Partnerships

Avnet Technology Solutions Introduces Virtual Desktop Infrastructure Solution, Based on VMware Technology

September 24, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Avnet Technology Solutions, an operating group of Avnet, today announced a comprehensive solution to assist partners in targeting the emerging virtual desktop market in the US and Canada. Avnet Technology Solutions’ new solution combines VMware Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) software with the services and enablement resources needed to develop market expertise and effectively implement virtual desktop environments. Partners can use virtual desktop solutions to help their customers improve manageability, increase control and enhance the security of their enterprise desktops. The centralization of desktop management through virtualization also helps companies more effectively leverage their IT resources.

Avnet’s new solution is based on VMware VDI, which includes VMware Virtual Desktop Manager and provides simplified management and secure provisioning of virtual desktops and manages user access to the virtual desktops from a wide range of devices such as Windows, Linux and Mac computers, and thin clients. By deploying the VMware platform, partners can extend business continuity and disaster recovery capabilities to their customers’ desktops and streamline desktop management to reduce operating costs, increase control and deliver complete desktop environments with greater application compatibility.

AMD and Microsoft Team Up On Virtualization

September 22, 2008 by Robin Wauters 1 Comment

AMD today announced the availability of robust new virtualization solutions powered by a combination of technologies from AMD and Microsoft. This new deployment model uses AMD Opteron processors with AMD Virtualization technology together with Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V. Mid-market companies in particular, which have traditionally been slower to implement virtualization, can take advantage of the combined AMD and Microsoft product offering to help reduce cost, complexity and energy consumption.

Resource consolidation achieved through virtualization can deliver the low energy consumption, and superior utilization and manageability demanded by today’s businesses. AMD Opteron processors and Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V, a hypervisor-based virtualization feature of Microsoft Windows Server 2008, allow OEMs, VARs and Solution Providers to offer a valuable server virtualization combination to help increase their competitive edge and market opportunity. AMD-V technology and Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V also help enable businesses to scale according to demands, boosting the efficiency of workloads.

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Compellent Technologies Adds Support for Oracle VM

September 22, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Compellent Technologies today announced support for Oracle VM server virtualization software. Compellent’s advanced virtualization creates a powerful storage infrastructure, delivering high performance, reduced cost of ownership, simplified storage management and an ideal platform for Oracle VM. More information about the partnership can be found here.

Oracle VM server virtualization software supports both Oracle and non-Oracle applications, and offers scalable, low-cost server virtualization. Oracle VM’s next generation architecture supports the use of virtualization-aware paravirtualized guest operating systems to allow more efficient, lower overhead operations in areas critical to performance such as memory and I/O management. Oracle VM consists of open source server software and provides an easy-to-use graphical interface for creating and managing virtual server pools across an enterprise. Key Oracle products including Oracle Database, Oracle Fusion Middleware and Oracle Applications are certified with Oracle VM.

Compellent is part of the Oracle Unbreakable Linux program, and will extend that support to include Oracle VM. Compellent’s innovative software applications, including Thin Provisioning, Remote Replication and Automated Tiered Storage, allow data to be easily accessible, easily replicated and dynamically expanded in less time than traditional storage solutions.

INSYSTEK Unveils Cross-Hypervisor Management Solution TotalView

September 15, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

INSYSTEK is announcing it will demonstrate TotalView, its cross-hypervisor virtualization management solution at VMworld. TotalView delivers centralized cross-hypervisor virtual and physical management, automation, optimization to IT environments. Our integrated guest management is designed to be a seamless feature set, not just an add-on. With its agentless architecture, TotalView is a secure and scalable solution, making management simpler, enabling the use of embedded hypervisors and requirements of corporate security effectively, and not complicating it with agent sprawl.

TotalView allows administrators to easily create, deploy and manage their virtual and physical infrastructures. It is a powerful management framework to consolidate the many administrative functions required for virtual infrastructure management. The TotalView solution simplifies virtualization deployments, enabling IT organizations to manage and control enterprise business continuity while reducing cost. TotalView is the single management console that brings together VM management, inventory, performance, alerting, reporting, guest management, remote control, software distribution and much more.

TotalView VM management provides hypervisor agnostic support for all major hypervisor technologies, including Microsoft Virtual Server, VMware ESX, ESXi and Server as well as Citrix Xen Server. TotalView integrates with hypervisor management APIs to deliver power management, inventory, rapid provisioning with deployment wizard and virtual machine templates reducing the time and effort for creating and deploying Virtual machines regardless of which hypervisors you choose.

TotalView is the agentless inventory, software distribution and performance monitoring solution for the corporate Windows environment, delivering extensive data on all installed hardware and software components on the remote system. Deploy full applications, security updates and more. Determine license compliance status, software usage, software tracking. Monitor servers and desktops for real-time performance and availability data.

TotalView provides real time performance and availability monitoring for servers, desktops, hosts and guests. Real time monitoring data is retrieved, processed, and stored in a central data repository for historical reporting and analysis. Assets can be monitored individually or grouped, utilizing user-defined collections. Capabilities including utilization graphs of CPU and memory provide performance data of physical servers, and the virtual machines they are running. Customize alerts that trigger notifications via email, or messages.

Rackable Teams Up With NetApp to Offer Storage for Customized Data Center Solutions

September 11, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Rackable Systems, provider of servers and storage products for large-scale data centers, today announced a partnership with NetApp to offer customers best-of-breed server and storage solutions for enterprise environments.

Under terms of the agreement, Rackable Systems is joining NetApp’s Embedded Systems Vendor Program and will integrate NetApp storage into Rackable Systems’ built-to-order Eco-Logical data center server and infrastructure offerings.

Rackable Systems’ data center solutions including NetApp’s FAS series will be available immediately worldwide via its direct sales and channel partners.

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DataCore Announces European Partnership With Fujitsu-Siemens

September 11, 2008 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

DataCore Software, provider of storage virtualization software, and Fujitsu-Siemens Computers, Europe’s leading producer of IT-Infrastructure services, today announced a new partnership across Europe. With immediate effect, both companies will collaborate in distribution, marketing and technical support to optimize the experience for mutual customers and partners. The agreement is ongoing and has come about through the continued growth and market success of DataCore’s storage virtualization software projects and FSC’s IT-extensive hardware and project support.

The agreement focuses primarily in distribution and support, especially in the support of FSC reseller partners when they implement storage consolidation and SAN projects using DataCore’s SANmelody or SANsymphony solutions. Resellers, integrators and system vendors can utilize the technical support centers of FSC and can readily access information about products and developments, allowing them to reduce sales cycles and realize projects more efficiently. In addition, DataCore has been added to the Fujitsu-Siemens Computers catalog of recommended software solutions.

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