Akorri announced the company has signed a global reseller agreement with Dell. Under the terms of the agreement, Dell’s worldwide direct and channel sales forces are authorized to sell Akorri’s BalancePoint solution. BalancePoint supports both Dell CLARiiON and Dell EqualLogic PS Serie...

Accellion announced it is making a free version of its secure file transfer appliance available to VMware ESXi Hypervisor customers. Designed to meet the needs of corporations moving toward virtualized environments, the Accellion Secure File Transfer Virtual Appliance helps companies a...

Compellent announced support for Oracle VM server virtualization software. Compellent's advanced virtualization creates a powerful storage infrastructure, delivering high performance, reduced cost of ownership, simplified storage management and an ideal platform for Oracle VM. Oracle V...

Open Kernel Labs (OK Labs) announced that it has joined the Symbian Partner Network to support the growing demand for mobile devices that are virtualized with OKL4, and rely on the Symbian operating system (OS). Symbian creates and licenses Symbian OS, the OS for smartphones which has ...

Responding to the growth of virtualization deployments in the enterprise, and the need for applications that support this environment, Lieberman Software announced that Random Password Manager is now certified for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. By supporting Hyper-V, Random Pas...

Freescale is expanding its development ecosystem to include virtual prototypes for its automotive Power Architecture microcontroller (MCU) portfolio using modeling technology from VaST Systems. These virtual prototypes will enable automotive developers to tackle growing software intric...

Perfman, the old-line enterprise systems management company, has arrived at virtualization’s door with a new cut of its cross-platform performance and capacity planning software that includes a Virtualization Planning Tool (VPT) and VMware Sprawl Reporting.

LeftHand Networks announced its eighth generation SAN/iQ storage software. Available on LeftHand Networks' full portfolio of SAN platforms, SAN/iQ 8 extends the advantages of LeftHand Networks' storage solutions in virtualized environments with features that reduce costs, simplify mana...

Intel formally announced its six-core 45nm Dunnington chip Monday, officially christening it the Xeon 7400 and claiming it sets a new standard in virtualization performance. AMD doesn’t have anything like it. The company said a full-blown Dunnington with six cores and 16MB of sha...

The Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) says the Open Virtualization Format 1.0 (OVF), developed by Dell, HP, VMware, XenSource, Microsoft and IBM for packaging and distribution a virtual appliance, is now officially a standard. It’s part of a new DMTF Virtualization Management In...

Wyse and Novell are delivering the promised Wyse Enhanced SUSE Linux Enterprise, an operating system designed for thin computing. It will be available only on Wyse devices starting with Wyse’s X50L mobile thin clients in Q4. The pair quotes IDC’s projection that the Linux thin clien...

Xenocode announced the licensing of its best-in-class application virtualization technology to Novell. The recently announced Novell ZENworks Application Virtualization solution leverages Xenocode's virtualization technology to allow customers to deploy their applications inside a “vir...

Virtual Computer announced NxTop, a next-generation PC management platform, which makes it as easy to manage thousands of PCs as it is to manage one. NxTop’s patent-pending technology isolates the PC’s critical components -- hardware, operating system, applications, and user data -- al...

McAfee delivered a pioneering secure virtualization solution, McAfee Total Protection for Virtualization. The new solution extends security across virtual and physical environments and sets a new standard for securing virtualized infrastructures. Virtualization gives organizations the ...

Radware announced its new optimization solution for the virtualized environment, VirtualDirector, as part of a larger initiative - Radware's Business-Smart Data Center strategy - designed to ensure the alignment of key business drivers for the next generation data center.

Despite the economic downturn, server virtualization continues to proliferate as IT professionals around the world recognize the potentially massive cost savings associated with a virtualized server environment. However, an unexpected twist is the debilitating demand virtual servers pu...

Novell is licensing Xenocode’s application virtualization technology so users of its ZENworks Application Virtualization solution can deploy their applications inside a “virtual container” without any installation or configuration bother.

Coraid announced the introduction of the AoE driver for VMware's ESX hypervisor. This kernel driver enables VMware ESX servers to access and share very low cost AoE-based SAN storage. Coraid's line of EtherDrive storage products use proven AoE technology to provide more affordable, rel...

3Leaf Systems announced that the company has qualified the HP ProLiant DL 380 G5 to run the 3Leaf V-8000 enterprise I/O virtualization solution. The V-8000 is the first software-based I/O virtualization solution built to run seamlessly on industry standard servers, enabling enterprises...

Peak 10 announced its new partnership with Emergent Game Technologies. Leveraging the latest in VMware virtualization technology, Peak 10 will provide Emergent with a fully managed dedicated Virtual Server solution and managed firewall.

