Samsung announced that its 32 gigabyte (GB) and 64 GB solid state drives (SSDs) have been selected for use in the HP ProLiant BL495c virtualization blade server. This represents an SSD being qualified for use in a server optimized for virtualization. The server blade is designed specif...

Is your IT Infrastructure holding your business back? Do you need to regain control of the virtual and physical server sprawl that can dominate today’s datacenters? See how you can develop a virtualization strategy that will enable you to transform your datacenter into a cost-effecti...

Ingram Micro Inc. (NYSE: IM) is pleased to report its 2008 Night of Solutions events have set record attendance and received countless accolades for delivering real business value to both solution providers and manufacturers.

IBM (NYSE: IBM) announced today that Merrill Lynch will use its new iDataPlex servers, a new class of data center hardware that allows mass-scale, Internet-style computing in a compact, energy-saving package.

Internet Research Group (IRG) announced the release of its latest report on technology infrastructure, "Why Microsoft Virtualization is Different (and possibly better)." With this summer's launch of Hyper-V, Microsoft began shipping its long awaited entry into the server virtualization...

Application virtualization is a technologically elegant solution that isolates applications and reduces conflicts. That's good for IT management and has the additional virtue of being financially alluring. From legacy to enterprise business applications, virtualized deployment eased ma...

Marathon Technologies announced that it has entered into a distribution agreement with Ingram Micro. Under terms of the agreement, Ingram Micro will offer Marathon's everRun high availability and disaster recovery software to its resellers in the United States, Canada and Mexico. Inclu...

"Doing more with less resources has never been more true. And virtualization software has matured at the right time so that customers can save money on buying fewer servers, use less energy in datacenters and use less real estate," says Mike Neil, Microsoft's GM for Virtualization, in ...

The HP StorageWorks Enterprise Virtual Array (EVA) family offers a combination of high-performance and availability features, virtualization capabilities and advanced provisioning software that makes it ideal to cost-effectively manage large amounts of data in a SAN environment without...

HP announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire LeftHand Networks. LeftHand Networks' solutions enable midsize companies and remote offices or branches of large corporations to easily and cost-effectively protect critical business data. HP has agreed to purchase LeftHand N...

Embotics has been nominated by the Virtualization Journal Readers' Choice Awards for the Best Virtual Machine (VM) Lifecycle Management award. Embotics' flagship product V-Commander 2.0 is successful at helping enterprises reduce risk and costs by automatically managing and controlling...

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...

APC by Schneider Electric and CA have announced a partnership that will provide enterprise customers a fully integrated solution set for assessing and fully optimizing their data center energy consumption. APC will offer assessment services, integration services, and physical layer man...

SYS-CON Events announced today that the Virtualization on Wall Street Conference & Expo will take place on March 22-24, 2009, in New York City. The event is expected to attract over 1,000 developers, architects, IT managers, and software professionals of every stripe. The Call for pape...

CA announced the formation of an advisory committee to help its Wall Street customers improve the performance and availability of key business services, lower the cost of delivering services and meet compliance requirements using workload automation technology.

Open-E announced general availability of Data Storage Server (DSS) for VMware ESX 3.5. VMware provides TAP program members with tools to develop products that are complementary to VMware virtualization software and help deliver high-value solutions to joint customers. Data Storage Serv...

Xiotech announced that it has entered into an alliance with Xcedex. Under the agreement, Xiotech is able to offer Xcedex's proprietary X_Factor Virtualization Readiness Planning (VRP) and Virtualization Readiness Design (VRD) analytics tools to its customers, allowing them to assess th...

rPath announced that SOASTA has selected rPath’s rBuilder and the rPath Lifecycle Management Platform to build and maintain its CloudTest application images for virtualized and bare metal environments. rPath provides SOASTA with end-to-end technology that simplifies the entire range ...

As cross-platform virtualization is becoming accepted by CIOs and IT managers as a cost-effective solution for datacenter consolidation, workload replication, scalability, business continuity and legacy application migration, the level of international interest in QuickTransit has grow...

Open-E announced that Open-E Data Storage Server (DSS) has been certified for use with Virtual Iron's server virtualization software. Environments deploying both Virtual Iron and Open-E Data Storage Server (DSS) will benefit from streamlined virtual infrastructure, improved server and ...

