World Wide Technology, Inc. (WWT), a market-leading systems integrator that provides innovative technology and supply chain solutions, announced today that it will be a Silver Sponsor at VMworld 2010. The company will be well represented and showcase its advanced virtualization and cloud computing expertise in the exhibit hall, through live presentations, at an exclusive networking reception and with its strategic partners. VMworld 2010 is being held August 30 through September 2 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.

“At VMworld 2010, WWT will be demonstrating some of the world’s most-advanced virtualization and cloud computing technologies”

VMworld 2010 gives attendees unparalleled access to educational opportunities that demonstrate how to reduce IT complexity and enable IT as a service through virtualization and cloud computing. With more than 50 employees in attendance including the company’s C-level leadership team and a host of technical and solution architects, WWT will offer live presentations on Secure Multi-tenancy (SMT), virtual computing environment (VCE) and HP Blade Matrix. The working, live WWT PODs will showcase:

* SMT: Secure Multi-tenancy, showing VMware, Cisco UCS/Fabric and NetApp Storage.
* VCE: All of the elements of a Vblock: VMware, Cisco UCS/Fabric and EMC Storage.
* HP Blade Matrix: WWT will demonstrate a live working Matrix solution.

“At VMworld 2010, WWT will be demonstrating some of the world’s most-advanced virtualization and cloud computing technologies,” said Bob Olwig, vice president of business strategy at World Wide Technology. “It promises to be an exciting opportunity for our customers, partners and prospects to see why WWT is a leader in delivering and supporting data center solutions.”

WWT currently provides technology products from more than 3,000 manufacturers and maintains over 1,000 certifications to ensure it provides the latest in IT solutions and services to solve business problems for its customers. The company maintains strong strategic partnerships with Cisco Systems, Citrix, EMC, HP, NetApp, Sun Microsystems and VMware.

About WWT

World Wide Technology, Inc. is a systems integrator that provides innovative technology and supply chain solutions to the commercial, government and telecom sectors. The company brings to market a powerful blend of knowledge, infrastructure and technology to help its customers manage the planning, procurement and deployment of IT products and solutions. Based in St. Louis, WWT works closely with industry leaders including Boeing (NYSE: BA); Dell (NASDAQ: DELL); Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO); EMC (NYSE: EMC); HP (NYSE: HPQ); AT&T Inc., (NYSE: ATT); VMware (NYSE: VMW); Citrix Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CTXS); NetApp, Inc. (NASDAQ: NTAP); Microsoft (NASDAQ: MSFT) and the U.S. Air Force. WWT employs over 1,200 people and operates more than 1.5 million square-feet of warehousing, distribution and integration space in 20 facilities throughout the world. For more information on World Wide Technology, visit www.wwt.com.

Contacts

For WWT
Edward Levens, 919-225-8328
eslevens@propelmg.com

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NaviSite, Inc. /quotes/comstock/15*!navi/quotes/nls/navi  (NAVI  2.93, -0.05, -1.68%) , a premier provider of enterprise-class hosting, managed application, managed messaging and managed cloud services, today announced it has been named Best Cloud Computing Provider and Best Managed Hosting Provider by HostReview.com for August 2010.

HostReview.com, a top-rated online resource for the Web hosting industry since 1998, awards “Best Cloud Computing Provider” to the service provider that offers outstanding performance and value for cloud computing servers. Hostreview.com considers price, technology, reliability and overall performance of the hosting company. The “Best Managed Hosting Provider “award recognizes the provider that has demonstrated best performance. Criteria include overall presence of the company, as well as equipment procurement; provisioning and installation; and network monitoring and management capabilities.

NaviSite’s portfolio of enterprise-class cloud services and managed hosting solutions are designed to optimize mission-critical IT infrastructure for peak performance requirements, while providing the flexibility to meet current and future business needs. Backed by world-class support and the industry’s strongest SLA guarantees, NaviSite’s solutions are ideal for larger enterprises interested in reducing their infrastructure costs.

“We are honored to be recognized by HostReview,” said Brooks Borcherding, CEO of NaviSite. “These awards recognize our continuing efforts to deliver innovative, industry-defining cloud services and enterprise hosting solutions.”

About HostReview HostReview (http://www.hostreview.com) is a popular online destination for people who look for the best hosting deals. The site features a comprehensive article section, industry news, and one of the most complete directories of hosting service providers on the web. The site attracts a diverse and numerous audiences.

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Abiquo, the leading Enterprise Cloud Management software vendor, today announced that, after extensive research among its more than 20,000 customers, open source users and prospects, the top five issues facing enterprises today are:

“By investing in a unified cloud management system, enterprises can truly realize the full benefits of virtualization”

1) Security and Compliance
2) IT Organization Overload
3) Lack of Visibility into Virtual Environments
4) Unrealized Utilization Improvements
5) Vendor Lock-in

Implications of Top Five Virtualization Issues

Companies are moving to virtualization to increase server utilization rates and save money. According to research carried out by IDC in 2009, there was a 16% increase in server virtualization, and this year IDC claims that companies have even begun to adopt a “virtualization first” mentality because IT departments are keen to save money.

