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Rackspace Launches ‘Cloud Builders’ To Support OpenStack Cloud Deployments

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Organizations deploying OpenStack, the open source cloud operating system, can now receive formal service and support offerings from Rackspace, which has announced Rackspace Cloud Builders, a new business that will offer training and certification, deployment services, and ongoing support to enterprises and service providers.

Rackspace will extend its commitment to customer service beyond the company’s datacenters to stand behind any OpenStack cloud deployment.

Rackspace Cloud Builders brings together the foremost OpenStack experts from the team who built and operate the Rackspace Cloud and from the recent acquisition of Anso Labs, a professional services company that has helped large business and government organizations deploy and operate OpenStack Clouds.

The launch of Rackspace Cloud Builders and the acquisition of Anso Labs reinforces Rackspace’s investment in the success of OpenStack by driving adoption of the emerging open cloud standard.

NetEx To Provide Free WAN Optimization Software To VMware Marketplace

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NetEx, a company providing a software-only WAN Optimization solution, and VMware have announced the availability of a free annual subscription for the HyperIP virtual appliance software through the VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace (VAM, which features more than 1,500 appliances spanning the areas of security, content and collaboration, infrastructure, databases and networking.

Qualified VAM users of replication and backup applications are eligible for a maximum of two free annual subscriptions of the 2Mb/s HyperIP (VM edition), a virtual appliance that improves the performance of moving large amounts of data across a WAN.

Downloads of the HyperIP virtual appliance are available from the VMware VAM website and require a VAM login. The free download program is offered until the end of the year.

NetEx’s HyperIP is a software-only, virtualization-ready WAN optimization solution, ideal for moving large data sets across WANs securely, swiftly and seamlessly.

The full version of HyperIP supports long-distance data transfers at up to 800 Mb/s, the highest performance of any WAN optimization solution on the market, and 25 to more than 100 percent faster than competitive products. Transfer speed is optimized for the full range of data management applications, including backup & remote replication and business continuance/disaster recovery (BC/DR).

SoftLayer Debuts Dedicated Hardware Firewalls

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SoftLayer Technologies has introduced Dedicated Hardware Firewalls, available on demand and without service interruption through the company’s Customer Portal.

The new offering lets SoftLayer customers protect one, multiple, or all Cloud, Dedicated, and Virtual systems that share the same Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN), for just one price.

SoftLayer’s Dedicated Hardware Firewalls stand between an entire VLAN and the Public Network, analyzing and filtering all network traffic.

With the company’s Customer Portal, customers can configure the firewall settings for the entire VLAN as well as for individual computing systems. The Portal even provides a library of templates for applying protection rules and configurations for specific applications.

Current templates include mail and Web services, Parallels Plesk, and cPanel, with more to be added soon.

Xsigo Announces Certification And Support For Oracle VM

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Xsigo Systems has announced certification and support for Oracle VM, a server virtualization solution for both Oracle and non-Oracle applications. The combination of Oracle VM and Xsigo virtual I/O delivers cost-saving improvements for virtualized data centers.

“Server virtualization greatly increases the demands on server I/O, often leading to bottlenecks that can sap application performance,” said Bruce Fingles, Xsigo’s VP of product management, alliances, and support.

“Xsigo’s support for Oracle VM means that customers can now get 4X more bandwidth to each server to help them run mission-critical Oracle applications in a virtualized environment without compromising on performance.”

Veeam Business View 2.0 Provides CMDB Integration, Dynamic Groups

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Veeam recently released Veeam Business View 2.0, one of the key components of Veeam ONE.

Veeam Business View lets companies manage their virtual environments based on business criteria and priorities, such as service-level agreements (SLAs), business units and geographic locations.

By expanding the traditional infrastructure-oriented view of the virtual environment to include flexible business-oriented perspectives, companies can more effectively address the virtualization challenges of capacity planning, chargeback and virtual machine (VM) sprawl.

Veeam Business View 2.0 extends this business context even further with configuration management database (CMDB) integration, expanded categorization capabilities and dynamic groups.

Veeam Business View 2.0 is part of Veeam ONE, which offers a single solution to optimize the performance, configuration and utilization of virtual infrastructures. Veeam ONE provides monitoring, capacity planning, change management, reporting and chargeback, and more. It is free and available in three versions.

NComputing Inks OEM Agreement With Fujitsu

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Desktop virtualization company NComputing has signed an OEM relationship with Fujitsu Technology Solutions.

Fujitsu will integrate NComputing’s 64-bit vSpace virtualization and NUMO system on a chip (SoC) with its PC, servers and services to provide fully-integrated multi-workplace solutions optimized for SMB customers.

The technology will be marketed under Fujitsu’s FUTRO brand in an integrated network-ready monitor FUTRO DC20-1 and as a stand-alone client, the FUTRO C400. The solutionswill be sold through the channel and will be available immediately in EMEA markets.