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Liquidware Labs Grows Sales Force

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Liquidware Labs has announced the addition of three more senior sales leaders to cover strategic markets as well as two alumni from a past competitor to occupy key technology development positions.

Vizioncore alumni Joseph Castro, Paul Buergey, Scott Bennett and Anne Waterhouse have joined the sales force at Liquidware Labs in regional sales management roles.

Castro will lead sales for the Eastern US while Buergey will head the Western US Region. Bennett will drive sales in the United Kingdom, Benelux and Southern Europe, and Waterhouse will head up sales for Australia and New Zealand.

In addition, Ron McKelvey and Pete Del Rey, co-founders of PHD Virtual, have also joined Liquidware Labs as Director of Special Projects and Technology Evangelist, respectively. PHD Virtual was an early competitor to Vizioncore, and the two companies were instrumental in driving acceptance of the first solutions for virtual machine backup.

McKelvey co- founded PHD Virtual in 2006 with Del Rey after working with P2V technologies in the very early roll-out of server virtualization technology and subsequently became one of the top providers of P2V custom solutions for large, early-adopter companies. McKelvey also has more than 20 years of successful development experience in providing custom solutions, and his work in virtualization led to the development of esXpress, which gained the respect of growing client base and is still a widely-used backup solution for VMware environments.

Del Rey was a key contributor in the launch of the esXpress backup software for VMware and played a key role in the rapid growth of PHD Virtual in the industry. Pete held many leadership and management positions throughout the growth of PHD Virtual after a successful career in development for ERP and data center systems at Siemens.

He has also been active in the VMware and XenServer community boards and regularly contributes to these sites under the board name “petedr.”

Liquidware Labs provides desktop transformation solutions for physical and virtual desktops, including VMware View, Citrix XenDesktop, and Microsoft Windows 7.

Talari Networks Names Emerick Woods President And CEO

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Talari Networks has announced the appointment of Emerick Woods as president and CEO. He succeeds Andy Gottlieb, co-founder of Talari, who remains active with the company as a member of the Board of Directors.

Woods has led and founded a number of early- to mid-stage high technology companies as well as completed two IPOs.

Most recently, Woods served as CEO of Global IP Solutions, a publicly listed company that provides media processing software for voice over IP (VoIP) and video conferencing solutions acquired by Google.

Previously, Woods served as CEO of Vicinity Corp. where he completed an IPO raising $125 million. Subsequently acquired by Microsoft, Vicinity provided a location-based services platform to many of the world’s leading brands.

He has also been CEO at several other venture-backed companies focused on the mobile carrier, location-based services, and network infrastructure markets. Woods has held a variety of management and executive positions at Quarterdeck, Symantec, Central Point and Microcom.

Talari Networks’ WAN Virtualization solutions transform broadband and other affordable Internet links to deliver reliability and performance predictability at consumer prices.

Talari delivers a network with 30 to 100 times the bandwidth per dollar, ongoing WAN costs reduced by 40% to 90%, and greater reliability than existing corporate WANs.

VMworld 2011 Will Take Place In Las Vegas And Copenhagen

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VMware has announced that VMworld 2011 makes its return to Las Vegas August 29th through September 1st at The Venetian and will also be held October 18th through 20th at The Bella Center in Copenhagen.

With more than 27,000 attendees expected worldwide, VMworld 2011 will spotlight VMware and the industry’s commitment to virtualization, cloud computing and the transformation to IT as a Service.

This year’s VMworld theme, “Your Cloud, Own it,” emphasizes the powerful role attendees play in designing clouds that meet the specific business needs and demands of their companies — whether it’s private, hybrid or public cloud.

Quest Software Surpasses 40,000 Customers For Virtual Data Protection Solutions

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Quest Software has announced that it has reached a significant milestone in its virtual machine backup and recovery business, recently surpassing 40,000 customers.

Quest’s VM backup and recovery solutions span platforms including VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V.

More than 38,000 customers now rely on Quest vRanger for VMware backup and recovery, while more than 2,000 customers use NetVault Backup to meet their virtual machine backup and recovery needs, the company said.

The Quest vRanger product family provides scalable VMware ESX and ESXi backup, replication and recovery, and speeds VMware backup and replication while reducing storage requirements.

New E-book From Greg Shields: “Tactics in Optimizing Virtual Machine Disk IOPS”

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Realtime Publishers, provider of third-party independent content for the IT market has issued a new e-book entitled “Tactics in Optimizing Virtual Machine Disk IOPS”.

Authored by IT expert Greg Shields, the e-book covers vital information for any virtual IT environment, with a host of practices to fully achieve an optimized virtual machine.

In his e-book, the author Greg Shields whose IT expertise spans 15 years and is a multiple recipient of Microsoft “Most Valuable Professional” award as well as VMware’s vExpert award comments:

“Disk optimization in virtual environments is absolutely a necessary activity. That optimization comes in many forms. A proper design goes far in ensuring hardware is ready to support the IOPS demand of needy VMs. Correctly configuring those VMs during operations represents another facet.”

The free e-book is intended to show how a bad design combined with incorrect VM configurations can be detrimental to performance and hinder VM disk I/O.

Release: GlusterFS 3.3 (Beta)

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Gluster, provider of open source storage solutions, has announced the beta release of GlusterFS 3.3.

This latest version of Gluster’s file system provides a system for data storage that enables users to access the same data as an object and as a file, simplifying management and controlling storage costs.

Available on-premise, for virtual machines, and in public and private cloud environments, Gluster’s software-only storage technology delivers the first true unified file and object data storage.

GlusterFS 3.3 allows users to access data as objects from an Amazon S3 compatible interface and access files from a NAS interface including NFS and CIFS.

In addition to decreasing cost and making it faster and easier to access object data, GlusterFS also delivers scalability, high availability and replication of object storage. F

or infrastructure as a service offerings, GlusterFS 3.3 enables organizations to build their own Amazon-like storage offering for their customers.

Enterprises can use GlusterFS to accelerate the process of preparing applications for the cloud, simplify new application development for cloud computing environments, and backup from data center unified file and object to Amazon Web Services (AWS) or within the private cloud.

Version 3.3 of GlusterFS is currently in beta and is available now.