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Release: Arkeia Network Backup 8.0

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Arkeia Software today announces Arkeia Network Backup v8.0 which delivers the first true virtual appliance for backup that gives customers free choice of hardware.

Version 8.0 extends Arkeia’s product family of physical backup appliances and software applications to address the rapidly-growing demand for virtual backup appliances. Arkeia Network Backup v8.0 also simplifies backups of virtualized server environments, protecting both traditional and virtual machine platforms with one consistent process and making backups more reliable.
The Arkeia Virtual Appliance delivers Arkeia Network Backup as a system image for a VMware virtual machine and comes bundled with everything required to implement a robust backup solution, including licenses for a disk-based virtual tape library (VTL) and Arkeia Backup Agents. The Arkeia Virtual Appliance delivers all the functionality of Arkeia Network Backup v8.0 and interoperates with Arkeia Backup Agents and the Arkeia Backup Replication. The Arkeia Virtual Appliance can be deployed in both VMware ESX and ESXi virtual environments.
The new Arkeia VMware ESX Agent is installed on an ESX hypervisor and allows backup of one or several virtual machines on that physical computer, regardless of the operating system or the application running in the virtual machines. The Arkeia VMware ESX Agent leverages the VMware ESX snapshot mechanism.
Other features in v8.0 include an enhanced graphical user interface, expanded reporting capabilities, simplified tape library management, wiki-based documentation, and delivery platform updates.
Arkeia Network Backup v8.0 is currently in beta test, and is expected to become generally available in March, 2009. Pricing for the virtual appliance deployment with three bundled backup agents begins at $2,000.

Release: Attachmate Reflection 2008

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Attachmate Corporation today announced Attachmate Reflection 2008, which includes support for leading virtualization technologies, unique security capabilities and unmatched customization support built on Microsoft .NET Framework, Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and Web Services, to give organizations the flexibility to quickly meet increasingly complex enterprise needs and streamline business processes throughout the enterprise.

Released to customers in November 2008, Reflection 2008 includes unparalleled customization capabilities, support for the most stringent security standards and optimization for application virtualization infrastructures, enabling organizations to easily address complex needs while reliably and securely extending mainframe data to users and devices across the organization. Key features and functionality include:

  • Virtualization Optimization
    With support for the leading application and desktop virtualization platforms, Reflection 2008 can be deployed with confidence via server or client-based virtualization technologies. Through partnership with leading virtualization vendors, such as Microsoft, Citrix, VMWare and HP, Reflection 2008 will continue to embrace the evolution of the desktop.
  • End-point Security Features
    Reflection 2008’s security components support the latest data encryption, authentication and user-level security features, such as privacy filters and trusted locations, to maximize administrative control over sensitive data and protect core business processes from misuse and errors. Additionally, Reflection 2008 is validated for FIPS 140-2 and certified for DoD PKI, the U.S. government’s top security standards.
  • Customization and Automation
    Customization on the desktop has never been easier. With .NET, VBA or Web Services, end users and IT engineers can streamline and automate common business processes. Additionally, the Microsoft Office 2007 Ribbon interface provides users with a familiar, intuitive experience while moving from Microsoft Windows XP to Microsoft Windows Vista or Microsoft Windows 7.

Reflection 2008 is available for purchase immediately.

Reflex Systems Enhances Virtualization Management Center (VMC)

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Reflex Systems today announced significant new enhancements to Reflex VMC (Virtualization Management Center) including the addition of performance monitoring and enhanced web-based reporting capabilities.

Reflex’s VMC is designed to provide customers with the essential management capabilities needed to effectively manage the complex, dynamic virtual environment, capitalize on the existing virtualization investment, reduce cost through efficient management, minimize downtime and maintain a reliable virtualized infrastructure running critical business-line applications.

The new performance features round-out Reflex VMC’s already robust management capabilities which include virtual infrastructure discovery and mapping, configuration change monitoring, application and services discovery and monitoring, virtual network security, and reporting.

