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Trend Micro is introducing an advanced server security strategy that encompasses protection for the cloud, as well as products and solutions that help corporations address the challenging data protection, security and compliance needs of today’s datacenters that stretch across physical, virtualized and cloud-computing environments.

Trend Micro Deep Security, the flagship product for advanced server security at Trend Micro, introduces a new paradigm for server security where the entire server is protected, including the operating system, network and applications layers for superior and comprehensive security, regardless of computing environment, virtualization platform or storage location.

It emphasizes:

• Preventing data breaches and disruptions by providing a layer of defense at the server itself, whether physical, virtual or cloud.
• Lowering the cost of security management for virtual and cloud computing environments.
• Helping to make possible compliance over a wide range of regulations and standards, including PCI, SAS 70, FISMA, HIPAA, and more.
• Addressing immediate security concerns plaguing enterprises in physical and virtual worlds such as SQL injection and cross-site scripting attacks perpetrated by sophisticated, for-profit hackers.

Trend Micro Deep Security provides advanced protection for servers right from the operating system to resident applications with a modular architecture that includes: A deep packet inspection engine with intrusion detection/prevention (IDS/IPS), Web application protection and network-level application control; firewall, integrity monitoring and log inspection modules. This protection is available for both physical and virtual systems using server-based software agents and, coming soon with Deep Security 7.0, using virtual security appliances specifically designed for VMware VI3 and vSphere 4 environments. Trend Micro Deep Security 7.0, the latest version, is the world’s first security software that coordinates VMsafe API-based security applied at the hypervisor with additional protection on virtual machines to protect VMware environments. This version also includes new features designed to improve management and simplify compliance for a lower total cost of ownership such as: Event tagging to enable better workflow of security incident handling, the ability to create a “reference system” or known good state to reduce false positive alerts resulting from normal system updates such as patching. Other enhancements include integrity monitoring, log inspection, and SIEM integration capabilities.

Trend Micro Deep Security combines with Trend Micro ServerProtect and Core Protection for Virtual Machines, the company’s anti-malware products designed for physical servers and VMware virtual servers respectively. This unique blend delivers layered and comprehensive server security now vital to business continuity. Trend Micro Deep Security, with advanced anti-malware protection, further adds to Trend Micro’s ability to broadly deliver layered and comprehensive server security now vital to business continuity.

Trend Micro Deep Security 7 will be available in November 2009 with two pricing models designed to deliver maximum value to organizations. Deep Security is available for traditional physical servers on a per server basis starting at $885 per server. A virtual server license is also available for VMware environments with unlimited agents per host machine starting at $2100 per socket.

Trend Micro advanced server security solutions are part of Trend Micro Enterprise Security – a tightly integrated offering of content security products, services and solutions which is powered by the Trend Micro Smart Protection Network. Trend Micro Enterprise Security delivers maximum protection from emerging threats while greatly reducing the cost and complexity of security management.

Liquidware Labs today announced the availability of version 4.5 of its’ flagship product, Stratusphere, and the award of its’ fourth patent from the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

LWL is seeing a huge upsurge in the deployments of virtual desktop infrastructures (VDI) and hosted virtual desktops (HVD) based on its assessment and service level assurance solution Stratusphere.

The latest 4.5 version includes significant feature enhancements to enable businesses to thoroughly understand what they have, what they’re using, and what they need to move to VDI; including:

• Support for VMware View 4, Citrix XenDesktop 4, Microsoft Windows® 7
• Integration of ProfileUnity in the Stratusphere Hub – LWL’s profile management and user configuration solution
• New and powerful assessment and diagnostic dashboards
• Query driven analytic reports, trend analysis and capacity planning
• Correlation of user, desktop OS and VMware ESX Server performance metrics
• Plug-in to allow dynamic query from within Excel (or any other 3rd party tool that supports ODBC)
• Publically available evaluation download

The latest patent awarded to LWL from the US Patent Office (number 7,591,001 issued September 15th) covers LWL’s innovation that embeds the health status of a Connector ID™ key enabled machine into each packet. This health status is established by comparing the existing configuration, usage or performance of the Connector ID enabled machines (either physical or virtual) to previously defined IT policies. Stratusphere can provide real-time audits of the health status of these machines using the network, along with controlling how machines connect to the network or to specific servers and applications based on their health status.