Yet Abiquo’s research clearly shows that the five major issues are either preventing companies from virtualizing more of their environments, or are preventing companies from realizing cost savings from their current virtualized environments.

Limiting Virtualization Adoption

Abiquo found that security and compliance concerns were the number one reason why many enterprises limited their virtualization efforts to non-production development and test systems only. For example, while virtual machine portability is highly beneficial from a resilience standpoint, for many organizations it creates a security and compliance nightmare. Effective data separation is difficult, not only to ensure, but also to provably track. Some enterprises attempt to mitigate the problem by creating separate “virtualized islands”, each running on different physical hardware, but this only reduces utilization, and presents a barrier to Cloud adoption.

The provisioning of virtual machines and storage, carried out by IT personnel, also leads to increased security and compliance risks since, unlike in the physical world where applications are both isolated and stay put, in virtualized environments IT must correctly (and repeatedly) determine the correct location in relation to other virtual systems. In short, they must fully understand and act upon the security and compliance requirements each and every time. Since the task is complex and humans are fallible, errors are inevitable. Virtualized environments that offer automated load balancing and fail-over only make the problem worse.

Limiting Virtualization Savings

Abiquo discovered that 4 of the 5 top virtualization issues limited companies’ ability to realize cost savings. For example, in addition to the “virtualized islands” issue described above, utilization decisions made by humans, who determine at least the initial location of every virtual system, rarely if ever produce the most effective utilization plan. For best utilization, a complete re-evaluation of the entire virtualized environment is required every time a virtual system is provisioned, or re-started. IT personnel have neither the time, nor the tools to do this, especially if they are also considering security and compliance.

In most enterprises the IT provisioning team is generally entirely separate from the application team that runs the virtualized system. This disconnect can lead to inefficiency and increased cost. For example, many enterprises that adopt virtualization find that over time a large number of virtual systems have resources allocated, but are no longer being used. Either nobody bothered to tell the infrastructure team, or the desire to “keep it around in case I need it later” prevailed.

Vendor lock-in is a barrier to adoption (for example many US government departments are restricted from using single vendor solutions) which leads to artificially high pricing when using a captive vendor.

Solution to Virtualization Issues

Abiquo believes that most enterprises do not realize there is a viable solution to these issues. An enterprise cloud management solution such as the Abiquo Enterprise Edition provides a bridge between basic virtualization and fully Cloud enabled computing.

“By investing in a unified cloud management system, enterprises can truly realize the full benefits of virtualization”, said Pete Malcolm, Abiquo CEO. “Abiquo is the only solution that addresses all five of the top virtualization issues, dramatically improving utilization to realize cost savings, eliminating security and compliance concerns, substantially reducing the load on the IT organization, gaining visibility into virtual environments and eliminating vendor lock-in – all without any increase in risk.”

Learn more about the Abiquo Enterprise Edition and how it addresses the top 5 virtualization issues at www.abiquo.com.

About Abiquo

Abiquo is the leading Enterprise Cloud Management software company. Abiquo envisions a future where private and public Clouds are fully interoperable and vendor neutral. The company embraces an open-source model where both community users and commercial organizations can fully benefit from the Cloud revolution. To download the Abiquo solution, visit download.abiquo.com. For more information, visit www.abiquo.com.

Contacts

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Wanova, Inc. today announced it has begun shipping the latest version of Wanova Mirage™ software, a distributed desktop virtualization solution designed to help IT departments better manage, support and protect remote and mobile PCs. In less than five months since its first product debut, Wanova has added new capabilities that further simplify the management of desktops across the distributed enterprise. Wanova Mirage 1.5 adds a number of capabilities, including support for endpoints running Windows 7, a wizard to easily migrate PCs from Windows XP to Windows 7 over the WAN, a free 5-license trial version of the software that can be downloaded from Wanova.com, as well as other enhancements.

In related news, Wanova also announced the Mellanox Technologies has deployed Wanova Mirage to improve helpdesk efficiency, data protection, and image management. http://wanova.com/pages/mellanox-technologies-deploys-wanova.html?page_id=627

“We continue to learn from our customers, and Wanova Mirage 1.5 incorporates many new capabilities that reflect that feedback,” said Issy Ben-Shaul, CTO and co-founder of Wanova. “Organizations want to reduce the total cost of ownership and improve control of distributed and mobile PCs, but not at the cost of additional complexity. Wanova’s unique architecture is proving to be a powerful, yet simple solution.”

