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Altor Secures Series $10 Million Series B Round from DAG Ventures, Juniper Networks & Others

March 2, 2010 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Altor Networks, provider of security for virtualized data centers and clouds, today announced that the company has closed a Series B funding round with new investors DAG Ventures, Juniper Networks with its newly announced Junos Innovation Fund, Accel Partners and Foundation Capital, Altor’s founding investors.

This new financing of $10 million will enable Altor to significantly expand global sales and marketing. Altor recently completed a record fiscal quarter, despite the challenging economic environment, adding customers of all sizes in all verticals including the financial sector, higher education and cloud service providers.

“Altor impressed us with its superior technology and deeply experienced team in the realm of virtual security. The challenges of virtual and cloud security are real and prevalent, presenting an enormous market opportunity. We’re enthusiastic about Altor’s market-leading products and unique approach to addressing these emerging security gaps,” said John Caddedu, Managing Director at DAG Ventures.

We urge you to find out more about Altor’s approach to virtualization and cloud security at www.altornetworks.com.

Citrix Touts New “End-to-End” Virtual Networking Solution

March 2, 2010 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Citrix Systems today announced Citrix Branch Repeater VPX, the WAN optimization virtual appliance that provides a high definition desktop and application experience to thousands of branch offices worldwide, and Citrix Access Gateway VPX, the secure access virtual appliance that provides safe application access to users from anywhere.

With these new products, Citrix is changing the industry landscape by extending the benefits of server and desktop virtualization to virtual network services running at both the datacenter and the branch office.

The two new virtual appliances join Citrix NetScaler VPX, the industry-leading application acceleration and load-balancing virtual appliance, (see “Citrix Delivers NetScaler VPX Virtual Appliance and Unveils Citrix Ready Open Networking Program”), Together, these virtual networking solutions accelerate and secure virtual desktops and applications from thousands of enterprise datacenters and cloud providers to users anywhere, on-demand, anytime. By combining all the benefits of hardware network appliances with the simplicity, flexibility and cost-effectiveness of software appliances, Citrix now offers the industry’s only complete end-to-end networking system.

The Citrix VPX solution represents the company’s leadership in creating a fundamentally different approach to the growing convergence of virtualization and networking technologies in the modern datacenter and emerging cloud architectures. By offering open, flexible solutions that work with the technology customers have already invested in, Citrix allows them to extend the value of their existing investments in the network and branch offices in ways they never thought possible before.

With physical network appliances, IT organizations grapple with inefficient procurement, trial and deployment cycles while increasing the complexity associated with hardware proliferation and management. IT loses agility in the branch office due to infrastructure availability problems, resulting in high cost and delays of new branch office setup. Citrix virtual network appliances help transform the economics and agility of IT services by leveraging industry-standard server hardware and virtualization in the network infrastructure. By simplifying and expediting procurement, trials, and deployment for enterprises, Citrix improves availability of desktops and applications, and enables dynamic provisioning to meet varying user demand. By virtualizing the branch and network infrastructure, organizations can simplify and lower the TCO of network infrastructure in branch offices as well as in datacenters.

Network virtualization also improves the economics of cloud computing by providing a flexible and cost-effective deployment model for delivering customized network services. Virtualized network appliances simplify the complexity and challenges of supporting and managing multi-tenant cloud environments. The Citrix end-to-end virtualization networking solution enables cloud service providers to offer value-added services, such as application acceleration, secure access and WAN optimization on a per-tenant basis. Cloud service providers can leverage Citrix Service Provider subscription pricing to offer on-demand network services to their customers, eliminating large, up-front capital expenditures and enhancing the elasticity and profitability of service offerings.

