In February 2007, APC and MGE UPS Systems combined to form a $3.5 billion (2.4 billion) Critical Power and Cooling Services business unit of Schneider Electric. The Critical Power and Cooling Services division offers the industry's most comprehensive product and s...

Tek-Tools Software announced that its growth continues with 40 new customers and several existing customers expanding installations of Profiler Suite in the first quarter of 2008. Increasingly, new and existing customers are demanding capabilities in their IT infr...

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...

Egenera announced its support for Fujitsu Siemens Computers' launch of ServerView PAN Manager on PRIMERGY blade servers. The two companies first established a successful OEM relationship centered on the Egenera BladeFrame system in 2005, amassing a strong enterpri...

Insystek announced that it has entered into a reseller agreement and partnership with Remote IT Solutions, a premier reseller and service provider the UK North West area with strong competencies within the emerging technology and virtualization fields including VM...

VMware announced that its virtualization solutions are saving customers tons in costs and CO2 emissions. Using VMware virtualization, customers can consolidate 10 or more physical machines onto a single server and reduce power consumption and cost by 80-90 percent...

Liquid Web launched a Microsoft Windows virtual private server (VPS) offering powered by Parallels Virtuozzo Containers. The offering will be delivered from Liquid Web's two fully owned and operated mid-western datacenters. This represents an expanded partnership ...

GemStone Systems and Synechron announced a strategic partnership to address key customer pain points. Through the implementation and integration of GemStone solutions with existing enterprise applications, customers will be able to achieve low-latency, predictable...

Veeam Software introduced a program designed to support and enhance the virtualization practices of top value-added resellers, systems integrators and consultants. Veeam ProPartner includes a members-only online portal with fast access to NFR license keys, disco...

Marathon Technologies announced that it has been named as a finalist for the Fifth Annual Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange (MITX) Technology Awards. Marathon was awarded the distinction for developing everRun VM, the fault-tolerant, high availability...

Like many mid-sized enterprises, the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst was interested in consolidating servers to streamline operations, improve its storage architecture, reduce downtime and conserve resources. The school'...

Unison has launched a VMware appliance version of its Linux-based unified communications software, Unison. The Unison Virtual Appliance means that companies can deploy a complete unified communications solution in minutes. The virtual appliance includes a preconfi...

Virage Logic announced the selection of its Intelli Double Data Rate (DDR) Memory Controller interface solution by 3Leaf Systems, a provider of next-generation server virtualization solutions for enterprise data centers, to deliver a silicon proven, high-performan...

Compellent announced that two of its financial services customers, Ares Management and Credit Union of Colorado, have reduced the physical and carbon footprint of their data centers, lowering the overall cost of ownership of their technology infrastructure. The ...

Fortinet announced that Belgacom has selected Fortinet's consolidated network security solutions as the cornerstone of its 'Integrated Security Services,' part of 'Belgacom Explore.' Fortinet's FortiGate-5000 carrier-class systems along with FortiManager and For...

The Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium (EEMBC) announced that Open Kernel Labs (OK Labs), a supplier of secure embedded systems software and virtualization technology, is the newest member of the consortium's Hypervisor Subcommittee.

AMD announced that its Operating System Research Center (OSRC) has expanded its focus to include optimization and tuning advancements for Sun Microsystems' OpenSolaris Operating System and Sun xVM Virtualization family of products. This extends AMD's commitment to...

NetApp announced that the Breckenridge Group (BGI) created a more efficient and effective storage environment with the recent implementation of the StoreVault S500 storage solution. BGI is a management firm specializing in the development, operations, and ongoing ...

MokaFive expanded its management team with new executive appointments. John Whaley, a co-founder of the company, has been promoted to Chief Technology Officer while former Cisco/IronPort executive, Ravi Khatod, joins the company as Vice President of Sales. In addi...

Fortisphere announced the Fortisphere Partner Program. Created for the company's resellers, system integrators and OEM partners, the Fortisphere Partner Program will provide customers with a comprehensive ecosystem of solution partners focused on delivering best...