According to his LinkedIn profile, Ron Oglesby has transitioned from being the Practice Executive, Global Infrastructure Consulting Services at Dell to “Unemployed Basement Finisher” but don’t let that fool you.

Virtualization.info has learned that Oglesby has been recruited by Unidesk and will serve as the company’s new Chief Solution Architect, although this is still unconfirmed at this point.

Unidesk is a US-based desktop virtualization startup founded in December 2007, financed by Matrix Partners and North Bridge Venture with a $8.1M Series A Round.

Citrix Systems has reported financial results for the third quarter of fiscal 2009 ended September 30, 2009.

FINANCIAL RESULTS

In the third quarter of fiscal 2009, Citrix achieved revenue of $401 million, compared to $399 million in the third quarter of fiscal 2008.

GAAP Results

Net income for the third quarter of fiscal 2009 was $53 million, or $0.29 per diluted share, compared to $49 million, or $0.26 per diluted share, for the third quarter of 2008.

Non-GAAP Results

Non-GAAP net income in the third quarter of fiscal 2009 and 2008 was $80 million, or $0.43 per diluted share. Non-GAAP net income for both periods excludes the effects of amortization of intangible assets primarily related to business combinations and stock-based compensation expense and the tax effects related to those items. In addition, non-GAAP net income for the third quarter of 2009 excludes charges recorded in connection with the restructuring program that the company implemented in January 2009, and the tax effects related to those items.

Q3 Financial Summary

In reviewing the third quarter results of 2009, compared to the third quarter of 2008:

— Product license revenue decreased 18 percent;

— Revenue from license updates grew 7 percent;

— Online services revenue grew 21 percent;

— Technical services revenue, which is comprised of consulting, education and technical support, grew 20 percent;

— Revenue decreased in the EMEA region by 15 percent; decreased in the Pacific region by 5 percent; and increased in the America’s region by 5 percent;

— Deferred revenue grew to $556 million, compared to $481 million on September 30, 2008;

— GAAP operating margin was 14 percent for the quarter and non-GAAP operating margin was 25 percent for the quarter, excluding the effects of amortization of intangible assets primarily related to business combinations, stock-based compensation expense and costs associated with the restructuring program;

— Cash flow from operations was $134 million; and

— The company repurchased 2.1 million shares at an average price of $35.56.

Financial Outlook

Due to the volatility of market conditions in the foreseeable future, it is more likely that the company’s actual results could differ materially from expectations. Similar to the financial outlook we have provided for the last two fiscal quarters, Citrix is continuing to provide less quantitative guidance than it has historically.

Financial Outlook for Fourth Quarter 2009

Citrix management expects to achieve the following results during its fourth fiscal quarter 2009 ending December 31, 2009:

— Net revenue is expected to increase three to four percent compared to the fourth quarter of 2008; and

— Non-GAAP operating margin is expected to increase 50 to 100 basis points compared to the fourth quarter 2008, excluding the effects of amortization of intangible assets primarily related to business combinations, stock-based compensation expense, and restructuring charges as well as prior year exclusions of in-process research and development related to business combinations.

— Interest income is expected to be $5 million.

The above statements are based on current expectations. These statements are forward-looking, and actual results may differ materially.

Financial Outlook for Fiscal Year 2009

The company’s financial outlook for the full fiscal year 2009 for both net revenue and non-GAAP operating margin remains unchanged.

— The company expects net revenue to increase modestly as compared to 2008; and

— Non-GAAP operating margin is expected to increase by as much as 100 basis points compared to non-GAAP operating margin from the prior year, excluding the effects of amortization of intangible assets primarily related to business combinations, stock-based compensation expense, and restructuring charges, as well as prior year exclusions of in process research and development related to business combinations.

