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Release: Parallels Automation For Microsoft Services (And More)

July 15, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Parallels, the hosting and cloud services enablement provider, has announced expanded support for Microsoft technologies and tools to help service providers become full-service cloud service providers.

Parallels Automation for Microsoft Services and the enablement tools for ISVs will help Microsoft independent software vendors (ISVs) profit from the cloud.

To allow for efficient integrated delivery of cloud services based on Microsoft technologies with other complementary offerings, Parallels Automation for Microsoft Services (PA 5.2) enables service providers of all sizes to profit from the Cloud by automating delivery of the most complete set of cloud services, including Office 365 Syndication, Hyper-V Cloud, Exchange Server 2010 SP1, and SharePoint Foundation 2010.

With Parallels Automation for Microsoft Services, service providers will be able to resell Microsoft offerings and increase the average revenue per user. With support for the n-tier resell business model, Parallels Automation allows system integrators and VARs to extend the range of cloud services without investment in infrastructure.

Within the Microsoft Services suite, Parallels has also upgraded Parallels Automation support for Microsoft’s System Center Hyper-V Cloud, enabling service providers to offer an IAAS solution either directly or through resellers.

Parallels is now deployed with 10 Cloud Service Providers in Americas, Europe and Asia offering reseller services to the Microsoft VAR and SI community.

VMTurbo Debuts Free Virtualization Management Suite

July 15, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

VMTurbo, a provider of workload management software to analyze, optimize and control the virtualized data center, has announced download availability of a free VMTurbo Community Edition that provides real time monitoring and a library of 32 pre-defined historical reports.

With the Community Edition, VMTurbo is democratizing virtualization monitoring and reporting and giving crucial visibility to companies that want to improve their infrastructure.

The Community Edition provides the first step towards improving the virtualized data center’s performance and efficiency, and includes free:

– Infrastructure monitoring
– Problem detection
– Performance reporting
– Capacity reporting
– Capacity alerting

Release: Oracle Virtual Desktop Client App For iPad

July 15, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Oracle has announced that its Virtual Desktop Client App for iPad is now available on the App Store.

The app enables users secure access to virtual desktops managed by Oracle’s Sun Ray Software and Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure.

The Oracle Virtual Desktop Client App is available for free from the App Store on iPad.

It offers simple, and accurate gesture based and multitouch operation with rich virtual keyboard support, including CTRL, ALT, ESC, Insert, Delete, Tab, Home, End, Function, Paging, and cursor keys.
The app contains a fast and responsive interface which allows multi-tasking and seamless switching between other iOS apps.

Oracle Virtual Desktop Client leverages Oracle’s ALP protocol to provide a high quality user experience.

User sessions are protected, even over public Wi-Fi connections, through 256-bit AES encryption and features auto discovery of available Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure or Sun Ray Software servers.

Release: Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 3.3

July 15, 2011 by Robin Wauters 1 Comment

Oracle has announced Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) 3.3, featuring an enhanced administration portal with role based access control, introducing Oracle Linux as a supported host platform and delivering increased performance.

Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure is a complete solution for managing and accessing virtualized desktops hosted in the datacenter.

Through centralizing the hosting and management of users’ desktops, Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure helps reduce administration overhead, lower total cost of ownership and increase security.

Oracle VDI adds support for Oracle Linux as a host /installation platform. Customers can now choose either Oracle Linux or Oracle Solaris on which to deploy Oracle VDI.

Guest support includes the latest Oracle Solaris, Microsoft Windows and other Linux-based operating systems such as Ubuntu 11.04.

Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure 3.3 is part of Oracle’s complete desktop-to-datacenter virtualization portfolio that enables customers to efficiently and easily virtualize and manage their full software and hardware stack, from applications to disk.

Oracle’s desktop virtualization products, including Oracle Virtual Desktop Infrastructure, are certified with any Oracle Applications that are supported to run within an Internet browser environment.

Innotas Hires New Product Development, Marketing Execs

July 15, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Innotas, a provider of cloud solutions for IT management, has announced that Cliff McBride and Joerg Koehler have joined the company as SVP of Product Development and Director of Marketing, respectively.

McBride will be responsible for the product roadmap, engineering, development, and delivery of support tools needed for this stage of Innotas’ growth and expansion to serve its increasing customer base.

Prior to joining Innotas, Cliff McBride led the development activities for Autonomy’s Interwoven business unit where he managed the team responsible for web content management solutions. McBride also spent 11 years with Boeing and IBM developing geospatial software and managing teams working on classified intelligence projects for the U.S. Air Force.

Koehler is an international marketing professional with over 13 years of experience. Koehler will lead the corporate and product marketing activities at Innotas.

Prior to joining Innotas, Joerg Koehler oversaw worldwide corporate and product marketing as Director of Global Marketing at Neocase Software. Additionally, he held key roles in marketing at Canto Software, GlobalEnglish Corporation, and Intershop Communications.

Release: EMC Atmos 2.0

June 30, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

EMC Corporation today announced EMC Atmos 2.0 and EMC Atmos GeoDrive software are now generally available and shipping.

Atmos 2.0 (with its EMC Atmos GeoParity feature)—provides customers with efficient management of globally distributed big data and cloud storage environments.

EMC is now shipping new features that help customers better manage big data and object storage:

– Stores object segments rather than entire objects across distributed storage environments for unmatched protection.

– Provides transparent access to the cloud.

The new EMC Atmos GeoDrive is a secure and fast way for Windows users and applications to gain cloud access. The new software enables customers to simply install, and in a matter of minutes, transparently begin moving data to the cloud.