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CREDANT Debuts Data Protection Software For Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

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CREDANT Technologies, experts in data protection, have announced immediate availability of encryption software for Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) cloud infrastructures.

CREDANT’s solution provides a robust security platform for enterprises concerned about data loss. The CREDANT solution gives organizations the ability to more safely realize the financial benefits of VDI while maintaining a vigorous security profile.

VDI is being used to simplify desktop management, reduce costs for desktop hardware and centralize management of applications and users, providing an essential element of cloud strategy. The challenge comes when data moves from traditional encrypted desktops onto unencrypted platforms (persistent desktops, mobile devices or both) – potentially exposing significant quantities of data.

CREDANT’s VDI data protection solution encrypts and secures information wherever it is stored.

HyTrust Names Mercy Caprara CFO

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HyTrust, which delivers proactive control, compliance and visibility over virtualized environments and the entire cloud stack, has announced that it has named Mercy Caprara as Chief Financial Officer. Caprara will be responsible for driving and overseeing financial strategy and planning at HyTrust.

Caprara has over fifteen years experience in corporate finance, working with both start-ups and Fortune 500 companies. Most recently, she served as VP of Finance, CFO and company secretary of TriCipher, an Internet identity services provider that was recently acquired by VMware.

Prior to that, she was co-founder and VP of Finance for Escalate, a provider of cross-channel commerce solutions, where she set up all finance functions and led several financings.

Before Escalate, Caprara was corporate controller at data warehousing software provider Red Brick Systems (acquired by Informix Software), and Controller for Kiva Software, where she was instrumental in closing the acquisition of that company by Netscape.

“I’m excited to join HyTrust and build upon its existing financial foundation to further the business goals,” noted Mercy Caprara, CFO of HyTrust.

KineticD Joins The VMware Technology Alliance Partner Program

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KineticD, the cloud backup, recovery and data access service designed for small and mid-sized businesses, has joined the VMware Technology Alliance Partner (TAP) program.

The VMware TAP program helps technology vendors integrate their products with VMware virtualization and cloud infrastructure software and deliver timely, joint solutions to mutual customers.

“Businesses today require data storage, disaster recovery and access solutions that better adapt to the way they need to do business while still maintaining the highest levels of security in a cloud world,” said Jamie Brenzel, CEO of KineticD. “At KineticD, we are focused on bringing secure, affordable cloud-based services to SMB users so they can easily backup, restore, access and share their digital assets – wherever their business takes them.”

With more than 1,800 members worldwide, the VMware TAP program works with best-of-breed technology partners to provide them a comprehensive set of VMware technical and marketing services, support, tools and expertise to deliver enhanced value to joint customers.

WatchDox Announces Virtual Appliance For Secure Document Sharing

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WatchDox, a provider of document control, tracking and protection solutions, recently announced the availability of its on-premise offering.

WatchDox’s virtual appliance addresses the needs of organizations that are required to meet specialized, strict security and privacy requirements. With private cloud and virtual appliance options, WatchDox secure document sharing and virtual data room solutions fill a previously unmet need in the government, public sector and financial industries.

WatchDox now includes the following offerings:

– WatchDox Cloud: allows companies to quickly deploy advanced, scalable document security with no hardware or software installation.
– WatchDox Private Cloud: offers dedicated cloud configurations for large customers.
– WatchDox Virtual Appliance: fits certain enterprise and government customers with highly specialized regulatory requirements. It is deployed on-premise on customer-provided hardware.

The WatchDox Virtual Appliance will be widely available in Q3 2011.

Symantec Helps Companies Deploy, Monitor And Manage Virtualized Applications With ApplicationHA

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Symantec has announced the latest version of ApplicationHA, its high availability solution for VMware virtual environments that provides customers the ability to confidently virtualize their business critical applications.

The latest version of Symantec ApplicationHA extends the existing capabilities for disaster recovery with VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager integration and provides a dashboard to monitor and manage hundreds of applications within VMware vCenter Server.

Symantec ApplicationHA, based on the industry-leading Veritas Cluster Server technology, provides high availability for business-critical applications through application-level visibility, control, and recovery in VMware environments. ApplicationHA runs inside a VMware guest operating system and fully integrates with VMware High Availability. In the event of an application failure, ApplicationHA coordinates recovery and restarts the application and/or virtual machine.

With this release, Symantec provides an application-aware Disaster Recovery solution through integration with VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager. In the event that VMware vCenter Site Recovery Manager fails over the virtual machine from the primary site to the disaster recovery site, Symantec ApplicationHA continues to monitor the health of the applications after recovery and re-establishes communication with VMware High Availability.

Additionally, ApplicationHA ensures that the application components come online in the right sequence during testing and actual disaster recovery scenarios. Finally, application status is recorded in the compliance report during SRM’s test or actual disaster recovery.

ApplicationHA now features new reporting and management functionality that allows IT professionals to centrally monitor hundreds of applications within virtual machines from a single dashboard.

By centrally managing and monitoring all applications within virtual environments, organizations can have better visibility into the health and needs of such applications. ApplicationHA now provides a summary list of virtual machines, an inventory of applications inside them and the status of each application.

ApplicationHA is now also easier to install. Installation previously required leveraging the product installer. ApplicationHA now enables a push install directly from the VMware vSphere client. This allows the user to simply install the VMware vCenter Server plugin and do everything else — from install, configuration, and on-going management of ApplicationHA directly from the VMware vSphere client.

These enhancements enable the installation experience to be similar between Linux and Windows guest OSs.

Symantec ApplicationHA 5.1 SP2 has a list price of $350 USD per virtual machine.

Symantec ApplicationHA supports major platforms including Windows, RedHat Enterprise Linux, and SuSE Linux Enterprise.

IDC Evaluates The Desktop Virtualization Software Market

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IDC expects the desktop virtualization market to make significant gains in both revenues and total customer count well into the second half of the decade. As the solutions mature, they will become increasingly applicable to more organizations and a greater breadth of vertical industries.

A new IDC MarketScape report evaluates the current capabilities and long-term strategies of 12 desktop virtualization software vendors.

The report, IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Desktop Virtualization 2011 Vendor Analysis, evaluates vendors in the desktop virtualization space by analyzing their current capabilities as well as their longer-term strategies that impact their ability to provide solutions and gain market share going forward. It utilizes a scoring and ranking model based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria, which results in a graphical illustration of each vendor’s position in the competitive landscape.

Among the vendors evaluated in the report, IDC placed just one – Citrix – in the “Leaders” category.

Citrix was recognized for its comprehensive set of technologies and a firm strategic grip on where it wants to take its product lineup.

IDC placed seven vendors in the “Major Players” category – Desktone, Kaviza, Microsoft, MokaFive, Quest Software, Virtual Bridges, and VMware.

The vendors that were placed in the “Contenders” category were Red Hat, Unidesk, Virtual Computer, and Wanova.