About Wanova Mirage
Mirage centralizes the full contents of each user’s desktop in the data center – including files and user-installed applications – for management and data protection. IT can combine these user-specific components with an IT provisioned Base Image, comprised of an operating system and core applications, creating a Centralized Virtual Desktop, or CVD.

Each CVD is a full, bootable, hardware agnostic image, so it can be deployed to meet a variety of use cases, including:
•Local Execution: During normal operation, the CVD is executed locally on each endpoint, creating superior end user experience, and making it possible for a user to seamlessly work offline and online.
•Virtual/Central Execution: If a user loses their laptop, their CVD can be loaded into a virtual machine in the data center and accessed via a kiosk or thin client.
•PC Refresh: The user’s desktop can be migrated to a new hardware platform, giving the user complete access to their full desktop, including files, previously installed applications, and personalization in a matter of minutes.
•Local Troubleshooting: If a user is experiencing problems, a helpdesk employee can load their CVD into a workbench or virtual machine in the data center, and troubleshoot the desktop as if they were standing at the user’s desk. Once repaired, the CVD can be synchronized with the end user’s PC.

The new features and capabilities in version 1.5 include:

* Free Eval Version: Wanova Mirage software can be downloaded from wanova.com. The 5-license evaluation is available immediately.

•Windows 7 Support: Mirage now supports Windows 7 clients, expanding the network of PCs that can be managed and protected.
•Migration from Windows XP to Windows 7: Mirage makes it possible for IT to centrally manage the migration of even remote user’s desktops from Windows XP to Windows 7. PCs can be migrated in place, with minimal disruption to the end user, while retaining user personalization and access to their files. Migration requires no external image servers or boot media, and leverages Wanova’s advanced transfer optimization methods to deliver large Windows 7 images over the WAN.
•Enhanced Storage Optimization: Wanova Mirage leverages a global single instance store shared by all endpoints which ensures that each file, application or OS instance is only written once to storage. Version 1.5 includes significant enhancements that further reduce storage capacity and throughput requirements, especially for large and frequently updated files like PSTs, introducing a new level of cost savings for centralized data protection.
•Compliance Meter: The Mirage Management Console provides a powerful dashboard that helps IT administrators quickly gauge the health of their desktop environment. Version 1.5 adds a widget to the dashboard that represents, as a percentage, the deviation of all managed endpoints from their IT-approved Base Image. Based on this information, administrators can easily and quickly enforce the Base Image for one or many endpoints to bring them back into compliance.
•Dynamic Collections: Administrators can create criteria-based groupings or “collections” of endpoints to simplify management. For example, a collection could be created for a certain hardware type, or to identify endpoints where compliance with the Base Image has dropped below a certain threshold. New endpoints will automatically be added to the appropriate collection.

About Wanova
Wanova, Inc. provides Distributed Desktop Virtualization solutions that transform how companies manage, support and protect their desktops and laptops. Wanova Mirage centralizes control of the physical and virtual desktop infrastructure while optimizing the end-user experience and providing full support for offline use. Wanova’s unique architecture enables companies to reduce costs while dramatically improving IT operations and users’ productivity. Wanova is privately held and headquartered in San Jose, CA with a development center in Netanya, Israel. For more information, please visit www.wanova.com.

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Today at VMworld 2010, 3PAR(R) /quotes/comstock/13*!par/quotes/nls/par  (PAR  31.75, -0.37, -1.15%) , the leading global provider of utility storage, announced that cloud computing market leaders in the Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) segments have combined the 3PAR InServ(R) Storage Server with VMware vSphere(TM) to build agile and efficient cloud infrastructures for their shared, virtualized “utility” service offerings.

Of the global cloud computing IaaS leaders, 7 of the top 10 deploy 3PAR and VMware for their shared, virtualized service offerings. Among these service providers, several are also 3PAR Cloud-Agile Global Partners, including Attenda, VMware’s EMEA and Global Service Provider Partner of the Year for 2010. As both a Cloud-Agile: ASSURED and Cloud-Agile: SECURED partner, Attenda uses 3PAR Utility Storage to offer both disaster recovery and Virtual Private Array (VPA) services.

“Our cloud computing platform, Attenda RTI, utilizes best-of-breed VMware virtualization technology integrated with a shared virtualized platform of 3PAR storage and Cisco networking, providing rapid scalability for unprecedented business agility,” said Simon Hansford, VP Service Strategy and Marketing at Attenda. “With over 60 clients deploying business-critical, enterprise-class applications into the cloud, our clients are recognizing the need to improve IT efficiency and increase business agility through the adoption of infrastructure-as-a-service.”

3PAR Utility Storage was designed from the ground up to feature a scalable, clustered, multi-tenant architecture and to provide the optimal storage infrastructure for virtual datacenters and the delivery of IT as a service. When deployed together, highly virtualized storage from 3PAR and server virtualization technology from VMware have enabled joint customers to increase VMware vSphere(TM) return on investment (ROI) for cloud service delivery. This is due to 3PAR’s efficient thin technologies, flexible, “autonomic” administration, and tight integration around VMware’s vStorage initiatives.

