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AMD and Microsoft Team Up On Virtualization

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AMD today announced the availability of robust new virtualization solutions powered by a combination of technologies from AMD and Microsoft. This new deployment model uses AMD Opteron processors with AMD Virtualization technology together with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. Mid-market companies in particular, which have traditionally been slower to implement virtualization, can take advantage of the combined AMD and Microsoft product offering to help reduce cost, complexity and energy consumption.

Resource consolidation achieved through virtualization can deliver the low energy consumption, and superior utilization and manageability demanded by today’s businesses. AMD Opteron processors and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, a hypervisor-based virtualization feature of Microsoft Windows Server 2008, allow OEMs, VARs and Solution Providers to offer a valuable server virtualization combination to help increase their competitive edge and market opportunity. AMD-V technology and Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V also help enable businesses to scale according to demands, boosting the efficiency of workloads.

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Celio REDFLY Mobile Companion Aims to ‘Revolutionize’ Mobile Virtualization

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Celio‘s REDFLY Mobile Companion provides a larger screen and keyboard enabling workers to expand their smartphones into fully functioning mobile terminals, and the company claims it is revolutionizing the Mobile Virtualization and Remote Access industry with this ability.

The company’s flagship product is a new device that extends the Windows Mobile smartphone platform to a larger display, keyboard, and touchpad mouse using REDFLY’s universal software and hardware technology.

REDFLY gives mobile terminal functionality to the smartphone without increasing Total Cost of Ownership, the security risk of data loss or network access because all data and applications remain on the smartphone. Smartphone users can access a virtualized desktop or applications via their phone using a portable and wireless device with an 800 x 480 pixel screen, full keyboard, touchpad and eight hours of battery life.

Compellent Technologies Adds Support for Oracle VM

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Compellent Technologies today announced support for Oracle VM server virtualization software. Compellent’s advanced virtualization creates a powerful storage infrastructure, delivering high performance, reduced cost of ownership, simplified storage management and an ideal platform for Oracle VM. More information about the partnership can be found here.

Oracle VM server virtualization software supports both Oracle and non-Oracle applications, and offers scalable, low-cost server virtualization. Oracle VM’s next generation architecture supports the use of virtualization-aware paravirtualized guest operating systems to allow more efficient, lower overhead operations in areas critical to performance such as memory and I/O management. Oracle VM consists of open source server software and provides an easy-to-use graphical interface for creating and managing virtual server pools across an enterprise. Key Oracle products including Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Applications are certified with Oracle VM.
Compellent is part of the Oracle Unbreakable Linux program, and will extend that support to include Oracle VM. Compellent’s innovative software applications, including Thin Provisioning, Remote Replication and Automated Tiered Storage, allow data to be easily accessible, easily replicated and dynamically expanded in less time than traditional storage solutions.

3Leaf Systems Scores $35 Million in Series C Funding

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3Leaf Systems (previous coverage), a provider of virtualization solutions for enterprise data centers, today announced that it has secured new financing from a suite of blue-chip investors led by LSI Corporation with follow on investments by Alloy Ventures, Enterprise Partners Venture Capital, Intel Capital, and Storm Ventures.

3Leaf Systems says it will use the new capital to accelerate development of the company’s virtualization solutions and to expand sales and marketing activities.

Using 3Leaf’s products, enterprise data centers can dramatically increase their resource utilization and enhance their operational efficiency. The 3Leaf V-8000 Virtual I/O Server has been named a Best of VMworld award winner at VMworld 2007 for its innovation, value, performance, reliability and ease of use.

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PHD Technologes “Acq-hires” Xtravirt Co-founder Alex Mittell

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PHD Technologies (previous coverage), provider of the esXPRESS data protection solution for virtualized infrastructures, today announced the acquisition of UK-based Xtravirt’s suite of virtualization products. As part of the transaction, Xtravirt co-founder, Alex Mittell, will join PHD Technologies as Director of Research & Development. Xtravirt will continue to partner with PHD Technologies as a distributor of esXPRESS to existing and new Xtravirt customers in the UK.

The virtualization tools acquired by PHD Technologies’ will benefit managers of virtualization infrastructures. These include VI3 SnapHunter, a virtual machine snapshot reporter; VI3 PatchDownloader, an automated downloader of VMware ESX patches; VISBU, an infrastructure backup utility and KS Quick Config, a tool to speed up the deployment and configuration of VMware ESX 3 servers.

Alex Mittell is widely known as a technical expert and thought leader in the virtualization community. Prior to co-founding Xtravirt, he worked at Oxford University in the UK as a virtual architect, setting up the university’s virtual infrastructure. Mittell will continue to be based in London.

INSYSTEK Unveils Cross-Hypervisor Management Solution TotalView

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INSYSTEK is announcing it will demonstrate TotalView, its cross-hypervisor virtualization management solution at VMworld. TotalView delivers centralized cross-hypervisor virtual and physical management, automation, optimization to IT environments. Our integrated guest management is designed to be a seamless feature set, not just an add-on. With its agentless architecture, TotalView is a secure and scalable solution, making management simpler, enabling the use of embedded hypervisors and requirements of corporate security effectively, and not complicating it with agent sprawl.

TotalView allows administrators to easily create, deploy and manage their virtual and physical infrastructures. It is a powerful management framework to consolidate the many administrative functions required for virtual infrastructure management. The TotalView solution simplifies virtualization deployments, enabling IT organizations to manage and control enterprise business continuity while reducing cost. TotalView is the single management console that brings together VM management, inventory, performance, alerting, reporting, guest management, remote control, software distribution and much more.

TotalView VM management provides hypervisor agnostic support for all major hypervisor technologies, including Microsoft Virtual Server, VMware ESX, ESXi and Server as well as Citrix Xen Server. TotalView integrates with hypervisor management APIs to deliver power management, inventory, rapid provisioning with deployment wizard and virtual machine templates reducing the time and effort for creating and deploying Virtual machines regardless of which hypervisors you choose.

TotalView is the agentless inventory, software distribution and performance monitoring solution for the corporate Windows environment, delivering extensive data on all installed hardware and software components on the remote system. Deploy full applications, security updates and more. Determine license compliance status, software usage, software tracking. Monitor servers and desktops for real-time performance and availability data.

TotalView provides real time performance and availability monitoring for servers, desktops, hosts and guests. Real time monitoring data is retrieved, processed, and stored in a central data repository for historical reporting and analysis. Assets can be monitored individually or grouped, utilizing user-defined collections. Capabilities including utilization graphs of CPU and memory provide performance data of physical servers, and the virtual machines they are running. Customize alerts that trigger notifications via email, or messages.