The Southern California-based company claims that its new vRanger data protection suite is the first one designed expressly for VMware vSphere environments. – Quest Software on Feb. 1 announced that it has added three new data
protection features to its vRanger Pro product for VMware deployments.
In fact, the company claims that its new, updated vRanger data protection suite
is the first such product designed expressly for VMware vSphere environments…
The package is bundled as VMware’s vCloud Accelerator service, which uses vSphere, vCloud Director, and other software for the cloud setup. But new hands-on training is the key. – Now that all the major IT products and services vendors are busy selling their various cloud-building hardware/software/services packages, this is when the differentiation between platforms really starts kicking in.
One of those major providers, VMware, came out Jan. 31 and claimed that it can ge…
The platform includes a patch management solution aimed at securing virtual and physical infrastructure. – Virtualization and cloud infrastructure solutions specialist VMware
announced the general availability of Go Pro, a cloud service designed
to enable small to medium-size businesses to consolidate,
control and secure their physical and virtual IT infrastructure. Go
Pro is available by subscriptio…
Thanks largely to its vSphere platform, VMware reported sharply improved quarterly and fiscal-year revenue and profits. – VMware with a boost from
the release of several products in 2010 continues to ride high on the
data-center-virtualization and cloud-computing wave.
Thanks largely to sales and services connected with its popular vSphere
platform, the Palo Alto, Calif.-based world virtualization market leader on
…
Dell’s new VMware plug-in enables IT administrators to manage their PowerEdge servers directly through VMware’s vCenter console. – Dell
is building up its system management capabilities to make it easier for
customers to monitor and manage their PowerEdge servers in virtualized data
centers.
Dell
officials on Jan. 19 announced several enhancements to the company’s systems
management portfolio, including the Dell Managem…
The Pano Logic System 4 takes VDI a big step closer to a cost-effective implementation by stripping down the desktop hardware to the bare essentials of video, keyboard, mouse and USB support. The tiny, shiny brick sets the hardware standard for this category by shedding nearly every vestige of needing a real PC to run a virtual PC. – The Pano System 4 uses a
shiny, tiny brick with ports for the video, keyboard, mouse and USB
connectivity that significantly advances practical and cost-effective virtual
desktop infrastructure. By completely removing the need for any PC-like
components from the hardware, Pano Logic has garnered…
The management software now has the ability to automate and thus more efficiently bring "rogue" virtual machines under control. – Virtualization management software maker Embotics Jan. 12 announced that it
has added new features to its V-Commander product suite, which is now designed
specifically for managing private cloud infrastructures alongside VMware
vSphere.
Thus, Embotics’ management software now has the ability t…
One part of VMware’s plan is to move antivirus and antispam processing off virtual machines and insert it into the hypervisor. – SAN FRANCISCO — Acknowledging that security is — and will remain
– the No. 1 hesitation point for enterprises when it comes to building
new cloud infrastructure deployments, VMware in 2011 will be looking at
alleviating these fears from a slightly different perspective.
Allwyn Sequeira, Chi…
EMC has deployed a virtual desktop infrastructure at N.C.’s Northern Hospital of Surry County to improve data protection and lower health care costs. – IT infrastructure company EMC has unveiled plans to deploy its VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) software at Northern Hospital of Surry County, in Mount Airy, N.C., to lower health care costs and increase data protection at the facility.
quot;We were running out of processing capacity and spa…
The new LG phones will have two phone numbers and two e-mail addresses to keep personal and business data completely separate on a single device. – The days of companies in non-regulated markets conducting business strictly
on a desktop, laptop or thin-client computer within a closed network are pretty
much history.
With an increasing number of personal devices handling business-related data
through social networking and other channels, m…
Smartphone maker LG and VMware plan to offer a solution that will enable LG phone owners to run a corporate e-mail account in isolation from their personal accounts. – Mobile phone maker LG Electronics and virtualization pioneer VMware are
creating a partnership that they hope will make businesses more secure and
employees happier and enable LG to grab some enterprise market share.
Using end-user virtualization technology from VMware, the two will enable LG
…
The new package automates the process of moving, protecting and recovering data involved in virtually any type of disaster, Compellent Vice President Bruce Kornfeld said. – Automated storage provider Compellent Technologies and virtualization
kingpin VMware on Nov. 30 announced an extension of their partnership that
creates a new disaster
recovery option for cloud systems using Compellent’s storage capabilities
with vCenter Site Recovery Manager.
