Micro Focus International announced that it has completed the acquisition of Relativity Technologies. Completion of the transaction follows a meeting of Relativity Technologies shareholders held on 30 December 2008 at which its shareholders accepted the offer. As previously announced b...

DataCore Software has announced an expanded line of SAN software starter packages priced for small-to-midsize businesses (SMBs). The high cost and complexity of traditional SAN storage required to support virtual servers and desktops typically puts it out of reach for many SMBs. DataCo...

The business case for virtualization is compelling: it delivers rapid, significant, sustainable operational and financial benefits. Yet many IT organizations confine server virtualization to test and development environments and low-priority applications because of a variety of concern...

If IT security is your top priority, then you can no longer ignore your Web applications. Leaving them unprotected makes them vulnerable to hackers and other threats. While your network security solutions can help defend your internal systems, vulnerabilities in your Web applications c...

You need a data center optimization strategy that goes beyond hardware consolidation to simplify operational complexity, adapt to your existing environment, and deliver a secure, responsive computing infrastructure—while lowering TCO. To learn more read this White paper on PAN Manage...

The first phase of virtualization — server consolidation— delivers lower costs, less crowded floor space, and a smaller carbon footprint. Leveraging virtualization more strategically creates an agile IT infrastructure that will provide higher service levels and greater reliability ...

Leading IT managers are taking steps toward a more dynamic data center by implementing strategies such as industry-standard computing platforms, storage area networks, and server virtualization. This paper looks at the requirements for the dynamic data center and demonstrates how Egene...

According to a new survey by the AFCOM Data Center Institute, about half of data centers are responding to the economic crisis by cutting their budgets an average of 15% for 2009. While the overall cuts were "surprisingly low" in the view of Jill Eckhaus, the CEO of the Association for...

Composite Software announced that Philip Howard of UK-based Bloor Research evaluated Composite Discovery, which provides search capabilities against structured data that may be stored in multiple locations. Discovery may also be used to search for data and data relationships to support...

Mitel and Sun Microsystems announced their global OEM agreement, a move aimed at creating a virtualized voice and data desktop. With the combination of Mitel call control on Sun servers and the Mitel Unified IP Client for Sun Ray, Mitel and Sun have delivered a desktop solution that pr...

Sun Microsystems announced a new version of Sun xVM VirtualBox, its free and open source desktop virtualization software for developers and enterprise users. xVM VirtualBox software lets users create "virtual machines" into which they can install their operating system (OS) of choice. ...

IBM has selected Emulex Corporation’s LightPulse 8Gb/s Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) for the new IBM Power Systems servers. By leveraging Emulex HBAs, IBM may provide customers with the increased I/O bandwidth, manageability and CPU efficiency required to support the increas...

Motorola announced the launch of a comprehensive mobile commerce solution for financial and retail merchandising needs. The solution, consisting of an M-Wallet and back-end management platform, has been deployed by Union Mobile Pay (UMPay), a mobile payment company established by China...

Catbird announced the launch of the Catbird Compliance Enforcer, a free service that instantly validates and enforces the security and compliance of virtual data centers. The Catbird Compliance Enforcer’s automated VM quarantine technology brings a level of protection to VMware comm...

Pillar Data Systems has announced its Window Server certification and application compatibility with Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, Microsoft's newest server operating system with built-in, hypervisor-based virtualization. The Pillar Axiom Storage System and Windows Server 20...

DynamicOps has announced new features for its Virtual Resource Manager (VRM), extending the virtualization management software from servers to desktops. The new features make it easier to organize, create, and control a virtual desktop environment. In addition, VRM 3.1 fully supports M...

VMware has announced its intention to expand its strategic relationship with HP to include the joint development of management software solutions that manage both physical and virtual datacenter resources. VMware intends to deliver with HP integrated physical and virtual datacenter man...

Strategies for Mid-sized Companies to Streamline Operations, Reduce Costs and Increase Revenue with Portals Webcast will take place on Wednesday, December 10, 1 PM EST. Registration for this live event is open at the SYS-CON WebSphere Journal website. Please click here to sign up.

VMware has announced the general availability of VMware View 3. With VMware View 3, IT organizations can "decouple" a desktop from specific physical devices or locations to create a personalized view of a user’s desktop, applications, and data – called "myView" – that is securely...

In his virtualization session on Nov. 21 at the 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo in San Jose, CA, Roland Wartenberg, SAP's director of virtualization strategy, discussed the supported virtualization solutions provided by partners of SAP's virtualization ecosystem. Sim...

