Partnerships

Netezza Corporation and Composite Software today announced the Netezza Data Virtualizer to simplify, accelerate and optimize the integration of data stored across multiple Netezza appliances.

Powered by Composite Software, the Netezza Data Virtualizer creates an integrated view of data that is physically distributed across multiple Netezza appliances and delivers query results to reporting and analytic applications while Netezza appliances continue to manage their data.

The Netezza Data Virtualizer will be licensed and supported by Netezza. The product is planned to be generally available early in the second half of calendar year 2010.

In addition, Netezza customers have the option of licensing a full-use version of Composite Information Server(TM) software directly from Composite Software. The full-use license would allow data access beyond Netezza appliances to other relational databases, to Web services and XML documents, and enterprise applications from Oracle, Salesforce.com, and SAP, including SAP BW and Oracle Essbase.

Pano Logic and Unidesk have announced a collaboration to further reduce the capital costs (CAPEX) and operational costs (OPEX) of desktop virtualization, while setting a new standard for user personalization and management simplicity.

Joint customers and solution partners are finding that Unidesk’s ability to offer end users persistent virtual desktops that maintain all customizations without requiring major storage investments and Pano Logic’s ability to radically simplify desktop computing with its zero client platform are an ideal combination for VMware vSphere-based Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) deployments.

Pano Logic and Unidesk are collaborating to ensure their products work seamlessly together, and are engaging in product roadmap planning to align future releases. Their customer support teams are also working together to service joint customers.

MDS Technology, a Korean provider of embedded solutions, and Open Kernel Labs (OK Labs), provider of embedded virtualization software for mobile phones and broadband Internet devices, today announced a distribution partnership to provide regional marketing, sales, training, and technical support in Korea for OK Labs mobile virtualization solutions, including the OKL4 Microvisor.

OK Labs is the leader in virtualization software for mobile devices, while MDS is the leading distributor of embedded applications in Korea. OK Labs offers a range of benefits across the mobile ecosystem, including semiconductor vendors, mobile OEMs, mobile network operators, developers, mobile end users, and enterprise IT.

OK Labs software now ships on popular mobile smartphones such as the NexusOne, HTC Hero, Motorola Cliq, Palm Pre, and Toshiba TG01OK. The OKL4 Microvisor powers the world’s first commercially-available fully-virtualized smartphone, the Motorola Evoke QA4. The company also offers off-the-shelf OS Support Packages — OK:Android, OK:Linux, and OK:Symbian — for rapid integration in OKL4-based systems.

Certeon, provider of virtualized WAN optimization and application acceleration, today announced that nScaled, a leading provider of cloud computing services, is joining Certeon’s global Partner Program as a provider of Certeon aCelera virtual appliance software solutions.

nScaled has partnered with Certeon to offer its customers secure and optimized access to core applications delivered on nScaled’s VMware-based cloud computing platform.

nScaled is a provider of virtual data center resources (cloud computing) to clients with zero tolerance for data loss or system downtime. nScaled is focused on secure access and optimized delivery of its financial, legal, and professional services customers’ highly sensitive data.

Together, nScaled and Certeon can help enterprise customers rapidly access remote core client applications such as Autonomy Document Management and Microsoft SharePoint. Certeon’s aCelera virtual appliances enable nScaled to rapidly deploy managed services that overcome the negative impact of the WAN on user response time between nScaled’s cloud computing environment and customer remote sites. The result is secure cloud computing services delivered as if the data was being accessed locally.

NetApp today announced tight integration with Microsoft technology to enable the growing number of joint customers and service providers to better optimize and evolve their infrastructure while dramatically reducing costs, streamlining management, and increasing business agility.

Customers can now use familiar Microsoft management tools to easily monitor and manage their virtual environments that include NetApp storage and build internal and public clouds. This tight integration between NetApp and Microsoft extends the broad strategic alliance developed to help customers transform their data centers to be more efficient, agile, and dynamic.

Building on Microsoft’s extensible management framework, NetApp is unveiling a new management pack that enables Microsoft customers to manage NetApp storage efficiency technologies, plus basic self-healing capabilities with Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager.

NetApp ApplianceWatch PRO 2.1 includes new PRO Tips that provide granular control and include auto remediation for common storage utilization, replication, and configuration issues that can affect Hyper-V virtual machines (VMs). In addition, Microsoft customers can now create automated reports, troubleshoot storage issues, and view mapping of storage to individual VMs via Microsoft System Center Operations Manager.

Companies of all sizes are benefiting from the powerful combination of NetApp and Microsoft technologies. For example, WhiteWater West is achieving significant efficiencies through streamlined monitoring and management, while Avanade is successfully transforming its IT environment.

To help simplify the creation of self-service portals and automate management for public and private clouds, NetApp has integrated its best-of-breed technologies with Microsoft’s Dynamic Datacenter Toolkits (DDTKs). Through this tight integration, NetApp now offers rapid provisioning and cloning of Windows^® PowerShell cmdlets for the Dynamic Datacenter Toolkit, which provides a foundation for building private clouds. For the Dynamic Datacenter Toolkit for hosters (DDTK-H), which provides a foundation for building hosted clouds, NetApp can deliver scripts that leverage the new NetApp Windows PowerShell cmdlet library for automated failover and rapid provisioning and cloning. The NetApp Windows PowerShell cmdlet library allows users to easily invoke the capabilities of NetApp storage solutions via Microsoft System Center, or similar tools.