Partnerships

Radware, a provider of integrated application delivery solutions for business-smart networking, today announced that its vAdapter solution has achieved VMware Ready status.

This designation indicates that vAdapter has passed a detailed evaluation and testing process managed by VMware and is now listed on the VMware Partner Product Catalog or Hardware Compatibility List.

Passing the extensive VMware-specified testing helps ensure that Radware’s vAdapter makes best use of VMware technology and is ready for deployment in customer environments.

The VMware Ready program is a VMware co-branding program for qualified partner products and is a benefit of the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program.

In 2008, Radware joined the program, which includes 1,300 members worldwide. The VMware TAP program works with best-of-breed technology partners to provide them with a comprehensive set of VMware technical and marketing services, support, tools and expertise to deliver enhanced value to joint customers.

Cloudera, a provider of Hadoop-based data management software and services, and Netezza today announced an agreement to connect Netezza data warehouse appliances and Apache Hadoop, making it possible for customers to gain more insight from their data.

Under the terms of the agreement, Cloudera is building a connector that will enable data movement and transformation between the Netezza TwinFin appliance and Cloudera’s Distribution for Hadoop (CDH), which will be available in Cloudera Enterprise.

Additionally, Netezza will enable downloads of CDH on its customer support website and each company will train the other’s salesforce on the value of Cloudera products and services when combined with Netezza’s broad line of data warehousing appliances. Commercial support for the connector will be provided by Cloudera.

Customers are looking to Hadoop to provide an additional capability to their existing warehouses, which gives them new analysis and storage functionality for complex data types. Direct integration of Hadoop with existing data warehousing technologies enables organizations to collect, stage and process their complex data at scale. Once the data has been processed organizations can deliver the highest value information to data warehouses via high-speed connectors for interactive analysis.

CDH is the most comprehensive and broadly adopted Hadoop platform on the market, lowering the barrier to Hadoop adoption and accelerating time-to-value. It consists of core Apache Hadoop and eight additional open source projects, all tested and integrated into a single platform, making it the most complete Hadoop-based distribution.

With desktop virtualization rapidly becoming a means to empowering the next generation workforce, Dell Services today announced a strategic agreement with Liquidware Labs to enable simplified and accelerated customer migrations to virtualized desktops within customer environments both onsite and in the cloud.

In this alliance, Liquidware Labs will provide virtual desktop assessment software as well as migration and monitoring tools to enable Dell Services to transition tens of thousands of customer desktops into virtual desktop environments.

Dell Services will use Liquidware Labs Stratusphere and ProfileUnity software to assess existing customer desktops, migrate user data and documents to virtual desktop environments, centrally configure the new desktops and provide service-level assurance through detailed user experience reports. This gives integrators and administrators an “on-ramp” and ongoing user management of new desktop platforms.

The software also will enable Dell Services to speed adoption and help lower the cost of rolling out new desktop technologies such as VMware View, Citrix XenDesktop and Microsoft Windows 7.

Dell Services guides customers through the complete lifecycle of virtual desktop services including: consulting, implementation, transformation and operations. With its deep industry expertise, Dell Services helps customers make the most beneficial use of cloud and virtual technologies, enabling customers to achieve the level of virtualization that best meets their needs.

By offering cloud, virtual and dedicated environments designed to meet security and regulatory compliance requirements, Dell Services enables customers to focus on achieving business success. In a virtualized desktop environment, an end user’s data and applications are delivered from a centralized server, giving customers outstanding flexibility to centralize and control desktop management while enjoying the experience of a full PC. This service can ease administration, help improve both productivity and security controls and help customers lower costs.

Catbird, and HyTrust have announced integration of the HyTrust Appliance with Catbird’s vSecurity.

HyTrust provides control and compliance for host machines by analyzing, authorizing and creating an audit trail for all virtualization administration operations and enforcing correct host configuration; while Catbird proactively secures the virtual network and guest operating systems by analyzing and responding to network events and attack, and enforcing correct VM configuration.

Together, the integrated solution delivers end-to-end security protection and control for all aspects of the virtualized data center—especially critical for organizations in the public sector and regulated commercial industries.

The combined solution provides centralized access control; network monitoring; granular object-based policy management; hypervisor security configuration; zones of trust and firewalling; IPS/IDS and log aggregation in a comprehensive package that enables total visibility and control for virtual machines and hypervisors.

Incorporating HyTrust data into Catbird’s framework provides broad IT documentation and reporting features on the compliance posture of the virtualized data center. Accessible from a single dashboard interface, the aggregated information provides access to more controls than any other solution on the market. This seamless visibility simplifies auditing and reporting processes for regulators and security directors charged with monitoring compliance changes in the migration from physical to virtualized networks.

Egenera announced today its new channel partner program in EMEA, and the addition of UK-based Metropolitan Networks to Egenera’s certified channel VAR and integration partners.

Egenera is expanding its sales reach as the company extends broader support of PAN Manager Software by Egenera, their converged infrastructure solution.

Egenera is expanding its EMEA program to include VARs and integrators who wish to offer independent converged infrastructure and unified computing solutions. According to a recent Gartner report, by year-end 2012, 30% of Global 2000 data centers will be equipped with some fabric-based blade architectures.

The Egenera solution also appeals to customers with mixed physical and virtual resources, and PAN Manager Software often replaces complex clustering and infrastructure provisioning tools.

CiRBA, a provider of Data Center Intelligence (DCI) software, today announced it has signed a partnership agreement with Hitachi Systems.

Hitachi Systems will leverage CiRBA’s analytics software in its new “Virtualization Assessment Service,” which is part of its IT resource optimization product line. Hitachi Systems will use CiRBA to assess and plan consolidation initiatives within its customer base.

CiRBA’s powerful analytics provide a way for service providers to dramatically reduce the amount of effort required to determine optimal workload placements during transformations. CiRBA enables SI’s to differentiate their service offerings by delivering quality answers more efficiently.

CiRBA partners such as Hitachi Systems may also resell CiRBA software to customers wishing to leverage the solution to manage the efficiency of virtual environments over the long term.