As organizations chart out their virtual architectures, security still remains an afterthought, putting these networks at unprecedented risk. Stonesoft is an innovative provider of integrated network security and resilient connectivity solutions that are architected to work within a vi...

Stonesoft announced that it plans to support VMware VMsafe technology. By using VMsafe technology, Stonesoft’s virtual StoneGate appliances can provide an even deeper level of visibility and manageability to ensure the security of virtual environments.

rPath announced that Progress Software has certified rPath's rBuilder for its OpenEdge platform. This allows independent software vendors (ISVs) to use rPath technology to create Software as a Service (SaaS) applications as virtual appliances that include/leverage the Progress OpenEdge...

HP earned $2 billion, 80 cents a share, up 14%, on revenues of $28 billion, up 10%, in its third fiscal quarter ended July 31, 2008, outperforming expectations against a hard compare. Salvaged by notebooks, blades and overseas growth, the results calmed jitters that the bellwether woul...

Intel held another one of those Developer Forums this week and said that besides its newly christened i7 next-generation 45nm Nehalem desktop chips, a quad-core energy-efficient dual-processor server part code named Nehalem-EP, a k a Gainestown, will go into production in Q4 as well as...

Infosys Technologies announced that it has agreed terms for a recommended cash offer for Axon Group in a deal valued at £407.1 million. The transfer of ownership to Infosys is expected to be completed by November 2008, subject to the Scheme of Arrangement becoming effective.

As the adoption rate of virtualization technology increases, organizations face new management challenges arising from hybrid physical and virtual infrastructures. While companies turn to virtualization to reduce IT expense and increase service capacity, a recent study conducted by Net...

NextIO announced its Adaptive Connect platform providing a comprehensive I/O solution for today’s dynamic data center. The Adaptive Connect platform gives organizations the largest breadth of choice for any-to-any connectivity without the need to change existing infrastructure and lays...

Entisys Solutions commemorates 20 years in business by announcing that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted the company a trademark for its Virtualization Oriented Architecture (VOA) methodology. Founded in 1988 as a computer and software training center, today Ent...

Citrix Systems announced Citrix XenApp 5.. The new release of Citrix’s flagship product breaks through performance and operating-cost barriers, making application start times up to 10 times faster, improving end-user experience and lowering application management costs by more than 25 ...

VMware announced the appointment of Mr. David Sung (Song Jiayu) as president of VMware’s Greater China region. Sung is responsible for strategic planning, business operations and management of key functions, including sales, channels, services and marketing, for the Greater China regio...

Integrien Corporation announced that it has joined the VMware Technology Alliance Partnership (TAP) Program. The VMware TAP program helps technology vendors integrate their products with VMware virtualization software and deliver timely, joint solutions to mutual customers.

Secure Computing announced that Honolulu's prestigious Punahou School has entered a three-year agreement to license Secure Computing's Secure Web (formerly known as Webwasher). Punahou School selected the Web filtering and security solution over the competition because of its environme...

NComputing announced that Dublin Unified School District in California has deployed NComputing low-cost virtual desktops in its classrooms. The school district has embraced NComputing technology as a means of providing affordable computer access to students, which in turn has reduced t...

VMware announced that Tropics Software Technologies (Tropics Software) has deployed VMware’s virtualization and management suite, VMware Infrastructure 3, as the foundation of a robust business-continuity solution. Headquartered in Sarasota, FL, Tropics Software offers workers’ compens...

DataCore announced that it has updated its flagship SANsymphony enterprise-class, open storage networking platform and its Traveller CDP (continuous data protection) add-on capability. The new update releases are available immediately. DataCore's SANsymphony provides manufacturer-indep...

AMD announced it has achieved the top spot on the VMware VMmark virtualization benchmark for x86 servers with the Quad-Core AMD Opteron processor-based HP ProLiant DL585 G5. AMD now holds the top three spots on the 16-core VMmark benchmark. This latest result is further proof that Quad...

Citrix CTO Simon Crosby, Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens, Egenera CTO Pete Manca are among the top industry executives joining Jeremy Geelan in the famous 4th Floor Reuters Studio overlooking Times Square for a special SYS-CON.TV 'Virtualization Power Panel' to be recorded on the eve of SYS-...

Attune Systems and Cambridge Computer announced that Vanderbilt's Mass Spectrometry Research Center (MSRC), a core facility for research and clinical infrastructure serving the Vanderbilt University Medical Center, has chosen the Attune Systems file management solution. The MSRC has se...

vmSight announced that its vmSight 3.5 product suite now includes a user activity control feature for virtual desktops that is in addition to its existing monitoring capabilities. This newly added capability allows virtual desktop administrators to block unauthorized user and applicati...

