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NetIQ Adds Novell Solutions, Announces New Executive Leadership Team

May 18, 2011 by Robin Wauters 1 Comment

Enterprise software company NetIQ, a business unit of The Attachmate Group, today announced it will add the complete portfolio of Novell identity and security solutions and selected Novell data center solutions to the NetIQ business unit solution portfolio.

The combination of these technologies into one business unit further deepens the NetIQ focus on identity, security and compliance management, IT operations management, virtualization and cloud computing.

Under the leadership of Jay Gardner, president and general manager of NetIQ, the management team will spearhead the company’s objectives of reducing IT cost, complexity and risk for its customers.

With headquarters in Houston, Texas, the new NetIQ management team comprises a seasoned set of leaders from both the heritage NetIQ and Novell business units, taking on the following roles:

Jay Gardner, President and General Manager
Ron Hardy, Vice President of Product Management and Marketing
Somesh Singh, Vice President of Engineering
Ron Milton, Vice President of Customer Value Realization
Bill Koehl, Vice President Sales — North America
Ton Musters, Vice President of Sales — EMEA
John Delk, Vice President, Client Executives — North America, Global Alliances and Americas Partner Organization

VMware Unveils Horizon App Manager: Easy Cloud Application Management For $30 Per User / Year

May 17, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

VMware this morning announced VMware Horizon App Manager, a user-centric management service for accessing cloud applications.

VMware Horizon App Manager represents the first component of the company’s “Project Horizon” vision first previewed at VMworld 2010.

A datasheet (PDF) is available here.

The company says future releases of VMware Horizon will broker user access to a variety of application types, virtual Windows desktops and data resources, while delivering the security and control required by businesses. The result should be a simple, seamless user experience when accessing work resources across the private and public cloud on whatever device the user chooses.

At its core, VMware Horizon App Manager includes an identity as a service hub that extends a user’s existing identity in systems such as Microsoft Active Directory or other directory options, into third-party public cloud applications like Box.net, BroadVision, Google, Salesforce.com, WebEx, Workday and others.

This simplifies the management of multiple access credentials, a necessity brought about by the growing number of cloud applications now found in a typical enterprise.

In addition, the VMware Horizon App Manager provides an open, user-centric platform for accessing cloud applications within a single application portal that is accessible from a wide range of end-user devices.

Additional VMware Horizon App Manager features include:

– Multi-Platform/Multi-Device Support
– Enterprise Directory Federation/Cloud Identity Hub
– Standards Based Secure Authentication
– Application Provisioning
– Roles-Based Access and Reporting

Available today to select early access customers in North America and Asia Pacific Region, and via trials in other regions, VMware Horizon App Manager is $30.00 per user/per year.

Check out Robert Scoble’s interview with VMware lead for Project Horizon Noah Wasmer.

Update: Chris Hoff’s take: VMware’s Horizon App Manager – A Big Bet That Will Pay Off…

One Convergence Debuts Virtualized Smart IO Platform For ‘Next-Gen’ Data Center Apps

May 16, 2011 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

One Convergence recently announced a fully virtualized in-line and off-load acceleration platform that takes advantage of powerful multi-core processor based 10G PCIe hardware.

Emerging I/O challenges of the next-generation datacenter include low-latency, high-performance, scalable multi-core processing and virtualization support of IO acceleration functions of smart adapters.

One Convergence’s Virtualized Smart IO Platform provides a comprehensive software framework, enabling Packet Processing & Classification, Security/Crypto, DPI and custom intelligent in-line processing to implement smart 10G acceleration for Network Equipment, Servers & Storage Systems.

The solution comprises software running on the host and on a Freescale Semiconductor QorIQ P4080 based adapter.

The solution is expected to be available on Freescale QorIQ P4080 based adapters in Q3, 2011 and an enhanced feature release is planned for availability in Q4, 2011.

Software includes optimized Smart I/O software running on QorIQ MPUs and a host based SDK.

AppSense Names VPs Of Marketing And Sales For The US

May 16, 2011 by Robin Wauters 1 Comment

AppSense, provider of user virtualization solutions, recently announced it has expanded its executive management team in the U.S. and hired David Burton as vice president of marketing and Michael Nicosia as vice president of sales.

Burton joins AppSense’s global corporate marketing team and will lead its efforts in the U.S. territory, driving all aspects including new opportunity generation and the rapid expansion of the channel program. Nicosia will be responsible for the sales organization within the U.S.

Prior to joining AppSense, Burton was the VP of marketing and business development at AlgoSec, a provider of network security solutions, and previously held senior marketing roles at Check Point Software Technologies, NetContinuum and Symantec.

Nicosia was previously part of the leadership team for the Citrix Online Division. Previously, Nicosia was the president of Barry Rhein & Associates, a sales consulting and training company targeting Fortune 1000 companies.

VMware Acquires Shavlik Technologies

May 16, 2011 by Robin Wauters 2 Comments

Virtualization software juggernaut VMware this morning announced that it has agreed to buy Shavlik Technologies, a provider of cloud-based IT management solutions for small and medium businesses (SMBs).

Financial terms of the acquisition, which is expected to be completed later this year, were not disclosed, but Mark Shavlik was ‘happy‘ to announce the agreement: “I want to thank all Shavlik employees past and present as well as our partners. Because of your hard work and dedication, we were able to build a great company…Our two companies have a long-term relationship built upon VMware GO™, our joint SaaS based IT Management solution. VMware GO assists SMBs with rapid deployment and management of VMware vSphere, the VMware Hypervisor and general IT management of both physical and virtual computers. VMware GO has attracted over 200,000 registered users creating more than 20,000 VMware Hypervisors and 120,000 Virtual machines. Shavlik and VMware share a vision of IT Management for now and the future. A vision of delivering solid, easy to use IT solutions to SMBs to enable customers to take full advantage of the efficiencies gained with the latest technologies. ”

Shavlik Technologies was founded in 1993 to offer a new approach to security application design and development that enabled us to take big steps in the simplification of computer security while at the same time creating a very trustworthy product. Since then, we have grown to help thousands of customers simplify their IT management.

Shavlik Technologies provides on-premise and SaaS-based management solutions that enable SMBs to manage, monitor and secure their IT environments when moving to virtual and cloud computing IT deployments.

Some view this acquisition as a way for VMware to ‘shield’ their customers from popular configuration management and deployment tools, such as Puppet, Opscode’s Chef, and even Microsoft’s System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM).

According to VMware’s press release, Shavlik currently has more than 3,500 customers using their on premise IT management products.