The new package a…
EMC and its VMware unit have assembled a private cloud for the Orange Regional Medical Center to exchange medical data and EHRs securely. – IT giant EMC has built a secure private cloud for ORMC
(Orange Regional Medical Center), a 450-bed hospital system in
Middletown, N.Y., as the medical organization undergoes a major
consolidation of facilities.
ORMC is combining two existing hospitals onto a single 600,000-plus
square-foot camp…
The VMware View 4.5 virtual desktop platform gained enterprise features including role-based administration, Local Mode (formerly known as Offline Desktop), full support for Windows 7 and a View client for Mac OS X, making this version the pace setter for virtual desktop infrastructure. View 4.5 started shipping Sept. 13. View Premier, the version that enables Local Mode and most other storage and customization features, costs $250 per concurrent user. View Enterprise costs $150 per concurrent user. VMware View 4.5 depends on the latest version of vSphere 4.1 to get all the storage and virtualization goodness. A workable test environment needs a View Connection Server, a View Transfer Server and several virtual machine templates. The View server components are integrated with a vCenter 4.1 server along with Microsoft Windows Active Directory infrastructure to handle user rights and the new role-based administration. To read the full review, check out "VMware View 4.5 VDI Goes Local". Â Or if you have experience with VMware View 4.5, share your thoughts at http://labs.eweek.com. – …
VMware View 4.5 VDI gains Windows 7, Mac OS X and Local Mode. – VMware View 4.5 gained enterprise features including role-based administration, Local Mode (formerly
known as Offline Desktop), full support for Windows 7 and a View client
for Mac OS X devices, making this version the pace setter for
virtual desktop infrastructure.
View 4.5 started shipping…
Egnyte’s Enterprise Local Cloud, which consists of a virtual machine that keeps in sync with the files and folders stored in the cloud at Egnyte’s data centers, rounds out Egnyte’s local cloud lineup that includes clients for synchronizing files with individual desktops or with certain Netgear NAS appliances. Egnyte’s hybrid cloud/local storage service is worth evaluating for organizations looking to cash in on the benefits of cloud-based storage without surrendering on-premises support. Also recently added to the Egnyte product line was integration with Google Apps accounts, as well as support for uploading and accessing files stored in the cloud via FTP. Check out the slide gallery below for a look at the product in action, and be sure to read eWEEK Labs’ full review of Egnyte’s ELC here. – …
The VMware Ready Mail Security products offer Zimbra customers e-mail security software that has been pre-validated to work with the e-mail and collaboration platform. – Eight additional security vendors have signed on to offer
e-mail security products for Zimbra e-mail and collaboration platform, said
VMware on Oct. 28.
The virtualization vendor expanded its VMware Ready
Program to include SpamTitan Technologies, Halon Security, InBoxer, Proofpoint,
Sendmail, …
F5 networks helps enterprises embrace Virtual Desktop Infrastructure technology with new WAN optimization and acceleration technology that improves performance for VMWare View 4.5 sessions. – F5 networks brings added oomph to VMware Virtual Desktop
Infrastructure deployments with its Application Ready Solution for VMware View
4.5, an add-on capability for F5s BIG-IP Edge Gateway that consists of a set
of best practices, guidelines and policies for speeding deployment and
optimizing p…
Egnyte’s hybrid cloud/local storage service is worth evaluating for organizations looking to cash in on the benefits of cloud-based storage without surrendering on-premises support. – Cloud-based applications and
services promise to change, for the better, the way we manage our workloads and
get things done. Of course, change can bring as many liabilities as
benefits take cloud-based storage, which can cut maintenance requirements,
albeit at the cost of increased network late…
Google and VMwares SpringSource division team to push Java to the cloud using the Spring Framework and Googles Google Web Toolkit (GWT), Google App Engine and other tools. – CHICAGO
– Google and VMware have come together to advance cloud computing with Java at
the core of their efforts.
At
the SpringOne
2GX developer conference here, VMware
and Google announced the general availability of the first in a series of
technology collaborations to make enterprise sof…