DNS Arrow has signed an agreement with Xsigo to be a strategic distributor across the UK. The agreement will help organizations to realize the full benefits of virtualization with integrated solutions that incorporate server, storage, and I/O virtualization technologies.

Avnet Technology Solutions announced services designed to assist Sun partners in targeting the virtualization market and creating incremental revenue opportunities. The services will focus on enabling Sun partners to demonstrate how virtualization solves key business challenges and the...

Specialty Bakers recently deployed IT backup and recovery software from Acronis resulting in uninterrupted customer service and protection of information that keeps the business running. To reduce downtime during system recovery, Specialty Bakers replaced its time-consuming, file-based...

Entisys Solutions announced that it has been named a winner of the 2008 Citrix Systems "Go for the Green" program, ranking #1 in North American sales revenue and influence for Citrix XenServer and Citrix Desktop virtualization software solutions.

Adexis achieved NetApp's highest professional services partner status -- Authorized Professional Service Partner (APSP). "This designation means we have the experience, resources and credentials that customers can trust when it comes to providing professional services for NetApp," said...

Reflex Security announced a global distribution agreement with Avnet which will be implemented initially in the U.S. and Canada. Under the agreement, Avnet will distribute Reflex Security's "Virtual Security Manager" (VSM) solution. The agreement will broaden the market opportunities f...

VirtualLogix announced that its VLX virtualization solution will be supporting the latest Intel Atom processor Z5XX series-based Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs). Device makers using VLX on these MIDs can simplify hardware designs, reduce costs and enhance the end-user experience through...

AppSense announced that it is partnering with Enterprise Systems to extend its VDI (virtual desktop infrastructure) offerings to customers throughout the U.S. Southwest, particularly those in the healthcare market.

Sun Microsystems announced the company nearly doubled shipments of its Sun Ray thin clients during the fourth quarter of Sun's 2008 fiscal year, compared to the third quarter of its 2008 fiscal year. Sun Ray unit shipments are growing fast, underscoring the increased appeal thin client...

iStor Networks announced that it has started shipping its new management interface, integraSuite/MC Management Center. integraSuite provides smart and simple setup, storage provisioning and allocation. The intuitive interface requires no storage expertise freeing the network administra...

Parallels announced that MESH-Solutions is using Parallels Automation software to offer business-class email based on hosted Microsoft Exchange. The offering is aimed at European resellers looking for a hosting partner that provides customization and branding of the Hosted Exchange inf...

VMware announced that Rochester General Hospital (RGH) has deployed VMware Infrastructure 3, the datacenter virtualization and management suite, to optimize the availability, scalability and performance of nearly every application it has in production. RGH, a community-based teaching h...

Open-E announced that the number of companies using its comprehensive NAS/iSCSI software offering has grown by more the 30 percent since its entry into the U.S. market this year. The company has established a worldwide presence with 220 OEMs, resellers and integrators located across No...

New licensing, expanded product support policies and a worldwide series of events from Microsoft help business customers create more dynamic datacenters and enterprise IT systems with virtualization software. Beginning Sept. 1, 2008, customers will be able to move any of 41 Microsoft s...

Symantec announced it is delivering expanded endpoint virtualization solutions to further protect and manage endpoints, whether physical, virtual or hybrid. Symantec provides IT organizations the flexibility needed to deliver applications with a variety of computing models matched to t...

LeCroy is participating in the Intel IDF Single Root-I/O Virtualization (SR-IOV) lab to demonstrate the application of its Summit Protocol Analyzer and Protocol Test Card (PTC) for PCI Express in the testing of SR-IOV capable add-in-cards. SR-IOV is a PCI-SIG workgroup extension to the...

Fortisphere announced that international law firm Nixon Peabody has selected Fortisphere Virtual Essentials to more efficiently manage its virtual infrastructure. As one of the largest multi-practice law firms in the United States, Nixon Peabody has offices in 18 cities and employs mor...

Check Point announced VPN-1 Virtual Edition (VE), which delivers the same best-of-class security for virtual applications that Fortune 500 companies depend on to secure their corporate networks and data centers. Check Point is a company that provides unified security management for bot...

NetApp announced that Burt’s Bees, in keeping in line with its goal of sustainable computing, has enhanced its IT infrastructure with the recent deployment of NetApp storage solutions. Thanks to NetApp, Burt’s Bees has been able to streamline its storage environment with the use of sev...

xkoto reported continued growth in the first half of 2008, as more businesses requiring continuous availability and scalability for business-critical applications chose GRIDSCALE over costly traditional database clustering technologies. In the second quarter alone, company revenues gre...