In a third-party survey of 3PAR service provider customers, 95% of respondents agreed that the 3PAR InServ Storage Server has allowed them to rapidly and cost-effectively adapt to changing business needs and would recommend 3PAR Utility Storage as an agile and efficient alternative to traditional storage (source: TechValidate). With this level of customer satisfaction, 3PAR has seen its platform deployed by numerous SaaS vendors for their cloud-based service offerings. Today, more than 50% of the SaaS-based email archiving market uses storage from 3PAR. LiveOffice, one of 3PAR’s cloud service provider customers and the #1 email archiving SaaS provider in the world, deployed the powerful combination of 3PAR Utility Storage and VMware vSphere to increase both agility and scalability while reducing storage capacity requirements. LiveOffice saved more than half a million dollars by deploying 3PAR Utility Storage to reduce capacity, administration costs, and power consumption. In addition, the cloud service provider doubled the number of mailboxes it can accommodate while reducing datacenter footprint by 66%.

“The nature of our business requires that our storage infrastructure keep pace with rapid growth by scaling on-the-fly,” said Alexander Rusich, Founder and Chairman of the Board at LiveOffice. “And this means delivering the uncompromising performance, availability, and reliability that our clients have come to expect of us — and on a larger and larger scale. We need storage that grows with us, not storage that we are constantly growing out of. This is exactly what 3PAR has delivered — at roughly half the cost and in one-third the footprint of the other storage platforms we evaluated.”

“The IT industry is transitioning toward delivering IT as a service,” said Parag Patel, vice president, Global Strategic Alliances, VMware. “Together with partners such as 3PAR, VMware is at the forefront in driving this evolution. As the pace of change has accelerated, VMware and our partners have focused on delivering the technologies necessary for businesses to thrive in this new cloud era.”

“3PAR Utility Storage is storage built for virtualized environments and the delivery of IT as a service,” said David Scott, President and CEO for 3PAR. “We believe that utility storage arrays from 3PAR and virtualization technologies like VMware vSphere are essential tools for any service provider looking to build an agile and efficient virtualized environment to meet the large-scale demands of cloud service delivery.”

About 3PAR 3PAR(R) /quotes/comstock/13*!par/quotes/nls/par (PAR 31.75, -0.37, -1.15%) is the leading global provider of utility storage, a category of highly virtualized, dynamically tiered, multi-tenant storage arrays built for public and private cloud computing. Our virtualized storage platform was built from the ground up to be agile and efficient and to eliminate the limitations of traditional storage arrays for utility infrastructures. As a pioneer of thin provisioning and other storage virtualization technologies, we design our products to reduce power consumption to help companies meet their green computing initiatives and to cut storage total cost of ownership. 3PAR customers have used our self-managing, efficient, and adaptable utility storage systems to reduce administration time and provisioning complexity, to improve server and storage utilization, and to scale and adapt flexibly in response to continuous growth and changing business needs. For more information, visit the 3PAR Website at: www.3PAR.com.

Copyright 2010 3PAR Inc. All rights reserved. 3PAR, the 3PAR logo, Serving Information, InServ, InForm, InSpire, and Thin Built In are all trademarks or registered trademarks of 3PAR Inc. VMware, VMware vSphere and VMworld are registered trademarks and/or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other jurisdictions. The use of the word “partner” or “partnership” does not imply a legal partnership relationship between VMware and any other company. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

3PAR U.S. Contact
John D’Avolio
3PAR
+1 510 668 9328
Email Contact

3PAR U.K. Contact
Federica Monsone
A3 Communications for 3PAR
+44 (0) 1252 875 203

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Brocade(R) /quotes/comstock/15*!brcd/quotes/nls/brcd  (BRCD  5.02, +0.04, +0.80%)  announced the availability of leading-edge application delivery hardware and software solutions that address the needs of mid-market enterprise customers who are using virtualization and cloud computing solutions to maximize the value of their IT resources.

Today, Brocade introduced a new extension to the Brocade ServerIron(R) ADX 4000 developed to meet the unique needs of mid-market enterprises. The ServerIron ADX 4000 ASM-4 bundle is an entry-level chassis solution that provides industry-leading Layer 4-7 switching performance in a new high-value package to help customers realize the promise of on-demand, automated data center computing. Specifically designed for mid-market enterprise environments, the ServerIron ADX 4000 ASM-4 bundle enables a new class of customers to experience the flexibility and scalability benefits of a modular platform. The license-activated, capacity on-demand scalability of the ASM-4 module enables customers to adopt a “pay-as-you-grow” investment approach, allowing them to double their throughput and future-proof their application delivery networks without adding hardware or removing the switches from the network. The ServerIron ADX 4000 ASM-4 bundle provides eight ports of 1 Gbps small form-factor pluggable (SFP) copper connectivity, with the option to use fiber SFPs on all ports. It also combines breakthrough performance via a highly robust services platform with built-in extensibility and seamless interoperability across fabrics and networking protocols.

