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Parallels Unveils New Cloud Infrastructure and Hosted PBX solutions

February 25, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Hosting and Cloud service enablement company Parallels recently announced new Cloud Infrastructure and Hosted PBX solutions, as well as support for Microsoft Office 365 Syndication and Hyper-V Cloud. It is also increasing its investment in facilitating APS-enabled solutions.

Parallels is launching and supporting:

– Parallels Automation for Cloud Infrastructure
– Hosted PBX
– Microsoft System Center Hyper-V Cloud
– Microsoft Office 365 Syndication
– Increased Investment in the APS Program

More information is available here.

ManageEngine Releases Applications Manager 9.5

February 25, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

ManageEngine, makers of a suite of network, systems, applications and security management software solutions, today announced automated provisioning of virtual resources is now possible with ManageEngine’s Applications Manager, the company’s server and application performance monitoring software.

The new enhancements to Applications Manager’s virtualization monitoring capabilities enable IT administrators to automate the provisioning of virtual resources, automatically making adjustments when threshold levels are breached.

For example, Applications Manager will automatically add, start or stop virtual machines in a VMware ESX/ESXi server farm when the number of active sessions in a server exceed the specified threshold.

With this automation capability, the IT team may improve operational efficiency by reducing manual intervention, as well as optimize resource utilization by reusing inactive virtual resources.

ManageEngine Applications Manager, with the latest virtualization management capabilities, is available now.

Pricing starts at $795 for the Professional Edition for up to 25 servers or applications.

Flexera Releases AdminStudio Suite 10

February 22, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Flexera Software, provider of strategic Application Usage Management solutions for application producers and their customers, today announced the launch of AdminStudio Suite 10.

The new release is a comprehensive Application Readiness solution enabling organizations to strategically manage application packaging and remediation across their entire software estate, mitigating Windows 7 and application virtualization migration risks.

With as many as 35% of an enterprise’s applications requiring updates in any given year, coupled with the explosive growth in Windows 7 migrations and virtualization initiatives, compatibility assessment, remediation and packaging processes are now of strategic importance to IT organizations.

AdminStudio delivers application packaging efficiencies as much as nine times greater compared to manual efforts.

AdminStudio 10 lets users centrally manage and report on the virtual and traditional application portfolio for an overall view of the application estate’s readiness for each format.

A new, unified “application-centric” application catalog manages all deployment types for an application, enabling all packages, including virtual packages, to be handled with the same process and tools as those used for MSIs, eliminating the cost and complexity of having multiple solutions and repositories.

Moreover, AdminStudio 10 is now powered by the latest version of the world’s leading MSI authoring and editing tool, InstallShield 2011, giving users complete flexibility in editing packages using the same installation preparation tool relied on by more than 71,000 ISVs worldwide.

Today’s launch also includes enhancements to AdminStudio Virtualization Pack, which prepares reliable virtual applications for deployment with a complete set of suitability testing, automated conversion, validation, editing and management reporting capabilities.

Enhanced validation and conflict testing of Microsoft App-V packages supports packagers in managing both MSI and App-V with the same tool and processes to ensure a consistent, unified approach.

Packagers can also directly edit App-V packages, saving significant time and effort by eliminating the need to re-convert from an MSI when a change to an App-V package is required.

SoftLayer Booked $280 Million In Revenue Last Year

February 22, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

SoftLayer Technologies has announced several key milestones logged in 2010, including:

* $280 million in revenue (40% cloud / 60% dedicated), following a merger with the Planet
* +38% EBITDA
* Growth to more than 26,000 active customers across 110+ countries
* More than 76,000 deployed servers

Also:

* Integration with the Planet is largely complete, with remaining projects on track to be done by 31 March, 2011
* New global corporate headquarters in North Dallas
* Cloud services and options including Build Your Own Cloud, Isilon IQ and Citrix Cloud Solutions
* Network POPs in Atlanta, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, San Jose, and Seattle
* New datacenter facilities in Dallas, Seattle, Washington D.C., Houston and San Jose (March 2011)
* Launch of Parallels Plesk Panel 10
* Launch of Nimsoft Network Monitoring solution

Cisco Touts 4,000 Customers For Its Unified Computing System, And Other Milestones

February 22, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Cisco this morning announced a series of customer and technology milestones across the Unified Fabric, Unified Computing System and Unified Network Services technology portfolios which form the foundation of its Data Center Business Advantage architectural framework.

Cisco announced that it has shipped its one millionth Nexus 10Gb Ethernet port, bringing the total number of Nexus ports in customer production environments to more than 7,000,000.

The company also surpassed 10,000 NX-OS customers and neared 4,000 Unified Computing Systems customers at the end of its fiscal second quarter.

The Nexus and UCS families of products are vital assets in Cisco’s cloud computing portfolio. They provide the building blocks for virtualized data center and private cloud environments, and are already deployed by enterprises for private cloud applications such as desktop virtualization, hosted voice, video, collaboration and security.

UCS and Nexus have been implemented for cloud services at service providers such as AlphaWest, Cincinnati Bell, Navisite, Orange Business Services, PINS, Rackspace, Radiant, Savvis and Terremark.

Cisco announced today that it has reached nearly 4,000 customers for its Unified Computing System, eighteen months since the first generation of the platform shipped. In excess of 1,000 of these customers are said to be repeat purchasers of UCS.

As of Cisco’s fiscal year second quarter 2011, Cisco’s Unified Computing System revenue grew more than 700% year-over-year, bringing the UCS annualized revenue run rate to $650M.

Release: Acronis Backup And Security 2011

February 22, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Acronis, a provider of backup and recovery solutions for physical, virtual and cloud environments, today launched Acronis Backup and Security 2011, an updated solution to safeguard critical data and systems from both internal and external threats.

Acronis Backup and Security 2011 provides comprehensive information protection that combines backup and recovery with Internet security, delivering a single alternative to existing point solutions.

This combination of backup and security technologies allows users to back up systems locally for fast recovery of both data and their entire PC, protecting them against user error, disk failures and system failures, and to implement industry-leading firewall, anti-virus, parental controls and other security protections.

Acronis Backup and Security 2011 also provides online backup — an additional layer of protection with remote location data protection in case of theft or physical disaster.

Upgrades include: integration with Windows 7, a new user interface and support for USB 3.0 standards.

The Acronis backup and security product family includes two security packages to give users a choice of protection options:

Acronis Backup and Security 2011 offers local backup and disaster recovery, and online data backup (5 GB available), along with full-featured Internet security. A one-year subscription costs $69.99.

Acronis Backup and Security 2011 Premium, extends the online data backup capabilities to 250 GB on top of the other powerful security and backup benefits. A one-year subscription for the premium option costs $89.99.

These software products offer one-year protection for up to three home PCs, and can be renewed with an annual subscription service.