Thursday 09 September 2010
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.
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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 industry analysis to help SHARE better shape its programs and events for the greater member — and enterprise IT — community. The information also provides valuable insights to IBM and ISVs (independent software vendors) about issues that concern their customers the most. The survey was conducted during June and July 2010.
“Companies were asked to rank their top 5 concerns, and cost management, especially when it comes to cost reduction and avoidance, continues to be top of mind for these companies,” said Al Williams, the President of SHARE. “The survey reinforces why one of the themes for SHARE in Boston — IT and the Bottom Line — is so important. It’s not enough to just cut costs — the successful enterprise IT professional knows there is a need to demonstrate IT’s value and how it can provide a competitive advantage every day.”
Virtualization ranked as the second biggest concern, with server virtualization the primary focus, followed by storage virtualization and then network virtualization. Cloud computing, another theme for SHARE in Boston, ranked seventh, with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) identified as the most prominent focus in the cloud, followed by Software as a Service (SaaS) and Platform as a Service (PaaS).
Here are the top ten issues from the survey:
1. IT Cost Management
2. Virtualization
3. Improving IT’s value and deriving competitive advantage from IT
4. Enterprise security
5. The aging and demographics of current IT staffs
6. Business continuity planning
7. Cloud computing
8. Regulatory compliance
9. Reinvigorating/repurposing the mainframe
10. Data center energy management
More than 600 technical sessions at SHARE in Boston at the Hynes Convention Center, August 1-5, are focused on the 2010 conference themes — Enterprise Virtualization & Cloud Computing, and IT and the Your Bottom Line. SHARE conferences provide enterprise IT professionals with the latest information and newest innovations in the marketplace. SHARE in Boston attendees at the Hynes Convention Center will meet enterprise IT experts, learn about the latest developments and solutions in the industry, and build relationships with peers experiencing similar challenges.
For more information on SHARE in Boston, visit Boston.SHARE.org.
About SHARE
SHARE is an independent, volunteer-run association providing IBM customers with user-focused education, professional networking and a forum to influence the information technology industry. Since 1955, SHARE has enabled IT professionals to achieve business results through a combination of credible, relevant programs and peer opportunities. SHARE currently counts more than 2,100 organizations among its active member ranks.
SOURCE: SHARE
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RingCube Technologies, the leading provider of managed virtual workspaces, today announced that CONSOL Energy Inc. /quotes/comstock/13*!cnx/quotes/nls/cnx (CNX 38.32, -0.86, -2.19%) , 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 creation, access and management of Windows desktops through Workspace Virtualization.
“Our main goal was to leverage existing equipment to deliver improved application performance to our underground and remote sites and RingCube was instrumental in delivering the complete desktop virtualization solution we needed,” said George Rosato, vice president, Information Systems and Technology, CONSOL Energy Inc. “vDesk has enabled us to dramatically reduce the time to transition new employees to the CONSOL desktop. The solution has also significantly increased the performance of our critical applications, which means we can get more mileage out of existing PCs without having to purchase additional hardware.”
RingCube vDesk
RingCube’s unique Virtual Workspace technology separates the user’s desktop environment including applications, data and settings from the operating system and encapsulates it into a secure container while automatically backing up every virtual desktop to a centralized server. Users can run their vDesk workspace at the office or on unmanaged PCs — at home, or at a disaster recovery site. When users start their vDesk workspace, it transforms any Windows PC into their own familiar corporate workspace where users can access their files, applications, settings and entire desktop, just as if they were on their own business PC whether online or offline from the network.
vDesk Advantages:
– No second operating system to license or manage
– High-performance virtualization technology
– Runs at 99% of the native host PC performance
– Four Flexible deployment options: PC, Drive, Network, VDI
– MobileSync provides offline synchronization
“Businesses of all sizes are looking to desktop virtualization to help their businesses run more efficiently and gain a competitive edge,” said Pete Foley, president and CEO, RingCube. “vDesk delivers a full performance experience superior to other desktop virtualization solutions, which increases employee productivity while driving down PC management costs. We are pleased to help customers such as CONSOL Energy with a virtual desktop solution that will help them to fully maximize their existing PCs and make efficient use of precious IT resources.”
About CONSOL Energy Inc.
