Archive for 2010

Dell has signed an agreement to acquire 3PAR, a leading global provider of highly-virtualized storage solutions with advanced data management features, including dynamic tiering and thin provisioning, for multi-tenant cloud-computing environments. The transaction is valued at approximately $1.15 billion, net of 3PAR’s cash. Terms of the acquisition were approved by the board of directors of each company. In the ‘Virtual Era,’ Dell is driving an open ... Full story

Server virtualization provides a cost-effective computing proposition to large as well as small business enterprises. A superlative virtual server maximizes resources utilization, enhances the overall security of the network, and makes disaster recovery effortless and economical. However, lots of myths are prevalent about server virtualization that prevent entrepreneurs from adopting this gainful technology. In the following paragraphs we shall deflate some myths and state a ... Full story

Virtensys(TM), Ltd, a provider of I/O virtualization solutions for data centers, today announced that Synopsys, Inc. /quotes/comstock/15*!snps/quotes/nls/snps  (SNPS  22.09, +0.32, +1.47%) , a world leader in software and IP for semiconductor design, has successfully deployed the Virtensys I/O virtualization (IOV) solution in the company's data center. The VIO-4001 IOV appliance met the performance requirements and delivered the full network connectivity bandwidth at 10 Gbps to ... Full story

RingCube Technologies, the leading provider of managed virtual workspaces, today announced that CONSOL Energy Inc. /quotes/comstock/13*!cnx/quotes/nls/cnx  (CNX  36.32, -0.26, -0.71%) , the leading coal and gas producer in the Appalachian Basin, has selected RingCube vDesk to help centralize management of PCs and increase overall performance of desktop computing in their underground mining systems. RingCube vDesk is a high-performance enterprise desktop virtualization solution that simplifies the ... Full story

EMC Corporation (NYSE:  EMC), the world leader in information infrastructure solutions, today announced that HNTB Corporation, a $1 billion  planning, design, program management and construction management services firm, has implemented EMC and VMware solutions to streamline, protect and manage its rapidly growing information infrastructure and reduce IT expenditures and management costs as it moves towards the private cloud. Richard Hall, Vice President and Director, Corporate Information ... Full story

Dot Hill Systems Corp. (Nasdaq:  HILL), a provider of world-class storage solutions and software for OEMs, open storage partners and system integrators, today announced its Intelligent Storage Networking (iSN™) Version 2.3 storage virtualization software for OEMs and integrators. The latest version of the company's heterogeneous storage management software, iSN 2.3, consolidates and virtualizes storage across different vendors and, via advanced storage features such as snapshots, thin ... Full story

Cost management and virtualization top the list of enterprise IT concerns, according to the SHARE survey that will be released at SHARE's bi-annual conference, SHARE in Boston, August 1-5. SHARE conducted the survey of more than 160 of IBM's top customers to review the current state of enterprise IT in terms of where companies are putting the most resources and focus. Results of the study provide ... Full story

Extreme Networks, Inc. /quotes/comstock/15*!extr/quotes/nls/extr  (EXTR  3.00, -0.03, -0.99%)  today announced that colocation provider Profitability.net has chosen its virtualized 10 Gigabit data center, cloud and storage networking solutions based on its 4 Pillar Data Center strategy, as it rolls out its Appica.com cloud service. Profitability.net provides data center, hosted application, and cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) services for 450+ emerging to Fortune 1000 companies. Profitablity.net is ... Full story

As part of the World’s Shortest Webinar Series, veteran data center manager and virtualization monitoring expert, Steve Francis, will demonstrate how to effectively monitor virtualized data center infrastructures, and reveal why issues within virtual environments often go undetected. Data center managers and system administrators will learn how to diagnose puzzling performance issues using LogicMonitor’s automated data center monitoring service. Webinar Details Date: Tue, Aug 17, 20110 Time: 11:00 ... Full story

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation /quotes/comstock/13*!ntt/quotes/nls/ntt  (NTT  20.99, -0.06, -0.29%) ("NTT") and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (TOKYO:6503)("Mitsubishi Electric") today announced that they have developed a new advanced encryption (fine-grained encryption) scheme expected to become a potential solution to the security risks in cloud computing. This new encryption scheme achieves the most advanced logic in the encryption-decryption mechanism, which enables sophisticated and fine-grained data transmission/access control. The rapid ... Full story