"The days of Cloud 1.0 are here," stated Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens in his session this morning at SYS-CON’s Virtualization Conference & Expo, in San Jose. He discussed the evolution of the cloud, and how to build a cloud. Over the last five years, the open source community has turned...

As a member of the Citrix Ready Program, Pillar Data Systems has announced compatibility of its Application-Aware profiles with the Citrix Application Delivery Infrastructure. Today's news builds on a series of certifications Pillar has made with the delivery of its Axiom Storage syste...

The Fedora Project, a Red Hat sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration project, has announced the availability of Fedora 10, the latest version of its free open source operating system distribution. Fedora 10 features numerous leading-edge technologies and continues ...

A recent survey conducted by Citrix Systems revealed that virtual desktop delivery interests higher education information technology (IT) professionals looking for ways to optimize the computer lab. Seventy-six percent of 200 higher education IT professionals indicated an interest in a...

Nick van der Sweep, HP's Director of Virtualization and Insight Software ESS Infrastructure Software, gave an information-packed breakout session at SYS-CON's 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo last week in San Jose, California. He explained to delegates how to develop ...

"Virtualization will help our customers be more agile and efficient," noted Mike Neil at SYS-CON’s Virtualization Conference & Expo, in San Jose, CA, "and there are three areas these companies are focused on." These areas are to drive costs down, increase efficiency, and using virtua...

With an ever increasing variety of physical and virtual endpoints, companies are rapidly facing the next big challenge – manageability. So stated Symantec's Brian Duckering and Intel's Chuck Brown in their general session on Friday at SYS-CON’s 4th International Virtualization Conf...

rPath has announced support for the Ubuntu and CentOS Linux operating systems as part of rBuilder and the rPath Lifecycle Management Platform. rBuilder is the category-defining build and release management system for creating virtual appliances and application images. The rPath Lifecyc...

EMC has announced the newest versions of data protection software. These new updates are part of integrated solutions that meet specific data protection requirements for analysis and reporting, backup for Microsoft and VMware virtual environments, data de-duplication and replication, h...

AppSense, the leading provider of user environment management solutions for the enterprise, will be a featured speaker at the 2008 SYS-CON's 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo (www.virtualizationconference.com) being held at the Fairmont Hotel in the heart of Silicon Va...

LynuxWorks has announced immediate availability of LynxSecure 2.0, a next-generation separation kernel and embedded hypervisor for high assurance systems. LynxSecure provides a standards-based, multi-domain computational platform that serves as a trusted foundation for applications wit...

BDNA has announced that Walker White, vice president of technology, will be among the presenters at SYS-CON’s Virtualization Conference & Expo, held Nov. 19-21, 2008, in San Jose, Calif. Mr. White will be presenting his session on the strategy and practice of virtualization, “Lever...

eXludus has announced that it has joined the HP Multi-Core Optimization Program. System processor core counts, and associated parallel processing capacity, are increasing. However, most applications are serial designs not capable of effectively using this parallel computing capacity no...

CA and VMware have announced an expansion in their long-standing relationship centered around the creation and delivery of integrated management solutions to complement the VMware virtualization platform. The relationship is aimed at helping enterprise IT organizations and cloud servic...

Embotics has announced the appointment of Stephen Pollack to its Advisory Board. Stephen Pollack is a recognized leader in the virtualization industry who founded PlateSpin. Acquired by Novell in March 2008, PlateSpin is ranked 11th on the Deloitte North American Fast 500 list and he...

Emulex has announced that its LightPulse LP21000 family of Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) Converged Network Adapters (CNAs) have been tested and found to be compatible for use with IBM Systems x3650(7979), x3655(7943) and x3755(7163) series servers. Emulex CNAs enable the consolida...

While the hypervisor market is dominated by VMware and other large companies, Opus Capital believes that startup opportunities abound. For example, several companies have enjoyed some early successes in desktop virtualization. Since no dominant player has emerged, this market still sho...

In 45 jam-packed minutes that will include case studies and live technology demonstrations, the VP of xVM at Sun, Steve Wilson, will at this week's 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo be giving a session entitled "Virtualization from Desktop to Datacenter" - in which he ...

Virtualization is not just about server consolidation any more; as virtual infrastructure grows, there's an entire Virtualization Lifecycle for IT to manage. The thiPresident & CEO of Embotics Corporation, Jay Litkey, will be giving a top breakout session this week at SYS-CON's 4th Int...

'Virtualization is one of the most interesting IT topics these days,' says Roland Wartenberg, SAP's Director of Virtualization. 'Whereas one can find a lot of concepts and high level content provided by various vendors, it's sometimes a challenge to find detailed technical information ...