CONSOL Energy, a high-Btu bituminous coal and natural gas company, is a member of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Equity Index and the Fortune 500. It was recently named one of the “Top 100 Most Trustworthy” companies for 2010 by Forbes. At year-end 2009, it had 11 bituminous coal mining complexes in six states and reports proven and probable coal reserves of 4.5 billion tons. It is also the leading Appalachian gas producer, with proved reserves of 2.9 trillion cubic feet. Additional information about CONSOL Energy can be found at its Web site: www.consolenergy.com.
About RingCube Technologies, Inc.
RingCube is the leading provider of workspace virtualization. The company’s innovative virtualization solution, vDesk, enables users to securely access their complete desktop computing experience from any Windows PC anywhere in the world. With vDesk, organizations can increase user productivity, lower desktop management and support costs, and eliminate the performance and resource overhead commonly found with legacy virtualization approaches. The company is privately held and based in Mountain View, CA. For more information, please visit: www.ringcube.com
SOURCE: RingCube Technologies, Inc.
RingCube
Paula Holland, 650-605-6900
Marketing
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NTT Europe (http://www.eu.ntt.com/en/index.html), an ICT solutions partner and wholly owned subsidiary of NTT Communications (NTT Com) (http://www.ntt.com/), today announces the availability of their Global Virtualization Services ( http://www.eu.ntt.com/en/products/data-centre-services/hosting-service/global -virtualization-services.html) offering in NTT Com’s new Singapore data centre. NTT Europefirst announced ( http://www.eu.ntt.com/en/about-us/newsroom/news/news/article/ntt-europe-onlin e-launches-global-virtualization-service-in-europe.html) the Global Virtualization Services offering to its European customers in February, 2010, with the launch of the London, San Jose, Sterling and Hong Kong data centres.
Customers using Global Virtualization Services gain the advantages of a single point of contact for management, support and billing; and a consistent set of Virtualization Services based on NTT Communications’ global infrastructure. NTT Europe’s customers can quickly build and deploy solutions that enhance their business continuity planning, comply with data-handling requirements and enable them to be closer to their customers around the world.
NTT Europe’s Global Virtualization Services helps enterprises and multinational corporations seeking to lower their capital expenditures through outsourcing of their server environments. Compared to building a server environment of their own, these businesses realise significant cost savings as they require far fewer servers when in a virtualized environment. NTT Europe’s Global Virtualization Services achieves this though higher server utilization, rapid deployment of additional servers, rapid deployment of new applications, and enhanced management, control & reporting through the customer portal.
Customers benefit from having many geographically dispersed data centres to choose from for their hosting needs, allowing the data to reside closest to their end users for increased access speeds or for compliance requirements. Additionally, all the data centres have direct backbone connections to the NTT Com Global IP Network, providing optimal internet route access, global tier-1 backbone private peering, and leading network SLAs. The Singapore data centre is connected to other Southeast Asia regions via 6 diverse submarine cable systems. The Singapore data centre is a purpose built facility and operates under some of the most stringent data centre requirements in the country, including true 2N redundant power systems, which means that no single point of failure will interrupt the operation of the Data Centre equipment.
“With the introduction of Global Virtualization Services in the Singapore data centre, enterprises and multinational corporations with operations or customers in the region will benefit from NTT Group’s infrastructure, network performance and data centre facility.” said Masaaki Moribayashi, Managing Director of NTT Europe.
The service is called “BizHosting Global” in Japan and is based on NTT Com’s global infrastructure.
About NTT Europe
NTT Europe is a wholly-owned subsidiary company of NTT Communications which is the global data and IP services arm of the Fortune Global 500 telecom leader, Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corporation (NTT). NTT Europe is responsible for business in the EMEA market and provides a world-class Tier-1 Internet backbone, secure closed networks, security, system integration, network and application management, managed hosting and global content delivery services with partner companies globally. For additional information, please visit http://www.eu.ntt.com.
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Kaviza, the pioneer in affordable desktop virtualization, today announced that Matrix42, the German-based systems and service management vendor, has selected Kaviza VDI-in-a-Box™ as the favored solution for integration with its IT-Commerce offering. Matrix42 will offer VDI-in-a-Box as a co-branded solution to its customer base, enabling medium-sized businesses to cost-effectively leverage the benefits of virtual desktops. To find out more visit: www.kaviza.com or www.matrix42.de.
