Fortify Software, specialists in enterprise application security, says that VMWare's release of a raft of patches this week - referred to many as a mega-patch - is likely to be the first of many such moves as hacker interest in the virtual environment takes off.

Lieberman Software's User Manager Pro Suite, a configuration management solution for Windows-powered servers and workstations, has achieved Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V certification. Several additional Lieberman Software products are scheduled for Microsoft's rigorous Hyper-V...

Akorri announced the company has added a number of new authorized resellers of its BalancePoint solution, and has expanded membership within its Optimize Partner Program by 50% over the past six months. Akorri's BalancePoint software helps enterprises troubleshoot problems, optimize an...

RingCube announced it has 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. As a member of the program, RingC...

Sun Microsystems announced a new version of Sun xVM VirtualBox, its high performance, free and open source desktop virtualization software, as well as Sun xVM VirtualBox Software Enterprise Subscription, a new offering for 24/7 premium support for enterprise users. Enterprises will be ...

Red Hat announced the acquisition of Qumranet. The acquisition includes Qumranet's virtualization solutions, including its KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine) platform and SolidICE offering, a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), which together present a comprehensive virtualization platform...

Surgient announced Surgient Virtual Automation Platform 6.0, a solution enabling IT operations to deliver self-service computing resources to users while maintaining full administrative control. With physical provisioning and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V support, the Surgient ...

Embotics announced V-Scout, a free insight tool that gives virtual machine (VM) administrators complete and detailed oversight of their virtual environment. Organizations can use V-Scout, free of charge, to assess their growing virtualization deployments, gain better control over their...

AMD announced that Quad-Core AMD Opteron processors exclusively power the innovation behind the blade server designed specifically to eliminate performance bottlenecks for virtual server hosting, the HP ProLiant BL495c virtualization blade.

Raxco Software announced that PerfectDisk 2008 Server contains support for Microsoft’s Hyper-V. Hyper-V, which provides server virtualization and consolidation, is part of Windows Server 2008. PerfectDisk 2008 Server achieved Microsoft’s Windows Server 2008 certification earlier th...

VKernel has released SearchMyVM, a free "Google-like" search utility for finding information within the expanding VMware ESX environments. The VKernel SearchMyVM Beta is now available to download. Vkernel SearchMyVM deploys exactly like each one of VKernel's virtual appliances. Users c...

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...

NextIO announced its Adaptive Connect platform providing 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...

The streaming technology of AppStream, now part of Symantec, reduces administrative overhead, costs, maintenance, and security concerns associated with managing applications and software on multiple endpoints. Its pull-based, on-demand software distribution platform combines the benefi...

LynuxWorks, a leader in embedded software, provides open and reliable real–time operating systems and tools including the open-source BlueCat Linux and the LynxOS RTOS family, meeting the needs for the highest level of embedded software security. Our LynxSecure separation kernel uses...

Certeon’s aCelera Virtual Appliance software is a virtual appliance that delivers acceleration, virtualization and manageability when remotely accessing applications throughout a distributed enterprise. aCelera Virtual Appliances reduce application response time over the WAN by more ...

VMware announced that CITOC, a provider of managed and hosted IT solutions, has standardized on VMware's management and virtualization platform, VMware Infrastructure, as its application environment for internal systems and client solutions.

3PAR introduced the 3PAR InServ T400 and T800 Storage Servers, built on a third-generation 3PAR InSpire Architecture that features the 3PAR Gen3 ASIC with integrated fat-to-thin processing. With the delivery of the new T-Class arrays, 3PAR has become a storage vendor that incorporates ...

Old Road Computing announced it has emerged from stealth mode and is doing business as Virtual Computer. With Highland Capital Partners and Flybridge Capital Partners leading the company’s Series A funding, Virtual Computer will deliver solutions that capitalize on virtualization tec...

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...

Fortisphere announced the release of Fortisphere Virtual Essentials 2.0, the comprehensive solution for policy-based management of heterogeneous virtual infrastructures. With extensive eco-system integration into leading systems and infrastructure management vendors, Fortisphere is del...

