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Release: PHD Virtual Monitor For VMware

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PHD Virtual Technologies, provider of virtual machine backup and recovery, and virtualization monitoring solutions, has announced the availability of PHD Virtual Monitor for VMware, extending its portfolio of end-to-end monitoring solutions designed for virtualization environments.

PHD Virtual Monitor provides cost effective, easy to use, end-to-end monitoring of the entire VMware and Citrix XenServer infrastructure including virtual, physical, application, network and storage resources.

PHD Virtual provides heterogeneous support today for VMware, XenServer and Hyper-V environments and plans to extend its monitoring product portfolio to support Citrix XenDesktop and XenApp and VMware View in the near future.

PHD Virtual Monitor is unique and different from other monitoring solutions that typically rely on either agent only or hypervisor only methods of monitoring, which can create “blind spots” in the IT infrastructure. PHD Virtual Monitor eliminates monitoring “blind spots”, providing complete, centralized end-to-end visibility of VMware and XenServer environments.

Cisco Solution Brings Unified Voice, Video To Virtual Environments

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Cisco today unveiled the next phase of its Virtualization Experience Infrastructure (VXI) with a series of offerings.

Utilizing its expertise in Unified Communications, Cisco announced endpoints that enable high-quality voice and video in virtual desktop environments – a development that it says could help redefine collaboration in the virtual workspace.

The announcement comes at a time when desktop virtualization is on the rise in the enterprise. The worldwide hosted virtual desktop (HVD) market is expected to reach 70 million units, or 15 percent of enterprise desktops and laptops by 2014.

Cisco is addressing this head-on with VXI, an open, validated virtual workspace solution that integrates products and technologies across Cisco’s network-based architectures – from Collaboration to Borderless Networks to the Data Center as well as from partners — to help deliver a flexible, highly secure infrastructure.

More information is available here.

Release: CA Access Control for Virtual Environments

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CA Technologies recently announced CA Access Control for Virtual Environments, a new solution that extends its identity and access management (IAM) security expertise, and complements and protects VMware virtual environments.

CA Access Control for Virtual Environments helps customers virtualize critical applications by addressing security and compliance concerns, and helping control privileged user access to the virtual environment.

CA Access Control for Virtual Environments is available direct from CA Technologies or through its partner channel.

Ready For VMworld 2011 Europe? More Than 6,500 Attendees Expected In Copenhagen

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Are you ready for VMworld 2011 Europe, which will be held in Copenhagen next week (Oct. 18 – 20, 2011)?

VMware recently unveiled the speaker lineup and sponsorship list for the European virtualization and cloud infrastructure industry event of the year.

Building on the conference theme, “Your Cloud, Own It”, the European event will feature more than 200 breakout sessions from VMware and its ecosystem of partners and customers.

More than 125 sponsors and exhibitors are supporting the conference including Global Diamond sponsors Cisco, Dell, EMC, HP and NetApp, and Platinum Sponsors CA Technologies, Colt, Fujitsu, IBM, Intel, Symantec, Trend Micro, VCE and Wyse Technology.

VMware executives will lead three general session presentations during the event.

On Tuesday, Oct. 18 at 3:30 p.m. CEST (9:30 a.m. EST), the event will kick off with a keynote presentation featuring VMware CTO and Senior Vice President of R&D, Steve Herrod, who will demonstrate a cloud infrastructure suite, including VMware vSphere 5, as well as technologies helping enterprises better serve their employees in a world of increasing change.

On Wednesday, Oct. 19 at 9 a.m. CEST (3 a.m. EST), Raghu Raghuram, VMware senior vice president and general manager, cloud infrastructure and management, will focus on industry trends moving toward a more dynamic, flexible and automated datacenter environment based on the increasing role of virtualization across the datacenter.

Closing the event on Thursday, Oct. 20 at 9 a.m. CEST (3 a.m. EST), VMware CEO Paul Maritz will take an inside look at the forces shaping Cloud Computing and the next generation of IT.

VMworld 2011 Europe will feature more than 25 lab topics with almost 8,000 lab seats conducting up to 240 simultaneous lab sessions during the three-day event.

Juniper Networks Debuts Junosphere Lab, Connector

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Juniper Networks today announced the availability of Junosphere Lab, a new virtual environment that lets service providers and enterprises design, test and operate networks.

Junosphere is a cloud offering that allows network operators to create and run networks on-demand, enabling network modeling, testing and planning at a scale that is practically impossible to achieve with physical equipment.

Using Junosphere Lab, companies can “rent” networks for as little as $50 per day, enabling them to speed modeling projects by over 30 percent and lower total cost of ownership by as much as 90 percent when compared to the alternative of building a physical lab.

Junosphere Lab extends the capabilities of the Junosphere environment first announced with Junosphere Classroom in May 2011. Today, Juniper also introduced Junosphere Connector, an optional application that enables users to connect their Junosphere networks to physical networks or lab environments.

Junosphere is an all-Juniper data center network design, built with Juniper Networks products, and optimized to meet the secure networking demands of a cloud-based environment.

Junosphere Lab is immediately available. Prricing starts at $5 dollars per virtual machine image, per day.

Release: Citrix XenServer 6

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Citrix Systems has announced the availability of XenServer 6, the most recent edition of its server virtualization product line.

As a key component of the Citrix cloud computing and virtualization strategy, XenServer 6 brings new optimizations and improved scalability and performance for cloud infrastructure, desktop virtualization and networking.

Rather than attempting to force-fit cloud capabilities into existing server virtualization architectures, XenServer addresses these challenges by delivering a cloud-optimized virtual platform that helps cloud providers produce differentiated solutions that meet the needs of their customers.

In addition, by leveraging XenServer 6 with the recently-released Citrix CloudStack, users can be assured the core component of their cloud infrastructure has the network and virtualization optimizations necessary for the same scale-out architectures employed by the world’s largest and most successful cloud providers today.