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CyberlinkASP To Offer Hosted Virtual Desktop Services Across EMEA

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CyberlinkASP, a hosted virtual desktop solutions provider, today announced that it has expanded its data center facilities into London and will begin providing hosted virtual desktop services across the EMEA.

CyberlinkASP will implement its turnkey virtual private cloud and Citrix-based technologies to support the mission critical IT component(s) of firms across Europe.

CyberlinkASP currently hosts, manages and supports virtual desktops for hundreds of SMBs and thousands of end users across the United States. The company owns and operates a Dallas-based call center that is always available to assist end users with anything from printing and scanning to installing new applications.

ScaleXtreme Announces Support For Citrix CloudStack

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Cloud-based systems management company ScaleXtreme has announced support for Citrix CloudStack, the free and open source cloud infrastructure platform that helps providers of all types deploy and manage cloud services that are scalable, secure and open by design.

Customers can now use CloudStack to deploy and build a cloud, and then effectively manage it with the Citrix Ready verified ScaleXtreme.

Users can sign up for the free ScaleXtreme Xpress product, which offers systems management for an unlimited number of private cloud and public cloud servers.

“CloudStack is driving emerging cloud standards and bringing order to chaos of multiple hypervisors and APIs. It has had impressive success because it helps companies construct clouds quickly and reliably”
“We want to offer our customers choice as they build cloud infrastructures while ensuring that their cloud solution of choice easily integrates with other cloud technologies,” said Sameer Dholakia, group vice president and general manager, Cloud Platforms Group at Citrix. “ScaleXtreme’s support of CloudStack will enable our joint customers to effectively manage the entire lifecycle of machines within their clouds.”

ScaleXtreme makes managing complex systems easy. It provides a single, unified view to provision and manage servers throughout their entire lifecycle. Customers can access and control all their servers, whether local or hosted, in public or private clouds, through a single cloud-based service. Given that ScaleXtreme is hosted entirely in the cloud, there’s no need to deploy expensive software on-site.

Citrix CloudStack provides customers with the fastest path to the cloud by providing the most advanced software technologies for building highly scalable, highly reliable cloud computing environments. More than 60 large-scale production clouds have been deployed using the open source CloudStack, including GoDaddy, GreenQloud, KT, Nokia, Tata Communications and Zynga.

“CloudStack is driving emerging cloud standards and bringing order to chaos of multiple hypervisors and APIs. It has had impressive success because it helps companies construct clouds quickly and reliably,” said Nand Mulchandani, co-founder and CEO of ScaleXtreme. “We look forward to working with Citrix to benefit our joint customers, nurture our growing relationship and help users manage the entire server lifecycle.”

ScaleXtreme’s support of CloudStack follows its recent support of OpenStack and fulfills its ongoing commitment to give customers a choice in emerging cloud platforms. It makes clouds easy to create and easy to control.

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AppSense Affinity Program Extends User Virtualization To Partners

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AppSense, provider of user virtualization technology, today announced the AppSense Affinity Partner Program, enabling ecosystem partners to engage in joint user virtualization initiatives spanning market awareness, co-development and technical certification.

Customers will benefit from optimized solutions and jointly developed best practices designed to help accelerate desktop transformation initiatives in four distinct ways – environment assessment, application analysis and migration and desktop deployment – all underpinned by user virtualization.

Each of the Affinity Partner solutions work in conjunction with AppSense user virtualization technology to ensure an accelerated and successful transformation project.

Founding partners include App-DNA, Centrix and Lakeside Software.

Veeam Added 5,000 New Customers, Grew Revenue 181 Percent In Q3 2011

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Veeam Software, provider of VMware data protection, disaster recovery and VMware management solutions for virtual datacenter environments, grew total bookings revenue 181 percent in Q3 of 2011 compared to the same period in 2010, with new license bookings revenue increasing 175 percent over that same period.

Veeam also added 5,000 new customers in the quarter.

In the third quarter, the company unveiled the next version of its flagship product, Veeam Backup & Replication v6, which will be available in Q4 and incorporates new functionality.

Veeam has also strengthened its leadership in Canada with the appointment of Dirk Vanderwal as regional sales director. Veeam also promoted Doug Hazelman, long-time Veeam employee and VMware vExpert, to Vice President of Product Strategy and Chief Evangelist.

Virtustream Appoints Former VMware Exec Jeff Miller As Chief Sales Officer

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Virtustream, a cloud solutions provider, has announced that Jeff Miller has joined its executive team as Chief Sales Officer with global responsibility for the company’s sales operations.

Miller joins Virtustream from the SpringSource division of VMware, where he served as VP of sales, Americas.

Prior to VMware, Miller was at SpringSource up to its acquisition by VMware; he was instrumental in integrating SpringSource’s open source solutions into VMware’s vFabric cloud application development framework.

Prior to SpringSource, Miller managed sales divisions for Novell, desktop integration provider OpenSpan and JBoss.

Virtustream provides a full range of cloud services to assess customer infrastructure requirements and make specific vendor and technology agnostic recommendations regarding cloud deployments.

How Citrix Aims To Drag SMBs Into The ‘Cloud Era’

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Citrix today announced a new set of products, solutions and programs designed to help small and medium businesses move from the PC Era to the Cloud Era by capitalizing on the benefits of desktop virtualization.

Central to the company’s new SMB initiative is the release of an all-new version of Citrix VDI-in-a-Box, the all-in-one virtual desktop solution designed specifically for SMBs.

VDI-in-a-Box 5 is the first Citrix release of this desktop virtualization product following the acquisition of Kaviza in May 2011. In addition, Citrix announced a new solution combining Citrix VDI-in-a-Box and the Citrix GoToManage cloud-based support offering, making it easy for managed service providers and IT staff to remotely monitor and support virtual desktop deployments at multiple sites or customer locations.

Citrix also announced a new channel partner specialization for the Citrix Solution Advisor Program, called SMB Specialist. They will have access to an extensive set of sales tools, free online training and pre-sales support focused specifically on helping them successfully engage and service SMB customers.

Citrix VDI-in-a-Box 5 will be released this quarter. A free technology preview trial is available here.