Reflex VMC provides performance data for the entire virtual infrastructure enabling customers to:

— Monitor performance of virtual infrastructure
— Optimize resource utilization
— Troubleshoot line-of-Business application performance
— Verify DRS/load balancing and performance impact
— Perform forensics and root cause analysis
— Manage the performance impact of configuration changes
— Conduct virtual infrastructure capacity planning

The new enhancements provide Reflex VMC customers with several exclusive features including the ability to manage virtual environments from a single screen view, correlate infrastructure configuration changes, network services and security events for performance impact, access timeline-based performance graphs, and access comparative analysis environment information.

Reflex VMC is available for purchase now through authorized channel partners.

VirtualLogix Promises First Virtualization Phone At Mobile World Congress

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VirtualLogix has just sent out an e-mail proclaiming that they’re about to launch the world’s first virtualized phone at the upcoming Mobile World Congress in Barcelona:

Come see the world’s first virtualized phone at the VirtualLogix booth, 2D49, at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, February 16-19.

VirtualLogix will be demonstrating how VLX virtualization can accelerate mobile phone innovation by rapidly adding more functionality at a lower cost to mass-market mobile phones.

Join us at our booth in Hall 2D to learn the significance of performance, power and security to virtualization on computing devices. Click here to schedule a demo or request a meeting at the show.

Should be interesting, indeed!

VMware: Fourth Quarter Disappointing But Still Better Than Expected

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VMware today announced financial results for the fourth quarter and full year 2008.

  • Revenues for the fourth quarter were $515 million, an increase of 25% from the fourth quarter of 2007.
  • GAAP operating income for the fourth quarter was $102 million, an increase of 34% from the fourth quarter of 2007. Non-GAAP operating income for the fourth quarter was $135 million, an increase of 25% from the fourth quarter of 2007.
  • GAAP net income for the fourth quarter was $111 million, or $0.29 per diluted share, compared to $78 million, or $0.19 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of 2007. Non-GAAP net income for the quarter was $142 million, or $0.36 per diluted share, compared to $103 million, or $0.26 per diluted share, for the fourth quarter of 2007.
  • Revenues for the full year 2008 were $1.9 billion, an increase of 42% from 2007.
  • GAAP operating income for the full fiscal year 2008 was $313 million, an increase of 33% from 2007. Non-GAAP operating income for the year 2008 was $469 million, an increase of 39% from 2007.
  • GAAP net income for the full fiscal year 2008 was $290 million, or $0.73 per diluted share, compared to $218 million, or $0.61 per diluted share, for 2007. Non-GAAP net income for the year 2008 was $416 million, or $1.05 per diluted share, compared to $295 million, or $0.82 per diluted share, for 2007.
  • Cash was more than $1.8 billion and deferred revenue was $870 million as of December 31, 2008. Since the beginning of 2008, cash increased 50% and deferred revenue increased 57%.

U.S. revenues for 2008 grew 37% to $988 million from 2007. International revenues grew 48% to $893 million from 2007.

License revenues for 2008 grew 30% to $1.2 billion from 2007. Services revenues grew 67% to $703 million from 2007.

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Xkoto Raises $3 Million Series C Round

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xkoto, the database virtualization company, today announced that it has raised $3 million in financing from existing investors GrandBanks Capital and GrowthWorks Canadian Fund. xkoto has now raised a total of $13 million since it was founded in 2005.

xkoto will use the funds to build its sales force, accelerate customer acquisition, and continue to enhance its GRIDSCALE database virtualization product. The company experienced record 2008 sales, added several global corporations as customers, and closed the year with 275 percent growth in the fourth quarter.

GRIDSCALE virtualizes the database infrastructure, enabling businesses to distribute application load horizontally across multiple instances of commercial databases running on clusters of low-cost hardware, mid-range systems and virtual machines. With GRIDSCALE, businesses can improve application performance and achieve continuous availability for business-critical applications.

Source: peHUB