The above statements are based on current expectations. These statements are forward-looking, and actual results may differ materially.

Preliminary Financial Outlook for Fiscal Year 2010

The company’s preliminary financial outlook for the full fiscal year 2010 is for net revenue to increase between eight and nine percent over full fiscal year 2009, and to continue operational leverage to drive a 75 to 100 basis point expansion in non-GAAP operating margin over the full fiscal year 2009. Non-GAAP operating margin excludes the effects of amortization of intangible assets primarily related to business combinations, stock-based compensation expense, and restructuring charges.

VMware has announced accelerated  momentum for VMware vSphere 4, with more than 500,000 customer downloads since being made generally available on May 21, 2009.

This pace has rapidly increased to an average rate of more than 3,660 downloads per day.

Proven customer results in efficiency, control and flexibility are driving the momentum behind VMware vSphere. VMware customers consistently report significant cost savings, including reduction in capital expenditures (CapEx) by up to 60 percent and average reduction in operating costs (OpEx) of 33 percent when comparing their VMware environment to a physical environment.  With industry-leading performance and scalability, VMware vSphere extends these benefits to 100 percent of applications while delivering twice the consolidation ratio of competitive offerings.

Only VMware vSphere delivers these results through a comprehensive set of capabilities for virtualizing, pooling and dynamic load balancing of servers, storage, and networks.   VMware vMotion was the starting point, enabling seamless virtual machine migration with zero downtime.  With 70 percent of VMware customers indicating production deployment of vMotion,  VMware estimates that vMotion has driven nearly 350 million live migrations from its introduction through 2008, providing an estimated $459 million in IT administration savings.

VMware vSphere has built upon the VMware vMotion success, adding capabilities to provide higher service levels to applications at lower cost and administrative overhead, enabling customers to more fully embrace virtualization for business critical applications such e-mail, database, ERP, and CRM systems. VMware Storage vMotion and VMware vNetwork Distributed Switch enable customers to extend mobility to their storage and network while VMware Distributed Resource Scheduler and VMware Distributed Power Management simplify management and layering on policy driven automation.  These automation tools have delivered for some customers a 47 percent improvement in application performance and a 20 percent reduction in power consumption.  VMware High Availability and VMware Fault Tolerance bring unmatched resiliency for service level guarantees, while VMware vShield Zones adds the ability to manage logical security policies that are tied to applications and not devices. Customers deploying VMware vSphere 4 will be able to quickly take advantage of these capabilities and more, enabling the delivery of efficient, flexible and reliable IT as a service.

Open Kernel Labs (OK Labs), global provider of embedded virtualization software for mobile phones and broadband Internet devices, today announced publication of a “teardown” white paper providing a peek inside the world’s first virtualized mobile phone and detailing the impact of mobile virtualization on wireless devices.

The white paper will be released during ARM techcon3, where OK Labs will also demonstrate the company’s OKL4 mobile virtualization technology powering the Motorola Evoke QA4 smartphone.

The white paper comes from the pen of industry analyst Bill Weinberg, Principal of Linux Pundit and Mobile Practice Partner at the Olliance Group. Weinberg examines how developing and deploying devices with mobile virtualization directly impacts the bottom line for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) by reducing manufacturing costs. The publication also spells out incremental benefits of mobile virtualization, including performance and power management, as paths to both cost reduction and differentiation in a dynamic marketplace.

The OK Labs demonstration highlights the hosting of multiple complementary “guest” operating systems (OSes) on a single low-end ARM processor, combining applications and baseband processing. The hardware consolidation not only results in significant bill of material (BOM) savings, but also enables richer interaction among software components, in particular, between the Linux application OS and the BREW® environment for baseband and legacy application execution. The demo illustrates two applications running on separate OSes, working seamlessly together on a single low-cost ARM processor, with no performance degradation.