By virtualizing the foundational network services and deploying the Citrix VPX solution on any off-the-shelf hardware, enterprises can now realize reduced bandwidth costs, simplified branch infrastructure, faster performance and better security. Specific benefits include:

Flexible Deployment – The Citrix VPX solution enables flexible datacenter and branch deployment options requiring minimum changes to the underlying network infrastructure.
Lower TCO for Hardware – The Citrix VPX solution provides significant cost savings from hardware standardization, lower energy consumption and faster new branch office setup.
On-Demand Provisioning – The Citrix VPX solution increases agility, scalability, performance and availability with on-demand provisioning and de-provisioning of virtual network appliances.
Flexible and Affordable Pricing Model – The Citrix VPX solution provides flexible Pay-As-You-Grow pricing models, allowing service providers and enterprises to offer security and acceleration services based on demand.

Citrix Access Gateway VPX is available today and Citrix Branch Repeater VPX will be released later this month.

Both will be available from Citrix Solution Advisors worldwide. Later in 2010, Access Gateway VPX Express and Branch Repeater VPX Express will also be available for free download here.

Citrix Releases New NetScaler Product Line

March 2, 2010 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Citrix today announced immediate availability of five new Citrix® NetScaler Application Firewall appliances designed to bring a new level of security to public and private clouds and web applications.

Each of the new appliances is built on the Citrix NetScaler MPX hardware platform, the application acceleration, load balancing and web-security system that powers thousands of enterprise datacenters and most of the world’s largest clouds and websites. With the introduction of this new offering, Citrix now provides solutions ranging from the 10 Mbps Citrix NetScaler VPX virtual appliance to a record breaking 5 Gbps with the NetScaler MPX hardware appliance – meeting the needs of small and large enterprises, managed security services providers (MSSPs) and cloud providers. In fact, the new appliances outperform throughput levels from the nearest competitor by two times across multiple performance metrics.

In addition to detecting and blocking application threats targeting traditional web applications, NetScaler Application Firewall incorporates advanced protections for Web 2.0 applications and services. The proliferation of Web 2.0 technologies among application developers is driving the need for more sophisticated security protections and greater native fluency of XML-based applications. NetScaler Application Firewall performs comprehensive HTML and XML security checks including:

XML denial of service (XDoS) to protect servers from malicious XML payloads by enforcing limits on the payload structure
Schema validation and format checks to verify proper data types on SOAP messages and XML payloads
SQL injection and cross site scripting
Attachment checks to block attachments with malicious executables or viruses
WS-I basic profile compliance

The NetScaler Application Firewall is a comprehensive and powerful security solution that blocks known and unknown attacks against web and web services applications. It utilizes a positive security model allowing only correct application behavior, without requiring constant updates of attack signatures. The NetScaler Application Firewall is ICSA certified and provides protection against a wide array of malicious attack techniques targeting application vulnerabilities, confidential data theft, denial of service, and web site defacement. It is available on NetScaler MPX hardware appliances. NetScaler Application Firewall is also included with the NetScaler VPX software appliance, further enhancing the company’s ability to offer cloud and web security as part of the industry’s only end-to-end networking virtualization solution.

NetScaler Application Firewall is now available on MPX 5500, MPX 7500, MPX 9500, MPX 10500 and MPX 12500 appliances through Citrix Solution Advisors worldwide. Pricing begins at $20,000. Pay-as-You-Grow licensing is available for MPX 7500, MPX 9500 and MPX 10500 appliances.

Quest, HealthCast to Offer Virtualized End-to-End Clinical Desktop and Workflow Solution

February 26, 2010 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

Quest Software and HealthCast today announced an end-to-end clinical desktop and workflow solution that simplifies and automates secure clinician access to protected healthcare information with the benefits of virtualization.

vWorkspace and eXactACCESS automate clinician access to and management of virtual desktops and applications by eliminating the need to enter multiple passwords to disparate systems. HealthCast’s unique proximity badge functionality automates the login to the virtual desktop and launches a clinician’s primary application based on who they are, and then navigates them to a default location within the application. When the badge is “tapped” again, the clinician’s virtual desktop and applications are disconnected so that clinicians can go to any other workstation in the enterprise, and securely pick up their desktop and applications exactly as they had left them with another “tap” of their badge.

