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Nasuni Names Bill Simpson As VP of Worldwide Sales

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Nasuni today announced that it has further expanded its management team with the addition of Bill Simpson as the company’s Vice President of Worldwide Sales.

This latest expansion follows Nasuni’s April announcement of the launch of their partner program.

Simpson brings more than twenty years of technology sales experience to Nasuni, much of which he has spent building strong channel and sales organizations for young, fast growing technology companies.

Immediately prior to joining Nasuni, Simpson served as Vice President of Worldwide Sales at Akorri, a storage and virtualization management company that was acquired by NetApp earlier this year. Prior to Akorri, Simpson was Vice President of Global Channel Sales and Strategy at Virtual Iron Software, a virtualization and virtual infrastructure management company that was bought by Oracle.

Nasuni was founded in 2009 by storage veterans to deliver a secure gateway to cloud storage that makes the cloud feasible for business users. The Nasuni Filer is a virtual NAS file server that runs on VMware, Microsoft Hyper-V and Citrix XenServer and leverages the resources of the cloud to simplify file storage and protection.

The company is backed by North Bridge Venture Partners, Sigma Partners and Flybridge Capital Partners.

Catbird Presents (Impressive) Advisory Board

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Catbird, provider of security and compliance solutions for virtual, cloud and physical networks, today announced that the company has constituted an Advisory Board and named the first five members.

The board includes industry experts, innovators and specialists in the fields of virtualization, cloud computing and security:

– Richard C. Schaeffer, Jr., a former Senior Executive with the National Security Agency (NSA)

– Pravin Kothari, Founder and CEO at CipherCloud, which uses revolutionary technology to provide cloud data protection solutions

– Shaw Chuang, former CTO and VP of Emerging Technologies at PGP Corporation, and, as a Director of Engineering for VMware, a key contributor to the ESX 3.2 release.

– David Bernstein, Managing Director of Cloud Strategy Partners and former VP and GM of Cloud Computing at Cisco

– Sunny Azadeh, President and CEO of Acctuall

Release: Netuitive 5.5

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Netuitive recently announced its latest release, Netuitive 5.5, predictive analytics software that forecasts, identifies and resolves IT issues before they impact quality of service.

Built for large enterprises, Netuitive 5.5 is a performance management platform for mission-critical applications running in physical, virtual and cloud infrastructures.
Key 5.5 additions include:

– Flexible One-View Dashboard – Provides a unified performance view of the virtualized data center. Visualizes Workload, Health and Capacity of the virtual data center to provide rich cross-platform insight in a single screen.

– Chargeback (and “Showback”) Reports – Enables IT to provide detailed application utilization and cost analysis reports to business managers. Aligns new pay-per-use models with the financial systems and decision processes of the business.

– Support for Multi-hypervisor environments – New integration with Microsoft Hyper-V increases flexibility and choice. (VMware support already available).

Powered by its patented Behavior Learning Engine, Netuitive’s predictive analytics software is a major advancement in managing the performance of applications and their underlying infrastructures. Netuitive eliminates manual, rules-based approaches with advanced mathematics and predictive analytics that automatically correlates and self-learns the operational behavior of systems and applications across an entire IT environment.

Netuitive’s customers include eight of the world’s 10 largest banks and several global telecommunications firms. They rely on Netuitive to predict degradations and avoid outages for their most critical applications.

Update: Xen 4.1.1 Maintenance Release

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The Xen.org community has announced that there is a new maintenance release of Xen available, version 4.1.1. It includes the following changes:

– Security fixes including CVE-2011-1583 CVE-2011-1898

– Enhancements to guest introspection (VM single stepping support for very fine-grained access control)

– Many stability improvements, such as: PV-on-HVM stability fixes (fixing some IRQ issues), XSAVE cpu feature support for PV guests (allows safe use of latest multimedia instructions), RAS fixes for high availability, fixes for offlining bad pages and changes to libxc, mainly of benefit to libvirt

– Compatibility fixes for newer Linux guests, newer compilers, some old guest savefiles, newer Python, grub2, some hardware/BIOS bugs.

Ericom Debuts Chromebook-Ready, Pure HTML5 Client For VMware View

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Ericom Software today announced general availability of Ericom AccessNow for VMware View, bringing an almost three-month beta to an end.

Ericom AccessNow for VMware View is a patent-pending HTML5 client that provides web-based access to VMware View virtual desktops.

It’s the first VDI solution to run wholly within any HTML5-compatible Web browser, and works on Chromebooks and natively with Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer (with Chrome Frame plug-in), Firefox, Opera and other browsers with HTML5 and WebSocket support. The solution does not require Java, Flash, Silverlight or any other underlying technology.

Ericom also recently announced AccessNow, the first product to provide access to Windows applications and desktops running on Windows Terminal Services / RDS / VDI platforms directly from Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer (with Chrome Frame plug-in), Firefox, Opera and other browsers with HTML5 and WebSocket support, without any plug-ins required.

Cotendo Raises $17 Million From Citrix, Juniper Networks And Others

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Cotendo, provider of cloud-based acceleration technologies, announced today the completion of a $17 million private funding round that will fuel the company’s “long-term growth strategy and continued technology innovation in the delivery of highly-personalized dynamic content for mobile and web applications”.

In addition, the funds will be used to continue Cotendo’s global expansion into new markets and fast growing regions around the world.

Strategic investors and new business partners Citrix Systems and Juniper Networks, through its Junos Innovation Fund, participated in this round of funding along with existing venture backers Sequoia, Benchmark and Tenaya Capital.

The synergy between the services and technologies of Citrix Systems and Cotendo blend on-premise physical and virtual appliances, content acceleration and cloud services that will accelerate and optimize delivery from the end user all the way to the enterprise over distributed networks, thereby improving end user experience from any location to any device.

The relationship between Juniper Networks and Cotendo will address the demand of service providers for technologies that will enable them to offer value added services and over-the-top services to content providers. This includes mobile carriers, large ISPs, and telecom companies that buy products to serve enterprise customers.

Cotendo will also launch and commercialize its new Mobile Acceleration Suite, and announced today the new frontier of acceleration services, ensuring fast and reliable delivery of mobile content regardless of location, device, or application.

With this funding round Cotendo will embark on a rapid sales and business development expansion in Asia-Pacific and Latin America to address the growing demand for mobile content acceleration services in places where the Smart Phone frequently replaced the PC as a primary computing and networking vehicle.

(Via TechCrunch)