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Doyenz Launches Automated Virtual IT

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Doyenz today announced the availability of Doyenz Automated Virtual IT, a managed service for IT consultants that leverages virtualization and cloud services to automate the delivery and management of IT infrastructure.

Designed to improve the quality and efficiency of SMB IT, Doyenz provides an SaaS platform that can be used to automatically configure and manage servers and desktops as virtual appliances. Automated Virtual IT is a hybrid solution that can be used to deploy virtual appliances either on-premise or in the cloud, allowing seamless migration from one to the other. The new solution offers unparalleled business continuity and uptime to the SMB at a lower cost, and a new IT services delivery model with better profits to the IT consultant that serves them. Doyenz has received significant angel funding from private investors from Microsoft, Google and others, and is now seeking Series A funding to support its rapid growth and high market demand.

Doyenz Automated Virtual IT addresses SMB challenges by enabling IT consultants to leverage automation, virtualization and cloud services to remotely configure, test, deploy and manage their customers’ servers as virtual appliances.

The Automated Virtual IT managed service capabilities include (a) automated creation and deployment of new servers with best practices, (b) a virtual test-lab with the latest copy of the production server for testing, e.g., patches and upgrades, and performing complex operations such as migrations with limited or no production downtime, (c) remote monitoring and management of Tier 1 alerts, and (d) an automated off-site disaster recovery with local fail-over on premises or in the cloud.

While Doyenz does not host the customer’s production environment, the Doyenz generated virtual appliances can run either on the customer premises, or hosted in the cloud, providing the bridge necessary for the SMB to migrate safely to the newest technologies and take advantage of enterprise-class tools.

Built on the Doyenz Automated Virtual IT Platform, the Doyenz Automated Virtual IT service is an affordable SaaS subscription offering that requires no hardware or software investment, allowing IT consultants to build a recurring repeatable revenue stream and grow their profits, while lowering costs and improving service to their SMB customers.

Vucci Emerges As Virtual Utility Computing Services Company

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Utah-based Vucci Technology Solutions is working to change the way businesses interact with IT. Offering virtual utility computing services, managed service applications and virtual desktops, Vucci takes the traditionally cost-inefficient sector of IT and turns it into a profit center.

Vucci is an IT solutions provider that offers innovative technology services for enterprise-level businesses, healthcare, education and government. Vucci’s solutions allow businesses to consolidate, virtualize, and assess IT needs in a more cost effective way turning IT into a profit center for stronger return on investment (ROI).

With a strong list of clients that include The Generations Network, J.P. Morgan, University Health Care and Utah Valley University (UVU), Vucci leverages its IT expertise to enterprise-level businesses by providing virtualization technology designed to simplify IT.

Vucci services include:

  • Virtualization
  • Architecture Design & Implementation
  • Data Center Transformation
  • Capacity Planning & Server Consolidation
  • Business Continuity & Availability

Vucci provides the experience and the proven expertise to train its customers on how to be more efficient with consolidated information technology resources to drive overall productivity and increase revenue and agility within an organization.

PHD Technologies / esXpress Doing Fine, Thank You For Asking

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PHD Technologies, provider of the esXpress VBA data protection solution for virtualized infrastructures, today reported stellar results for 2008 .

In 2008 PHD achieved 200% revenue growth, strong profitability, and was recognized with SearchServerVirtualization.com’s 2008 Products of the Year Gold Award in Data Protection and Best of VMWorld Gold Award in Data Protection. Currently more than 1,400 customers use esXpress. Customer growth has been accelerated by PHD’s expansion of its network of worldwide distribution partners, including the recent global reseller additions in Asia-Pacific, Datastor and ECS Technologies.

esXpress is a horizontally scalable solution with customers that span multiple verticals and company sizes. The award-winning product is used by Fortune 500 companies such as ADP, Dell, Hess, IBM, Intel and Lockheed Martin; Mid-size companies such as Budd Van Lines and Panera Bread; Higher education institutions such as Indiana University, Oxford University and Yale University, as well as Service companies such as Ernst Young and Hewitt Associates.

esXpress’ growth demonstrates the success of the product’s differentiated VBA technology and flexible per host pricing model. This pricing model provides a significant cost advantage to customers because it requires no additional hardware or software.

Release: Virtual Iron Extended Enterprise Edition 4.5

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Virtual Iron recently announced the shipment of their latest product version, Release 4.5.

Virtual Iron Extended Enterprise Edition Release 4.5 includes the following major enhancements:

  • Role based access control
  • Internal network switch, i.e. a virtual switch without any physical adapters
  • Windows 2008-supported management server platform
  • Scaling improvements.

Beta testing of Release 4.5 was extensive with more than 35 volunteers from among the Virtual Iron global customer base and partner community.

Chris Barclay, Director of Product Management at Virtual Iron stated, “Release 4.5 provides many features specifically requested by our customers and further advances our ongoing strategy to provide the best server virtualization solution for cost-conscious, efficient IT professionals.”

Xsigo Hooks Up With Dell

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Xsigo Systems, the I/O virtualization specialist, today announced that Dell has selected the company as a provider of I/O virtualization solutions — a critical technology necessary for optimizing data centers. In addition to reselling Xsigo’s virtual I/O solutions, the companies will work together on technology roadmaps and the development of reseller resources, allowing Dell to further expand its data center offerings.

As a result of this agreement, Dell will offer the Xsigo I/O Director as an option with its PowerEdge servers and storage solutions, creating a simple path to creating fully virtualized data centers. The combined Xsigo – Dell solution lets IT professionals manage I/O resources across multiple vendor platforms from a single console, instead of being restricted to a single vendor solution. In addition, the combined system eliminates the restriction of physical I/O ports, letting users deploy new I/O resources to servers on-demand.

Dell customers using Xsigo’s I/O virtualization products can reduce both the operational and capital costs associated with server I/O. Xsigo consolidates the I/O infrastructure and replaces physical network and storage interfaces (NICs and HBAs) with virtual resources that can be deployed on-the-fly.

This open standards-based solution, interoperable with servers and storage across most leading platforms, is designed to remove the constraints imposed by traditional I/O cards and cables that otherwise limit the flexibility to re-deploy assets. The result is a wire-once infrastructure where configuration changes are completed in minutes rather than days, are executed in software rather than hardware, and can be remotely managed. Eliminating the need to re-cable can help reduce operational costs and remove the risk of cabling errors that may cause unplanned downtime.

Included within the agreement is the full range of Xsigo products, including the VP780 I/O Director. The Xsigo offering complements Dell’s product families by enabling universal connectivity across all I/O types, which simplifies and accelerates the adoption of heterogeneous solutions such as Dell PowerVault, Dell/EMC and Dell EqualLogic storage. The Xsigo I/O Director provides a scalable I/O solution interoperable with most currently available Dell servers, including the Dell PowerEdge M-Series Blade Systems.

Pricing for the Xsigo Virtual I/O System begins at approximately $30,000, and is immediately available.

Release: Lanamark Suite 2009

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Lanamark today announced general availability of Lanamark Suite 2009. The new version includes support for monitoring Citrix XenServer and VMware ESX, supplements server information with power consumption, form factor, age and warranty metrics, and simplifies capacity planning with significant user experience and reporting automation enhancements.

Lanamark Suite 2009 now includes monitoring of Citrix XenServer and VMware ESX free of charge for all assessments commencing prior to March 31, 2009. Standard licensing per desktop or server workload per assessment still applies.