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HyTrust Partners With EMC’s RSA To Help Enable Visibility and Compliance in Virtual Infrastructure

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HyTrust today announced it has added interoperability with the RSA enVision platform, a leading 3-in-1 log management solution for Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) from RSA, The Security Division of EMC.

The combination of the HyTrust Appliance and RSA enVision platform puts powerful controls into the hands of joint customers, helping to enable them to confidently virtualize more workloads, satisfy compliance requirements and implement a cloud-based service model.

HyTrust Appliance provides a central point of control for compliance, access control and policy management for virtual infrastructure. It enables virtual environments to be as secure and operationally-ready as physical environments. HyTrust Appliance allows a broader adoption of virtualization, along with all the business and technological benefits that it brings.

By enabling separation of duty, restricted delegation and self-service, HyTrust allows organizations to adopt virtualization and cloud computing for their information technology needs.

The RSA enVision platform is designed to give organizations a single, integrated 3-in-1 log management solution for Security Information and Event Management to help simplify compliance; enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of security operations and risk mitigation; and optimize IT and network operations. The RSA enVision platform is engineered to provide automated collection, analysis, alerting, auditing, reporting and storage of IT log data.

VMware And HP Extend Cloud Computing Agreement

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At VMworld 2010, VMware and HP announced an agreement to deliver a new virtualization solution, reference architectures and IT services to help customers accelerate cloud computing deployment and IT as a service.

To help customers better control and manage the physical and virtual aspects of cloud infrastructure, VMware and HP are creating an integrated, comprehensive cloud infrastructure solution combining the new VMware vCloud Director with the HP BladeSystem Matrix and HP Cloud Maps.

The HP Cloud Map for VMware vCloud Director can be directly imported into customers’ Matrix environments to rapidly deploy new VMware vCloud infrastructure. Through the integration of Matrix and VMware vCloud Director, customers can easily scale virtualized resource pools to quickly adjust to changing business demands. The integration will be available as a technology preview by the end of the year.

With the new HP Insight Control extension for VMware vCenter Server, clients can optimize their IT environments and reduce complexity with better management.

HP Insight Control for VMware vCenter Server delivers HP hardware management capabilities to virtualization administrators, enabling comprehensive monitoring, remote control and power optimization directly from the VMware vCenter Server console. With a combined physical and virtual view, clients can reduce server sprawl by monitoring status and performance of virtual machines and the underlying host systems that support them from a single pane of glass.

Integrated troubleshooting, powerful remote control and proactive power management further simplify data center operations while reducing risk and power costs.

VMware and HP will develop reference architectures that deliver integrated, validated solutions for SMB, enterprise and cloud environments and client virtualization. The reference architectures provide an IT blueprint for integrated solutions and deployment best practices.

This makes it easy for customers to implement the right virtualized solution for their business needs with confidence. The reference architectures, which leverage the companies’ 10-year collaboration, will be available by the end of the year.

Under the agreement, HP will provide consulting, integration and support services for customers deploying VMware virtualization software within an HP Converged Infrastructure framework. The new services, which are available today, accelerate customers’ transition to the cloud by enabling data center consolidation and virtual desktop deployment.

Dell, HP To Certify And Resell All Three Oracle Operating Systems

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Oracle today announced Dell and HP will certify and resell Oracle Solaris, Oracle Enterprise Linux and Oracle VM on their respective x86 platforms. Customers will have full access to Oracle’s Premier Support for Oracle Solaris, Oracle Enterprise Linux and Oracle VM running on Dell and HP servers.

This will enable fast and accurate issue resolution and reduced risk in a company’s operating environment.

Customers who subscribe to Oracle Premier Support will benefit from Oracle’s continuing investment in Oracle Solaris, Oracle Enterprise Linux and Oracle VM and the resulting innovation in future updates.

F5’s BIG-IP Access Policy Manager solution Now Plays Nice With Oracle Identity Management

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F5 Networks today announced that the F5 BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM) solution can now integrate with Oracle Identity Management.

Specifically, Oracle Access Manager, a component of Oracle Fusion Middleware, can be paired with BIG-IP APM’s access control capabilities for web applications. By integrating F5 and Oracle technologies, customers gain a centralized point of enforcement to simplify access control and auditing.

The BIG-IP product portfolio offers high-performance access and security solutions that provide context-aware user access to web applications. With BIG-IP products, IT teams can offload authentication services from application and specialized web servers, enabling administrators to apply consistent, policy-based access control across many applications and manage access to those applications from a central location.

Pairing Oracle Access Manager with BIG-IP APM gives remote and mobile users optimized, reliable, and secure access to Oracle applications. And the combined Oracle/F5 solution enables administrators to conveniently scale the infrastructure to keep pace with the burgeoning growth of mobile and remote users.

BIG-IP Access Policy Manager is available today.

Vyatta Takes ‘Open Networking’ To Japan

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Vyatta has announced it has signed Japanese systems integrator Entertainment Imaginers as the first Authorized Vyatta Reseller in Japan and is supporting the newly formed Vyatta Japan User Group.

These announcements reflect growing interest in Vyatta’s open networking solutions in Asia.

The Authorized Vyatta Reseller agreement with Emaginers comes on the heels of Vyatta’s recent agreement to provide the network-level foundation for NEC Networks & System Integration Corporation’s Consolidated Network Services.

Emaginers delivers solutions for cloud computing, network virtualization and CDN/ADN using Vyatta products to enable businesses of all sizes to reduce capital investment and operating expenses, improve agility, ensure business continuity, strengthen security, and introduce green IT.

Vyatta Teams Up With Zycko

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Vyatta, provider of open networking and network virtualization solutions, is partnering with value-added distributor Zycko to provide a scalable, flexible and affordable network and routing software alternative to the existing proprietary routing and security solutions in the EMEA market.

Vyatta provides a software-based, open-source, network operating system with a complete enterprise-class routing and security feature set, capable of scaling from DSL to 20Gbps performance at a fraction of the cost of existing solutions.

As a software solution, Vyatta delivers a single, portable network operating system that is optimized to connect and secure physical networks, virtual servers and applications and cloud computing environments.

As well as supplying Vyatta software, Zycko will also offer Vyatta alongside Riverbed, using the Riverbed Services Platform (RSP) that is powered by VMware. Vyatta, a member of the Riverbed Technology Alliance (RTA), delivers a certified RSP Ready software package.

Vyatta is already well established in North America and boasts a range of government departments, universities, SaaS providers, VoIP suppliers and Fortune 500 companies among its customers. Recently, Vyatta was named to CRN‘s 2010 Emerging Vendors list for the networking sector and ranked no. 15 in The VAR Guy’s Open Source 50.

Zycko is a value-add distributor of best-in-class convergent IT infrastructure solutions through a channel of resellers, systems integrators and service providers.

Zycko is privately held and has been profitable since inception in 2000, when the company’s original charter was to market data networking accessories to resellers as a wholesale distributor. Zycko now employs over 275 staff, serving over 2000 resellers around the world from twelve offices on four continents. The company enjoys an annual turnover of $198m.

Zycko’s strategic partner base includes world-class companies such as, Aastra, Asigra, Eaton, ExaGrid, FalconStor, Force10, Hitachi Data Systems, Huawei Symantec, Intransa, Isilon, LifeSize, PowerDsine, ProLabs, Riverbed, SmartOptics, Spectra Logic, Talari Networks, USystems, Virtensys and Xsigo.