Robin Wauters

Paragon Software Group, provider of data security and data management solutions, has released Paragon Virtualization Manager 2010 Personal.

The program provides the user with the complete set of tools to easily perform any migration operation to the majority of virtual machines, including Sun Virtual Box, Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 and Virtual PC 7, VMware Player and Workstation 4.0-7.0 and Fusion 1.0-3.0.

The product includes the unique technology which can connect an offline virtual disk and work with it as if it is an ordinary physical disk performing various disk and other virtualization operations to significantly ease day-to-day usage of virtual machines. The user can easily achieve partitioning operations, exchange data between physical and virtual disks and perform other disk operations.

Paragon Virtualization Manager 2010 Personal is the only solution which solves boot problems after an unsuccessful migration attempt by a third party. The program offers the easiest, intuitive way to migrate a Windows-based computer system to a virtual environment (P2V) and vice versa (V2P).

Main Features:

• Guaranteed support for any Windows operating system since Win2K (excluding server editions).
• Migrate a physical system to a virtual machine or convert backup image to a virtual disk.
• Recover the OS startup ability after unsuccessful virtualization by a 3rd party tool.
• Recover the OS startup ability after system migration to a different hardware platform.
• Migrate from one virtual environment to another.
• Migrate a virtual system to a physical environment.
• Exchange data between your physical environment and the virtual one or between a virtual disk and its snapshots.
• Hot processing of locked (in-use) hard disks to migrate a computer without rebooting and interrupting Windows.
• Makes the process of adding new drivers smooth and easy.
• Preview changes before they are applied on a handy disk partitioning map.
• Choose any destination to create virtual disks, including a network share.
• Transparent processing of virtual machine snapshots disks.

Paragon Virtualization Manager 2010 Personal is available for $29.95.

Today, VMware unveiled the VMware Express during its inaugural stop at the 2010 VMware Partner Exchange in Las Vegas, NV.

This mobile datacenter, demo environment and briefing center has been built to bring VMware solutions directly to our customers across the USA and Canada during the 2010 Virtualization Tour. The VMware Express is sponsored by Cisco, EMC, Dell, MDS, NetApp, Xsigo, ChipPC, Amulet Hotkey and Teradici.

There are 5 demo stations covering both VMware desktop and server virtualization solutions.

Customers will have the unique opportunity to get hands on and dig deep into solutions with VMware Experts. There are demos highlighting the following products and solutions:

VMware View

• Best User Experience – Highlighting the power of the PCoIP display protocol to deliver a rich user experience, perfectly adapted for the network connection and end-point device.
• Follow-Me Desktop – Enabling immediate access to desktops, applications and data while ensuring a consistent user experience across sessions and endpoint devices.
• Access Across Boundaries – Providing access to desktops, applications and data anytime, anywhere regardless of network availability.
• Windows 7 Migration – Reducing the costs and complexity associated with desktop and application migration.

Wind River today released an updated version of Wind River Hypervisor, its embedded virtualization solution for single and multicore processors.

The new Wind River Hypervisor 1.1 release supports the latest Intel processors and enables new inter-virtual machine communication capabilities. Additionally, debugging of virtual boards is now supported by the latest version of Wind River On-Chip Debugging.

Wind River Hypervisor makes it easier for customers to consolidate systems and adopt virtualization and multicore technology in embedded devices. New features of Wind River Hypervisor include:

• Support for the latest Intel microarchitecture codename Nehalem-based processors, such as the Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series as well as Intel Core i5 processor and Intel Core i7 processor utilizing advanced virtualization hardware assist capabilities.
• Integration with Wind River’s industry leading operating systems, including the latest versions of VxWorks and Wind River Linux, while also supporting other operating systems for greater flexibility.
• Additional capabilities for inter-virtual machine communication, including support for MIPC (multicore/multi-OS interprocess communication), and virtual network and serial ports.
• When used in conjunction with recently released Wind River On-Chip Debugging 3.2, optimized for development of multicore, multi-OS and virtualized environments, developers can debug the most complex system-level issues such as race conditions, memory corruption and core synchronization.

Wind River plans to broaden processor support for existing processor architectures, along with introducing additional processor architectures, including Freescale QorIQ, to Wind River Hypervisor throughout this year.

Multicore and virtualization are changing the way the embedded device market develops next-generation devices by providing more processing power, while lowering energy consumption, which can lead to a dramatic reduction in bill-of-material cost. First launched in June 2009, Wind River Hypervisor allows device software developers to take advantage of multicore and virtualization to configure unicore and multicore processors quickly and easily, thereby decreasing time-to-market for next-generation devices.

Wind River Hypervisor is a type 1 embedded hypervisor featuring a small footprint, minimal latency for device access, plus deterministic capabilities and optimizations for maximum performance. Wind River Hypervisor supports a variety of different processor architectures, taking advantage of hardware virtualization support when applicable. Embedded developers are utilizing hypervisors to enable the replacement of multiple boards or CPUs with a single board and/or a single CPU, create innovative new devices that leverage multiple operating systems and reduce complexity and hence risk when integrating multicore processors.

Champion Cloud Services, a unit of IT services delivery provider Champion Solutions Group, today announced a data recovery program that promises to remake the Disaster Recovery (DR) realm: “Cloud Continuity” DR services.

Leveraging the groundbreaking benefits of cloud computing, Champion’s Cloud Continuity services allow enterprises—especially growing mid-market businesses—to utilize an on-demand DR capability that delivers exactly the amount of IT resources needed, at the very time they’re needed most.

Unlike traditional disaster recovery paradigms, Champion’s Cloud Continuity solution requires no expensive outlays for a Disaster Recovery infrastructure comprised of defined hardware and software. In the event of an anticipated emergency, the infrastructure is “turned on” and automatically synchronizes with the data for full application availability; afterward it is restored into the business’ onsite, primary infrastructure. Customers pay only for the resources used during the disaster incidence.

Because every customer’s Disaster Recovery requirements are different, Champion Cloud Services is able to set a customized monthly DR fee based on the customer’s Recovery Time Objective (minimum acceptable downtime) and Recovery Point Objective (age of restored files).