The rapid rise of virtualization technology made it a vital component of any Enterprise IT strategy. And the technology triggered dramatic changes in product offerings and business practices to support virtualized operational models. These breakneck speed develo...

Citrix and Microsoft announced the availability of Citrix Branch Repeater , an innovative new line of branch office appliances developed and marketed as part of a strategic alliance between the two companies. By staging the delivery of applications and Windows ser...

rPath announced that virtual appliances intended for the Citrix Ready designation can be developed using rBuilder and the rPath Appliance Platform. A virtual appliance is an application combined with a streamlined operating system, offered in a format that runs in...

AppSense announced that AppSense Environment Manager, the user environment management solution, supports Citrix XenDesktop desktop delivery solution. AppSense complements XenDesktop functionality by enabling desktop policy and personalization management, acceler...

Desktone announced that the Desktone Virtual-D Platform will support Citrix XenServer. The Virtual-D Platform is designed specifically to enable service providers to offer hosted, subscription-based virtual desktops. It is a solution that integrates all desktop ...

Caringo announced an ambitious project by the San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California San Diego to bring Redlining grids to UC campuses which are stored in a Caringo CAStor cluster. The implementation has started with a CAStor clustered stor...

Double-Take announced the availability of its Virtual Recovery Assistant, a new enhancement to Double-Take for Windows that simplifies the process of migrating to VMware ESX virtual machines by automating the provisioning of the virtual environment and reducing ...

Select Technologies, a division of WeP Solutions, has entered into a distribution tie up with VMWare - to extend virtualization strategy and outline product road map. VMware's expertise lies in offering virtualization platform IT Infrastructure, enabling higher ...

SAVVIS announced the appointment of Dennis Brouwer as Vice President, Network Business Line Management. Reporting to James Whitemore, Chief Marketing Officer, Brouwer is responsible for providing company-wide strategic marketing leadership and product strategy ...

LeftHand Networks announced that its iSCSI SANs are now Citrix Ready vendor verified with Citrix XenServer 4.1. LeftHand Networks iSCSI SANs complement Citrix XenServer 4.1, providing customers with highly available server and storage solutions for their data cent...

F5 Networks announced that Shopzilla has deployed F5 Acopia ARX intelligent file virtualization systems as the foundation of its file storage management strategy. Shopzilla is leveraging the F5 Acopia ARX system's unrivaled data migration, global namespace, and da...

BMC Software announced that customer adoption of its Business Service Management platform continues to escalate, in part because it provides customers with virtualization management solutions designed to simultaneously manage mission-critical applications across b...

Check Point announced the availability of ZoneAlarm ForceField, a comprehensive, virtualized browser security solution enabling consumers to bank and shop online, or surf the Internet without fear or limitation. Virtualized browsing places a two-way 'bubble of ...

Emulex announced that its LightPulse Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) were selected as the storage area network (SAN) connectivity solution of choice in two end users' server virtualization projects that utilize EMC networked storage systems. Home Interiors ...

The applications for system virtualization technology in IT infrastructure are well known, including resource optimization and migration ease. But virtualization technology has broader applications in non-IT computer systems, including embedded and hand-held dev...

Certeon announced it has joined the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) Select Program. Certeon's aCelera virtual appliance delivers application acceleration when accessing applications across a distributed enterprise and is an ideal complement to VMware Infrastructure.

BakBone has taken VMware data protection to the next level by offering a solution that protects both individual and entire groups of VMware ESX Servers. The newest release of BakBone's flagship data protection solution, NetVault: Backup 8.1, supports individual ES...

Leostream announced it has raised US $3 million in a first round of venture capital funding led by Meakem Becker Venture Capital of Pittsburgh, PA. Leostream will use the proceeds from its sale of Series A shares for the expansion of sales and marketing.

VMware announced a new certification program for thin client devices. Thin clients that have small footprints and price tags - because they use centralized servers for most of their processing power - provide a cost-effective alternative to standard PCs when used ...