Quest and HealthCast will be showcasing the vWorkspace and eXactACCESS solution at HIMSS10 – Healthcare IT Conference and Exhibition at booth #1362 on March 1-4 at Atlanta’s Georgia World Congress Center.

Quest vWorkspace is a seventh generation virtual desktop management suite which enables organizations to provision, deploy and manage a virtual desktop environment. Designed to reduce costs and security concerns and increase control of enterprise desktop environments, vWorkspace is flexible across VDI, remote desktop services/terminal services, and physical blade PCs, and supports all major hypervisors.

AutoVirt Names Thomas Fraser VP of Sales

February 26, 2010 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

AutoVirt™, Inc., the leading provider of file virtualization solutions for Windows data migration and management, today announced that it has appointed Thomas Fraser to the newly created position of Vice President of Sales. Reporting directly to AutoVirt’s President and CEO, Josh Klein, Fraser will be responsible for developing and executing the global sales and channel strategy, establishing and directing the external sales force, as well as growing and overseeing the inside sales team.

“I am excited to join AutoVirt during such a critical stage of the company’s evolution,” said Fraser. “Its recent release of AutoVirt v3.0 with innovative enhancements in areas such as storage automation policies, independent namespaces and extended platform interoperability reinforced its position as the leading solution for helping customers to control the exponential growth of their unstructured file data. With further significant developments soon to be released, it’s time to take the sales effort to the next level. I am thrilled to have the opportunity to play a key role in that process.”

“We are delighted and count ourselves very fortunate to add a sales executive of Thom’s caliber to the management team,” said Klein. “Thom’s extensive sales expertise – from both a strategic planning and execution standpoint, and wide-ranging industry relationships will prove invaluable as AutoVirt moves into the next significant stage of the company’s growth and development.”

With over 25 years of domestic and international IT industry experience, in both direct and channel sales management positions – across the enterprise messaging, knowledge management and security markets, Thomas Fraser enjoys a unique depth and breadth of expertise. Prior to joining AutoVirt, Fraser served as Vice President of Sales at Panda Security, a leading provider of cloud-based security solutions with products available in more than 23 languages and millions of users located in 195 countries around the world. In this position, Fraser increased total sales by 21% while growing channel sales by over 35% year-over-year. Prior to Panda Security, Fraser held the position of Vice President of Sales at Kaspersky Lab, an innovative developer of information security solutions that protect customers from a wide range of IT threats and enable enterprises to better manage risk. In this position, Fraser was responsible for building the channel sales team from the ground up, as well as the VAR channel strategy. Results included year-over-year channel sales growth-rates ranging from 192% to 446%. Previously, Fraser held senior domestic and international sales management positions with Entegrity Solutions – during which time he increased average sales productivity by 225%; Beyond Inc. – where he successfully established the company’s international sales channels across Europe, Asia and Latin America; and Lotus – where his regions consistently ranked #1 in both direct and reseller sales revenue. Thom Fraser graduated with honors from The University of Edinburgh, having majored in Business and Psychology.

AutoVirt today announced that it has appointed Thomas Fraser to the newly created position of Vice President of Sales. R

eporting directly to AutoVirt’s President and CEO, Josh Klein, Fraser will be responsible for developing and executing the global sales and channel strategy, establishing and directing the external sales force, as well as growing and overseeing the inside sales team.

Prior to joining AutoVirt, Fraser served as Vice President of Sales at Panda Security, a leading provider of cloud-based security solutions with products available in more than 23 languages and millions of users located in 195 countries around the world. In this position, Fraser increased total sales by 21% while growing channel sales by over 35% year-over-year. Prior to Panda Security, Fraser held the position of Vice President of Sales at Kaspersky Lab, an innovative developer of information security solutions that protect customers from a wide range of IT threats and enable enterprises to better manage risk.