Layered Technologies announced that its recently completed network upgrades further strengthen its ability to handle complex requirements of enterprise-class customers for traditional and virtualization platforms, while simultaneously positioning Layered Tech to effectively manage its ...

SAVVIS announced a business alliance with virtualization and automation software provider, Parallels. The alliance enables independent software vendors (ISVs) to convert their single-tenancy applications to operate in a Software as a Service (SaaS) environment without having to re-arch...

Lanamark has announced the general availability and product packaging for its flagship software solution, Lanamark Suite. The company also launched its global solution provider program that will help value-added resellers, system integrators and consultants accelerate delivery of virtu...

"Storage is a critical part of a virtualization solution, and Xiotech's comprehensive capabilities deliver a single pane of glass view into a virtual infrastructure," said Chris Taylor, executive vice president/co-founder at Xcedex as Xiotech entered into an alliance with Xcedex. Under...

"The server virtualization market is red hot and gaining rapid adoption as organizations strive to achieve physical server consolidation, maximize resource utilization and deploy disaster recovery solutions," said Mark Bowker, senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group. Open-E has ann...

VMware announced the general availability of VMware Workstation 6.5. VMware Workstation, the desktop virtualization product, has new features, including the ability to seamlessly toggle between windows on different virtual machines, support for Direct X 3D graphics and new debugging to...

Virtualization has quickly become a staple new concept for enterprise IT. At SYS-CON's 3rd International Virtualization Conference & Expo, held at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City, June 23-24, we had exceptional speakers with high-quality use cases not only of how virtualization ma...

3PAR announced that it has further strengthened its presence across EMEA through a new channel partnership with storage systems integrator Databasement. Databasement delivers replication and restoration solutions to medium- and large-size organisations across the Netherlands, Belgium, ...

Tripwire helps over 6,000 enterprises worldwide reduce security risk, attain compliance and increase operational efficiency across virtual and physical environments. With its industry-leading configuration assessment and change auditing software solutions, IT organizations achieve and ...

Egenera continued momentum in Asia Pacific with the addition of new customers across a variety of regions and sectors. Egenera makes every data center a reliable dynamic data center through its integrated enterprise data center solutions, powerful PAN Manager software and professional ...

This tutorial provides step-by-step instructions on how to install VMware Server 2 on an Ubuntu 8.04 desktop system. With VMware Server you can create and run guest operating systems ("virtual machines") such as Linux, Windows, FreeBSD, etc. under a host operating system. This has the ...

Join Microsoft General Manager Mike Neil for this "Virtualization Futures" keynote as he shares his thoughts on the state of IT computing and tomorrow’s trends, and how Microsoft is helping to transform the traditional desktop and datacenter. Mike will discuss directions for Microsof...

Fortisphere announced that its Virtual Essentials product suite has achieved "Certified for Windows Server 2008" status and will support Hyper-V, Microsoft's next-generation hypervisor-based server virtualization technology. Designed for line-of-business and mission-critical applicatio...

Composite Software announced its Composite Information Server has been certified for interoperability with the HP Neoview enterprise data warehouse platform. Composite Software is also part of the HP Developer & Solution Partner Program (DSPP), a worldwide alliance program providing ac...

Global Knowledge announced a worldwide partnership that will allow the company to apply its strengths as an education solutions provider in North America, Europe, and the Middle East, by offering virtualization training on VMware. Virtualization training is a growing requirement for IT...

Alternative Technology announced that they will distribute Oracle VM software and sell Oracle VM server virtualization support for both Oracle and non-Oracle applications. Alternative Technology will leverage its North American channel, education and technical resources to expand the r...

“We are beginning to see significant interest from our customers who are ready to take advantage of new virtualization technologies,” said Urvish Vashi, general manager of dedicated servers at The Planet. “Many companies are looking to better utilize their server assets, which ha...

Chelsio Communications announced its software drivers have been integrated in the latest release of Oracle VM server virtualization software. Chelsio has taken a high standing in connecting virtual servers to the converged data center network, enabling end users to more effectively uti...

VMware announced a licensing agreement with Wyse Technology to use its remote display software to enhance RDP for VMware View. Bolstering its vClient Initiative and its commitment to support broad customer choice for the use of multiple protocol technologies, VMware plans to integrate ...

DataCore and Parallels announced the formation of a technology alliance. The purpose of the alliance is to provide mutual customers with an enhanced “complete virtualization” (server virtualization + storage virtualization) user experience, and to facilitate cross-qualification of ...