Brocade continues to bring greater efficiency, manageability and value to mid-market data center customers with the ServerIron ADX family of products through the Brocade Application Resource Broker software module that provides visibility into application performance across the network and virtual machine (VM) infrastructures. Brocade Application Resource Broker helps ensure that application service level agreements (SLAs) are met by dynamically allocating additional resources to address increases in application load. The software module leverages the unique position of the ServerIron ADX within the network to deliver a wide range of advanced capabilities that are directly built-in to the VMware vSphere(TM) interface, including:

– Real-time monitoring, measurement, correlation and application-centric reporting through the vSphere administrative interface via a client plug-in

– On-demand, automated, policy-based provisioning and de-provisioning of resources based on application performance metrics from the ServerIron ADX and the VMware vCenter(TM) Server

– Historical tracking and trending of key application performance metrics to reveal changing requirements

Together, the Brocade ServerIron ADX 4000 ASM-4 bundle with Brocade Application Resource Broker form a high-performance application delivery solution for highly virtualized environments and provide an attractive value proposition to mid-market enterprise customers.

“The network plays a critical role in the process of virtual application delivery and is of utmost importance as we look toward the accelerated migration to cloud computing,” said Parag Patel, vice president, Global Strategic Alliances, at VMware. “Our partnership with Brocade will help customers tightly integrate networking layers with the VMware platform, thereby streamlining network management and taking a significant step toward delivering IT as a service.”

This new offering is the latest in a series of innovations that Brocade has developed to optimize its networking solutions in virtualized IT environments. While server virtualization presents key operational and cost benefits, it has also inherently introduces complexity at the networking level. To address this issue, Brocade recently unveiled Brocade One(TM), a unifying network strategy that illustrates an ongoing commitment to help customers use networking technologies more effectively in migrating towards highly-scalable, simplified and automated virtualized infrastructures. To support this strategy, Brocade has also introduced Brocade Virtual Cluster Switching (VCS(TM)), advanced technology that addresses the unique requirements of virtualized data centers. Brocade VCS enables customers to build and manage data center fabrics that can efficiently consolidate and manage tens of thousands of VMs, thereby eliminating the inevitable challenges resulting from traditional Spanning Tree Protocol-based networks.

“Virtualization and cloud computing present highly compelling business benefits for enterprise customers of all sizes, such that Brocade has taken a proactive approach to developing a wide range of new solutions designed to reduce network complexity resulting from the deployment of virtual environments,” said Jason Nolet, vice president of the Data Center and Enterprise Networking Group, at Brocade. “Building upon extensive experience in the data center, where reliability and preservation of data integrity are critical, Brocade is committed to creating innovative networking technologies that help customers simplify the implementation and management of virtualizing their applications.”

Brocade will showcase the ServerIron ADX 4000 ASM-4 with Brocade Application Resource Broker in Booth #1307 at VMworld 2010 from August 30 to September 2 at Moscone Center in San Francisco.

Availability

The Brocade ServerIron ADX 4000 ASM-4 module will be generally available on September 23, 2010 via select Brocade value-added resellers and directly from Brocade. For more information on Brocade networking solutions for mid-market enterprises, visit www.brocade.com.

Additional Resources

Brocade ServerIron ADX Series Product Overview – http://www.brocade.com/adx

Brocade ServerIron ADX Series Data Sheet – http://www.brocade.com/adxds

Brocade ServerIron ADX 4000 ASM-4 Product Image – http://www.brocade.com/images/products/SI-4000_ASM4.jpg

Brocade Application Resource Broker Overview — http://www.brocade.com/arb

Brocade One Microsite – http://www.brocade.com/dg/brocade-one/list.html

Brocade VCS Press Release – http://www.brocade.com/dg/brocade-one/pressrelease-vcs-deep-dive.html

About Brocade

Brocade /quotes/comstock/15*!brcd/quotes/nls/brcd (BRCD 5.02, +0.04, +0.80%) develops extraordinary networking solutions that enable today’s complex, data-intensive businesses to optimize information connectivity and maximize the business value of their data. For more information, visit www.brocade.com.

Brocade, the B-wing symbol, BigIron, DCFM, DCX, Fabric OS, FastIron, IronView, NetIron, SAN Health, ServerIron, TurboIron, and Wingspan are registered trademarks, and Brocade Assurance, Brocade NET Health, Brocade One, Extraordinary Networks, MyBrocade, and VCS are trademarks of Brocade Communications Systems, Inc., in the United States and/or in other countries. Other brands, products, or service names mentioned are or may be trademarks or service marks of their respective owners.

