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OK Labs Teams Up With Galois In Research For Ultra-Secure Systems

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Open Kernel Labs (OK Labs), provider of embedded virtualization software for smartphones, tablets, and other connected devices, and Galois, a technology transition company specializing in software security, safety, privacy and performance, today announced a technology partnership to create and commercialize ultra-secure and trustworthy systems for communications, data processing, and control.

The outcome of OK Labs and Galois collaboration will have broad horizontal impact, augmenting the security of systems in applications from software-defined radio to financial services, and medical and mobile/wireless devices.

Building on original research by Galois and by OK Labs incubation partner NICTA (National ICT Australia) on the OKL4 Verified platform for mission-critical applications, Galois and OK Labs support high levels of assurance, correctness and risk management for government agencies and contractors, device OEMs, network operators, software developers and integrators.

Release: VMware View Client For iPad

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VMware last week announced the availability of a VMware View Client for iPad on the Apple App Store. Free of charge, the app enables iPad users to access their virtual Windows desktops, applications and data from anywhere.

VMware View is a virtual desktop solution that enables enterprises to improve security and lower operating costs, while simplifying desktop administration and management by establishing a modern, end-user computing architecture.

Support for the iPad Keyboard Dock and Bluetooth keyboards makes text input even easier while the iPad VGA connector allows you to connect to an external monitor. VMware View Client for iPad supports iOS 4.2 and iOS 4.3.

IBM Pumps $38 Million In Cloud Computing Data Center To Address Asia Pacific Growth

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IBM recently announced a $38M investment in a new IBM Asia Pacific Cloud Computing Data Center in Singapore, which will provide businesses with solutions and services to harness the potential of cloud computing.

The new facility will extend IBM’s globally-integrated cloud delivery network with centres in Germany, Canada and the United States; and 13 global cloud labs, of which seven are based in Asia Pacific – China, India, Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Vietnam and Singapore.

Scheduled to launch in April, the Centre will make available IBM’s cloud services and technology portfolio via the company’s cloud delivery infrastructure. T

hese services are designed to enable clients to reap the benefits of business and IT transformation; increase flexibility and agility; accelerate time to market; reduce costs; and increase security and compliance of public cloud environments.

The first offering to be available at the IBM Asia Pacific Cloud Computing Data Centre will be from IBM’s infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud portfolio.

It helps enterprises reduce operational costs; eliminate capital outlays; improve cycle times for faster time-to-market; and improve quality with virtually instant, secure access to a standardized infrastructure as a service environment.

NetEx To Provide Free WAN Optimization Software To VMware Marketplace

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NetEx, a company providing a software-only WAN Optimization solution, and VMware have announced the availability of a free annual subscription for the HyperIP virtual appliance software through the VMware Virtual Appliance Marketplace (VAM, which features more than 1,500 appliances spanning the areas of security, content and collaboration, infrastructure, databases and networking.

Qualified VAM users of replication and backup applications are eligible for a maximum of two free annual subscriptions of the 2Mb/s HyperIP (VM edition), a virtual appliance that improves the performance of moving large amounts of data across a WAN.

Downloads of the HyperIP virtual appliance are available from the VMware VAM website and require a VAM login. The free download program is offered until the end of the year.

NetEx’s HyperIP is a software-only, virtualization-ready WAN optimization solution, ideal for moving large data sets across WANs securely, swiftly and seamlessly.

The full version of HyperIP supports long-distance data transfers at up to 800 Mb/s, the highest performance of any WAN optimization solution on the market, and 25 to more than 100 percent faster than competitive products. Transfer speed is optimized for the full range of data management applications, including backup & remote replication and business continuance/disaster recovery (BC/DR).

Xen Releases Cloud Platform (XCP) 1.0

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Xen.org, home of the open source Xen hypervisor, today announced the availability of Xen Cloud Platform (XCP) 1.0.

Developed as part of the Xen Cloud Project introduced in 2009, XCP 1.0 provides a solution for small and medium size enterprises looking to build private clouds, as well as open source enthusiasts, universities and researchers wanting to experiment with cloud computing.

It represents a shift in enterprise usability for Xen.org, which has traditionally released software as source code only. X

XCP is an open source server virtualization platform in a single, tested installable image that features the Xen hypervisor, network and storage support, a management stack and tools, as well as support for a range of guest operating systems including Windows and Linux.

XCP 1.0 includes a fully featured, enterprise-class Xen API Management tool stack with features such as disaster recovery support, security, real-time performance monitoring, support for multi-host resource pools, and upgrade and patching capabilities.

XCP 1.0 provides support for virtual networking capabilities via Open vSwitch and a range of open source GUI management tools.

The Xen community will also be enabled to test features with XCP 1.0 that could offer future value to enterprise products such as Citrix XenServer and Citrix OpenCloud.

ManageEngine Releases Applications Manager 9.5

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ManageEngine, makers of a suite of network, systems, applications and security management software solutions, today announced automated provisioning of virtual resources is now possible with ManageEngine’s Applications Manager, the company’s server and application performance monitoring software.

The new enhancements to Applications Manager’s virtualization monitoring capabilities enable IT administrators to automate the provisioning of virtual resources, automatically making adjustments when threshold levels are breached.

For example, Applications Manager will automatically add, start or stop virtual machines in a VMware ESX/ESXi server farm when the number of active sessions in a server exceed the specified threshold.

With this automation capability, the IT team may improve operational efficiency by reducing manual intervention, as well as optimize resource utilization by reusing inactive virtual resources.

ManageEngine Applications Manager, with the latest virtualization management capabilities, is available now.

Pricing starts at $795 for the Professional Edition for up to 25 servers or applications.