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...

Internet Research Group (IRG) announced the release of its latest report on technology infrastructure, "Why Microsoft Virtualization is Different (and possibly better)." With this summer's launch of Hyper-V, Microsoft began shipping its long awaited entry into the server virtualization...

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...

Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens, Citrix CTO Simon Crosby, Egenera CTO Pete Manca, Allen Stewart, Group Manager, Windows Virtualization at Microsoft, and Brian Duckering, Sr. Director of Products and Alliances at Symantec were the top industry executives who joined Jeremy Geelan in the 4th Fl...

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...

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...

Tidal Software announced it recently joined the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program. The VMware TAP program helps technology vendors integrate their products with VMware virtualization software and deliver timely, joint solutions to mutual customers.

KACE announced that its KBOX family of appliances are now available as virtual appliances through the VMware virtual appliance marketplace at www.vmware.com/appliances/. The Virtual KBOX appliances offer customers an innovative way to deploy and manage critical IT resources.

Corticon and Composite Software announced Corticon has embedded the Composite Information Server in the Corticon Enterprise Data Connector (EDC)-Multi Source. Corticon’s EDC-Multi Source enables seamless access to relational databases, legacy data sources, web services, XML, message ...

VMware announced that TCHO, an emerging and innovative manufacturer of premium chocolate, has deployed VMware Fusion across the company’s Macintosh desktop systems to provide its staff with the flexibility to move seamlessly between native Macintosh applications and virtualized Windo...

Expand Networks has demonstrated it is continuing to drive the global WAN Optimization market with its impressive Q2 revenue results signifying a record 47% increase quarter over quarter. Expand's ability to accelerate all applications in IT projects for virtualization, satellite and s...

Cenzic announced the formation of the Cenzic Web Application Security Strategic Advisory Board. Industry notables Lloyd Hession, former chief security officer at British Telecom Radianz, John Mitchell, professor of computer science and electrical engineering at Stanford University, Dr....

NEC Soft and DataCore announced the renewal of their OEM relationship under which NEC Soft builds and markets its MelodiousStor storage virtualization appliance. The growth of server virtualization vendors – VMware and Microsoft in Japan – signals that Japan is poised for broad, ma...

Symbio Technologies said that it has added Ericom's PowerTerm WebConnect client to its Symbiont Boot Appliance and Symbiont Boot Stick after signing technology licensing and reseller agreements with Ericom Software. Ericom's PowerTerm WebConnect provides secure local and remote access ...

Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens, Citrix CTO Simon Crosby, Egenera CTO Pete Manca, Allen Stewart, Group Manager, Windows Virtualization at Microsoft, and Brian Duckering, Sr. Director of Products and Alliances at Symantec were the top industry executives who joined Jeremy Geelan in the 4th Fl...

Ericom announced that Amazone has replaced its Citrix infrastructure with Ericom's PowerTerm WebConnect RemoteView software. PowerTerm WebConnect RemoteView provides Amazone's employees with secure and centrally managed access to applications running on Windows Terminal Servers (WTS), ...

Egenera announced the opening of its new West Coast operations in Santa Clara, Calif. The Santa Clara headquarters will provide Egenera customers and partners with increased access to company resources, including sales and marketing, and business development.

SYS-CON Events announced today that the Virtualization on Wall Street Conference & Expo will take place on March 22-24, 2009, in New York City. The event is expected to attract over 1,000 developers, architects, IT managers, and software professionals of every stripe who will be conver...

Virtual Iron announced new power management capabilities in the latest version of its software, Virtual Iron Version 4.4. This release extends Virtual Iron's virtual infrastructure management capabilities with the addition of LivePower, a new experimental feature that automatically opt...

Mike Neil is general manager for virtualization strategy in the Windows Server Division at Microsoft. Mike is focused on the delivery of the Windows virtualization technology, including Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, Microsoft Hyper-V Server and Virtual PC 2007. Mike also directs the tec...

The conference theme of the Virtualization Conference & Expo Europe, to be held in London, England, January 26-27, 2009, is 'Deploying Virtualization in the Enterprise.' The Call for Papers, which is now open, welcomes submissions from exceptional speakers with high-quality use cases n...

Virtualization has quickly become a staple new concept for enterprise IT. At SYS-CON's 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo, held at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City, June 23-24, we had exceptional speakers with high-quality use cases not only of how virtualization ma...

Tripwire announced that Tripwire ConfigCheck has integrated VMware’s revised Virtual Infrastructure 3 Security Hardening Guide to assess VMware hypervisors for security and operational weaknesses created due to system misconfiguration. Tripwire ConfigCheck is a free utility that asse...