Knowledge Consulting Group (KCG) announced a partnership with Catbird to provide the Virtual Infrastructure Security Assessment (VSA). Further expanding Catbird’s network of veteran security partners, KCG will deliver the Catbird VSA to help IT administrators identify and close potenti...

The Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) announced the Virtualization Management Initiative (VMAN). The VMAN Initiative unleashes the power of virtualization by delivering broadly supported interoperability and portability standards to virtual computing environments. VMAN provides ...

Acresso Software released new versions of AdminStudio and Workflow Manager designed to align with the most pressing issues around application management: simplifying day to day application management, preparing organizations for OS migrations such as moves to Windows Vista, and streaml...

NComputing announced the shipment of its one millionth seat. The landmark shipment reflects the increasing penetration of NComputing technology among enterprise customers seeking to cut costs, simplify maintenance, and reduce energy consumption.

vmSight announced the release of version 4.0 of its flagship product, vmSight. The cross-platform solution gives administrators true end-to-end monitoring of end user experience for virtual desktops and virtual applications, vmSight 4.0 also delivers a full range of capabilities for re...

AppSense announced 8.0 version of AppSense Environment Manager. An enterprise solution that enables standardized virtual desktop environments to be fully – and automatically – personalized, AppSense Environment Manager 8.0 accelerates virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) adoption by ra...

Sun Microsystems announced the company will add VMware Virtual Desktop Manager and VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) to its line up of fully supported desktop virtualization solutions Sun offers to customers. As part of an expanded relationship between Sun and VMware, the new...

Altor Networks announced that its products are designed for interoperability with the new Cisco Nexus 1000V that Cisco and VMware announced would be available in the first half of 2009. By virtue of this interoperability, Altor Networks' customers will be able to incorporate data provi...

Cisco and VMware announced that they are collaborating to deliver joint data center solutions designed to improve the scalability and operational control of virtual environments. The Cisco Nexus 1000V distributed virtual software switch is expected to be an integrated option in VMware ...

Fortisphere announced that it has adopted the Open Virtual Machine Format (OVF), a standardized hypervisor-neutral specification for the packaging and distribution of one or more virtual machines. By adopting OVF, Fortisphere will provide its customers with the ability to interoperate ...

The REDFLY Mobile Companion from Celio is revolutionizing the Mobile Virtualization and Remote Access industry with its ability to provide a larger screen and keyboard enabling workers to expand their smartphones into fully functioning mobile terminals. The company's flagship product i...

Tidal Software announced the availability of Tidal Enterprise Scheduler Adapter for VMware. This scheduling solution for VMware Infrastructure increases efficiency by managing all jobs executing in a virtualized environment through a single point of control.

Adding to the Galveston-like carnage that is Wall Street, Dell Tuesday recalled its warning of only – note only – three weeks ago when it posted its earnings-frayed Q2 results that the lousy American economy was spreading to Western Europe and parts of Asia and said it’s getting worse ...

Novell announced the availability of Novell ZENworks Application Virtualization, an easy-to-use tool that eliminates application compatibility problems on Windows desktops. This addition to the ZENworks product line creates virtual applications in a single, isolated file and allows the...

VKernel announced that the company will add support for Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V with its complete lineup of Performance Lifecycle Management solutions. With delivery in Q1 2009, VKernel will offer heterogeneous management tools for modeling, monitoring, analyzing, validat...

VMware further extended its standing by announcing its vClient Initiative aimed at delivering universal clients -- desktops that follow users to any end point while providing a rich personalized experienced that is secure, cost effective and easy for IT to manage. The first step of the...

Elastra announced that it has joined the VMware Technology Alliance Partnership (TAP) program. Elastra’s Cloud Server Enterprise enables businesses implementing cloud computing architectures to create and consume on-demand corporate infrastructure in their own data centers as well as e...

rPath announced that virtual appliances designed for the VMware Ready Virtual Appliance Program can be developed using rBuilder and the rPath Lifecycle Management Platform. In addition, application providers will be able to leverage SUSE Linux Enterprise Server from Novell when buildin...

Tripwire announced the newest version of its flagship product, Tripwire Enterprise 7.5V. Designed explicitly to give visibility into the security and compliance of virtual IT systems, the latest version of Tripwire Enterprise allows IT to manage systems to internal and external policie...

VMware announced it has qualified its VMware ESX hypervisor under the Microsoft Server Virtualization Validation Program (SVVP). VMware ESX 3.5 update 2 (ESX 3.5u2) is a hypervisor to be listed under the program, providing VMware customers who run Windows Server and Microsoft applicati...