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Monitor Your Citrix XenServer Environment With Hyperic HQ

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Open source Web infrastructure management provider Hyperic today announced Hyperic HQ for Citrix XenServer management and monitoring software for Citrix XenServer. The new software allows XenServer administrators to quickly and correctly assess IT decisions within their XenServer environment.

“Our customers manage some of the world’s biggest Web environments where every second of downtime can mean losing revenue, users or both. Virtualization software such as Citrix XenServer delivers these organizations the necessary tools to be ultra-responsive to changes in user patterns and application performance,” said Doug MacEachern, CTO for Hyperic HQ. “By adding support for XenServer, we are once again taking the guesswork out of the management side of the equation. In providing management support for all virtualized and non-virtualized systems from one central location, we continue in our mission to make Web-based applications more manageable.”

Hyperic HQ for Citrix XenServer combines performance metrics, log data, configuration and security events in a single view correlated by time. These events can be used to link errors reported in the XenServer logs with other performance and health indicators elsewhere in the environment, generate alerts or trigger automated control actions to remediate the current problem. Additionally, Hyperic HQ for Citrix XenServer allows users to suspend, shutdown, start and reboot directly from the HQ interface and record the action in the event history for future reference.

Currently, Hyperic HQ for Citrix XenServer is available on Hyperic’s community Hyperforge. Hyperic will incorporate this new plugin directly into the core distribution in the upcoming Hyperic HQ 4.0 release, due out later this summer.

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Leostream Puts Jack Hembrough In Charge Of Sales and Marketing

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Leostream, the young hosted desktop connection broker that recently announced it had raised $3 million in Series A funding, today announced it has appointed Jack Hembrough to the position of Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Hembrough has spent over 20 years in the hardware and software business, creating successful start-ups and running profitable businesses.

Hembrough comes to Leostream from Application Security, a venture-backed software security company, where he served from its inception as President, CEO, and later as Chairman of the Board, growing the company to over $20 million in annual sales.
Prior to joining Application Security, Hembrough was Senior Vice President, Worldwide Sales for Authentica, and as the fourteenth employee at Raptor systems, Hembrough was part of a highly successful IPO, subsequently leading Raptor’s expansion as Vice President and General Manager of the European operation, based in Amsterdam.
Additionally, he has held senior executive positions in sales and management at Information Resource Engineering (now SafeNet), and Motorola Corporation.
[Source: MarketWatch]

Hyper9 Comes Out Of Stealth, Focuses On Letting You Find And Manage Virtual Machines

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Hyper9, formerly known as InovaWave, provider of search-based software for virtual environment management, today announced its first product, carrying the same name as its parent company. Hyper9 will be free to download in September.

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Hyper9, a privately held company headquartered in Austin, Texas, leverages a “Google-like” search engine to access both real-time and historical data on everything from the guest operating system to the physical infrastructure, then presents that data via a “next-generation” user interface. As a result, Hyper9 claims this approach supports faster troubleshooting, comprehensive monitoring and detailed reporting on the performance, configuration and utilization of virtual environments.

“Just as virtualization is transforming traditional computing, Hyper9 is ready with a truly scalable, flexible and intuitive approach to managing these dynamic environments,” said Chris Ostertag, president and CEO of Hyper9, Inc. “Hyper9’s unique architecture ensures that it can adapt to and accommodate the continually changing nature of virtual environments even as they gravitate to more hybrid states.”

The initial Hyper9 virtual appliance is designed to work only with the VMware ESX environment. Later versions will work with additional hypervisors, the company announced.

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xkoto Presents New Management Team

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Xkoto, a provider of data virtualization solutions that ensure availability and scalability for mission-critical data and applications, today announced it has strengthened its executive management team.

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Joining xkoto are John Hamilton (Senior Vice President of Sales and Services), Dermot O’Grady (Chief Financial Officer) and Charlie Ungashick (Vice President of Marketing).

“The management team we have assembled puts us in excellent position to take a major share of the data virtualization market,” said David Patrick, President and Chief Executive Officer. “We are now geared up to build on the vision of our co-founders, Albert Lee, Ariff Kassam and Jeff Heisz, who identified the need for a product that would dramatically improve application availability by virtualizing the database infrastructure.”

Prior to joining xkoto, John Hamilton was Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at Trigence, an application virtualization software company. Dermot O’Grady joins xkoto from Convoq, where as CFO he was instrumental in raising $23 million in venture capital, according to the press release.

Finally, Charlie Ungashick joined xkoto from Deltek, where he was Vice President of Field and Product Marketing and a “key contributor to its successful IPO”.

CEO David Patrick said the team is ramping sales of xkoto’s GRIDSCALE software platform.

XTS Releases Introspect, Management & Analytics Tool for Citrix XenApp

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XTS today announced the availability of XTS Introspect tool, which enables advanced planning and management of Citrix XenApp virtualization and application delivery environments. XTS, headquartered in the Washington DC metropolitan area, is a Citrix Ready Partner and VMware Technology Alliance Partner and has long been a provider of enterprise reporting and analytics software for the planning and management of Citrix and other virtualization platforms.

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From the press release:

Previously, XTS analytics solutions provided intelligence that eased capacity planning, security audits, implementation of charge-back systems and analyzing software license requirements. With Introspect, IT organizations can now enjoy these benefits along with newly available advanced configuration analytics that enable system administrators and architects to easily gather the following information:

  • Three-dimensional configuration analysis by application, server, and user across an entire server farm
  • Detailed view of application and server properties
  • Matrix reports that illustrate where applications are installed and detail user/group access
  • Historical reporting of server hotfix implementations

To see Introspect first-hand, you’re invited to visit the XTS events to register for an interactive, online seminar for Citrix professionals featuring a presentation from Doug Brown of DABCC.