“Kaviza VDI-in-a-Box perfectly complements our IT-commerce portfolio and is available via our Service Catalog,” said Matrix42 CTO, Jochen Jaser. “With Kaviza we can enable customers to procure and deploy virtual desktops as a service from our Service Catalog — in exactly the same way they procure other IT services today. This allows us to meet our business objectives of enabling customers to increase service levels while lowering manual costs simply by automating the procurement and management of IT services, whether they are virtual or physical.”
“We are delighted to work with Matrix42 — their approach to making IT services easy to procure and manage fits perfectly with Kaviza’s focus on making virtual desktops simple and affordable. Together, we can offer virtualization as a Plug-and-Play service,” comments Kaviza CEO, Kumar K. Goswami.
Matrix42 customers can successfully leverage virtual desktops without requiring investment in special storage or servers, or any special expertise. Kaviza VDI-in-a-Box is a turnkey solution delivered as a virtual appliance that enables organizations to be up and running with virtual desktops in less than two hours, using inexpensive commodity hardware. All virtualization components are fully integrated and Kaviza automates desktop provisioning, management and high-availability. The barrier is further lowered by the affordability of the solution. Kaviza can be deployed within a PC replacement budget — no expensive hardware components need to be purchased, IT-staff does not need to be trained and there are no hidden costs.
For more information visit www.kaviza.com or www.matrix42.de
About Matrix42
Matrix42 combines client lifecycle management and IT service management into IT-Commerce. This combination gives Matrix42’s customers and potential customers the ability to have a single pane of glass for management of the endpoints and servicing of IT customers. IT-Commerce Suite lets Matrix42 redefine how IT departments interact with their customers; the customer is no longer helpdesk dependent to fulfill software requests or other IT related services. Based on Microsoft Workflow Engine, IT departments can now automate many tasks that today are labor intensive. Matrix42 is reshaping how IT departments manage the environment by aligning the IT department to their company goals and objectives to reduce cost and enhance the level of services.
Kaviza
Kaviza VDI-in-a-box™ — the industry’s first and only affordable turnkey virtual desktop solution designed specifically for desktop budgets, desktop IT, and desktop user needs — employs patent-pending grid architecture to lower costs and eliminate the need for expensive infrastructure. Kaviza was founded by virtualization and VDI veterans from HP and IBM to create the next generation VDI that is simple and affordable. Kaviza is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA and is funded in part by a grant from the National Science Foundation and Citrix Corporation. For more information, contact: Kaviza.
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Stonesoft, a global provider of proven, innovative network security solutions, has identified five ways that organizations can improve cloud computing security. This announcement comes on the heels of recent research released from Gartner, Inc. citing that 60 percent of virtualized servers will be less secure than the physical servers they replace through 2012 (Source: Addressing the Most Common Security Risks in Data Center Virtualization Projects, January 2010).
Today, most organizations deploy virtualization technologies without involving information and network security teams in the initial planning stages. As a result, many organizations are simply retrofitting their virtual networks with existing physical network security strategies and technologies. This lack of foresight and technological preparedness drastically weakens network security, which presents the biggest known challenge to the success of cloud computing with large-scale organizations.
In response, Stonesoft has identified five ways IT teams can protect themselves against cloud security threats and attacks, while helping ensure the success of their cloud computing strategies. They include:
– Federated ID: Inherent in a cloud computing environment is the need for workers to log into multiple applications and services. This presents a formidable security pitfall, as organizations may lose control over their ability to ensure strong authentication at the user level. To mitigate this risk, organizations need “single sign-on” capabilities — such as those provided by the StoneGate SSL VPN — that enable users to access multiple applications and services, including those located outside of the organization in the public cloud, through a single login. With this ability, organizations can streamline security management and ensure strong authentication within the cloud.
– Always-on Connectivity: When the majority of an organization’s critical business data is stored in the cloud, network downtime can shut down business operations. Access to cloud services must be always available, even during maintenance, thus requiring high availability technologies and capabilities such as active/active clustering, dynamic server load balancing and ISP load balancing within the network infrastructure. Organizations should seek technologies that are built into their network solutions, rather than purchase them as standalone products to ensure effectiveness, ease of management and reduced network costs.
