Since their inception of stateful-inspection technology, Check Point has continued development with Application Intelligence, Malicious Code Protection, and modular security management plug-in architecture. Check Point's firewall security products are complemented by unified threat man...

Vizioncore announced that vRanger Pro 3.2.8, the latest version of its backup and restore solution, will provide full support for VMware ESXi 3.5. VMware ESXi 3.5 provides a thin hypervisor compared to the full ESX version, and has been designed to provide a smaller footprint to both s...

Shawn Cooney, Co-Founder and Director of Research at Certeon, will be presenting at SYS-CON's 5th International Virtualization Conference & Expo in New York City this coming March 30-April 1, 2009. Cooney, who has over 25 years experience in information and network security, will be sp...

Peter Thawley, Senior Director & Architect at Sybase, will be presenting at SYS-CON's 5th International Virtualization Conference & Expo in New York City this coming March 30-April 1. Thawley, a member of Sybase’s CTO Group where he brings over 22 years of experience in software arch...

Stratus Telecommunications announced that it has acquired the ENTICE telecommunications business from Stratus Technologies of Maynard, Massachusetts. The transaction closed on January 2, 2009. Financial terms were not disclosed. The acquisition encompasses the entire Stratus Technologi...

Jay Litkey, CEO of Embotics Corporation, will be presenting at SYS-CON's 5th International Virtualization Conference & Expo in New York City this coming March 30-April 1, 2009. Litkey, who before starting Embotics founded Symbium, a venture capital funded company focused on Autonomic C...

The Advanced Infrastructure Solutions (AIS) Division of Tech Data Corporation announced a partnership with DataCore Software to help value-added resellers (VARs) deploy the latest storage virtualization solutions. Through AIS, VARs have access to a broad array of DataCore software solu...

IBM and Grundfos, a pump manufacturer, have announced an agreement for IBM to provide servers and storage infrastructure for Grundfos's two data centers in Denmark, and to deliver a new infrastructure for Grundfos’ SAP environment. With this new agreement, Grundfos has selected IBMâ€...

Meru Networks has introduced a security gateway appliance designed to meet the exacting demands of FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) 140-2 Level 3 security for U.S. and Canadian government agencies and other security-conscious organizations as they broadly adopt wireless L...

VMware announced that TradeBeam has selected the VMware platform, including VMware Infrastructure 3 and VMware Lab Manager, as the foundation for its development and production IT environments. TradeBeam’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) model provides over 6,000 organizations with impo...

Micro Focus International announced that it has completed the acquisition of Relativity Technologies. Completion of the transaction follows a meeting of Relativity Technologies shareholders held on 30 December 2008 at which its shareholders accepted the offer. As previously announced b...

EMC announced it is a gold-level VMware Authorized Consultant (VAC), expanding its global alliance with VMware to help enterprise customers around the world accelerate their business by virtualizing their information infrastructures and data centers. EMC’s Global Services helps custo...

Lexar Media announced the immediate availability of Crucial DDR3-1066 (PC3-8500) and DDR3-1333 (PC3-10600) three channel DDR3 RDIMM memory kits for next-generation server technology from Intel, based on the CoreTM i7 processors. Claiming faster memory speeds and higher memory densities...

Samsung Electronics announced that it has developed a 100 gigabyte (GB) solid state drive for use in servers for applications such as video on demand, streaming media content delivery, internet data centers, virtualization and on-line transaction processing. Samsung claims the new perf...

“In this newly created role," said VMware’s President and CEO, Paul Maritz, "Tod brings unique skills and capabilities that will help us improve our operational focus and enhance our execution across all areas of the business." He made the comment as VMware announced that Tod Niels...

DataCore Software has announced an expanded line of SAN software starter packages priced for small-to-midsize businesses (SMBs). The high cost and complexity of traditional SAN storage required to support virtual servers and desktops typically puts it out of reach for many SMBs. DataCo...

The business case for virtualization is compelling: it delivers rapid, significant, sustainable operational and financial benefits. Yet many IT organizations confine server virtualization to test and development environments and low-priority applications because of a variety of concern...

If IT security is your top priority, then you can no longer ignore your Web applications. Leaving them unprotected makes them vulnerable to hackers and other threats. While your network security solutions can help defend your internal systems, vulnerabilities in your Web applications c...

You need a data center optimization strategy that goes beyond hardware consolidation to simplify operational complexity, adapt to your existing environment, and deliver a secure, responsive computing infrastructure—while lowering TCO. To learn more read this White paper on PAN Manage...

The first phase of virtualization — server consolidation— delivers lower costs, less crowded floor space, and a smaller carbon footprint. Leveraging virtualization more strategically creates an agile IT infrastructure that will provide higher service levels and greater reliability ...

