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Citrix Upgrades XenDesktop

August 24, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Citrix Systems has announced a new version of its XenDesktop product line (5.5) that adds many enhancements in personalization, user experience and rich consumer device support.

The new XenDesktop 5.5 adds the “Personal vDisk” technology acquired earlier this month from RingCube to all editions of XenDesktop, making it easier for customers to deploy highly personalized virtual desktops at a lower cost.

XenDesktop 5.5 also features the most significant enhancement in company history to its Citrix HDX user experience technology, enabling customers to deliver high-definition virtual desktops up to three times faster for both LAN and WAN users.

XenDesktop 5.5, XenApp 6.5 and XenClient 2 are available for download today from the Citrix website.

Suggested pricing for XenDesktop starts at $95 per user or device for the VDI-only edition. Comprehensive desktop and application virtualization is available in the Enterprise or Platinum editions, priced at $225 and $350. XenClient 2 is available standalone as a free download from the Citrix website and included along with the Synchronizer for XenClient with XenDesktop Enterprise and Platinum.

Veeam Promotes Doug ‘@VMDoug’ Hazelman To VP, Product Strategy And Chief Evangelist

August 24, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Veeam Software, provider of VMware data protection, disaster recovery and VMware management solutions for virtual datacenter environments, has promoted Doug Hazelman to Vice President, Product Strategy, and Chief Evangelist.

Hazelman was one of Veeam’s first employees, serving as the company’s original systems engineer. He eventually became Director of the Global Systems Engineering Group.

He will continue to present on behalf of Veeam at industry conferences and consult with customers, partners and industry analysts to ensure Veeam products meet or exceed every market need.

Prior to joining Veeam, Hazelman was an IT infrastructure consultant with Bennett Adelson. Earlier in his career he was the Director of Product Management for Migration Solutions at Quest Software. He was with Aelita Software in various technical and product management roles for more than five years before it was acquired by Quest in 2004.

Former Citrix GM Joins VMTurbo As President And CEO

August 24, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

VMTurbo, a provider of intelligent workload management software to assure application performance, today announced that N. Louis Shipley, formerly General Manager of Citrix Xen Products Group, has joined VMTurbo as President and CEO. Shipley replaces VMTurbo founder Shmuel Kliger, who will focus on product and technology strategy as well as strategic partnerships.

Shipley was President and CEO of Reflectent Software, an end user application performance monitoring company acquired by Citrix in 2006. He was General Manager of the Citrix Management Systems group, then took on the role of General Manager of Citrix XenServer when Citrix acquired XenSource in 2007.

Lou joined Reflectent in December 2002 after working as an Entrepreneur in Residence at Highland Capital Partners. Prior to Highland, Lou served as Vice President of Worldwide Field Operations for WebLine Communications, a customer contact center software company acquired by Cisco Systems in 1999 for $325 million.

He also will join the VMTurbo board of directors. Shipley replaces VMTurbo founder Shmuel Kliger as President and CEO. Kliger will focus on product and technology strategy as well as strategic partnerships.

AppSense, Lakeside Software Team Up To Deliver User Virtualization Assessment For All Desktop Environments

August 24, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

AppSense, provider of user virtualization technology, and Lakeside Software, provider of business intelligence solutions for IT professionals, today announced a strategic partnership to provide a User Virtualization Assessment service that assists customers with the discovery and design phases of Desktop Transformation projects.

By pairing AppSense and Lakeside’s flagship product, SysTrack, enterprises can move beyond assessment and planning into the implementation and operation of a user virtualization solution.

AppSense and Lakeside are providing a comprehensive solution that ensures enterprises are selecting the right solutions for their desktop environment.

Catbird To Enhance Virtualization Security Solution With VMware vShield Integration

August 24, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Catbird has announced plans to deliver VMware vShield controls into Catbird vSecurity through an embedded OEM partnership with VMware.

The integration will give Catbird vSecurity customers the ability to deploy the VMware vShield App as an integrated component of Catbird’s broad security and compliance solution for virtualized infrastructure.

Catbird’s vSecurity weaves multi-function security directly into the fabric of virtual and cloud infrastructure to provide comprehensive protection. Available controls include vulnerability management, IPS/IDS, network segmentation, policy enforcement, inventory, configuration and change management, as well as monitoring and enforcement in many other key operational, security and compliance areas.

Vyatta Network OS 6.3 Extends Virtual Security To Red Hat KVM, Amazon Web Services

August 24, 2011 by Robin Wauters 1 Comment

Vyatta, which offers software-based networking for physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures, has announced the availability of Vyatta Network OS 6.3.

This release advances Vyatta’s routing, network security and content inspection and expands usage with custom packages for Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud and Red Hat Kernel-Based Virtual Machine (KVM) hypervisors.

Vyatta Network OS 6.3 enables enterprises, federal organizations and cloud providers to build and secure complex virtual and physical networks without the need for proprietary hardware.

The latest release of Vyatta’s on-demand networking software provides IaaS, PaaS and SaaS networks a way to maintain compliance within KVM-based environments and the Amazon public cloud. Coupled with VMWare ESX and Citrix XenServer support, Vyatta Network OS now delivers a fully optimized enterprise-class networking solution on all of the leading hypervisor offerings available in today’s market.

General availability of the Red Hat KVM and Amazon AWS support is scheduled for September 15, 2011.