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Dell To Resell Reflex Systems’ Virtual Management Center

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Reflex Systems, provider of virtualization management and security solutions, yesterday announced a global reseller agreement that authorizes Dell’s worldwide direct and channel sales forces to sell Reflex VMC (Virtual Management Center).

Reflex 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 solution boasts innovative performance management features including discovery and mapping, configuration change monitoring, application and services discovery and monitoring, virtual network security, and reporting.

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

Industry Moves: Stephen Pollack Joins Embotics Advisory Board

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Embotics today announced the appointment of Stephen Pollack to its Advisory Board. Stephen Pollack is a recognized leader in the virtualization industry who founded PlateSpin (acquired by Novell earlier this year). With the addition of Pollack, the Advisory Board will continue to help guide Embotics’ direction, organization and strategy for product and company growth.

With over 25 years of relevant experience, Stephen is a seasoned entrepreneur and proclaimed expert in virtualization who will assist the Embotics Advisory Board with product planning, organizational strategy and investor relations. He founded PlateSpin in 2003 and grew the company from a startup until its industry-renowned acquisition by Novell.

Prior to PlateSpin, Stephen held a variety of technology leadership roles across sales, marketing, services, support and product management. He has been instrumental in the growth of successful global ventures, including his roles as Director of Product Marketing and Customer Services at Fulcrum Technologies, Business Unit Director of IT Asset Management Solutions at NCR and most recently, VP of Product Management at FloNetwork.

Embotics Releases White Paper on Virtualization Security

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Embotics today announced “Understanding VirtSec,” a new study that focuses on virtual server security issues inherent in IT environments. The research addresses threats posed by virtualization deployments and the technology that is available to tackle these emerging issues. Authored by David M. Lynch, vice president of marketing of Embotics, the white paper identifies immediate and potential security threats so organizations can plan accordingly.

Virtualization security is a wide concern for IT executives and Embotics’ “Understanding VirSec” summarizes the new threats and issues associated with server virtualization. The research, containing a wide range of user feedback, helps IT executives differentiate the potential future security issues from those that are present today, and offers recommendations and best practices to minimize these risks.

As virtualization deployments expand and become more complex, organizations are facing increased risk of data center security threats. Embotics’ “Understanding VirtSec” provides an overview of why IT administrators cannot rely on IT policies and processes that existed pre-virtualization, and how the impact of an uncontrolled environment in the data center is detrimental.

INSYSTEK Unveils Cross-Hypervisor Management Solution TotalView

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INSYSTEK is announcing it will demonstrate TotalView, its cross-hypervisor virtualization management solution at VMworld. TotalView delivers centralized cross-hypervisor virtual and physical management, automation, optimization to IT environments. Our integrated guest management is designed to be a seamless feature set, not just an add-on. With its agentless architecture, TotalView is a secure and scalable solution, making management simpler, enabling the use of embedded hypervisors and requirements of corporate security effectively, and not complicating it with agent sprawl.

TotalView allows administrators to easily create, deploy and manage their virtual and physical infrastructures. It is a powerful management framework to consolidate the many administrative functions required for virtual infrastructure management. The TotalView solution simplifies virtualization deployments, enabling IT organizations to manage and control enterprise business continuity while reducing cost. TotalView is the single management console that brings together VM management, inventory, performance, alerting, reporting, guest management, remote control, software distribution and much more.

TotalView VM management provides hypervisor agnostic support for all major hypervisor technologies, including Microsoft Virtual Server, VMware ESX, ESXi and Server as well as Citrix Xen Server. TotalView integrates with hypervisor management APIs to deliver power management, inventory, rapid provisioning with deployment wizard and virtual machine templates reducing the time and effort for creating and deploying Virtual machines regardless of which hypervisors you choose.

TotalView is the agentless inventory, software distribution and performance monitoring solution for the corporate Windows environment, delivering extensive data on all installed hardware and software components on the remote system. Deploy full applications, security updates and more. Determine license compliance status, software usage, software tracking. Monitor servers and desktops for real-time performance and availability data.

TotalView provides real time performance and availability monitoring for servers, desktops, hosts and guests. Real time monitoring data is retrieved, processed, and stored in a central data repository for historical reporting and analysis. Assets can be monitored individually or grouped, utilizing user-defined collections. Capabilities including utilization graphs of CPU and memory provide performance data of physical servers, and the virtual machines they are running. Customize alerts that trigger notifications via email, or messages.

Fortisphere Releases Virtualization Management Suite Virtual Essentials 2.0

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Fortisphere today announced the release of Fortisphere Virtual Essentials 2.0, the industry’s most comprehensive solution for policy-based management of heterogeneous virtual infrastructures. With extensive eco-system integration into leading systems and infrastructure management vendors, Fortisphere is delivering next generation technology that compliments existing investments in data-center management solutions. In addition to broad eco-system integration, Virtual Essentials v2.0 also features expanded capabilities, including agentless inspection of offline virtual machine configurations, extended configuration intelligence and an enhanced policy framework to provide users with unprecedented levels of visibility, control and automation across their virtual infrastructures.

Fortisphere Virtual Essentials v2.0 provides organizations with a number of new features designed to simplify and automate the management and growth of a virtual infrastructure. Fortisphere Virtual Essentials v2.0 will be available in September and pricing starts at $10,000.

Embotics Unveils V-Scout, Free Utility with V-Commander Capabilities

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Embotics (previous coverage), a virtualization management tools provider that recently released its flagship product V-Commander 2.0, today will announce a free, starter version of that program with the exact same interface dubbed V-Scout. If you’re trying to figure out the best way to track and automate virtual machines before they sprawl much further throughout your organization, this chance to peek at the Embotics approach for free should be appealing.

“V-Scout should help you answer some key questions about virtual machines in your shop; for instance, the tool can help you analyze how the VMs are produced and tracked and what IT management policies are being applied to the VMs,” says Embotics VP of marketing David Lynch. “Then you can automate policies for better management and security, and for help at auditing time.”

The free tool includes canned and ad hoc reporting capabilities, so you can slice and dice VM data by say, line of business owner or project number. Embotics tools currently work only with VMware infrastructure; Lynch says Microsoft Hyper-V support will arrive in late 2008 or early 2009 after Embotics gets the necessary management tools from Microsoft. Citrix support is planned for 2009.

[Source: Scott Lowe]