VMware announced a new suite of professional services that help IT departments implement, manage, and optimize virtual desktops. Using proven best practices based on VMware Infrastructure methodology, customers and partners gain valuable insight on how to increa...

VMware unveiled a new integrated desktop solution offering superior performance, especially over wide area networks (WANs), that leverages VMware's Virtual Desktop Infrastructure platform with Sun Microsystems' Sun Ray Software and virtual display clients. Ideal...

Building on its standing over competitors in storage virtualization implementations worldwide, Hitachi Data Systems Corporation introduced enhancements to the Hitachi Universal Storage Platform V and Universal Storage Platform VM. With this announcement, Hitachi i...

Citrix Systems announced its new NetScaler MPX line of web application delivery systems. The new NetScaler solutions feature a parallel multi-core system architecture that increases datacenter capacity and delivers 2.5 times more web applications with the same i...

Qumranet, announced the general availability of Solid ICE - virtualization software that enables corporations to reduce the costs, complexities and risks of desktop PC deployment and management. By centrally hosting desktops in KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) o...

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...

There is considerable attention being paid to service oriented architectures (SOA) and their promise of leveraging new and existing application components - services - in composite applications that may span multiple business units within an organization. While th...

HP introduced new mobile thin client hardware, extended software offerings and deeper industry alliances that strengthen the industry's broadest portfolio of virtual business technology solutions. The new HP 2533t Mobile Thin Client combines the best of HP's thin ...

Building on a goal to make virtualization and availability ubiquitous, Marathon Technologies Corporation announced an expanded strategic partnership with Citrix Systems. The broader agreement involves tighter integration of Citrix XenServer and Marathon everRun VM...

U.S. corporate software spending continues to trend downward, according to a recent ChangeWave survey of 1,956 professionals involved with software purchasing in their company. The April 8-15 survey results show deterioration in 2nd quarter corporate software spen...

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 ...

The rapid embrace of virtualization has helped change the economics of IT by not only lowering capital costs but also reducing operational costs. As customers become more familiar with the technology, virtualization is increasingly being used to solve more than ju...

VMware announced two new bundles of its suite of management and automation products for the datacenter. The VMware IT Service Delivery Bundle includes all the products necessary to automate the entire lifecycle of IT services from initial request to final retireme...

EMC announced it will offer the broadest technology support for VMware Site Recovery Manager (SRM), a new product in the VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 (VI3) portfolio that automates and accelerates the recovery of virtual machines in the event of a disaster in a...

Ulitzer.com which initially made the headlines with its 'job descriptions from the future,' announced that it will launch its Ulitzer 'beta' site in Summer, 2008, with 5,500 authors and 600,000 original articles, published in more than 5,000 topic-specific onlin...

Server virtualization caught the attention of many IT professionals for the cost savings and agility afforded via consolidation, business continuity and test/dev. However, Microsoft customers and Microsoft IT moved beyond the traditional datacenter uses of virtual...

Hal Stern laid out thought-provoking possibilities, constraints, and some key social and technological implications of Web-next, open source and virtualization for data & application development, security & identity in his introductory keynote speech.

Specifically built to secure inter-VM communications in highly dynamic virtual network environments, Altor's Virtual Network Firewall enforces granular security policies that remain 'attached' to individual VMs, even as they move about the data center. Centrally ...

DataCore Software announced that its two storage virtualization solutions, SANsymphony and SANmelody, have been verified as Citrix Ready for XenServer 4.1 as virtual SAN appliances running on XenServer virtual machines as well as in a standard physical storage ser...

F5 Networks announced that it has launched the File Virtualization For Dummies program with Wiley Publishing that offers the For Dummies guide along with a supporting webinar. Keeping in line with Wiley's For Dummies guides, this program offers a pragmatic appro...

Brocade announced a series of data center fabric switches and server HBAs that deliver a new level of end-to-end data center networking performance. In addition, the Company announced advanced networking capabilities across both switches and HBAs that simplifies t...