Leading IT managers are taking steps toward a more dynamic data center by implementing strategies such as industry-standard computing platforms, storage area networks, and server virtualization. This paper looks at the requirements for the dynamic data center and demonstrates how Egene...

According to a new survey by the AFCOM Data Center Institute, about half of data centers are responding to the economic crisis by cutting their budgets an average of 15% for 2009. While the overall cuts were "surprisingly low" in the view of Jill Eckhaus, the CEO of the Association for...

Composite Software announced that Philip Howard of UK-based Bloor Research evaluated Composite Discovery, which provides search capabilities against structured data that may be stored in multiple locations. Discovery may also be used to search for data and data relationships to support...

Mitel and Sun Microsystems announced their global OEM agreement, a move aimed at creating a virtualized voice and data desktop. With the combination of Mitel call control on Sun servers and the Mitel Unified IP Client for Sun Ray, Mitel and Sun have delivered a desktop solution that pr...

Sun Microsystems announced a new version of Sun xVM VirtualBox, its free and open source desktop virtualization software for developers and enterprise users. xVM VirtualBox software lets users create "virtual machines" into which they can install their operating system (OS) of choice. ...

IBM has selected Emulex Corporation’s LightPulse 8Gb/s Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) for the new IBM Power Systems servers. By leveraging Emulex HBAs, IBM may provide customers with the increased I/O bandwidth, manageability and CPU efficiency required to support the increas...

Motorola announced the launch of a comprehensive mobile commerce solution for financial and retail merchandising needs. The solution, consisting of an M-Wallet and back-end management platform, has been deployed by Union Mobile Pay (UMPay), a mobile payment company established by China...

Catbird announced the launch of the Catbird Compliance Enforcer, a free service that instantly validates and enforces the security and compliance of virtual data centers. The Catbird Compliance Enforcer’s automated VM quarantine technology brings a level of protection to VMware comm...

Pillar Data Systems has announced its Window Server certification and application compatibility with Microsoft's Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, Microsoft's newest server operating system with built-in, hypervisor-based virtualization. The Pillar Axiom Storage System and Windows Server 20...

DynamicOps has announced new features for its Virtual Resource Manager (VRM), extending the virtualization management software from servers to desktops. The new features make it easier to organize, create, and control a virtual desktop environment. In addition, VRM 3.1 fully supports M...

VMware has announced its intention to expand its strategic relationship with HP to include the joint development of management software solutions that manage both physical and virtual datacenter resources. VMware intends to deliver with HP integrated physical and virtual datacenter man...

Strategies for Mid-sized Companies to Streamline Operations, Reduce Costs and Increase Revenue with Portals Webcast will take place on Wednesday, December 10, 1 PM EST. Registration for this live event is open at the SYS-CON WebSphere Journal website. Please click here to sign up.

VMware has announced the general availability of VMware View 3. With VMware View 3, IT organizations can "decouple" a desktop from specific physical devices or locations to create a personalized view of a user’s desktop, applications, and data – called "myView" – that is securely...

In his virtualization session on Nov. 21 at the 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo in San Jose, CA, Roland Wartenberg, SAP's director of virtualization strategy, discussed the supported virtualization solutions provided by partners of SAP's virtualization ecosystem. Sim...

"The days of Cloud 1.0 are here," stated Red Hat CTO Brian Stevens in his session this morning at SYS-CON’s Virtualization Conference & Expo, in San Jose. He discussed the evolution of the cloud, and how to build a cloud. Over the last five years, the open source community has turned...

As a member of the Citrix Ready Program, Pillar Data Systems has announced compatibility of its Application-Aware profiles with the Citrix Application Delivery Infrastructure. Today's news builds on a series of certifications Pillar has made with the delivery of its Axiom Storage syste...

The Fedora Project, a Red Hat sponsored and community-supported open source collaboration project, has announced the availability of Fedora 10, the latest version of its free open source operating system distribution. Fedora 10 features numerous leading-edge technologies and continues ...

A recent survey conducted by Citrix Systems revealed that virtual desktop delivery interests higher education information technology (IT) professionals looking for ways to optimize the computer lab. Seventy-six percent of 200 higher education IT professionals indicated an interest in a...

Nick van der Sweep, HP's Director of Virtualization and Insight Software ESS Infrastructure Software, gave an information-packed breakout session at SYS-CON's 4th International Virtualization Conference & Expo last week in San Jose, California. He explained to delegates how to develop ...

"Virtualization will help our customers be more agile and efficient," noted Mike Neil at SYS-CON’s Virtualization Conference & Expo, in San Jose, CA, "and there are three areas these companies are focused on." These areas are to drive costs down, increase efficiency, and using virtua...