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Gluster Appoints Mike Backlund As SVP Of Sales

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Gluster, provider of open source storage solutions for private and public clouds, today announced Mike Backlund has joined the company as senior vice president of sales. He will be responsible for driving both domestic and international sales.

Prior to joining Gluster, Backlund was senior vice president of worldwide sales at Baynote, a provider of personalization and digital marketing optimization solutions. During his time at Baynote, Backlund also held the position of interim CEO.

Previously, Backlund was CEO at Quorum Labs. He also held executive sales positions at open source pioneer SpikeSource as well as Computer Associates.

As senior vice president of field operations at Interwoven, Backlund led the company from less than one million to over $200 million in annual revenue and a successful IPO.

Release: Citrix GoToManage Monitoring for XenServer

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Recently at the Citrix Synergy event, Citrix Systems announced Citrix GoToManage Monitoring for XenServer, a new integrated offering for IT professionals and SMBs who need to monitor and manage a range of devices in support of increasingly distributed, remote and mobile workforces.

GoToManage consists of a real-time remote support module and a monitoring module, which provides detailed real-time server monitoring, inventory and software discovery, and network tracking.

The addition of GoToManage Monitoring for XenServer offers a new single view to track the health and performance of all key physical and virtual IT infrastructure. The service is cloud-based, enabling SMBs to tackle the complexity of managing their servers without the added expense of deploying expensive hardware and software probes.

The XenServer functionality is included at no additional cost for all GoToManage Monitoring customers. Also, GoToManage Monitoring has a free version that allows anyone to monitor two servers and inventory and track up to 18 other devices (e.g. computers, switches, routers).

Release: Trilead VM Explorer 3.5

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Trilead VM Explorer is a management tool that eases management, backup and disaster recovery tasks in your VMware ESX environment.

Backups can be stored on ESX, Windows, Linux and FreeBSD based storage platforms or directly to a SAN.

VM Explorer has only to be licenced once for your infrastructure, you don’t have to pay any fees per ESX Server, CPU, or anything similar.

The main new features of VM Explorer 3.5 are:

– Built-In Scheduler Service
– Advanced Email reporting
– Advanced scheduled task reporting
– Added “On error execute next task” functionality in order to perform next task, within a scheduled task, in case of errors
– Added “delete backup” functionality in file explorer
– Added more configuration options for incremental backup
– Added possibility to power on the VM after restore process
– Backup Explorer
– Many minor improvements for incremental and full backups.

Rackspace To Offer Hosted Virtual Desktop Platform

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Rackspace Hosting announced at Citrix Summit 2011 today the availability of the Rackspace hosted virtual desktop platform.

It utilizes Rackspace’s hosting services and may be paired with industry leading desktop virtualization solutions from Citrix and other joint channel partners. The offering enables customers to host their virtual desktops on their choice of dedicated and/or cloud solutions.

The Rackspace hosted virtual desktop platform combines RackConnect and partner solutions to deliver an unmatched solution in the marketplace.

With RackConnect, customers can deploy a virtual desktop solution that utilizes Private Cloud to help address security and compliance concerns and to manage and control servers while benefiting from the scale and cost effectiveness of the CloudServers for XenApp environments.

The Rackspace hosted virtual desktop platform can also allow customers to reduce deployment times of upgrades and new infrastructure deployments while reducing CAPEX.

By working with Rackspace, channel partners and VARs can add the Rackspace hosted virtual desktop platform to their portfolio of offerings, without the additional expenses associated with purchasing the hardware and hiring resources to manage the environment.

The Rackspace offering will also be available directly to resellers through the Rackspace Partner Program.

Dell Chooses Ixia For Performance Testing On Its PowerEdge Server Line

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Ixia, a global provider of converged IP network test solutions, today announced that Dell has selected the company as one of its key partners for performance testing on its PowerEdge server line.

Dell’s PowerEdge series includes the large-scale blade servers used by service providers and enterprises for virtualized data centers, which require extensive benchmarking and testing.

Dell chose Ixia’s platform because of its ability to match the scale, performance, and flexibility necessary to test large rack servers.

Ixia’s solutions thoroughly test high-capacity virtualized data center networks and storage infrastructures by addressing key challenges, such as service availability, infrastructure elasticity and provisioning, capacity, end-to-end application and services delivery, and performance across all layers.

As enterprises migrate their data and applications to the cloud, and leverage virtualized server infrastructures, it is essential to measure application performance through all stages — on-premise physical servers, virtual machines, and eventually a fully-hosted cloud.

VMware Launches An Official Publishing Entity With A Little Help From Pearson

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Pearson, the world’s leading learning company, and VMware have announced VMware Press, a newly created technical imprint that will serve as VMware’s official publishing entity.

The newly formed press will provide a suite of virtualization technology and certification products in multiple languages and formats, and will focus on three types of content:

– Technical books, ebooks and videos that concentrate on specific applications of virtualization.
– Decision Maker books, ebooks and videos that focus on the business aspects of virtualization.
– Official certification materials that support VMware’s complete certification program.

The majority of the new products will target VMware technology, primarily VMware vSphere, VMware View, VMware vCenter and VMware vCloud, which comprise the basic platform for all of VMware’s products and services.

Working in conjunction with VMware, Pearson plans to leverage the user group community programs and social channels to further engage the VMware community and offer exclusive promotions and access to the certification and technology products endorsed by VMware.