– Multi-layer Inspection: The rise of the cloud computing environment and increased sophistication of threats has created a need for a proper layered defense comprised of perimeter protection and intrusion detection and prevention capabilities within the network. Rather than implementing first-generation firewalls to protect the cloud at the perimeter, Stonesoft recommends the deployment of virtual next generation firewall appliances — like the StoneGate Virtual NextGen Firewall — that integrate advanced firewall and IPS capabilities for deep traffic inspection. This will allow organizations to inspect all levels of traffic, from basic Web browsing to peer-to-peer applications and encrypted Web traffic in the SSL tunnel. Additional IPS appliances should be implemented to protect networks from internal attacks that threaten access to the cloud.
Centralized Management: Human error is still the greatest network security threat facing both physical and virtual computing environments. As companies deploy additional network devices to secure their virtual networks, they exponentially increase this risk as device management, monitoring and configuration become more tedious and less organized. For this reason, Stonesoft recommends companies use a single management console to manage, monitor and configure all devices — physical, virtual and third-party.
– Virtual Desktop Protection: More and more organizations are deploying virtual desktops to realize the cost and administration benefits. However, these desktops are just as — if not more — vulnerable than their physical counterparts. To adequately protect virtual desktops, organizations should isolate them from other network segments and implement deep inspection at the network level to prevent both internal and external threats. Those organizations should deploy a multi-pronged approach to security by implementing IPS technology that prevents illegal internal access, protects the clients from malicious servers, as well as providing secure remote access capabilities through IPsec or SSL VPN that protects against unauthorized external access.
Stonesoft currently offers a selection of virtual network security solutions that provide advanced security in the cloud. These include the StoneGate Virtual NextGen Firewall, StoneGate Virtual IPS and StoneGate Virtual SSL VPN. For more information on these solutions, please visit www.stonesoft.com.
About Stonesoft
Stonesoft Corporation (NASDAQ OMX: SFT1V) delivers proven, innovative solutions that simplify network security management for even the most complex network environments. The StoneGate Platform unifies management of entire networks — including StoneGate and third-party devices — blending integrated threat management, end-to-end high availability and network optimization into a centrally controlled system. As a result, Stonesoft provides the highest levels of proactive control, always-on connectivity and compliance at the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) on the market today. Founded in 1990, the company is an established leader in network security innovation with corporate headquarters in Helsinki, Finland, and Americas headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia. For more information, visit www.stonesoft.com and http://stoneblog.stonesoft.com.
SOURCE: Stonesoft Corporation
Stonesoft Corporation
Hannah Bower, 404-371-3989
hannah@bower-communications.com
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News Facts
* BigFix has made several feature and function upgrades to its Server Management solutions that enable customers to improve their ability to consolidate management of entire IT infrastructures across several dimensions of heterogeneity — endpoint desktop/mobile computers and servers; Windows, UNIX, Linux, Mac OS, and BigFixBigFix operating environments; physical and virtual assets; centralized and globally distributed architectures.
* Key enhancements include:
o Improved support for managing Linux-based assets, including Linux software distribution and patching.
o New abilities to manage servers running VMware ESX virtualization software, including patch management and asset inventory support for virtual machines running in ESX hypervisor environments.
o Addition of many non-Microsoft Windows applications to BigFix DSS Software Asset Management software catalogs, enabling seamless license and usage management of Windows, Linux, UNIX and other applications via the BigFix Unified Management Platform.
o Access to BigFix technical controls policy libraries for automated, continuous compliance and reporting for standards such as Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), Federal Desktop Core Configuration (FDCC), and Defense Information Systems Agency Security Technical Implementation Guides (DISA STIG).
o Breadth of coverage extends to over a dozen distinct Unix platforms, multiple flavors of Windows including Windows Server 2000, Server 2003, Server 2008 as well as multiple variants of Linux (Red Hat Enterprise, SUSE, zLinux, and VMware ESX hypervisors).
* BigFix’s delivery of comprehensive server management functionality combined with its established strengths in desktop/laptop/mobile device management and security enable customers to unify management processes across entire IT infrastructures, saving time, simplifying processes, and lowering total cost of ownership.