In this position, Fraser was responsible for building the channel sales team from the ground up, as well as the VAR channel strategy. Results included year-over-year channel sales growth-rates ranging from 192% to 446%. Previously, Fraser held senior domestic and international sales management positions with Entegrity Solutions – during which time he increased average sales productivity by 225%; Beyond Inc. – where he successfully established the company’s international sales channels across Europe, Asia and Latin America; and Lotus – where his regions consistently ranked #1 in both direct and reseller sales revenue.

Fraser graduated with honors from The University of Edinburgh, having majored in Business and Psychology.

HyTrust Raises $10.5 Million Series B Round From Cisco, Others

February 25, 2010 by Robin Wauters Leave a Comment

HyTrust, Inc., the leader in policy management and access control for virtual infrastructure, announced today that it has secured $10.5 million in Series B financing. New investors Granite Ventures and Cisco Systems participated in the round of financing, as did existing investors Trident Capital and Epic Ventures. Len Rand, partner at Granite Ventures, will take a seat on the HyTrust Board of Directors. HyTrust will use the capital to drive development, sales and marketing, and fuel the company’s next stage of growth.

Thanks to its numerous benefits and proven return on investment, virtualization has taken the IT world by storm. However, IT organizations in industries such as banking, retail, government and healthcare are appropriately reluctant to virtualize systems that handle critical sensitive data and are subject to compliance. HyTrust changes the game, enabling them to maximize their return on investment and broadly adopt virtualization, with assurance that controls are firmly in place. By enabling a single point of control over the entire virtual infrastructure, HyTrust empowers customers to confidently virtualize additional servers—even those subject to compliance—by delivering enterprise-class controls for access, accountability, visibility and configuration.

“HyTrust delivers a new paradigm in security and compliance for the virtualization platform, which is why we chose to add the company to our portfolio,” said Rand. “HyTrust set out to solve a real and growing problem faced by a lot of enterprises. By doing so, it paves the way for organizations to virtualize more of their infrastructure with full visibility and control.”

“HyTrust continues to demonstrate the importance of this emerging market,” said Eric Chiu, president and CEO of HyTrust. “Our ability to raise such a significant round of funding and attract top-tier, strategic investors in a still precarious economy is a testament to the quality of our team, the strength our offering, and the gravity of the problem that it addresses for our customers. The continued support of our customers, partners and investors is critical to our success as we continue to transform the virtualization marketplace and capitalize on the opportunities ahead of us.”

“We are excited to welcome Cisco not only as a HyTrust partner but now also as a strategic investor,” added Chiu. “It’s great validation for HyTrust when the worldwide leader in networking places its confidence, via financial backing, in our approach to policy management and access control for virtual infrastructure. We look forward to deepening our relationship with the Server Access & Virtualization business unit at Cisco, tightening our existing integration with Cisco Nexus 1000v and Unified Computing System products, and working closely with Cisco’s Security business unit to address the needs of our joint customers. We feel strongly that policy management is key to enabling the ‘next generation data center’ and we couldn’t be more excited to have gained the backing of the company that coined the phrase.”

HyTrust announced today that it has scored $10.5 million in Series B financing.

New investors Granite Ventures and Cisco Systems participated in the round of financing, as did existing investors Trident Capital and Epic Ventures. Len Rand, partner at Granite Ventures, will take a seat on the HyTrust Board of Directors. HyTrust will use the capital to drive development, sales and marketing, and fuel the company’s next stage of growth.

HyTrust changes the game, enabling them to maximize their return on investment and broadly adopt virtualization, with assurance that controls are firmly in place. By enabling a single point of control over the entire virtual infrastructure, HyTrust empowers customers to confidently virtualize additional servers—even those subject to compliance—by delivering enterprise-class controls for access, accountability, visibility and configuration.