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NetEx To Provide Free WAN Optimization Software To VMware Marketplace

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NetEx, a company providing a software-only WAN Optimization solution, and VMware have announced the availability of a free annual subscription for the HyperIP virtual appliance software through the VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace (VAM, which features more than 1,500 appliances spanning the areas of security, content and collaboration, infrastructure, databases and networking.

Qualified VAM users of replication and backup applications are eligible for a maximum of two free annual subscriptions of the 2Mb/s HyperIP (VM edition), a virtual appliance that improves the performance of moving large amounts of data across a WAN.

Downloads of the HyperIP virtual appliance are available from the VMware VAM website and require a VAM login. The free download program is offered until the end of the year.

NetEx’s HyperIP is a software-only, virtualization-ready WAN optimization solution, ideal for moving large data sets across WANs securely, swiftly and seamlessly.

The full version of HyperIP supports long-distance data transfers at up to 800 Mb/s, the highest performance of any WAN optimization solution on the market, and 25 to more than 100 percent faster than competitive products. Transfer speed is optimized for the full range of data management applications, including backup & remote replication and business continuance/disaster recovery (BC/DR).

SoftLayer Debuts Dedicated Hardware Firewalls

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SoftLayer Technologies has introduced Dedicated Hardware Firewalls, available on demand and without service interruption through the company’s Customer Portal.

The new offering lets SoftLayer customers protect one, multiple, or all Cloud, Dedicated, and Virtual systems that share the same Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN), for just one price.

SoftLayer’s Dedicated Hardware Firewalls stand between an entire VLAN and the Public Network, analyzing and filtering all network traffic.

With the company’s Customer Portal, customers can configure the firewall settings for the entire VLAN as well as for individual computing systems. The Portal even provides a library of templates for applying protection rules and configurations for specific applications.

Current templates include mail and Web services, Parallels Plesk, and cPanel, with more to be added soon.

Xsigo Announces Certification And Support For Oracle VM

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Xsigo Systems has announced certification and support for Oracle VM, a server virtualization solution for both Oracle and non-Oracle applications. The combination of Oracle VM and Xsigo virtual I/O delivers cost-saving improvements for virtualized data centers.

“Server virtualization greatly increases the demands on server I/O, often leading to bottlenecks that can sap application performance,” said Bruce Fingles, Xsigo’s VP of product management, alliances, and support.

“Xsigo’s support for Oracle VM means that customers can now get 4X more bandwidth to each server to help them run mission-critical Oracle applications in a virtualized environment without compromising on performance.”

Veeam Business View 2.0 Provides CMDB Integration, Dynamic Groups

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Veeam recently released Veeam Business View 2.0, one of the key components of Veeam ONE.

Veeam Business View lets companies manage their virtual environments based on business criteria and priorities, such as service-level agreements (SLAs), business units and geographic locations.

By expanding the traditional infrastructure-oriented view of the virtual environment to include flexible business-oriented perspectives, companies can more effectively address the virtualization challenges of capacity planning, chargeback and virtual machine (VM) sprawl.

Veeam Business View 2.0 extends this business context even further with configuration management database (CMDB) integration, expanded categorization capabilities and dynamic groups.

Veeam Business View 2.0 is part of Veeam ONE, which offers a single solution to optimize the performance, configuration and utilization of virtual infrastructures. Veeam ONE provides monitoring, capacity planning, change management, reporting and chargeback, and more. It is free and available in three versions.

Xen Releases Cloud Platform (XCP) 1.0

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Xen.org, home of the open source Xen hypervisor, today announced the availability of Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) 1.0.

Developed as part of the Xen Cloud Project introduced in 2009, XCP 1.0 provides a solution for small and medium size enterprises looking to build private clouds, as well as open source enthusiasts, universities and researchers wanting to experiment with cloud computing.

It represents a shift in enterprise usability for Xen.org, which has traditionally released software as source code only. X

XCP is an open source server virtualization platform in a single, tested installable image that features the Xen hypervisor, network and storage support, a management stack and tools, as well as support for a range of guest operating systems including Windows and Linux.

XCP 1.0 includes a fully featured, enterprise-class Xen API Management tool stack with features such as disaster recovery support, security, real-time performance monitoring, support for multi-host resource pools, and upgrade and patching capabilities.

XCP 1.0 provides support for virtual networking capabilities via Open vSwitch and a range of open source GUI management tools.

The Xen community will also be enabled to test features with XCP 1.0 that could offer future value to enterprise products such as Citrix XenServer and Citrix OpenCloud.

Racktivity Hires Two New Execs

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Racktivity, a provider of the development of next-generation data center power distribution and energy management solutions, has announced the appointment of two senior industry vets to complete its senior management team build-out.

Mark Harris (most recently with Raritan and Avocent) has been appointed VP of Marketing & Product Marketing, and Kris De Peuter (supply chain management specialist) as VP of Operations & Manufacturing.

Additionally, the company has joined the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, an industry body originally founded by Intel and Google in 2007 for the purpose of helping to increase the deployment of energy efficient computing, storage and networking equipment and the global adoption of power management strategies and technologies.

Prior to joining Racktivity, Kris De Peuter was managing supply chain and operations for INEWIT, a Belgian start-up company, where he built a green-field supply chain organization. He is an APICS-certified supply chain executive with more than 10 years of experience in project and operational management, contract manufacturing, quality and after sales support.

Mark Harris has spent the last 25 years delivering data center technology solutions to the Fortune 5000. Over the last 10 years, he has focused on energy distribution and management within the data center with such companies as Cyclades, Avocent and Raritan Computer.

Prior to these companies, he held various senior management roles in marketing, product development and sales in such notable companies as Digital Equipment Corporation (now HP), Extreme Networks and Cabletron (now Enterasys).