(C) 2010 Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

SOURCE: Brocade

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Jennifer Miu, 408-333-7309
jmiu@brocade.com
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Brocade Investor Relations
Rob Eggers, 408-333-8797
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Atlantis Computing, a leading provider of Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) storage and performance optimization solutions, today announced that it has launched its VDI Solution Partner Program and is partnering with leading VMware Premier and Citrix Platinum Solution Partners to deliver solutions that reduce VDI CAPEX for enterprise customers, simplify the deployment of VDI and facilitate large scale adoption of desktop virtualization.

“We are working with a lot of customers that are in the process of planning VDI deployments and see that IT organizations are finding it challenging to build a compelling business case for VDI compared to physical PCs,” said Peter Castaldi, Principal and Co-Founder of Kovarus Technology Solutions. “If we can lower the cost per VDI desktop with Atlantis ILIO, we can expand both the number of VDI desktops per customer and the total number of customers that will deploy VDI.”

“There are a tremendous amount of VDI deployments that have stalled because either the cost of storage was too high or users were disappointed with desktop performance,” said Ron Lisch, President of CoreTek Services. “We are excited to deliver Atlantis ILIO to our customers, solve their VDI storage problems and get VDI deployments back on track.”

Atlantis ILIO is a VDI storage and performance optimization solution that integrates with Citrix, VMware, Quest and other VDI offerings to cut storage costs, provide IT teams with more storage options and boost desktop performance. Atlantis ILIO is a unique and innovative IO virtualization technology that fundamentally changes the economics and performance characteristics of VDI by intelligently optimizing how the Microsoft Windows operating system interacts with VDI storage.

“After testing Atlantis ILIO in our labs, we are excited to bring Atlantis ILIO into our large VDI deployments to offload IOPS from expensive SAN or NAS storage platforms,” said Chris Ward, Director of Solutions Architecture, GreenPages Technology Solutions. “We are confident that Atlantis will enable us to convince more customers to choose VDI over physical PCs, scale small VDI pilots to large production deployments and reduce the cost of VDI per desktop dramatically.”

“We have been using Atlantis ILIO in our vLab to reduce storage by up to 90%, offload IOPS on our storage system by up to 80% and instantly provision VDI image components including as VMware View, VMware ThinApp, Citrix XenDesktop, Microsoft App-V and AppSense for enterprise customer proof of concepts (POCs),” said John Premus, Service Director for Virtualization, GlassHouse Technologies. “We have also designed Atlantis ILIO into customer VDI architectures that support up to 30,000 desktops.”

Atlantis Computing is committed to delivering products that simplify the deployment of VDI and facilitate large scale adoption of desktop virtualization.

“Atlantis ILIO is fundamentally changing the economics of VDI for our partners and customers,” said Bernard Harguindeguy, President & CEO of Atlantis Computing. “We are thrilled to be working with so many partners that are VDI experts and look forward to growing the market together.”

Atlantis Computing will be exhibiting at the VMworld 2010 conference at Moscone Center in San Francisco from August 30th to September 2nd at booth #1140 and demonstrating a live VDI deployment with Atlantis ILIO, Cisco UCS,CompellentStorage, IBM, Dell and Microsoft Windows 7.

Atlantis Computing will be holding an event at VMworld 2010 in San Francisco titled “Stalled VDI Project? Storage Too Expensive?” featuring Daniel Beveridge, Office of the CTO, VMware and John Premus, Service Director for Virtualization, GlassHouse Technologies who will discuss storage optimization for VDI deployments.

For more information and to register, visit www.atlantiscomputing.com/VDIStorageDesign

Atlantis Computing VDI Solutions Partners

CoreTek Services — www.coretekservices.com

GlassHouse Technologies – www.glasshouse.com

GreenPages Technology Solutions – www.greenpages.com

Kovarus Technology Solutions – www.kovarus.com

Systems Management Planning, Inc. (SMP) – www.smp-corp.com

Thin Client Computing – www.thinclient.net

To learn more or apply to become an Atlantis VDI Solution Partner, visit http://www.atlantiscomputing.com/partners/solutions/

About Atlantis Computing

Atlantis Computing is transforming enterprise desktop computing by solving the challenges of desktop virtualization: storage costs and user acceptance. Atlantis ILIO reduces VDI storage costs and complexity, boosts desktop performance and streamlines image management. Atlantis ILIO’s patent-pending IO virtualization technology is delivered as an appliance that transparently consolidates desktop images and offloads IO intensive Windows operations from VDI storage. Atlantis Computing is privately held and funded by El Dorado Ventures, Partech International and Cisco Systems with headquarters in Mountain View, California and a research and development center in Bangalore, India.