* BigFix’s easy licensing terms put automated server management within reach of organizations that cannot justify the cost of “big iron” solutions often overloaded with irrelevant features.
BigFix Server Management Solutions
* BigFix Server Management solutions start by leveraging the same BigFix Unified Management Platform (BigFix Agent, BigFix Relays, BigFix Server, etc.) used to provide real-time visibility and control of distributed endpoint PCs, laptop/notebook, and mobile devices.
* This can create a “single pane of glass” for managing distributed PCs, mobile devices, and servers over a single BigFix visibility and control solution for centralized IT organizations.
* Customers can also incrementally implement BigFix Server Management in existing BigFix solutions by adding BigFix Agents to server computers without needing to invest in additional support infrastructure or first-time start up costs.
* BigFix Server Management provides access to a wide array of server management applications including Patch Management, Configuration Management, Vulnerability Management, Continuous Compliance Controls, Software Asset Management as well as custom policy and scripting features.
* Installing the BigFix Agent and the vast majority of management actions enabled by BigFix Server Management do not require rebooting the server or disrupting service availability — utilizing an average of two percent of CPU processing bandwidth, the BigFix Agent is lightweight and optimized to work in server environments.
* With regards to regulatory compliance functionality, customers have access to a growing library of over 4,300 technical configuration controls, covering sixteen server platforms.
* Customers can select very granular deployment options to ensure that all operational changes occur during approved change management windows, with detailed audit trails.
* BigFix’s open architecture allows customers to leverage existing scripts and tools consistently across many servers, automating what they already have and trust.
Market Validation
* A recent Gartner research note, “Server Configuration and Tool Options for SMBs” (Published February 8, 2010, ID Number: G00174367), places BigFix on a Shortlist for Server Management solutions along with Symantec-Altiris Server Management Suite and Microsoft ConfigMgr R2.
* The research note is available to qualified BigFix prospects and customers at http://www.bigfix.com/gartner.
Supporting Quotes
Jonathan Fan, BigFix senior director, product management said: “While most people think of BigFix for desktop/laptop/mobile endpoint configuration management, security, and compliance, we have extended the value these solutions provide to server environments with added function for server-specific requirements. In server environments, we provide comprehensive functionality at affordable prices, bringing automated server management within reach of almost every business and organization. Better yet, customers who deploy both BigFix endpoint and server management solutions can see and do everything through the BigFix Unified Management platform — saving time, money, and building quality and consistency into their IT systems management, security and compliance programs.”
Ronni Colville, VP and distinguished analyst for Gartner’s IT Operations Management Group said: “Over the past year we have seen that many IT organizations are looking to automate their data center server infrastructure, especially as virtualization adoption grows and visibility and configuration control become more critical.”
Information Resources
* BigFix Server Management Solutions Page: http://tinyurl.com/yj7cmeg
* BigFix Gartner “Server Configuration and Tool Options for SMBs” research note offer page: http://www.bigfix.com/gartner
* Key Words: BigFix, Server Management, Compliance, Linux, UNIX, ESX, hypervisor, DISA STIG, FDCC, PCI DSS
About BigFix
Founded in 1997, the BigFix®, Inc. solutions support a global portfolio of A-list organizations in government, finance, retail, educational, industrial and public utility sectors. BigFix revolutionizes IT infrastructure management by replacing fragmented collections of single-purpose tools with the industry’s only unified visibility and control architecture that consolidates up to 18 security, IT compliance, decision support, and green computing functions. For more information, visit www.bigfix.com, follow BigFix on Twitter @BigFix, or stay in touch on the BigFix Facebook page, http://tinyurl.com/mvn9nu.
© 2010 BigFix, Inc. All rights reserved. All company and product names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies.
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Running and managing files and applications from a single device is todays business need but not every business has reach to it. Therefore EMC India, in response of growing customers demand has announced new prices for its range of unified storage solutions.
The EMC product range starts from Iomega ix2 priced just at Rs. 19,999 which extends through to CLARiiON and Celerra range of storage products. All the products except Iomega come with a 48 month warranty on hardware, which follows the industry norm. The products are available throughout India with 200+ EMC partners spread across 40 cities.
