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Stealth Enterprise Virtualization Software Start-up HotLink V Is Raising $10 Million

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An SEC filing reveals that HotLink V, a stealth enterprise software virtualization startup, has secured about $7 million from a $10 million funding round.

This is the company’s pitch on its website:

HotLink V Corporation, a venture capital backed company currently in stealth mode, is a Sunnyvale, CA based enterprise virtualization software start-up. Started in early 2010 by founders of FastScale Technology (acquired by EMC/VMware), HotLink V is focused on enabling seamless interoperability of all major enterprise virtualization platforms and public cloud providers.

Indeed, the filing lists FastScale founder & former CEO Lynn LeBlanc, former VP of Engineering Richard Offer and investor Mark Cameron White.

Virsto Software Names Two New Vice Presidents

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Virsto Software, provider of optimized storage virtualization software, today announced the appointment of Gregg Holzrichter as vice president of marketing and Eric Burgener as vice president of product management.

Holzrichter brings 20 years of marketing success with companies in server virtualization (VMware), CRM (Siebel Systems), ERP (PeopleSoft), customer experience management (Medallia), and consumer packaged goods (Robert Mondavi/Caliterra). At Siebel, Holzrichter helped build one of the most admired go-to-market organizations in the industry. He held a leadership role in product marketing at PeopleSoft, responsible for worldwide marketing for financials ERP.

Holzrichter led VMware’s global campaigns and operations, in addition to Americas marketing, scaling his organization from $100 million to over $1 billion in revenue in under four years. Most recently, Holzrichter was the vice president of marketing at Medallia.

With a broad range of experience working for storage software companies like Veritas, Topio, and Mendocino Software and systems companies like Tandem, Pyramid and Sun, Burgener brings expertise in marketing, business development, and delivering product strategy and roadmaps. Prior to joining Virsto, Burgener was the vice president of marketing at InMage. He also has been an Executive in Residence with Mayfield, and a storage industry analyst at Taneja Group.

Xen Releases Cloud Platform (XCP) 1.0

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Xen.org, home of the open source Xen hypervisor, today announced the availability of Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) 1.0.

Developed as part of the Xen Cloud Project introduced in 2009, XCP 1.0 provides a solution for small and medium size enterprises looking to build private clouds, as well as open source enthusiasts, universities and researchers wanting to experiment with cloud computing.

It represents a shift in enterprise usability for Xen.org, which has traditionally released software as source code only. X

XCP is an open source server virtualization platform in a single, tested installable image that features the Xen hypervisor, network and storage support, a management stack and tools, as well as support for a range of guest operating systems including Windows and Linux.

XCP 1.0 includes a fully featured, enterprise-class Xen API Management tool stack with features such as disaster recovery support, security, real-time performance monitoring, support for multi-host resource pools, and upgrade and patching capabilities.

XCP 1.0 provides support for virtual networking capabilities via Open vSwitch and a range of open source GUI management tools.

The Xen community will also be enabled to test features with XCP 1.0 that could offer future value to enterprise products such as Citrix XenServer and Citrix OpenCloud.

Racktivity Hires Two New Execs

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Racktivity, a provider of the development of next-generation data center power distribution and energy management solutions, has announced the appointment of two senior industry vets to complete its senior management team build-out.

Mark Harris (most recently with Raritan and Avocent) has been appointed VP of Marketing & Product Marketing, and Kris De Peuter (supply chain management specialist) as VP of Operations & Manufacturing.

Additionally, the company has joined the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, an industry body originally founded by Intel and Google in 2007 for the purpose of helping to increase the deployment of energy efficient computing, storage and networking equipment and the global adoption of power management strategies and technologies.

Prior to joining Racktivity, Kris De Peuter was managing supply chain and operations for INEWIT, a Belgian start-up company, where he built a green-field supply chain organization. He is an APICS-certified supply chain executive with more than 10 years of experience in project and operational management, contract manufacturing, quality and after sales support.

Mark Harris has spent the last 25 years delivering data center technology solutions to the Fortune 5000. Over the last 10 years, he has focused on energy distribution and management within the data center with such companies as Cyclades, Avocent and Raritan Computer.

Prior to these companies, he held various senior management roles in marketing, product development and sales in such notable companies as Digital Equipment Corporation (now HP), Extreme Networks and Cabletron (now Enterasys).

ExaGrid Expands Support For Veeam’s Backup & Replication Solution

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ExaGrid Systems, which provides disk-based backup solutions with data deduplication, has announced expanded backup application support for Veeam Backup & Replication.

Customers can now use Veeam Backup’s built-in source-side deduplication in concert with ExaGrid’s disk-based backup system with Zone Deduplication to further shrink backups with optimal performance.

The combination of ExaGrid’s and Veeam’s VMware data protection solutions allows customers to utilize Veeam Backup & Replication in VMware virtual environments on ExaGrid’s disk-based backup system for backups and data storage as well as ExaGrid replication to an offsite location for disaster recovery. W

ith the latest enhancement, ExaGrid now provides full support for Veeam Backup & Replication v5, including its advanced features such as Instant VM Recovery, U-AIR (Universal Application-Item Recovery) and SureBackup Recovery Verification.

Veeam customers can now recover an entire virtual machine (VM), individual application objects and individual files from the same fully tested image-based backup.

USPTO Grants AppZero 3 Application Virtualization Patents

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Application virtualization software company AppZero has announced the granting of 3 patents related to its Cloud Container Isolation technology by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

These patents underlie critical capabilities including:

– Isolating applications from one another and from the underlying OS avoids application conflict. Isolation also limits any virus to a single container, protecting other applications and the OS.

– The ability to package unmodified desktop and server-side applications from old operating systems (OS) for secure delivery to, and execution on, new OS versions.

– The packaging of fully configured applications and their dependencies into a portable and reusable OS-free Virtual Application Appliance (VAA) which can be copied and run quickly without installation.

– Rapid provisioning of server and desktop business applications from the data center to/from and among clouds.

Greg O’Connor, AppZero CEO marked the occasion saying:

“Everyone says their solution is unique, but nothing says “unique” quite like a patent. While I’m certain that the granting of 3 patents will increase the company’s recognition as a credentialed innovator, what our customers care about is the business agility that AppZero brings to the enterprise, ISVs, and cloud providers alike. They get to run their business applications when and where they choose, with elasticity and ease – without lock-in. The innovation protected by these patents form the heart of this agility.”

The specific granted patents covered in this announcement are:

Patent # 7,757,291 / Title: Malware Containment by Application Encapsulation

Patent # 7,774,762 / Title: System Including Run-Time Software to Enable a Software Application to Execute on an Incompatible Computer Platform

Patent # 7,784,058 / Computing System Having User Mode Critical System Elements as Shared Libraries