SOURCE: Atlantis Computing

Atlantis Computing
Seth Knox, 650-917-9471

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Ixia /quotes/comstock/15*!xxia/quotes/nls/xxia  (XXIA  10.92, -0.25, -2.24%) , a leading, global provider of converged IP network test solutions, today announced that they are working with Emulex to demonstrate an advanced virtualized data center, processing converged IP and storage traffic over a multi-vendor unified network. This demonstration, taking place at VMworld 2010 in booth #1636, features Ixia’s IxVM virtualization test solution and Emulex’s OneConnect(TM) Universal Converged Network Adapters over a unified, next-generation data center architecture.

Large enterprises, system integrators, and operators are rapidly transforming data centers using new virtualization technologies. Thorough assessment of virtual infrastructure performance and capacity, and isolation of network functions and bottlenecks in virtual data centers is an extremely challenging task. Pre-deployment testing is mandatory in order to ensure user quality of experience (QoE), and correctly provision virtualized network resources.

The convergence of network and storage I/O as well as the consolidation of multiple switching frameworks using Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and data center bridging (DCB) technologies will deliver major cost savings. Testing such networks requires a truly unified, high-density test platform that is able to characterize the performance of converged traffic forwarding, end-to-end, from virtual hosts to the storage area network (SAN).

This VMworld demonstration substantiates that next-generation data center solutions can dramatically decrease overall cost of ownership, while maintaining application performance and reliability.

Key Facts:

–  The end-to-end converged data center is a live demonstration of server
virtualization and I/O consolidation over a unified fabric.
–  The demonstration features a unified multi-vendor infrastructure with
I/O consolidation using Emulex’s OneConnect Universal Converged
Network Adapters.
–  Ixia’s IxSAN emulates a realistic high performance Fibre Channel SAN.
–  Ixia’s IxVM characterizes the performance of the virtual switch by
generating storage I/O and server-to-server network traffic.
–  Ixia’s Fibre Channel load modules enable Fibre Channel and FCoE
testing of high-density converged data center infrastructures. The
load module comes with four or eight ports, and each port can be
configured to run at 2, 4, or 8 G speeds.

Supporting Quotes

–  “Virtualization and network convergence will be the backbone of
next-generation cloud computing environments and the ability to
utilize both technologies efficiently in the data center is critical
for end user deployment,” said Steve Daheb, chief marketing officer
and senior vice president of business development, Emulex. “This
demonstration shows the value of using diagnostic instrumentation to
understand the impact that virtualization and network convergence have
on supported applications and end users.”
–  “Data center operators face a multitude of testing challenges such as
server optimization, application and I/O performance, energy
efficiency, and security,” said Deepesh Arora, Director of Layer 2/3
Product Management at Ixia. “Ixia is the only testing company that
addresses these challenges in a single, unified hardware platform.”

Resources:

–  For more information on Ixia and its data center solutions, please
www.ixiacom.com–  For more information on VMworld 2010, please visit their website.

About Ixia Ixia is a leading provider of converged IP performance test systems and service verification platforms for wireless and wired infrastructures and services. Ixia’s test systems are used by network and telephony equipment manufacturers, semiconductor manufacturers, service providers, governments and enterprises to validate the performance and reliability of complex networks, devices and applications. Ixia’s multiplay test systems address the growing need to test voice, video and data services and network capability under real-world conditions.

About Emulex Emulex is the leader in converged networking solutions for the data center. Our Connectivity Continuum architecture provides intelligent networking services that transition today’s infrastructure into tomorrow’s unified network ecosystem. Emulex provides a single framework that intelligently connects every server, network and storage device within the data center. Through strategic collaboration and integrated partner solutions, Emulex provides its customers with industry leading business value, operational flexibility and strategic advantage. Emulex is listed on the New York Stock Exchange /quotes/comstock/13*!elx/quotes/nls/elx (ELX 9.63, +0.19, +2.01%) and has corporate headquarters in Costa Mesa, California. News releases and other information about Emulex Corporation are available at www.emulex.com.

Ixia and the Ixia four-petal logo are registered trademarks or trademarks of Ixia. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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NComputing, a global leader in desktop virtualization, today announced expanded operations including international senior hires, country expansion, an aggressive channel expansion program, an enhanced OEM program, and integrated solutions with Microsoft, Citrix, and VMware. These actions are in response to growing global market adoption of the company’s desktop virtualization devices and technologies. NComputing is experiencing broadening enterprise acceptance and continued education success across all international regions, with year-over-year revenue increasing 40 percent.

NComputing’s recently introduced enterprise-optimized L300 desktop virtualization solution achieved swift and strong adoption, helping solidify its position as the leading desktop virtualization provider in the enterprise segment. The fast adoption of new products, coupled with a series of vendor and channel strategic alliances, have been key drivers to accelerated growth, In Q4, NComputing will roll-out joint marketing and education campaigns with strategic industry partners to further increase understanding and adoption of desktop virtualization in the enterprise. The company will also be expanding operations with sales and channel presence in Latin America, Korea and Japan in Q3 and Q4. To further expand enterprise adoption, the company has introduced an enhanced channel partner program designed to provide corporate VARs and System Integrators with improved revenue, margin and customer opportunities.