Speaking about the latest offer, Manoj Chugh, President, India and SAARC said: Our customers want to invest in information infrastructure for the future but are still value conscious. We are therefore, offering our best range of products at prices that may support this requirement. EMC expects a strong market response to these products which will help grow the unified storage market in India.
EMCs latest pricing comes in response to customer requirements for optimizing IT infrastructure and reducing complexity. With EMCs unified storage products, the client can begin to save on expenses through consolidation and storage tiering of data. In addition, all EMC products listed are virtualization-ready, and with virtualization being the CIOs number one priority for 2010 (according to Gartner CIO Survey), EMC expects a strong market response to these newly priced products.
 EMC is aiming to provide leading technology at more affordable prices. The new pricing packages are made available today in view of Indias fast-growing market and customers need to up scale within tight budgets. With an expanded network of sales and support presence, we expect to reach out to many under-penetrated markets, added Subroto Das, COO, EMC India.
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DataCore Software today announced that Lifeboat Distribution has honored DataCore™, presenting the company with Lifeboat’s coveted “Beacon Partner of the Year” award for 2009. Lifeboat Distribution is an international specialty software distributor for virtualization and other technically sophisticated products.
“What Lifeboat Distribution has recognized from working with virtualization resellers and solution providers is that DataCore storage virtualization software overcomes the major storage-related obstacles and upheaval that slow down or stop virtualization projects from getting off the ground or being successful when deploying a virtual infrastructure.”
“In selecting DataCore Software as Lifeboat’s Beacon Partner for 2009, we recognize the strategic value that DataCore’s storage virtualization software brings to our reseller partners,” said Dan Jamieson, vice president and general manager, Lifeboat Distribution. “Simply put, DataCore completes the three dimensions of virtualization – desktops, servers, and storage – that value-added resellers and hosting providers require for total virtual solutions.”
Taking Virtualization to the 3rd Dimension
This announcement follows on the heels of VMware Partner Exchange 2010 in which a cadre of resellers and solution providers championed DataCore Software as the 3rd dimension to their Virtualization practice – heralding DataCore™ storage virtualization software as strategic to their server virtualization and VMware business. Link: DataCore Takes Virtualization to the 3rd Dimension.
By virtualizing disks across pools of tiered storage devices, DataCore storage virtualization software overcomes incompatibilities among different generations, models and manufacturers to maximize their combined value. The virtualization of storage is as important, financially and operationally, to a successful virtual infrastructure project as virtualization of servers and desktops.
“We are thrilled that Lifeboat Distribution has named DataCore Software its Beacon Partner for 2009,” commented Bettye Grant, VP of Americas Distribution Sales, DataCore Software. “What Lifeboat Distribution has recognized from working with virtualization resellers and solution providers is that DataCore storage virtualization software overcomes the major storage-related obstacles and upheaval that slow down or stop virtualization projects from getting off the ground or being successful when deploying a virtual infrastructure.”
Resellers and solutions providers interested in offering DataCore Software storage virtualization solutions should contact Lifeboat by email at sales@lifeboatdistribution.com, or by phone at +1.800.847.7078, +1.732.389.0037, or +31.36.8200.236 (Europe).
About Lifeboat Distribution
Lifeboat Distribution is an international specialty software distributor for virtualization, security, application and network infrastructure, business continuity/disaster recovery, database modeling, application lifecycle management, science/engineering, and other technically sophisticated products. Lifeboat Distribution services thousands of solution providers, VARs, systems integrators, corporate resellers, and consultants worldwide, helping them power a rich opportunity stream, expand their margin+ services revenues, and build profitable product and service businesses. For more information, visit our web site www.lifeboatdistribution.com.
About DataCore Software
DataCore Software develops the storage virtualization software needed to get the highest availability, fastest performance and maximum utilization from storage resources in physical and virtual IT environments. It provides the critical 3rd dimension on which the success of server and desktop virtualization projects hinge, regardless of the models and brands of storage devices used. For more information, call (877) 780-5111 or visit www.datacore.com.
DataCore and the DataCore logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of DataCore Software Corporation. Other DataCore product or service names or logos referenced herein are trademarks of DataCore Software Corporation. All other products, services and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
Contacts
For DataCore Software
Red Nine PR
Stuart Smith, 336-896-1874
ssmith@redninePR.com
or
DataCore Software
publicrelations@datacore.com
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