VMware announced that Richard Sarwal, executive vice president, research and development, VMware, has resigned in order to return to Oracle. Sarwal joined VMware from Oracle in December 2007. Effective immediately, Stephen Herrod, Ph.D, CTO and senior vice president of R&D, VMware, wil...

Shavlik Technologies announced the availability of Shavlik NetChk Protect 6.5. Shavlik NetChk Protect 6.5 is a virtual machine management solution that provides continuous patch assessment and remediation of your complete virtual world, including Offline Virtual Images.

Azaleos announced that its OneServer Virtual Edition product now also supports Microsoft Hyper -V Server for virtualization of Microsoft Exchange e-mail servers. The immediate availability of Hyper-V support combined with existing support for VMware ESX, allows customers to choose eith...

Aonix released PERC Ultra 5.1 cross development and target support on Sysgo's PikeOS 2.2 real-time operating system. PERC Ultra support of the PikeOS POSIX PSE52 profile provides a solution for the increasing need for portability across multiple operating systems as industries such as ...

HP announced new products, services and solutions designed to simplify the implementation and management of virtualization so that the technology delivers greater business value. Recent global research conducted on behalf of HP revealed that while 86 percent of technology decision make...

Composite Software announced the appointment of Randy Bartlewski as VP of Alliances. In this newly created position, Bartlewski will be responsible for expanding Composite's global partner programs to meet the growing demand for Composite's virtual data federation/data discovery soluti...

When it comes to managing IT infrastructure, ignorance is never bliss. Proven true time and time again in physical environments, the introduction of virtualization technology has compounded that reality many times over.

BMC Software announced a comprehensive virtualization management approach, including nine new, integrated solutions specifically designed to help customers eliminate the rising risk and operational expenses associated with inadequate management of virtualized IT environments.

Are you ready to start planning for your upcoming virtualization projects? Do you wish to determine if your servers and desktops are ready for virtualization? Attend this session and see demos of Microsoft Virtualization Solution Accelerators, a suite of automation tools such as Micros...

ExaGrid Systems announced support for Vizioncore’s backup and recovery solution, vRanger Pro. Both ExaGrid and Vizioncore offer products and solutions that streamline the management of data backup and recovery processes for VMware users.

DataCore announced that it has integrated the latest generation of Emulex high speed 8Gb/s Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) into its SANmelody and SANsymphony products. These new HBAs provide the I/O scalability necessary to handle growing numbers of simultaneous applications hos...

Desktop and application virtualization technologies are increasingly being used throughout the enterprise to improve manageability and ease deployment of corporate environments on PCs. While application virtualization solutions are typically limited to a single application, desktop vir...

As the adoption of virtualization technology in the data center increases, organizations are encountering new challenges associated with planning and managing rapid growth in virtual infrastructure. Without effective planning and forecasting, organizations often fail to realize the ful...

Computer systems manage and protect increasingly high value information and assets across the enterprise. Meanwhile, hackers grow in number and resourcefulness. Commercial virtualization solutions add to the already fertile attack surface of enterprise operating systems. Green Hills di...

Success in business increasingly relies on proactively harnessing the power of advanced technologies to manage processes, information, and relationships. Today’s IT intensive enterprise must always be on the lookout for the latest in innovation that allow businesses to run with fewer...

Xen.org, the home of the open source Xen project, has announced the release of Xen 3.3 engine, the latest version of the open source hypervisor. The release is now available for download from the Xen.org community site and is the product of a distributed development effort by senior en...

Open Source. Open Standards. Open Collaboration. For the past 15 years, Linux has served as the benchmark of a successful global open source project. The impact has been far reaching: today it powers the Internet, a significant portion of the datacenter, is the emerging market choice f...

Symantec announced the global results of its fourth annual IT Disaster Recovery survey, which demonstrates a decline in executive involvement in disaster recovery planning and an increase in the number of organizations reevaluating their disaster recovery (DR) plans due to virtualizati...

VDIworks announced that the latest release of VDIworks' Virtual Desktop Platform (VDP), version 1.2, will provide connection brokering and management for the HP Remote Graphics Software (RGS) protocol to deliver a high performance virtualized desktop solution to the industry. This inte...