Transitive announced its sponsorship of Digital60 Day, an event hosted by the University of Manchester in the UK to mark the 60th anniversary of the successful running of a program on a digital computer. As with the first digital computer (nicknamed the 'Baby' by ...

Software AG announced that the Raiffeisen Banking Group and the UNIQA Insurance Group have implemented webMethods BPMS from Software AG to support their corporate growth strategies. The companies have sought to grow their partnership to capitalize on the expansion...

Ermestel and Scalent Systems announced an agreement where Ermestel will integrate Scalent Virtual Operating Environment (V/OE) software into the IT environments of its customers. This partnership enables Ermestel to broaden its technology solution portfolio and ...

What do - in no particular order - Microsoft's GM of Virtualization, VMware's CTO, the Founders of JBoss, XenSource and VirtualLogix, the former and current CEOs of Sun, the Presidents of WaveMaker and Embotics, the CTO of Adobe, the executive leader of DataDire...

Businesses that virtualize can increase efficiency and reduce costs by eliminating low- performance/low-efficienc y servers. Less well-known, but equally important, is the parallel advantage of streamlining the legacy power and cooling systems that support virtualiz...

NGASI announced it has launched NGASI AppServer Manager 8.1, which automates multiple installations and configurations for Application Servers and Applications on a single server machine, across multiple virtual servers, and across multiple physical servers.

SMC Networks announced that its 10Gigabit fiber and copper adapters for 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) server connections now have the added benefit of offering virtualization acceleration. The 10GbE adapters not only excel at performance, but also thermal management...

Banking institutions in the United States and United Kingdom are using a number of virtualization technologies as a means to help centralize deployment and management of applications, simplify IT infrastructure, and improve overall business continuity of IT system...

Close to three-quarters (71 percent) of U.S. retailers are turning to a broad set of virtualization solutions as a means to save costs, maximize space and generally gain better control of their IT infrastructures, reports a new survey released by Microsoft.

Reflex Security announced an initiative to further develop key visibility and access control functionality in its Reflex VSA (Virtual Security Appliance) Solution. Dubbed 'VISability,' for the ability to enable Virtual Infrastructure Security, the initiative to ta...

Xsigo Systems and SOFTBANK TELECOM announced that the companies have demonstrated an automated disaster recovery solution that allows VMware virtual machines to be automatically failed over between sites which are over 500 KM apart. Built on a Wide Area Virtuali...

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...

Enterprises' ability to realize every last dollar from their network investments by adding new services the moment they are needed is now a reality with a new network virtualization solution from Nortel. Nortel's virtualization solution makes it possible for the m...

Secure Computing announced it is working with VMware to provide customers with security gateway virtual appliances for organizations of all sizes. These security gateway appliances for VMware environments will provide customers with a way to implement and manage...

Absolute Performance announced the availability of System Shepherd Version 5.0, Absolute's flagship SaaS delivered software. System Shepherd 5.0 brings many new innovations to application performance management, including the ability to instrument and manage app...

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...

Bob Muglia, senior vice president of the Server and Tools Business at Microsoft outlined the next phase in the company's strategy to enable dynamic IT organizations. As part of this strategy, Muglia announced technology innovations that are designed to expand Mi...

FullArmor announced that PolicyPortal delivers a web based end-to-end policy and compliance management solution for Application Virtualization. From a web based console, PolicyPortal provides IT administrators the ability to configure the client and the applicat...

Matisse Networks introduced virtualization of metropolitan optical networks with a suite of new features collectively known as vMETRO. vMETRO is a collection of capabilities purpose-built to enable the virtualization of IT resources across distributed datacenters ...

Quest Software announced that the Provision Networks Virtual Access Suite supports Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, the next-generation hypervisor-based server virtualization platform. Provision Networks' Virtual Access Suite version 5.10 is a Virtual Desk...