As well as strong increase in end-user demand, OEM demand for NComputing’s Numo(TM) powered SoC (System on a Chip) is gaining momentum. Several OEM monitor, netbook and consumer device manufacturers are shortly going into production using Numo(TM) specification to provide access to low-cost PC functionality in a networked environment while delivering full-fidelity mul­timedia. The company is expanding its OEM partnership and technology support programs throughout key geographies.

IDC’s Q2 2010 Worldwide Enterprise Client Devices Tracker highlights just one aspect of NComputing’s leadership in desktop virtualization, ranking the company #2 in worldwide shipments at 20.9% share and fastest quarter on quarter growth at 56% (when combining the thin client and terminal client categories).

Commented CEO Stephen Dukker “to date, many of the large global PC and chip manufacturers have been barriers to the mainstream adoption of desktop virtualization because of their economic interest and legacy investment in the old ‘PC per desktop’ centric IT infrastructure by maintaining artificially high prices. NComputing’s dramatic success with vSpace and our low cost clients demonstrate the truly disruptive economics of virtual desktops when naturally priced; reducing all client related costs by 50% or more compared to traditional PCs. International momentum from all sides – education, government, enterprise; plus cooperation and interoperability on an industry-wide level such as ours with leading virtualization companies including VMWare, Microsoft and Citrix has put the ‘old guard’ on notice. Desktop virtualization is ready to go mainstream. NComputing has and will continue to lead in this space and deliver on our promise of transforming the economics of computing.”

To help manage and accelerate international growth, the company has made a series of senior hires including the appointment of Jim McHugh, formerly Vice President of Data Center Software Marketing at Sun Microsystems to the position of SVP Global Marketing, Paul Gullett, formerly EMEA President of Tandberg, to the position of VP EMEA.

NComputing continues to lead in the education sector, maintaining a 15 percent share of PC’s in the US K12 market. New and extended education contracts include the Indian education ministries of Punjab and Rajasthan provinces, and Government of Bihar India, which combined deployed over 30,000 seats of NComputing based virtual desktops on solutions to provide computer literacy to tens of thousands of school children. The Government of Macedonia, Eastern Europe, extended its contract with NComputing to provide an additional 60,000 virtual desktops, bringing the total number of NComputing virtual desktops in Macedonian schools to over 200,000.

NComputing has already deployed some of the world’s largest enterprise desktop virtualization initiatives including The Employee State Insurance Corporation (ESIC), deploying over 31,000 NComputing Virtual Desktops across 2,200 locations in support of the Indian Government’s effort to deliver insurance and healthcare benefits to over 20 million private- and public-sector employees.

About NComputing

NComputing, Inc. is the fastest growing desktop virtualisation company in the world with over 20 million daily users in 140 countries. The company’s award-winning, patented technology lowers desktop computing costs, improves manageability, and reduces both energy consumption and e-waste. It is the perfect solution for leveraging the power and potential of PCs and cloud computing. To learn more about NComputing, visit http://www.ncomputing.com.

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HostGee announces the release of openvps/KVM, a commercial hosting version of its new virtual private server product based on Red Hat’s Linux KVM HostGee.Com a pioneering Linux VPS provider, announces the release of OpenVPS/KVM, a commercial hosting version of its new virtual private server product based on Red Hat’s Linux KVM. Since its founding in 2009, HostGee.Com has lead in the VPS hosting industry by offering the most innovative revolutionary solutions. OpenVPS/KVM is the HostGee’s latest in offerings designed to allow all consumers access to leading edge, enterprise grade, open source solutions.

KVM (Kernel Virtual Machine), the next generation of virtualized technologies, is a recent addition to Linux. KVM provides full virtualization that is currently considered superior to all other full virtualization technologies. It combines support for the latest hardware virtualization capabilities and the rapid feature development of the Linux kernel into a complete, highly functional, virtualization platform. KVM is the only virtualization technology that is fully incorporated into the Linux kernel. With Red Hat’s acquisition of Qumranet, the inventor of KVM, KVM is backed long term by the industry leading Linux distribution provider as well as the Linux community.

Shafiq Ur Rehman, HostGee’s CEO/Founder, said, “We expect this product to evolve rapidly over the near future as we add features, but it is ready for production use and we strongly believe that our customers will realize immediate benefits from in both effectiveness and efficiency.” The new platform will include all the capabilities you would expect from an Enterprise grade virtualization infrastructure such as, live migration, snapshots, system scheduler, power and image managers, comprehensive monitoring, reporting. As Shafiq notes, “HostGee.Com early adoption of this technology positions its customers to reap all of the benefits of this new and exciting technology.

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