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VMworld 2011 Will Take Place In Las Vegas And Copenhagen

July 22, 2011 by Robin Wauters 1 Comment

VMware has announced that VMworld 2011 makes its return to Las Vegas August 29th through September 1st at The Venetian and will also be held October 18th through 20th at The Bella Center in Copenhagen.

With more than 27,000 attendees expected worldwide, VMworld 2011 will spotlight VMware and the industry’s commitment to virtualization, cloud computing and the transformation to IT as a Service.

This year’s VMworld theme, “Your Cloud, Own it,” emphasizes the powerful role attendees play in designing clouds that meet the specific business needs and demands of their companies — whether it’s private, hybrid or public cloud.

Quest Software Surpasses 40,000 Customers For Virtual Data Protection Solutions

July 22, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Quest Software has announced that it has reached a significant milestone in its virtual machine backup and recovery business, recently surpassing 40,000 customers.

Quest’s VM backup and recovery solutions span platforms including VMware and Microsoft Hyper-V.

More than 38,000 customers now rely on Quest vRanger for VMware backup and recovery, while more than 2,000 customers use NetVault Backup to meet their virtual machine backup and recovery needs, the company said.

The Quest vRanger product family provides scalable VMware ESX and ESXi backup, replication and recovery, and speeds VMware backup and replication while reducing storage requirements.

New E-book From Greg Shields: “Tactics in Optimizing Virtual Machine Disk IOPS”

July 22, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Realtime Publishers, provider of third-party independent content for the IT market has issued a new e-book entitled “Tactics in Optimizing Virtual Machine Disk IOPS”.

Authored by IT expert Greg Shields, the e-book covers vital information for any virtual IT environment, with a host of practices to fully achieve an optimized virtual machine.

In his e-book, the author Greg Shields whose IT expertise spans 15 years and is a multiple recipient of Microsoft “Most Valuable Professional” award as well as VMware’s vExpert award comments:

“Disk optimization in virtual environments is absolutely a necessary activity. That optimization comes in many forms. A proper design goes far in ensuring hardware is ready to support the IOPS demand of needy VMs. Correctly configuring those VMs during operations represents another facet.”

The free e-book is intended to show how a bad design combined with incorrect VM configurations can be detrimental to performance and hinder VM disk I/O.

Release: GlusterFS 3.3 (Beta)

July 22, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Gluster, provider of open source storage solutions, has announced the beta release of GlusterFS 3.3.

This latest version of Gluster’s file system provides a system for data storage that enables users to access the same data as an object and as a file, simplifying management and controlling storage costs.

Available on-premise, for virtual machines, and in public and private cloud environments, Gluster’s software-only storage technology delivers the first true unified file and object data storage.

GlusterFS 3.3 allows users to access data as objects from an Amazon S3 compatible interface and access files from a NAS interface including NFS and CIFS.

In addition to decreasing cost and making it faster and easier to access object data, GlusterFS also delivers scalability, high availability and replication of object storage. F

or infrastructure as a service offerings, GlusterFS 3.3 enables organizations to build their own Amazon-like storage offering for their customers.

Enterprises can use GlusterFS to accelerate the process of preparing applications for the cloud, simplify new application development for cloud computing environments, and backup from data center unified file and object to Amazon Web Services (AWS) or within the private cloud.

Version 3.3 of GlusterFS is currently in beta and is available now.

Data Center Monitoring Startup AccelOps Names Mahesh Kumar VP Of Marketing

July 22, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

AccelOps, provider of integrated monitoring solutions built from the ground up for cloud-generation data centers, today announced that Mahesh Kumar has joined the company’s executive team as vice president of marketing.

A respected cloud product strategist with expertise in CMDB and change menegement, SaaS, and managed service provider solutions, Kumar brings 20 years of marketing and engineering experience.

Prior to joining AccelOps, Kumar served as director of marketing at HP, where he took their CMDB software business from inception to market leadership and also led the team that built HP’s first SaaS-only product. Before HP, Kumar held executive positions at Collation and Kontiki, where he drove product and go-to-market strategies.

Earlier in his career at Loudcloud, one of the original cloud computing companies, he managed the team responsible for defining cloud services and was a key evangelist for their transition to a software business model.

In his new role at AccelOps, Kumar will oversee product management, product marketing, analyst and public relations, marketing communications, and channel marketing.

The AccelOps integrated monitoring platform enables cloud-generation data centers to deliver on the promise of IT as a service. Offered as an easy-to-deploy virtual appliance or Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), the AccelOps solution cross-correlates diverse operational data on-premise, off-premise, and in cloud environments, proactively monitoring from end-to-end an entire network environment.