
VMware virtualization in
China. Lenovo will sell,
distribute and support
the VMware Infrastructure
3 platform on Lenovo
server systems. This
partnership enables
businesses and
organizations in China to
leverage both t
SYS-CON Events announced
today that the Founder &
CEO of FastScale, Lynn
LeBlanc, will be giving a
top breakout session at
SYS-CON's 4th
International
Virtualization Conference
& Expo in San Jose, CA
(20-21 November, 2008).
Composite Software
provides a virtual
approach to data
integration. Hundreds of
enterprises including
five of the top six U.S.
investment banks as well
several Government
agencies, such as the
Office of Secretary of
Defense and Intelligence,
and software vendors
including Cognos, Infor
Dell will take a big
giant step out ahead of
HP and IBM in the
virtualization
sweepstakes when it
announces that it is
OEMing PAN, Egenera's
data center
virtualization and
management software.
Egenera, which has been
doing virtualization way
longer than most people,
claims PAN is the e
Mike Neil is general
manager for
virtualization strategy
in the Windows Server
Division at Microsoft.
Mike is focused on the
delivery of the Windows
virtualization
technology, including
Windows Server 2008
Hyper-V, Microsoft
Hyper-V Server and
Virtual PC 2007. Mike
also directs the tec
Microsoft is making
System Center, its
central management
scheme, natively manage
Linux, Unix and VMware
virtual servers. The
widgetry has always been
a Windows-only affair,
but now there are betas
available showing off
Microsoft's
cross-platform prowess,
important to Microsoft's
place
Dell builds appliances
that it sells to OEMs
like Google's search box.
Its latest effort is the
OEM CR100 server, a
simple, stripped-down,
entry-level platform,
built with PowerEdge R200
technology. The
short-depth 1U is good
for a two-year lifecycle.
SunGard announced a
partnership with VMware.
This strategic
partnership will help
organizations leverage
VMware's proven
virtualization platform
with open access to
SunGard's vast
infrastructure, providing
secondary data center
facilities. Ensuring
availability and
recoverability of ap
Aras announced the
availability of Version 9
of the Aras Innovator
suite of model-based
service-oriented
architecture (SOA)
solutions for enterprise
Product Lifecycle
Management (PLM). Version
9 delivers model-based
SOA for PLM and includes
single-instance
multi-language
capabilities a
Dell announced its
broadest lineup of
dedicated virtualization
solutions ever. More than
a dozen new servers,
tools, and services
simplify the deployment
and management of
virtualization in
Enterprises of any size.
DataCore announced that
JMR Construction has
become a DataCore
SANmelody customer
courtesy of DataCore
partner Integral
Networks. VMware and
DataCore serve as a way
forward for the DataCore
partner and customer
alike. The combination
provides a cost effective
alternative that made it
p
Emulex announced that EMC
has qualified the Emulex
LightPulse LPe12000
family of 8Gb/s Fibre
Channel host bus adapters
(HBAs) for the EMC
CLARiiON, EMC Celerra and
EMC Symmetrix networked
storage system families.
Emulex 8Gb/s HBAs, which
are available from EMC
through EMC Select, provi
3PAR announced that a
recently released report
by the Taneja Group
defines and analyzes a
new category of
next-generation Fibre
Channel storage systems
from vendors including
3PAR. The report
forecasts revenue growth
for next-generation Fibre
Channel storage systems
for the period betw
3PAR is a provider of
utility storage, a
category of
highly-virtualized,
tightly-clustered, and
dynamically-tiered
storage arrays built for
utility computing.
Organizations use utility
computing to build
cost-effective
virtualized IT
infrastructures for
flexible workload
consolidation.
Motorola through Motorola
Ventures, its strategic
venture capital arm,
announced it made an
equity investment in
VirtualLogix, a maker of
virtualization software
for communications
devices and
infrastructure equipment.
Financial terms of the
investment were not
disclosed. VirtualLogix